Radical Histories - Part I
People & organisations researching / making / dreaming about radical histories - in their most expansive & pluralistic sense. Stretching our idea of what history is, who it is made by & what it is for. Created by @historywo.bsky.social. Let us know if you'd like to be added.
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@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
@polyphonicreads.bsky.social
Early modern travel accounts, history of libraries, Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia
@shamaraw.bsky.social
Junior Research Fellow in History at The Queen’s College, Oxford | Sri Lanka | Religious violence | Identity | Colonial History
@emmaelinor.bsky.social
Historian of 20th-century political activism; writes/rants about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; live on Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö. http://www.emmalundin.co.uk https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
@simpep.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain, focusing on race, ethnicity, and migration histories. University of Warwick. Education Officer for History UK. Yma o Hyd. (he/him)
@younghistorians.bsky.social
Encouraging the development of young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain | #HlfSupported #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
@laisladelftbol1.bsky.social
Black Country born/Liverpool UK-based oral historian by day (PhD labour history). Football kit connoisseur by night (unqualified). Unapologetically working class. I flirt with some architectural & street photography. Albion fan, for all my sins.
@eichnercarolyn.bsky.social
Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune; names.
@lisbet.bsky.social
Historian. Writer. Researcher. Current projects: Tolson sister #suffragettes and history of @FarmWoodoaks. Trustee at British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social and Dorset Wildlife Trust @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
@drawmycare.bsky.social
Silo jumper, sibling #carer, Nana #LearningDisability #socialcare, #drawing as life skill for #communication #UniversalDesign, #Place-based-care #archives, #heritage, #history alt #care stories Hon Fellow Herts Uni, MA Cultural Heritage UCL No DMs
@nturavrgcistory.bsky.social
Transgender Museum Professional Bridging the Gap Between Trans Studies and Museum Studies https://linktr.ee/notyouraveragecistory She/Her
@richamm.bsky.social
🔥Free Disability Zines🔥 https://linktr.ee/disabilityark Disability: History, Politics, Media Analysis and more! Recent ones include Disability and: | Star Trek | Ancient Egypt | Radicals | Gods | Film Analysis Tools | Feminists | Anarchists | and more!
@sophie-turbutt.bsky.social
Historian of 1920s-30s Spanish anarchism: gender, comradeship, intimacy, emotions 📚 Global Opportunities Office @ Uni of York 🌏 (she/her)
@peelersandsheep.bsky.social
New documentary short ‘Land and Revolution’ out now - https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?si=Dhn-BXZTHQHbF51v New edited volume ‘Spirit of Revolution’ - https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution
@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/.
@drcricket.bsky.social
Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council. Class - Culture - Environment https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone
@vbivar.bsky.social
Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦
@lucyjsclarke.bsky.social
interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method, loud shrieking about my cats.
@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.
@tanyaevans.bsky.social
Public historian. Historian of Australia and Britain from the 18th century to the present. Professor of History Macquarie Uni. She/her.
@slagstadk.bsky.social
Physician-historian at the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Charité Berlin | History of psychiatry, social medicine, HIV/AIDS, health activism and trans medicine
@kateimy.bsky.social
Writer/cat lover. Author of FAITHFUL FIGHTERS and LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. Outfest Lab 2022. WGF Veterans Writing Project 2023-2024. AFF Josephson fellow. TWU Prof.
@greeneland.bsky.social
Labor and migration historian @UMaryland. Pre-order Box 25: Archival Secrets, Caribbean Workers, and the Panama Canal! https://tinyurl.com/Pre-Order-Box-25
@mferradou.bsky.social
Historien. Age des Révolutions - République atlantique. MCF en retard/ Associate professor of Age of Revolutions history who is late for a very important date @Paris Nanterre Université / MéMo
@leilarsellers.bsky.social
Wellcome funded PhD at Northeastern researching The Beaumont Society: Trans Cultures, Identities and Everyday Subjectivities, 1966-2004 She/Her
@neilevanshistory.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Wales and beyond. Vice president of Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society; Joint editor (with Charlotte Williams) of UWP series 'Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the World' Published on urban history. women's social movements, empire.
@oerskov.bsky.social
Historian of literature, Nazism, cultural diplomacy, the Nordic countries, and a bunch of other things. Post.doc at Nordic Humanities Center, University of Copenhagen
@profjennyshaw.bsky.social
Historian in Roll Tide country. All things early modern Caribbean. The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery out now with UNC Press. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Irishman in Yorkshire. Historian of language, education, mobility at the University of Leeds. Co-editor of the Historical Journal, occasional BBC radio presenter. Dad!
