Radical Histories - Part II

@voxvulgaris.bsky.social

The Shape of Medieval Music to Come Early Music for Late Humanity https://voxvulgaris.bandcamp.com/album/early-music-for-late-humanity

@docfergus.bsky.social

Educator in AmLit & Culture working w/ archives, ephemera, and material & ICH preservation. Intersectional Feminism, CRT, Disability Rights—in other words, I’m a hoot at parties.

@heirsofslavery.bsky.social

A group of people who have acknowledged their ancestors’ involvement in transatlantic chattel enslavement. Seeking to support true history-telling, anti-racism & reparative justice. Still learning. https://www.heirsofslavery.org/

@jodcoll.bsky.social

former historian of interwar communism & anti-communism, did a phd, now I work with books n that. Leeds, UK. old writing @ https://medium.com/@jodcoll

@lucaspoy.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Research fellow International Institute of Social History | Labour and social historian | History of labor, socialism, and internationalism | Latin America | https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/lucas-poy

@roberthenderson.bsky.social

Historian of the Russian revolutionary emigration. Formerly Russian curator at the British Library. Based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Latest book (pbk. ed.): https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spark-that-lit-the-revolution-9781350344730/

@sebboo.bsky.social

Historian (Berlin/Flensburg) 🏳️‍🌈 First book: global / German / queer history, memory studies. Present project: history of European hiking associations. He/Him. Grufti 🦦 Nerd & 🩰. Born in Montréal / Tiohtià:ke

@mattinbiglari.bsky.social

Lecturer of Asian and Middle Eastern Environmental History at the University of Bristol. Oil and environmental justice; decolonisation; labour; infrastructure; technopolitics; STS; energy humanities

@alexjwhite.bsky.social

Freelance historian with a focus on African anti-colonialism and the global media. PhD from Cambridge, hot takes from the depths of a radio archive somewhere.

@siavush.bsky.social

Historian of Modern Iran, Senior Lecturer [Associate Professor] in Modern Middle Eastern History @standrewshist.bsky.social Currently based in Edinburgh. http://www.siavush.com . Full-time Western Classical Music devotee.

@krheyam.bsky.social

Queer trans writer, historian, heritage practitioner, trainer, parent. Author of BEFORE WE WERE TRANS, a Lambda nominee and History Today book of the year. http://kitheyam.com

@mharrabin.bsky.social

Recently submitted my PhD thesis, “Rethinking Gender & Sexuality in Weimar Cinema (1918-1833)” @ the University of Warwick. Postdoc at IAS (Warwick) & German Screen Studies Network (St. Andrews)

@ervinmalakaj.bsky.social

media studies, 19c literary studies, film studies, queer studies, German studies; post also in Bosnian/German; plant dad and dog mom; vegan but not annoying about it; writing a memoir 🏳️‍🌈 https://www.ervinmalakaj.com

@xineyaophd.bsky.social

DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine from the colonies https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected

@manwithoutatan.bsky.social

historian | pet shop boys fanatic | australian in germany | very bisexual | constantly podcasting | "oh, dr. bodie!" per jordan gray | they/them | latest book: “the pet shop boys and the political”

@katielmsutton.bsky.social

Hist. gender & sexuality, Weimar Republic, LGBTQ pasts, sexual science / psychoanalysis, visual cultures, neuroqueer. German & Gender Studies, ANU. Views mine. she/they

@heikebauer.bsky.social

Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they. London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland

@claudiawrites.bsky.social

I wear many hats; author, researcher on history of British Empire, African and Caribbean history and literatures. Now working on new black British eighteenth century documentary novel. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

@lanre-bakare.bsky.social

Culture writer, debut non-fiction WE WERE THERE out 17 April 2025 via The Bodley Head https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/453942/we-were-there-by-bakare-lanre/9781847927477

@thelondonwalker.bsky.social

Walker and history guide, Tim Lewis: filmmaker, storyteller, writer, mentor. Specialised guide exploring London's unique history and culture. https://thelondonwalker.com

@outofthestacks.bsky.social

PhD Philosophy in History (ABD) Queer Artist, Historian, & Library worker Expect some dissertation musings, performance art, Chautauqua Movement, reenactments, queer theory, book discussion reads, and research assistances (aka fur babies) postings.

@gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social

Archive in North London co-founded by John La Rose and Sarah White among others. Testimony to the activism, creativity and resilience of members of the Caribbean, Asian, African communities of the UK and abroad. https://linktr.ee/thegpi

@shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social

Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30

@janisthiessen.bsky.social

UWinnipeg Professor (she/they) #CdnHist #OralHistory #FoodHistory Manitoba Food History Project Preserves podcast co-host https://www.manitobafoodhistory.ca

@emleake.bsky.social

Associate Professor of History, Tufts University; chief editor, Journal of Global History; decolonization, borders, South Asian internationalism; www.elisabethmarikoleake.com

@tanyaevans.bsky.social

Public historian. Historian of Australia and Britain from the 18th century to the present. Professor of History Macquarie Uni. She/her.

@kieranhazzard.bsky.social

Historian of C18th-19th Britain and India. No longer institutionally attached. Previous research into Robert Clive's loot at Powis Castle and Regency Radicals who hated the East India Company. Increasingly interested in the Great War.

@tanyabluedog.bsky.social

Historian on working-class lives, environmentalism, health. PhD coal gas, pollution & heritage. I also do radical HR systems to humanise workplaces. She/her. 🐇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 https://substack.com/@tanyahawkes

@apolitopoulos.bsky.social

Assistant professor Archaeology and Cultural Politics at Leiden University. Archaeology, play, video games, and politics.

@narson.bsky.social

Historian and archivist. Working on far right and antifascism post1945, research/archive ethics and pedagogy. Work and teach at an English university. Liberal, nerdy and often under attack from his cat.

@olwenpurdue.bsky.social

Historian of the urban poor, children & welfare, migration, difficult public histories. Director, Centre for Public History Queen’s University Belfast . Happy in the forest with the pup or in front of the fire with a glass of something red

@florencehrscott.bsky.social

Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social

@evanasmith.bsky.social

Senior Advisor, Emerson Collective Contributor, @theatlantic.com Co-founder and former CEO, @texastribune.org Former Editor-in-Chief and President, @texasmonthly.bsky.social

@carliegem89.bsky.social

Fat Historian. PhDing at Goldsmiths UoL. Thesis: “Riots Not Diets: A Queer History of Fat Activism in 20th-Century Britain” @dalehenehan.bsky.social #1 Fan.

@curiousmonolith.bsky.social

Prof at Santa Clara University. 🏳️‍🌈 Writer of books on American literature. Editor of Re-Editions series at Lever Press. Writing a book on the 1970s. Reclaimer of bad texts and decades.

@eaho.bsky.social

A Scottish/Florentine literary life; an extraordinary network of artists, writers, engineers, scientists; a micro-history of the East India Company and its overlooked influence on British culture Eaho.substack.com

@histoireengagee.ca

HistoireEngagée est une revue en ligne publiant de courts (et moins courts) textes abordant, dans une perspective historique, des enjeux actuels. https://www.instagram.com/histoire.engagee/ https://histoireengagee.ca/

@limerickslife.com

🌍 Historian | ✍️ Author | 🎤 Public Speaker | 🏆 National Heritage Hero Award Recipient | 🏳️‍🌈 Grand Marshal Limerick Pride. Preserving Limerick’s history, one story at a time, since 2004. https://linktr.ee/limerickslife

@withmovements.bsky.social

Alaskan | activist, writer, educator | author of Another Politics | member of Punch Up Collective | committed resident of Ottawa, Ontario, on unceded Algonquin territory | unrepentantly earnest | he/him | www.writingwithmovements.com

@tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social

Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian Research Fellow, Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities victoria.leonard@coventry.ac.uk #FRHistS #WCCWiki More on me: https://pureportal.coventry.ac.uk/en/persons/victoria-leonard

@annenortonnow.bsky.social

Political theory, the wild, the anarchic, also cats, corgis (the wild, the anarchic).

@katyphipps.bsky.social

Historian of sexuality and French colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol. Always nosy.

@davidhendy.bsky.social

Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. 'The BBC: A People's History' (2022). 'Noise: A Human History', BBC Radio 4 (2013). Rep: Caroline Dawnay, United Agents https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/

@gabriellehecht.bsky.social

Writer/Prof/Anti-disciplinary https://gabriellehecht.org Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures 🇵🇷1st genx2 • cisbi♀• proud but terrified parent of 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🧠♾️

@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social

Emeritus Prof, writing (slowly) about Labour’s existential struggles since 1976 for Polity. Knows stuff about politics & culture. Labour List: https://labourlist.org/author/s-fielding/ Zeitgeist Tapes: https://shorturl.at/nwdO4

@eichnercarolyn.bsky.social

Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune; names.

