Tom Sojka
mad, bad, mostly martinis
historian of 20th century britain
writing a book about elite culture, space, and gossip in interwar britain
@draefox.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in IR @ University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series Editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | Researches the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
@nathanley-smith.bsky.social
18th century enthusiast, avid walker and swimmer. Teaching fellow at Warwick University.
@handle.invalid
Peripheral academic, childraiser, amateur political gastronomist. Writing sometimes: https://laurentia.substack.com
@tricksterprince.bsky.social
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, 20s30s. Out Oct 2025 - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP) Now - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world
@100yearsago.bsky.social
An account that covers the Roaring Twenties (1920s), day by day, in real time. DMs open for contact and submissions. Partnered with @80yearsago.bsky.social, @200yearsago.bsky.social, and @40yearsago.bsky.social Donate to us: https://ko-fi.com/1945news
@icpetrie.bsky.social
Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech. Disappointing people since 1972.
@royalhistsoc.org
The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of historians: https://royalhistsoc.org/
@coletteshade.bsky.social
Author, Y2K: How the 2000's Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). Fan of lipstick, pearls, birds, hikes & needlepoint.
@nigella.bsky.social
Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
@drdouglassmall.bsky.social
Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Website: https://douglassmall.com
@profsandpints.bsky.social
A social enterprise devoted to democratizing access to higher learning and providing scholars with new audiences.
@jesspclark.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain | Currently writing about modernity, nationalism, and smell | Author of Business of Beauty (2020) | Co-editor at the Recipes Project | she/her | Views my own | #histgender #smellhistory
@kreggallagher.bsky.social
Scottish émigré. Assistant Professor of History at Colby-Sawyer College. Early America, Early Modern Britain, Atlantic World. 🏴🇮🇪🇵🇸 Puppy raiser with Guiding Eyes for the Blind: https://www.guidingeyes.org/volunteer
@hornseyhq.bsky.social
Teaches and researches modern British History. Nottingham and Brighton, UK. He/him.
@historicalmeredith.bsky.social
Senior Commissioning Editor, Manchester University Press. Modern history and history of medicine. Michigander, lover of food and cats.
@sarahmmass.bsky.social
Cities, multiculturalism, economic life | Assistant Professor of History @ Tufts
@nschneider03.bsky.social
Disaster and hazard historian, but I like it all. Climate, hazards, society, and infrastructure. Natural & human made. Always up for talking about cats, books, office supplies, reality tv, true crime, and pop culture. New England Girl always! 💕
@miguelchavez.bsky.social
Historian // Assistant Prof. @cumberlandu / PhD @VanderbiltU / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // currently: lecture prepping! 😅 site: miguelchavez.net
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@drjamesbailey.bsky.social
Writer who lives in Manchester. Rep’d by Creative Artists Agency. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, is out in April 2026 🐈⬛ Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
@websterij.bsky.social
PhDing in Exeter: Modernism and the making of macroeconomics. Having spent years doing less interesting stuff.
@dieworkwear.bsky.social
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter. If you have a style question, search: https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
@lucydelap.bsky.social
Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
@annagirling.bsky.social
Teaching English at the University of Edinburgh. Generally reading, writing, day dreaming. Writing and thinking about Edith Wharton, Nancy Cunard, modernism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, cosmopolitanism, & other people and things like that.
@seeshespeak.bsky.social
reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator Champlain College (Burlington, VT) HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
@historygriffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
@chppc.bsky.social
Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
@lmillerrenberg.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Recording Officer, @socrefresearch.bsky.social. Dance, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600. Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
@hannahcharnock.bsky.social
Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
@fancyhistorian.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at Newcastle Uni | Historian of Leisure, Fashion, & Commercialisation | 📖 ‘Domino’ CUP 2023 | 📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026 | Mother runner, coffee enthusiast.
@ucpress.bsky.social
Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
@amymilnesmith.bsky.social
Historian. Prof @ Laurier. Researching masculinity, mental illness and Victorian soldiers at the moment. Once had things to say about London Clubland.
@jbritishstudies.bsky.social
Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
@hpsvanessa.bsky.social
historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
@iveyhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of the British Empire in South Africa and anti-apartheid movements in Florida. Associate Professor of History at Florida Memorial University in Miami
@batw.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for Britain and the World. We are a group of scholars from around the world who share an interest in Britain and its engagements around the globe. Learn more about us and become a member: https://britainandtheworld.org/
@davidrarmitage.bsky.social
@Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
@eriklinstrum.bsky.social
Historian of Britain, empire, and decolonization at the University of Virginia. Author of AGE OF EMERGENCY: LIVING WITH VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Spending the 2024-25 year at The Huntington Library in California.
@benmechen.bsky.social
Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / new thing is on late 20thC political ecologies. New co-edited book: Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526174703
@delayedscholar.bsky.social
Historian of class, labor, and gender in Britain, Ireland, and Empire. First-gen, non-traditional, advocate in Equity initiatives. Old-school D&D nerd. 🏳️🌈
@mbhjournal.bsky.social
https://academic.oup.com/tcbh Modern British History publishes peer reviewed work in modern British history. We skeet our articles, reviews, and the latest British history news. Formerly 'Twentieth Century British History'.
@mrfw17thc.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. All opinions my own.
@claireljones.bsky.social
Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
@amyclukey.bsky.social
Academic and neo-Victorian convalescent I've been told that I'm a flower that grew out of a can of Budweiser
@katewagner.bsky.social
architecture critic @thenation.com, creator of https://late-review.com, derailleur.net, mcmansionhell.com. Nicht bringst du Unheil dahin, wo Unheil im Hause wohnt. she/her
@mikkibrock.bsky.social
historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor at W&L | views mine | she/her.
@stevebentel.bsky.social
Historian working in international education. Razorback Enthusiast.
@ryancordell.org
he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—suspected mechanical paragraphist—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director of @skeuomorphpress.org