Part II: Historians in Britain
Part II: a starter pack of public and academic historians who live and work in Britain. This includes people who publish history books, teach history, run history podcasts, or host TV series. It also includes librarians, archivists, and other various history-related departments and/or institutes.
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@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
@richardiiisociety.bsky.social
We have been working since 1924 to secure a more balanced assessment of Richard III and to support research into his life and times. We have a broad interest in the late 15th C.
@michaelpearce.bsky.social
History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, and recipe books Blog, remember them? https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
@gemmahauthor.bsky.social
Historian, author, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Runs the Just History Posts blog. https://lnk.bio/GemmaHAuthor
@jasmineelmer.bsky.social
History with Soul. Bringing you the past with meaning and purpose. Author, TV Presenter, Podcaster and Speaker. Goddess with a Thousand Faces Slay coming 2026 www.jasmineelmer.co.uk
@davidveevers.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern History | colonialism and global history | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | 'miasma enthusiast' - The Critic | 'belligerent academic' - The Daily Mail | tired dad | academia’s longest commute
@historywill.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Europe | environment, government, health & housing in c19 France🏠🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
@rhyskamjones.bsky.social
Celtic Revivalism, Romantic Celticism, Celtic Imperialism. Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Summer 2025) He/They/Fo/Nhw
@bethn8r.bsky.social
Architectural historian (women’s spaces in the long 19th century), PhD candidate (Courtauld), knitter, politically progressive and culturally effusive. Was a lawyer back in the day. US—>UK, based in Bath (& sometimes London). I love a good fountain pen.
@researchdogsbody.bsky.social
I came, I saw, I researched 🏴Welsh girl living abroad in Cheshire Sport Historian, Genealogist Fellow of Royal Historical Society Member of Few Forgotten Women Team Editor: Playing Pasts. Chair: FHSofCheshire. Oh and cows - love cows 🐄
@ninabake2.bsky.social
Independent engineering historian: women in engineering, motoring, aviation, construction. Writing book on women's motoring clubs worldwide. Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE. No profile? I won't follow you https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
@carmenmangion.bsky.social
historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners
@deborahsimonton.bsky.social
Historian of eighteenth century, women, gender, towns and childhood, usually Scotland and Europe (which does include Britain).
@akilnawan.bsky.social
Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
@kentishscribbler.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and stuff. Writer. Curator. Socialist. Obsessive. Author of “Psyche on the Skin: A history of self-harm” (2016) and “Am I Normal? The 200-year search for normal people and why they don’t exist” (2022)
@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 🏉⚽️🌹
@alexbescoby.bsky.social
Filmmaker & Author, Co-Founder of Grammar Productions. History & Adventure on C4, BBC & more - www.grammar-productions.com
@dralun.bsky.social
BBCRadio3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Award-winning historian of early modern medicine, the body & beards! Senior lecturer at Exeter Uni, loves guitars, drums & *good* coffee. Blogs at DrAlun.Wordpress.com. TikTok & Instagram: @dralunwithey
@slowhistorian.bsky.social
Considered thinking - Sustainable scholarship - Artisanal histories. Reading / writing / teaching / mentoring. @King's College London. Occasional history musings on cities, memory, youth, Australia.
@alexthearchivist.com
Chocolate historian, author, broadcaster, archivist. Formerly the archivist at Nestle.co.uk, but now archiving at YorkshireTea.co.uk Published: HarperCollins.co.uk Rep'd: knightayton.co.uk Trustee: yorkliteraturefestival.co.uk Or: alexthearchivist.com
@friendsofgri.bsky.social
OSCR SC050180|Museum open Tues-Fri 11-3, Sat 12-2|📧info@friendsofgri.org http://friendsofgri.org
@chloermckenzie.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter
@robschaefer-historian.com
Verified, travels back and forth a lot, military historian, author, script writer, media adviser, researcher, egodocument-wallah. Cracked the mystery of the Waterloo dead. robschaefer-historian.com https://independent.academia.edu/Sch%C3%A4ferRobin
@annamariabarry.bsky.social
Writer & historian in London, working in heritage. Specialises in Victorian/Edwardian culture - especially women's writing, music, art, death masks. Usually found in a graveyard or at a gig!
