Twentieth Century Communism journal's Starter Pack
Historians working on the history of the international communist movement, as well as other aspects of labour, left-wing, radical and anti-colonial history
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@20thccommunism.bsky.social
@emile-chabal.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe (especially politics & ideas), intellectual history, Marxism, Hobsbawm. Editor of Contemporary European History. More about me: https://emilechabal.com/
@histmat.bsky.social
Leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at University of London, published by Brill, appearing quarterly. https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/
@anrchivist.bsky.social
Archivist/research librarian writing radical history/environmental history/history from below. Latest: Blood and Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand. He/him. https://jared-davidson.com/
@shirinhirsch.bsky.social
Anti racist historian at Manchester Met and People’s History Museum. Views my own
@ralphdarlington.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of the legendary labour leader Tom Mann https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ralph-darlington
@kimkelly.bsky.social
labor journalist and author of ‘FIGHT LIKE HELL’ 🏴 big on metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. my books: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Kim-Kelly/178891913 my lefty heavy metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io rep: The Shipman Agency
@lachlanclohesy.bsky.social
ACT Division Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union (@NTEUACT). Father, husband, teammate, comrade. Retweets are not endorsements. He/him.
@jemgilbert.bsky.social
Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics. Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022) www.jeremygilbert.org
@kmilb.bsky.social
Co-director of Abundance. Author of Generation Left (2019) and Radical Abundance (forthcoming). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
@annsplaining.bsky.social
Historian researching communism and anti-fascism in the 1930s and 40s, Spanish Civil War and (l'havdil) Jewish women whose job was to talk to the dead. www.pullingatthreads.com. Yiddish teacher and translator. She/her. Live in 🥐, come from 💂, part-time 🗽
@racheljcollett.bsky.social
PhD on the Merseyside Women’s Movement 1969-1990s + teaching history at University of Liverpool Keen gardener, rubbish morris dancer, folk enthusiast, and occasional witch 🌙
@leninology.bsky.social
Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
@njbarnett.bsky.social
Historian of postwar period. Cultural Encounters in the Age of Globalism, out now https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68797-6 ; occasional runner, coffee snob
@lizhumphrys.bsky.social
UTS Political Economist of work and labour, especially climate change impacts on WHS. Associate at Centre Future Work & Editor Social Movement Studies. Cats. Electroclash. Carlton AFL tragic 🌈
@jamesamark.bsky.social
Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022) https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
@alecadell.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in heritage studies; researcher of diaspora history, memory studies, oral history with migrant background communities, multiculturalism/s, public history, social history @ the ANU
@theo-williams.bsky.social
Researching histories of anti-imperialism and Black radicalism. Author of: *Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation*: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4073-making-the-revolution-global
@luisherran.bsky.social
Mexican. Historian of the Latin American Right, the Cold War and 20th Century Mexico. UNAM / New School for Social Research. Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico
@williamabooth.bsky.social
Historian of Latin America, especially Mexico. Armchair for cats, short-order chef for children.
@renatakeller.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Latin American History, University of Nevada, Reno. Author of *Mexico’s Cold War*. Co-editor of InterConnections: The Global 20th Century book series at UNC. Forthcoming book on Cuban Missile Crisis https://tinyurl.com/FateAmericas
@shaunrichman.org
Labor guy in higher ed. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (Monthly Review, 2020) & "We Always Had a Union" (U. of Illinois, 2025). Contributing writer: In These Times, Jacobin, American Prospect.
@heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social
historian | training for my first marathon (in 2026) | plant & cat mom | views expressed are mine alone
@priskakomaromi.bsky.social
On parental leave. Historian of gender, sexuality and sex work in Central Eastern Europe. PhD in progress on transnational sex tourism/ masculinity/ transactional intimacy in state-socialist Hungary. HU Berlin.
@stschrader1.bsky.social
cops, counterinsurgency, the cold war, & the color line | author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing
@leol.bsky.social
Director of the International Institue of Social History in Amsterdam and professor in Global Labour and Migration History at Leiden University. My main interst is migration (history)
@colmpm.bsky.social
Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
@micaelapattison.bsky.social
Historiadora. Feminista. Antifascista. she/ her/ ella Lecturer in Modern European History. Currently based in Kaurna Country. Researcher of 20th century Spain — gender, sexuality, medicine, mass culture, radical politics, youth and childhood.
