BSSH's Starter Pack
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@jessica200.bsky.social
@martin.kleppmann.com
Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
@bnewbold.net
dweb, cycling, snow, big cities, wiki. I like speculating about found objects. protocol engineer @bsky.app. formerly archive.org elsewhere: bnewbold.net / @bnewbold@social.coop
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
@elisabethbraw.bsky.social
Atlantic Council, Foreign Policy, Politico Europe. Author of The Defender's Dilemma (2022), Goodbye Globalization (2024) and Undersea War (2026). Geopolitics & globalisation/greyzone aggression/total defence/societal resilience. Own views
@lmacthompson1.bsky.social
Historian of birth control/abortion/suffrage law and policy. Book on early 20th c. birth control politics coming soon. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
@einavrfox.bsky.social
Historian. Curator. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
@erhochman.bsky.social
Historian of modern Germany/Austria (especially the interwar period), politics, nationalism. Views are my own.
@oanalungescu.bsky.social
Longest-serving & 1st woman #NATO Spokesperson (2010-2023), Distinguished Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, ex #BBC correspondent
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@serenadyer.bsky.social
🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History ✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch 🎬 Presenter @englishheritage 📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency She/her
@cjdrury.bsky.social
Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
@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
@rafnicholson.bsky.social
Women’s cricket historian & journalist. Sports Journalism lecturer at Bournemouth University & writer for Guardian Sport.
@yorkhillyankee.bsky.social
Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @ Edinburgh Uni. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. No, I don't know 1978's top goalscorer for Partick Thistle. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
@hdichter.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management 📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
@malcomaxx.bsky.social
UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
@physcstudy.bsky.social
Lecturer At Ulster University. Historian of health, fitness and physical culture. Co-host of Boys We've Seen podcast. I also run history of fitness website, physicalculturestudy.com
@donmoyn.bsky.social
Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan. Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy. Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
@bssh.bsky.social
British Society of Sports History promotes the study of sport history and physical education