Simon Briercliffe
Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
@ilariascaglia.bsky.social
History Senior Lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Author of The Emotions of Internationalism (OUP, 2020) and co-editor of Archives and Emotions (2024). Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions. Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
@markonthemaps.bsky.social
🌈 Author, broadcaster and lecturer in design, cartography, typography and architecture around public transport. Partner of ND 🌈♾️ person. Pro-Transit 🚆 🚃 🚋 🚟🚌. In ‘transit’ from X as @markovenden.
@alisontoplis.bsky.social
Dress & Textile Historian | working-class dress | workwear | smocks | 19thc clothes retailing.
@lrbobrien.bsky.social
Cultural historian of France, Meathwoman, crafter, multifaceted fangirl. Thinks a lot about Napoleon in cinema/theatre; Paris; caricature. She/her.
@bkidd.bsky.social
PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology
@amyfreeborn.bsky.social
Writer. Public historian (MA candidate). Maker. Driven by curiosity and creativity.
@natashaanson.bsky.social
PhD student (Durham Uni & Beamish Museum) researching nostalgia and working class heritage 🪩 she/her, views own, still figuring it out
@irishinbritain.bsky.social
We are a national membership coalition, founded by and for the Irish community in Britain - a progressive voice for community development and representation. www.irishinbritain.org
@clunfarm.bsky.social
Small farm and holiday lets in Shropshire. Tokyo resident 2002-2011. Wine-lover, gastronome, architecture/design fan, and sometime London insurance accountant. Trustee Treasurer at Acton Scott Heritage Farm, home of BBC’s Victorian Farm. Views all my own.
@kerriwilliams.bsky.social
Heritage painter; boats, fairground, sign writing Preserving & adapting traditional skills for future generations. https://linktr.ee/heritagecrafter
@rosiesbarker.bsky.social
Head of Curatorial and Participation, Birmingham Museums Trust, overseeing curatorial, exhibitions, volunteering and participation teams
@infrastructuregeek.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Co-editor, Environment and History. The environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Author of Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain.
@ianrankin1.bsky.social
Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
@whitetimothyj.bsky.social
Professor of Political Science, Xavier University Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
@mpalawrence.bsky.social
Queer Historian 🌈| PhD: Homosexuality in the Irish Diaspora 1880-1960 @ QUB | Views expressed are not only my own, but are objectively correct 🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@leannemccormick.bsky.social
Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
@omaromalleykhan.bsky.social
CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
@olivermantell.bsky.social
Cultural audience researcher. Interested in everything, including poetry. Director of Evidence & Insight at The Audience Agency; Board member at Grimm & Co. From Reading, living in Sheffield. [Header from Tara Bergin’s Savage Tales]
@historyofads.bsky.social
The History of Advertising Trust - the largest archive of UK advertising in the world. Search our catalogue: http://bit.ly/2xQLOAN
@ainepoland.bsky.social
PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast - gender history, networks, digital humanities, transnational history.
@cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social
Cemetery Researcher. Proud Brummie. Never clocking out of Coffin Works, usually found in the JQ Cemeteries. #BLM🖤 🏳️🌈 🩷💜💙she/her
@tbraje.bsky.social
Executive Director, University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History; archaeologist; historical ecologist; author Understanding Imperiled Earth; science communicator
@robynlc.bsky.social
Teacher of History, Trustee of a heritage site. Interested in material culture & heritage sites in education, Museums, Engagement with objects, Letters, Journals,✨ MCCT working on #CTeach
@hennakarhapaa.bsky.social
- Executive Director (non-profit) - Art Historian (18th c, political propaganda, British Empire, Revolutionary America) - Accessibility and inclusivity expert - Advocate for women’s and children’s rights - Finnish born 🇫🇮 Scottish heart 🏴 - She/ her
@joeflatman.bsky.social
Sharing the love on #heritage #archaeology #architecture #culture #environment #equality #LGBTQI+ allyship. All content my own. He / Him
@paulaber.bsky.social
Hanesydd / Historian. Emeritus prof. Interested in ideas and practices of freedom in 19th century Atlantic world, transnational journalism, Wales, Ireland and France. Co-edited Gender in Modern Welsh History (2023) with Drs Beth Jenkins and Stephanie Ward
@birdyjones.bsky.social
Belfast born. Heritage & storytelling. ‘Look back to look forward.’ (Frank O’Connor) ☘️ Views my own.
@lucycann.bsky.social
PhD @BirkbeckHCA looking at intersections of race and sex work in late twentieth century Britain. AHRC funded. she/her.
@aliped.bsky.social
Historian: Victorian social history, 19C female criminal insanity and asylums & own family history. Hon Research Fellow Roehampton Uni. Exiled Wirralite/plastic-scouse LFC Mostly happily married!
@jessamycarlson.bsky.social
Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
@ladyburglar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Reviews Editor for Social History. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
@gracedimeo.bsky.social
Lecturer. Research: historical criminology; women & crime; gangs & organised crime; criminal network analysis. All about cats, fantasy, knitting & jazz.
@craigstafford.bsky.social
British Social History, C19 Crime & Punishment. Co-I: http://www.womenandalcohol.net (@ncn_pl funded project). Teaches @livunihistory
@emilyrosehay.bsky.social
@lizzieseal.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own
@buxiduan.bsky.social
Academic Coach @Buckinghamshire New University | Honorary Research Fellow; EngLit PhD @University of Birmingham | D. H. Lawrence, modernism, and archives | translator | he/him (phonetics: Bu-She Du-An)
@kfduggan.bsky.social
Dog lover | Pasta addict | Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries
@zoejackson.bsky.social
Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
@capnetwork.bsky.social
CaP is an Arts Council England subject specialist network which disseminates information and research to crime and punishment collections. Visit our website at: https://www.capcollections.org.uk/ for more information
@srwride.bsky.social
Historian @york.ac.uk | What ‘culture’ is & does 18thc+ | Now: hows whys & effects of re-imagining historical homicides | Associate Editor @englishassociation.bsky.social journal #YWES | Treasurer @historylabplus.bsky.social | sarahwride.co.uk
@clairehistory.bsky.social
PhD candidate at ARU Cambridge studying the Norman Cross PoW material culture at Peterborough Museum. Author of Exploring the Lives of Victorian Prostitutes. Member of Peterborough Women’s History Group #ME/CFS
@drmatthewthompson.bsky.social
Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media.
@kabcommons.bsky.social
PhD researcher, University of Sheffield. Working on the legal system governing migration in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship. Previously worked in asylum/immigration NfP sector, still trying to keep my hand in
@samfordsaunders.bsky.social
Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
@robertsmartino.bsky.social
Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
@zwhitehistory.bsky.social
Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast Views my own
@judithflanders.co.uk
Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon. She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
@jadevshepherd.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain (crime, psychiatry, family); former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html