@robtaber.bsky.social
Historian of Haiti 🇭🇹 and democracy in the Americas at Fayetteville State. Working for a welcoming + transformative UNC System. Formerly US ED Center for Faith-Based & Neighborhood Partnerships. Occasional live-poster of obscure panels and events.
@profelainechalus.bsky.social
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
@fatahblack.bsky.social
Historian of colonial empires, specifically the Dutch. Now researching proto-citizenship in the Atlantic world.
@hyildizhistorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in gender history at the University of Edinburgh, with an interest in nineteenth century labour and modern empires. Ottoman & South Asian history. #FeministSky
@eladiobobadilla.com
Pittsburgh-based historian of social movements, radicalism and extremism, the working class, and immigration and ethnicity. Father. Autism advocate. Duke, Steelers, Penguins, Pirates, Riverhounds, RSL, USM&WNT, Liverpool, St. Pauli.
@kenyonz.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th century migration, labor, and radicalism. Author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. kenyonzimmer.com
@nlwillson.bsky.social
Haiti/Black Atlantic scholar. Lapsed lindy-hopper. Retro threads and nice dinners. Digital humanist. Research Fellow based at UCLan's Institute for Black Atlantic Research excavating the histories of Haiti's rebel women. https://linktr.ee/fanmrebel.
@parisnoire.bsky.social
Historian @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact @monidrke.bsky.social for talks! Robinmitchellhistorian.com
@eldrclaire.bsky.social
Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
@historysunny.bsky.social
Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
@agnesjuliet.bsky.social
Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy | Think Tanks / Academia | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
@tomhulme.bsky.social
Reader in History (Queen's University, Belfast). "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" (coming Apr 2026, Cornell University Press). PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”. Sec. of UCU branch. 🏳️🌈
@vawright10.bsky.social
Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright
@ruthdav.bsky.social
Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
@dianapaton.bsky.social
Caribbean and global history. University of Edinburgh. New here. Need a photo.
@robertjmyles.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Divinity, Australia. Writes about Religion, historical materialism, New Testament, historical Jesus from below, etc. www.robertjmyles.com
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths British, US, comparative, global politics and culture Dad; Londoner; Cypriot; Gooner 🔴⚪️ Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com Academic publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dion-Georgiou
@stoffelalex.bsky.social
Lecturer at QMUL • editor at Historical Materialism • author of Eros and Empire (SUP, 2025) https://www.alexanderstoffel.com
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@isasaxonists.bsky.social
Dr. MRO. Literary Historian. Public scholar, activist & small biz owner who dyes yarn inspired by Black/brwn premodern figures. WOC: product of Black & brown love. Gif lover. Racist magnet. Abolitionist. Not Eddie Murphy. She/hers www.RepublicOfYarnia.com
@kimatiwagner.bsky.social
Historian of empire, violence and atrocity photography - currently writing about the My Lai Massacre in 1968. Latest book: 'Massacre in the Clouds - An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History' (PublicAffairs, 2024) London - Wylie Agency
@echomikeromeo.bsky.social
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow
@saimanasar.bsky.social
Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own. PI: Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
@emilybaughan.bsky.social
historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/)
@tsasson.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Modern History at Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Co-Editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8 https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-tehila-sasson
@imperialhistorian.bsky.social
💁🏾 Imperial Historian 📝 Race, Ethnicity, Migration, Multiculturalism 🦉 @reed_college_ 📕 Hear Our Voices - out now from Quarto Kids! https://linktr.ee/radhikanatarajan
@sulinlewis.bsky.social
Professor of Global and Asian History at the University of Bristol. Previously: Cosmopolitan port-cities/ These days: Third World Solidarity and Socialist Internationalism She/her
@corinnefowler.bsky.social
Prof. of Colonialism and Heritage at Museum Studies, University of Leicester UK. Penguin author of Our Island Stories. Ten Walks through Rural Britain and its Hidden History of Empire (2024) represented by Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency
@alltoosuman.bsky.social
Historian of science and medicine. Proponent of Postcolonial science studies. Author of Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (Cambridge, 2018); Crafting the Quantum: Arnold Sommerfeld and the Practice of Theory (MIT)
@davidolusoga.bsky.social
British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT [email protected]
@alanlester.bsky.social
British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own. Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
@rohandroy.bsky.social
