UK-based Americanist Historians

@raherrmann.bsky.social

Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic. More: rachelbherrmann.com

@iainflood.bsky.social

I used to write about Confederate guerrillas, now happily retired. Views my own. He/Him.

@gracemallon.bsky.social

British historian of the United States. Clive Holmes Fellow in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. I write about government and constitutionalism in the 18th and 19th centuries.

@koushist.bsky.social

Professor of American History, University of Southampton Interested in many things, but mostly writing these days about technology, physics and cosmology

@kateballantyne.bsky.social

Historian of 20th c. student activism & civil rights. Senior Lecturer in Modern American History at LJMU & Secretary of BAAS. Author of Radical Volunteers (UGA Press, 2024). Views are my own.

@emilybrady.bsky.social

American Historian, JRF at Rothermere American Institute and Christ Church College, University of Oxford. Researching Black women photographers in the Civil Rights Movement.

@djmalcolm.bsky.social

PhD student at Teesside University, researching Founding Fathers, the American Constitution, and the ideas of Ancient Greece & Rome. Postgraduate Rep for BAAS. He/him.

@danrowe.bsky.social

Historian. Director of Academic Programmes, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Political economy, capitalism, urban, and policy history.

@erinshearer.bsky.social

Historian of slavery, resistance, and gender. Fellow-in-Residence at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford, and Associate Lecturer at the University of Reading.

@bethrwilson.bsky.social

Historian of US slavery, gender and emotions. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

@heresfinn.bsky.social

Head of Academic Quality. Associate Prof (US History). Pollard's US Politics Thread (Fridays). Arts Reviewer. Lib Dem/Remainer. Views my own not UoL.

@aipsmith.bsky.social

Professor of US Political History at Oxford. Director of the Rothermere American Institute. Research conservatism, parties, Civil War. Host of The Last Best Hope? Podcast.

@dr-ama.bsky.social

Historian at University of Sussex: transnational race, gender, and migration C19-20. TV writer. Daughter, aunt, Shawn's sister. She/her. Hove/Virginia Beach. Own opinions.

@malcolmcraig.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of the nuclear age, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar

@robertsuits.bsky.social

Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. Researching climate, energy, capitalism, and labo(u)r; writing a book on American migrant workers circa 1900. Digital humanities projects on energy history. Also novelist, musician.

@jennywoodley.bsky.social

Historian and Lecturer. US History. Race and Memory. Current project: Mourning at the Museum

@nlwillson.bsky.social

Haiti/Black Atlantic scholar. Lapsed lindy-hopper. Retro threads and nice dinners. Digital humanist. Leverhulme Trust ECRF based at UCLan's Institute for Black Atlantic Research excavating the histories of Haiti's rebel women. https://linktr.ee/fanmrebel.

@miguelhernandez.bsky.social

Lecturer in American History at Aberystwyth University, specializing in the history of white supremacy, nativism and organized violence in the United States - Committee Secretary for HOTCUS

@pkandelic.bsky.social

Historian of US liberalism, Congress, and the C20th Democratic Party. Trade unionist. Millennial killing academia.

@brian222ward.bsky.social

Prof in American Studies; wrote some books on US history and culture; writing ‘She Loves Y’all’ a book on the Beatles and the US South; Come on You Irons!

@katedossett.bsky.social

Historian of theatre, culture, archives; Author of Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal; Collaborator on STAGING THE ARCHIVE: bringing to life plays by Black Theatre Makers working in early 20th Century Britain in the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays Collection.

@bobbylee.bsky.social

Historian of the United States, mostly in the 19th c., colonialism, land, GIS. American abroad

@elsadevienne.bsky.social

Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻‍♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff

@sadiemansfield.bsky.social

MSt US History student at the University of Oxford; early Americanist; Liberal Arts graduate from King’s College London; she/they

@stevesarson.bsky.social

Historian. Currently writing "The Course of Human Events": The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States - @uvapress.bsky.social, 2025. Cat gentleman. Occasional blogger: https://sonofsar.blogspot.com

@ihrlibrary.bsky.social

The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.

@ihr.bsky.social

The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social

@conniethomas.bsky.social

Historian of early US migration politics & American identity Lecturer in US History @UCL.ac.uk Comms @branchuk.bsky.social

@catbateson.bsky.social

American Historian & Lecturer/FRHistS/British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / “Irish American Civil War Songs” LSU Press out now! https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/

@jterrib.bsky.social

Historian of Single Mothers in Antebellum NYC. PhDing @Camericanist Badger Scholar @ClareCollege Cockney • Dyslexic & ADHDer • All Views mine

@edwardmair.bsky.social

Historian of slavery in the Native South. Also interested in empires and anti-slavery. Assistant Professor in American History at Cambridge, and a Staff Fellow at Trinity Hall. He/Him.

@aishadjelid.bsky.social

Historian of slavery in the antebellum South, EDI rep for @Branch19th, Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford

@alysbeverton.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. Researching C19th United States political and diplomatic culture. Views my own. Author of ‘Exceptionalism in Crisis: Faction, Anarchy, and Mexico in the US Imagination in the Civil War Era,’ UNC Press, 2025

@officialbaas.bsky.social

Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.

@embarnes.bsky.social

Historian of rape in the Civil War Era US South at the University of Reading. She/her. https://genderedstateviolence.com

@frankcogliano.bsky.social

Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh.

@timgalsworthy.bsky.social

Lecturer in History & Military History at Bishop Grosseteste University. Researches Civil War memory and the Republican Party. Posts about sport and politics. Views my own, sadly 🏉⚽️🌹

@tomcutterham.bsky.social

Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. Working on Angelica Schuyler and her friends. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172668/gentlemen-revolutionaries

@nicholasguyatt.bsky.social

I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review

@branchuk.bsky.social

Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 We welcome members from the UK, US & beyond Affiliated with American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH) Find out more about us: https://www.branch.org.uk/