@christinawelch.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Humanities scholar (religion, death, material/visual culture, history) long time single mum, neurodivergent, book dragon, and cat-mum to a big black rescue kitty with anxiety issues
@xinyiwenhps.bsky.social
• PhDing @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust • Award-winning emerging historian • Working on #EarlyModern natural knowledge and its long reception • Writing a history of the doctrine of signatures • FLS www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/wen 漫画とアニメ、#青空ごはん部
@elizabethscrase.bsky.social
Writer, musician, historian, and artist. 1876 is part of a creative project ✒️ PhD student. Dyslexic. Accidentally a Victorian historian.🕷️⭐🏳️⚧🌈🇺🇦
@liamhogan.bsky.social
Librarian & Historian. Twitter migrant. Researching Slavery - Memory - Power. Blog > https://medium.com/@Limerick1914/ hcommons > https://hcommons.org/members/liamhogan/
@johnevigar.bsky.social
Ecclesiastical Historian. Arts Society Accredited Lecturer. Author of 16 books. Trustee of Friends of Friendless Churches and Francis Coales Charitable Foundation. Member of the Advisory Council of the Norfolk Churches Trust. Unashamedly woke. 🏳️🌈
@lokster71.bsky.social
I talk a bit about politics, but mostly this is going to be books, Doctor Who, and a little smattering of Brentford FC. May also ramble about weird things that occur to me as I go through the day.
@oddityofwings.bsky.social
SFF, gothic, time&gender&history, Victoriana. Time travelling women historians are my jam. UEA History, sometimes UEA LDC. FHEA, Expat PA/VA. Wrangler of academics, books, & words. Sometime flutist. #wiasn Views own; she/her.
@thomasruyssmith.com
Prof of Lit and Culture, mostly nineteenth century. Out now: The Last Gift: The Christmas Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman & a new edition of Black Beauty. Writing books about Mark Twain & London, children’s lit, Santa Claus 🎅 http://www.thomasruyssmith.com
@owentg.bsky.social
He/him. Historian particularly interested in vaccination and rural radicalism. Doing comms for a charity tackling health inequity. Also posting museums, folk music, food, books, faith and social justice. Personal account, own views. 📍 Gloucestershire, UK.
@drowenemmerson.bsky.social
Historian & Assistant Curator at Hever Castle. Consultant: #WolfHall (BBC, 2024). Broadcaster: Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (BBC); Blood, Sex, & Royalty (Netflix).
@amylicence.bsky.social
Historian of women’s lives. Prolific author of non-fiction, biographies and novels. Medieval, Tudor and Modern. Word aficionado. Teacher. FRHistS.
@jllaynesmith.bsky.social
Medievalist in Reading researching queenship, Wars of the Roses, royal adultery, and medieval noblewomen (Cecily Duchess of York appears frequently) | Editor of The Ricardian | May also mention Environment, Eco Church, Trade Justice . . .
@suecumbria.bsky.social
Cumbrian cultural historian, folkie and writer. Here for intelligent conversation, Romanticism, social history of long nineteenth century, dialect, folklore… and cats, of course. https://independent.academia.edu/SueAllan1
@bethanyusher.bsky.social
Journo, academic, author. Journalism & Crime/ Journalism & Celebrity cover earliest historic origins to present and links to politics. Also focus on networked constructed reality and misinformation. Recent for The Times, Byline Times, Press Gazette
@atinybitwaring.bsky.social
Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum. Previous: Science Museum, HSMOxford, Cambridge HPS & STS UCL. Material Culture, History of Science and Medicine. Easily distracted. Tea-drinker. Muma-bear. Own views.
@emilybaughan.bsky.social
historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/)
@lydiajane13.bsky.social
Author/historian. Bomber Command Minelaying, RAF/Admiralty Co-operation, Norwegian Campaign. Learning 🇳🇴 slowly. Co-host nmtdambusters.bsky.social The Invisible Campaign: Bomber Command Gardening Operations1940-1945 out now
@jfkhistoryfiles.bsky.social
I’m a blue dot. I run a history account about the assassination of JFK on the Tik of Tok. Love all things history. I don’t have any actual credentials, I’ve just really just studied this one specific topic, a lot. https://linktr.ee/JFK60YearsLater
@hannahgreig.bsky.social
Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London. Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
@emilycolgan.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of Biblical Studies at Trinity College, NZ. Researching eco hermeneutics (Bible+Ecology, Routledge series) and rape culture, religion, Bible (Routledge Focus series). Co-host: Bloody Bible Podcast. Co-director of Shiloh Project. Pākehā She/her
@rosannamcglone.bsky.social
Writer, mum, journalist. The Process of Poetry, Amazon no.1. Sequel here https://www.5islandspress.com/product-page/the-making-of-a-poem, or direct from me if you're in the UK. Journalist The Guardian, SMH, The Australian and Salon.com
@loadesofhistory.bsky.social
author, tv presenter, director, military historian, dog lover, horse crazy, horse archer, arms and armour historian, chariot enthusiast, very keen on rewilding. a Brit living in Portugal. also loves nature, art and boats.