Historian: South Asia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor: University of Reading. Author: 'Malarial Subjects' (Cambridge,2017);Editor: Locating the Medical (Oxford, 2018). Words: ConversationUK; The Independent
@priyaatwal.bsky.social
Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own. Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
@migrationhistorian.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Associate Professor. Studies: Britain, British Empire, South & Southeast Asia, women’s history, labor and migration history Author of: Waiting on Empire (OUP, 2023) Fleeting Agencies (CUP, 2021)
@drkyliesmith.bsky.social
Historian. Assoc Prof. Director of the Center for Healthcare History and Policy @Emory. Writing “Jim Crow in the Asylum” for @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. Un-American. 🇦🇺
@judeseal.bsky.social
PhD. from Royal Holloway, University of London. Repost ≠ Endorsement / All views my own. Research: History/Archaeology of Medicine, Disability, Disease, Trauma. Palæopathology. Also, religion, social change. Medievalist. 'Theorist' & 'Massive Autodidact'
@tbtpeters.bsky.social
Policy and public affairs for a trade union. Former shadow treasury advisor. Boxing record - W0 - D0 - L1 (retired)
@barbdrummond.bsky.social
Self publishing historian mostly on 18th century Britain. Books on wife selling, machines of the Enlightenment, and much more. New book The Great Flood of 1607 published on 2 September. Love photography, churchcrawling, curiosity
@kieranconnell.bsky.social
Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast. MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY out now with Hurst: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/multicultural-britain/ Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
@timjerrome.bsky.social
Doctoral student at Brighton researching gay and lesbian histories in rural England. Also a writer, gamer, enthusiastic but hopeless tennis player, and fan of all dogs with facial hair
@keithbeard.bsky.social
Socialist Beard Wearer Historian, Trade Unionist, Anti-Racist Tottenham & Cardiff, cat lover,CAMRA member since 1975
@mwpalen.bsky.social
Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list 2024. Financial Times “Best Books of 2024.”
@arthurasseraf.bsky.social
historian colonialism | media | Orangina One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
@drmishaewen.bsky.social
Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
@jamdanfish.bsky.social
Historian of work, knowledge and capitalism (C16-18th) | Lecturer at Uni of Exeter | Author of THE ENCLOSURE OF KNOWLEDGE (CUP, 2022)
@kategibson.bsky.social
Historian of family and inequality at the University of Manchester, researching fostering, adoption, illegitimacy in 18th C Britain
@carolinepennock.bsky.social
Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
@kjkesselring.bsky.social
Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
@waseemahmed98.bsky.social
UCLHistory PhD Everyday politics in 1650s England, PGTA KCL, Interests: EM popular politics/political culture and practices, Left radical traditions
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #HistoryBeyondTheBinary
@stef-dickers.bsky.social
Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute. Rather passionate about London, Activist, LGBTQ+ & Fetish Archives. Bass Player.
@vjctorianist.bsky.social
By day: historian and editor for hire. By night, historian and enthusiast of Chartism, the 19thC, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own drvicclarke.co.uk
@insurrecthistory.bsky.social
Insurrect! publishes writing related to the historical and cultural legacies of colonialism in the Americas and Atlantic World, broadly defined.
@warburginstitute.bsky.social
Image / Word / Orientation / Action The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society. https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
@migrationmuseum.org
The Migration Museum in Lewisham has now closed. Thank you to everyone for an amazing 5 years. Exciting plans coming soon - watch this space 👀 Website: migrationmuseum.org Shop: shop.migrationmuseum.org
@rlspang.bsky.social
Professor of History, sometimes administrator at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo. ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow. once/future Mainer
@lottelydia.bsky.social
Historian. Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024). Work stuff here: https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley repped by Carrie Plitt @ FBA pronouns are she/her and views are my own 💫
@contingent-mag.bsky.social
History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
@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.
@kamack.bsky.social
Writer and PhD researcher interested in migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com redsundayschool.org she/her
@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
@poltheoryother.bsky.social
A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by @redandinexpert.bsky.social Listen: https://linktr.ee/poltheoryother
@englishradical.bsky.social
Quotes, facts, images and videos about England’s radical past.
@abusablepast.bsky.social
The Abusable Past is the digital companion to the Radical History Review, presenting unique and original content related to the praxis of radical history.
@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/
@jaivirdi.com
Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Delaware. Deaf & forever a radical Learn more: jaivirdi.com