William Poulter
DPhil student at Oxford – The German Hanse & 16th Century London.
@richardasquith.bsky.social
Historian and researcher. Vintners’ Company archivist, secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art. Often at Berkeley Castle.
@hannahelias.bsky.social
Historian. Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. IHR Fellow for 2024-5.
@dralrs.bsky.social
Medievalist. Talks a lot (& occasionally writes) about urban social politics & documentary culture. Does stuff with Historic Towns Trust, English Heritage & Institute of Historical Research. Labrador-mum. Whacky-witch-granny. Gin-lover. On the run from Tw…
@lucyholehouse.bsky.social
Postdoc at Royal Holloway, University of London looking at the relationship between seeing C17th civic performances and reading commercial playtexts | she/her
@amwilson.bsky.social
Academic | Author | Cultural commentator Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
@drolibetts.bsky.social
National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
@sarahabendall.bsky.social
Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
@andrewwhittaker.bsky.social
Historian. War, society & culture in twentieth century London with special interests in education, migration, social class and commemorative practices.
@robnitm.bsky.social
Author of two London history books - 'Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics' and 'High Buildings, Low Morals' - I'm currently doing up a 18th Century cottage in the Brecon Beacons which seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time.
@lccmunicipal.bsky.social
London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc. lccmunicipal.com
@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/.
@drjessayres.bsky.social
Apprentice Archivist @thelondonarchives | Research Associate @CREMS-York | Uni of York alumna | PhD on women in C17th London Court of Orphans |
@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
@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
@indiawright.bsky.social
Cambridge PhD candidate examining the architecture of the Inns of Court during the C17 • Editor of the London Topographical Society Newsletter • Mother to small children
@jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in 17th c. London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | General Admin. KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
@milesogborn.bsky.social
Historical geographer at Queen Mary University of London | writes books | reads books | working on working on the 1831-2 Uprising in Jamaica | picture from Keith Piper (2007) Lost Vitrines.
@victorianlondon.bsky.social
Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023)
@cspence.bsky.social
Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
@ebenbow.bsky.social
Research Assistant at Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) researching the trade of Bartmann jugs in the 16th-17th centuries. Recent PhD at Queen Mary University of London and London Museum. Medieval and Early Modern material culture, trade, devotion etc.
@mattthompson.bsky.social
• full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett) • spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly) • first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
@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
@tracelarkhall.bsky.social
Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
@markallen23.bsky.social
PhD in history from Darwin College, Cambridge University. Studied the role of tolerance & intolerance of popular baroque Catholicism in early Stuart London on political crises and the outbreak of the English Civil War. https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.21
@drewdgray.bsky.social
Historian of crime/anarchist/Arsenal fan and co-chair of the Arsenal Advisory Board/occasional photographer/, trying to be green Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social
@aidannorrie.bsky.social
Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Lecturer & Programme Leader • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
@williamcavert.bsky.social
Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
@medievalmcsheff.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal; president of the Canadian Society of Medievalists, 2024-26. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
@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.
@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
@curatorkitty.bsky.social
Curator of Leeds History, Leeds Museums and Galleries. Loves material culture, the great outdoors and singing.
@katharineedgar.bsky.social
Historical fiction writer, recreational Tudor and mistress of many obsolete crafts. History, textiles, costume, more history
@tarquinhh.bsky.social
Oxford Law Research Admin (currently on a GLAMorous secondment), dabbler in history, philosophy & sociology of the life sciences & medicine.
@irinadumitrescu.bsky.social
Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social. irinadumitrescu.com
@henkaipantomime.bsky.social
she + they art historian poet Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices U Delaware + Philly co-founder of the journal Selva https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
@jackbmeyer.bsky.social
Aspiring Economic Historian & Political Economist Studying Institutions, Innovation, and Inequality. MSc LSE Econ History MPhil Student Oxford Econ (RT!=E)
@sarawahedi.bsky.social
CEO, Civaam. Founder, EhtesabApp. Holding regimes accountable through civic technology. Afghan-Canadian. MPP/tech law @UniOfOxford. Prev. AI/ML @Apple. Alumni @Columbia. [email protected]
@parlhistjournal.bsky.social
We publish peer-reviewed research covering the history of parliamentary institutions in Britain and Ireland from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, and the legislatures of British colonies before independence.
@oscarpatton.bsky.social
Elizabethan & Jacobean Chapels Royal | AHRC History DPhil @ Merton College, Oxford
@mrfw17thc.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father. All opinions my own.
@richardjansell.bsky.social
Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. Forthcoming book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/
@andrewayton.bsky.social
Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
@17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social
PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
@dralexcraven.bsky.social
FRHistS. Freelance historian, working mainly for the VCH in Gloucestershire and Somerset. Interested in the English republic, radicalism, religion, and Reading FC.
@scarlettstevens.bsky.social
Uni of York (WRoCAH) PhD candidate: ‘C17th Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic.’ Interested in reading, queer, gender & sex(y) histories. She/Her 🏳️🌈