@rachelkbright.bsky.social
Digital Historian of global Britishness, empire, gender, migration, labour. Keele University Senior Lecturer. Social History Society committee. Deviance strand convener. She/her.
@emilyrowe1.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern Literature & Culture at King’s College London. Love all histories of metal, military worlds, and material culture. Can also be found board-gaming, TTRPG-ing, walking, and pasta-making ~ she/her
@oldoptheatre.bsky.social
A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
@monicaannwalker.bsky.social
Historian, Photographer, Museum Professional, Curator, Martial Artist, and World Explorer! Just your average Jack-of-all-Trades... Museum Operations & Marketing Manager at the Bank of England Museum; Volunteer Curator & Gallery Manager at The Camera Club.
@kfduggan.bsky.social
Dog lover | Pasta addict | Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries
@braciatrix.bsky.social
Beer Historian/Archaeologist| Author: FILTHY QUEENS: A HISTORY OF BEER IN IRELAND, and THE DEVIL'S IN THE DRAUGHT LINES | Cohost @beerladiespod| Pres. @beerladiesIRE | BJCP certified Beer Judge Preorder Filthy Queens: https://tinyurl.com/Ninebeanrowsbooks
@drmaureenwright.bsky.social
Historian, author and Spaniel lover. WHW IC. Specialism: Women's Suffrage movement. Things of historical interest: just about anything. Currently working on becoming a theologian (MA 2024) and tracing my father's service journey in #WorldWar2
@laurenworking.bsky.social
Early modernist at the University of York | Writing a book about how the Americas & its peoples influenced Tudor/Stuart art, lit, & style | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
@iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social
Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
@charlie-l-y.bsky.social
Early modern & genealogy tutor at Conted Oxford. Lecturer at Wake Forest Uni (London campus). Writing on English Civil War sequestration, & John Bradshawe. Vice-Chair of @Cromwellorg.bsky.social. Reviews Editor of @MidlandHistory.bsky.social.
@adamrutherford.bsky.social
I had a marvellous time ruining everything. Scientist. President of @Humanists_UK Lecturer in Genetics @UCL Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷× @kbjmanagement adamrutherford.com
@tudorblogger.bsky.social
Tudor Historian. Writer behind TudorBlogger and BookBlend. Working at Northumbria University Library. Books: • ‘Elizabethan Rebellions’ (2023) • ‘Tudor Executions’ (2024) • ‘The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn’ (2025) Published by Pen and Sword.
@thehistoryguy.bsky.social
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
@c19thnewshound.bsky.social
PhD student at Edge Hill University & The British Library, researching the nineteenth-century press, focussing on short-lived newspapers. Funded by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme.
@niallfh.bsky.social
Journalist by day and historian/writer when I can, delving into Highland football and community. In sport, I am a correspondent for Stats Perform, long-serving chair of St. Duthus FC and current president of the North Caledonian FA. Dundee United fan. Dad.
@nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources. Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment). linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives (Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
@traceynormanauthor.bsky.social
Dark Folklore -The History Press. Who Is Anna Stenberg? -Liminal Books. Author, historian, voice actor, creator of woolly things & art. Tutor Intro to British Witchcraft - Learn for Pleasure. Project Mgr - Folklore Library. http://traceynormanauthor.com/
@nemgarrett.bsky.social
Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Views my own. Queen Charlotte biography now available from Routledge. https://linktr.ee/nataleegarrett.historian.
