David Boote
Keen on the history of Leyton, Leytonstone and Chingford, and walking for pleasure in and around the borough of Waltham Forest.
@histfest.bsky.social
The best history events and courses all year round. TICKETS TO THE EINSTEIN VENDETTA AVAILABLE NOW! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-einstein-vendetta-thomas-harding-in-conversation-with-clare-mulley-tickets-1310820542529
@dendrochronicle.bsky.social
I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies. https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
@layersoflondon.bsky.social
https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
@andreawulf.bsky.social
Historian and writer of books incl. 'Brother Gardeners', 'Founding Gardeners', ‘Invention of Nature' & ‘Magnificent Rebels’ … www.andreawulf.com and I'm also on Instagram @aswulf
@joesaunders1.bsky.social
Freelance Historian | Part-time PhD English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Vice-Chair, British Association for Local History 📜 Co-editor How-to History. www.josephsaundershistory.co.uk
@katejholmes.bsky.social
Open Access advocate; magpie-brained aerial academic; all about cultural studies/pop ents/circus/audiences/embodiment (she/her) author: https://tinyurl.com/20sfemaerial website: katejholmescom.wordpress.com
@hollynielsen.bsky.social
Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit she/her
@suemajor.bsky.social
Railway historian, living in York UK. https://susanmajorhistory.wordpress.com. Working class railway excursions mid-19c Britain, inc women's leisure mobility. Women railway workers WWII. FellowRHS. Local history for www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk
@katemond.bsky.social
Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
@drfernriddell.bsky.social
Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio. Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture. www.fernriddell.com **PREORDER Victoria’s Secret NOW** https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
@fernandag.bsky.social
Born in Naples 🇮🇹, roots in 🇵🇹, lived and worked in🇩🇪🇨🇭and now in 🇬🇧 Associate Prof in History and Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Author of “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: the Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900”(CUP, 2024)
@profbarrydoyle.bsky.social
Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running! Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com
@colmuseums.bsky.social
We're renowned for Romans, cuckoo about clocks and wild for animals! Custodians of Colchester Castle, Hollytrees Museum and Colchester's Natural History Museum.
@andrewkenrick.bsky.social
Former editor of White Dwarf, current editor of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. Life writing PhD from UEA. Mostly writing about Romans. Nothing if not varied.
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
@rebeccarideal.bsky.social
Historian (early modern & true crime). TV & Podcast producer / writer. Author - 1666: PLAGUE, WAR & HELLFIRE (out now), GOD’S THRONE: THE STUARTS 1603-1714 (currently writing). Director of HistFest. Host Killing Time podcast.
@cathfletcher.bsky.social
Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME: A HISTORY now out. Next up: early modern guns.
@drjaninaramirez.bsky.social
Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. Gotta lotta love to share.
@gojauntly.bsky.social
Your app encyclopaedia of local walks. 🚶♀️the best walks and wheels 🌳 explore urban nature 📲 download the free app 👟 enjoy daily adventures 🕸️ www.gojauntly.com
@n16breda.bsky.social
Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ https://www.irishlondonhistory.com/ Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter
@jpaprice.bsky.social
Public and Community Historian; Director, Museum of Everyday Life; Visiting Research Fellow, KCL. Historian, educator, author, walker, talker, academic, freelancer, wild swimmer, taphophile. www.drjohnprice.net www.moel.org.uk buildingstories.co.uk
@simondmd.bsky.social
Founder of http://WeAre.xyz... Establish your Family or One Place Study archive in a couple of clicks. Also guardian of Kevin the Drone!... Trustee of Shropshire Family History Society (home of my coolest ancestors) #genealogy #FamilyHistory
@karenaverby.bsky.social
karenaverby.co.uk Buildings Historian/Consultant Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk FRHistS ACIfA Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist Rep Past Preservers Brum/London
@wokekaren.bsky.social
Early retired, left wing, secular jewish anti zionist, feminist, in no particular order. Pining to rejoin. Getting angrier as I get older. Voting Green. Love London, politics, dogs, art, comedy, food . . .
@uncharteredstreets.bsky.social
London musings by Matt Haynes; also occasional depository for goings on at Sarah Records and suppository for what’s supposed to have gone on. UNCHARTERED STREETS: http://uncharteredstreets.co.uk
@westminsterwalks.bsky.social
City of Westminster and Clerkenwell & Islington Guide. Social history walks. Walthamstow & Chingford walks too. Booking details for all my public guided walks and tours are here: https://linktr.ee/joannawestminsterwalks
@danbrowne.bsky.social
Was @danbrowne77 on Twitter. Got here early enough to drop the 77. Also here as @profdanbrowne.bsky.social
@lbwfarchives.bsky.social
Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library, Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, London E4 7EN. Collections documenting history of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Research visits by prior appointment. Email [email protected]
@municipaldreams.bsky.social
Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
@davehitchcock.bsky.social
Historian: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Course Director and research unit lead, CCCU. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800' (2nd album). He/him.
@bethanyqualls.bsky.social
PhD in #18thC gossip. Postdoc at l'Université de Caen. Writer. Editor. Re(un)Covered Podcast Creator. Lover of archives, book history, #c18 smut, snark, intersectional scholarship, and the Oxford comma. Feminist. Bethanyqualls.com she/her
@royalacademy.bsky.social
@nathenamin.bsky.social
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society • HWA Book judge • Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor https://amzn.to/4e499k9 • A Chronicle of Dragon & Cats https://bit.ly/48klsaQ • Events & Talks https://linktr.ee/nathenamin • Welsh-Kashmiri
@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.
@katrinanavickas.bsky.social
Historian of protest, political movements and public space. Preorder my new book, Contested Commons: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons Croydon/Rochdale UCU rep Rural modernism on Insta. 🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally. She/her
@timhitchcock.bsky.social
Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
@oldbaileyonline.bsky.social
Historical crime online. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org
@locations.bsky.social
Educational and informative word maps. Scroll Down & Get More Knowledge.
@drangelabuckley.bsky.social
Crime historian and author. Victorian crime, police detectives and history of forensic science. New book: The Bermondsey Murder. Rep Past Preservers. Also languages, literature, genealogy and travel. CWA Chapter convenor http://drangelabuckley.substack.com
@eloisew.bsky.social
Twitter émigré - was Tairawhiti_muse history, art, archives, books & all old things and their stories + museums, galleries Recently departed Te Tairāwhiti for Murihiku Southland and living in Waihopai Invercargill. Te Unua Southland Museum Director
@potd-context.bsky.social
🤖 sibling account for @wiki-potd.bsky.social posting links and context for the daily picture from Wikipedia, plus the occasional comment & reskeet. Maintained by @drezner.xyz See how I work at: github.com/ndrezn/wikipedia-pic-of-the-day/
@bostonoxford.bsky.social
Historian mostly, bunch of degrees; sporty, ex-elite athlete; MTBer; geocacher. Not much of a follow-backer. My book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/rebuilding-britains-blitzed-cities-9781350168800/
@sarahbockmeyer.bsky.social
Archaeologist AND single mother of one. PhD researcher in Neolithic megaliths, earthen burials and archaeological theory at Kiel University and @ClusterROOTS.bsky.social (Cluster of Excellence ROOTS). Boardmember @agtida.bsky.social . Views my own.
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
@rpiggott.bsky.social
Historian. Researching a disparate mix of voluntary action, medical, religious, and media histories in modern Britain.