@lmaterson.bsky.social
Historian of US women's & gender history 🎉RADICAL SOLIDARITY🎉 Newly published @uncpress.bsky.social | https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679921/radical-solidarity/ Author website: https://www.lisamaterson.com
@ahvonenonni.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher | Working on Caribbean Black radicalism, temporality, political imagination, and Third World Marxism
@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
@georgegilbert.bsky.social
Associate professor @historyatsoton.bsky.social BASEES Research and Development, co-editor at The SEER journal, co-director of CEEES at Southampton. Dept profile: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xfq6m/doctor-george-gilbert#research
@mcerovic.bsky.social
Associate Professor, History, CERCEC - EHESS (Paris) / Russian empire, Soviet Union, war history, borderlands, military occupations, partisan warfare, Soviet-Nazi war
@maikelehmann.bsky.social
Historian of Eastern Europe with a focus on the multiethnic Soviet Union and transnational encounters during the Late Cold War. Formerly @JahrbuecherJGO and a few universities
@tricia-starks.bsky.social
Historian of Russian/Soviet Health and Med. Pushkin House Prize nominee for Cigarettes and Soviets. Shortlisted for Smoking under the Tsars. Now researching Russian male health. Opinions my own.
@siobhanhearne.bsky.social
Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
@workingclasshistory.com
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
@historyofcommunism.bsky.social
History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism.
@queerstorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
@fraserraeburn.bsky.social
Historian interested in foreign fighters, transnational solidarities, emotion, anti-fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Currently based at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Author 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' (EUP, 2020). He/him.
@sethnotes.bsky.social
Researching for MayDay Rooms (London) & the Working Class Movement Library (Salford) Publishing with https://agitpress.net/ Experimental politics & culture At war with the planetary work machine since 1974 ☭ Slowly writing a book about the ‘Global 1977’
@rekakrizmanics.bsky.social
Historian, PhD. Akad. Rätin a.Z./Asst. Prof. @unibielefeld Writing a book on women│global│solidarity│state socialism. Posts on events, lit, job calls, and ongoing research. Parttime feminist killjoy, fulltime foodie. Runner, biker, overthinker.
@donalh.bsky.social
Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
@mininghistory.bsky.social
Historian and consultant. I work on mining, labour, migration and Southern Africa. More on https://duncan.money Contact: duncanmoneyhistory@proton.me
@jimmywintermute.bsky.social
history doc | flight attendant | another world is possible (?) Writings: https://linktr.ee/jimmywintermute
@lestageog.bsky.social
CEO of LGBTQ+ health charity, former academic geographer. Still a theory slut who likes to think around.
@keithbeard.bsky.social
Socialist Beard Wearer Historian, Trade Unionist, Anti-Racist Tottenham & Cardiff, CAMRA member since 1975
@davidkr.bsky.social
Socialist, historian. Books include The New Authoritarians, Against the Law. Writes for LRB, Truthout, Guardian, rs21.
@jburkett.bsky.social
Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
@sslh.bsky.social
Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
@olebirklaursen.bsky.social
anticolonialism / antifascism / anarchism / author of 'Anarchy or Chaos: M. P. T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom' (2023) https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy-or-chaos/
@ewangibbs.bsky.social
Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing the Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
@mauricejcasey.com
Historian of intimacy and revolution in interwar Europe (think Marks & Engels meets Mills & Boon). Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats: archiverats.substack.com
@alfiesteer.bsky.social
Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History. Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
@jonpiccini.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
@kasperbrasken.bsky.social
Academy Research Fellow in political history, University of Helsinki | Transnational & global history, social movements, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory studies, urban history. He/him https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian and southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own
@odrachewych.bsky.social
Historian of 20th C international relations, USSR, Comintern, Russia's War in Ukraine; professor at Western University and King's University College. www.oleksadrachewych.com
@jacksaundrs.bsky.social
Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS). Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him) Blue and White Notes #itfc https://bluewhitenotes.beehiiv.com/
@historyned.bsky.social
Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him. Principal Investigator: #OtherGlobalGermany and #il_liberal
@20thccommunism.bsky.social
Twentieth Century Communism is a journal of communist history and theory from across the globe. Posts about radical history, and its writing and research. Published by Lawrence & Wishart.