@carolinederry.bsky.social
Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history. Early women barristers. Agatha Christie. Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University. 📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025) 📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020) #ActuallyAutistic
@henryyeomans.bsky.social
Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
@lucyworsley.bsky.social
Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
@drlindaporter.bsky.social
Tudor and Stuart historian. Author of six books, most recent a biography of Henry VIII's misunderstood and maligned elder sister, Margaret Tudor. Historical consultant and broadcaster. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social
A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley "visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal 💚🇨🇦
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore. Order my book 'Walking the Antonine Wall' here: http://rb.gy/y8eyyi
@historybowsh.bsky.social
Military Historian, Author & Educator Associate Fellow Royal Historical Society Author of Forgotten Armour: Tank Warfare in Burma - Chiselbury Publishing Media Representative Past Preservers: casting@pastpreservers.com
@rcpsgheritage.bsky.social
News, events and stories from the library, archive and museum at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/ #histmed #libraries #archives #museums
@rcpsglasgow.bsky.social
@rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social
News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
@benmanderson.bsky.social
Cultural and Environmental Historian, Keele University UK bbcR3/AHRCpress Newgenthinker 2018. www.keele.ac.uk/surf/ Co-Director. Outdoors leisure, Industrial heritage and decommissioning, Ultraviolet. Views my own.
@emmabastin.bsky.social
Historian of the early twentieth century, especially clothing and shopping; mum; crafter; bibliophile; lover of all things 1930s. Treasurer of Art Deco Soc UK. Represented by Past Preservers. www.emmabastin.com
@histfest.bsky.social
The biggest history festival in London. The best history events and courses all year round. TICKETS TO HISTFEST 2025 ON SALE NOW! https://histfest.org/histfest-2025/
@jessiechilds.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. Books: The Siege of Loyalty House God’s Traitors Henry VIII’s Last Victim Reviews for the Times and LRB jessiechilds.co.uk IG @jessiechildshistorian
@julialaite.bsky.social
Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to three ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
@huntingrebels.bsky.social
Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 | Affiliate UofGlasgow History | Lit Agent The Viney Agency https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464 Also: dogs, horses, books
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Historian of science, race, and empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction an FT recommended book to read in 2025. Published by Penguin on 5 June, World Environment Day.🦤🐅🦈 🌏🌱 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
@leoniehannan.bsky.social
Teaches History/Public History at Queen's University Belfast. 18thC, gender and material culture. Author of open access: A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the eighteenth-century home https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526153050/9781526153050.xml
@harrylegg.bsky.social
PhD @ Uni of Edinburgh, Scotland | Researching non-Jews classified as "Jewish" in Nazi Germany & Austria. Holocaust history. https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/harry-legg
@peterfv.bsky.social
Working on battle planning by the BEF on the Western Front. Formerly a management consultant, test manager, technical writer and a Revolting Student (1968). https://tinyurl.com/2532nczd
@thatnatt.bsky.social
Terrible news, chums... Gleeful Beast, head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose! He-flapper.
@carriegibson.bsky.social
Writer. Historian. Wanderer. Author of: Empire's Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day and El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Spanish North America. A third is in the making. More at: carriegibson.co.uk
@thomasvye.bsky.social
Medical Historian MA Medical Humanities Medical History, horror, rpgs, water birds, squirrels, sumo (相撲), Japanese culture, games. Autistic.
@cathwarr.bsky.social
Historian, filmmaker, author. 26. Leeds. https://youtube.com/@CatherineWarr
@christianwolmar.bsky.social
Transport specialist. Writer and broadcaster. Author of 20 books specialising in railways and transport. Host Calling All Stations, the transport podcast. Parkrunner, QPR fan, cyclist, driverless car sceptic. christianwolmar.co.uk
@historylauren.bsky.social
Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod. AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
@mmr-holihead.bsky.social
Late-start historian, proud Corpuscle, author ‘Naval Seamen’s Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ (https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837650118/naval-seamens-women-in-nineteenth-century-britain/). Winner 2012 Sir Julian Corbett Prize in Naval History. 💜🤍💚
@drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social
Above all, pluviophile 🌧️ Interdisciplinary PhD, Receipt manuscripts x LIS studies x early modern science at UCL📙Freelance book detective 🕵️♀️Health and Heritage ♥️ 👩🏫Cataloguing enthusiast 📚Medical humanities nerd 💊Away with the faeries🧚♀️
@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.
@jhawn.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate at LSE International History. I have written a dissertation on the Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993. God willing it will be a book. I use to live in DC and do public policy, geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. he/him
@williamsimpson.bsky.social
Head of Content at Airship. We make podcasts like American Scandal, Business Movers and History Daily. British but work with Americans so I've basically forgotten the way round dates go, which is unfortunate for someone writing about history all day.
@gavinbrewis.bsky.social
PhD Candidate researching Neds & Ned Culture (1995-2008) through an Oral History of Trauma and Emotions. SGSAH Doctoral Research Committee. Education For Tomorrow Advisory Board. #emotions #trauma #violence #culture