@brionyneilson.bsky.social

Historian of 19th-century France—incarceration of juveniles, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia). Book out now "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php. Based in Sydney, Australia

@roellinghoff.bsky.social

Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.

@kickasswomenof.bsky.social

PODCAST LAUNCHING 7TH JAN! Each week, Amy and Emma will be joined by a different expert to discuss the life of a woman from the past who deserves to be better known. They could be from anywhere in the world, and have lived at any time in the past.

@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.

@norenashopland.bsky.social

Writer/historian on LGBTQ+ history in Wales, and Welsh history

@cathfeely.bsky.social

Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.

@robertsaunders.bsky.social

Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory

@tudorwench.bsky.social

Historical Gangsta. Aspiring meme queen. Hangs with salty dead English guys from the Tudor-Stuart era & tries to avoid scurvy. 🇨🇦⚓️ early East India co voyages. Holocaust educator. Teaches whatever needs teaching.

@markussammerin.bsky.social

PhD Candidate, UMich History. Studying the death of Italian Communism. I saw a werewolf drinking a piña colada at Trader Vick's. His hair was perfect.

@makinggayhistory.bsky.social

We bring LGBTQ history to life through the voices of the people who lived it, including the Making Gay History podcast (makinggayhistory.org). Since 2016.

@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.

@indigenousechoes.bsky.social

This page explores the History of Indigenous individuals who inhabited the Rio de la Plata region during the colonial period. Run by @guillaumecandela.bsky.social

@joshalston.bsky.social

Historian of Jews in South Africa. Penguin enthusiast. Unenthusiastic about neoliberalism. Green Party England and Wales.

@taylorborowetz.bsky.social

Editor of Millennium vol 54, PhD-ing @ SOAS. Theorist, writing a history of the concept of liberation from the Haitian Revolution to contemporary abolitionist thought.

@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social

Historian, Professor, Writer. Author. Next 📚: Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore (Pantheon, 25) ashleydfarmer.com

@ahmadgreene.com

🏫 professor, writer, lover | ✨ all things black, queer, archival, artsy |📚 author of *Underworld Work: Black Atlantic Religion Making in Jim Crow New Orleans* http://a.co/d/4VuHlQZ ✨views are my own.

@drconvictsandcane.bsky.social

Historian of convict labor/prisons, Black Texas, U.S. History! Assistant professor in a red state. 🥴 Writing a book that explores the significance of sugar and Black convict labor and the shaping of the Texas prison farm model. The House that Cane Built!!

@jdeanross.bsky.social

PhD Student @penn - Black histories of education, archives, and Black DH. 1906 🤙🏾

@dorothyjberry.bsky.social

Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20. I am, ashamedly, a curator now too Digital Curator @ National Museum of AfAm History and Culture but all opinions my own, not my employer's www.dorothy-berry.com

@dunphyalexander.bsky.social

PhD candidate in labor history at the University of Maryland. Researching US anti-fascism in the interwar period. Assistant Editor at @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social

@abg-zeitschrift.bsky.social

Zeitschrift zur Geschichte der deutschen und internationalen Arbeiter*bewegung, der Geschichte sozialer Bewegungen, der Arbeitswelt und für Sozialgeschichte. Erscheint 3 x jährlich. Jetzt abonnieren: https://www.arbeit-bewegung-geschichte.de/

@rickhalpern.bsky.social

Historian, Author, Cook, Photographer, critical thinker. photos: http://500px.com/p/ucrahex

@abolisyonista.bsky.social

Writer and archivist on Philippine anarchism and socialism, reader of ultraleft communism, degrowth, social ecology, police+prison abolition, Southeast Asian anarchisms. For the self-abolition of the proletariat.

@charlottecull.bsky.social

History PhD at King’s College London - Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. IHR Early Careers History of Political Ideas Co-Convenor.

@katiesnow.bsky.social

Researching bodies and bodily experiences across the medical humanities. Book on breasts in Georgian satirical prints forthcoming from Rutgers ✨🍈🍈 Wellcome postdoc in English @ University College Dublin, Drinking Cultures 🥃

@christinajriggs.bsky.social

Writer and historian: photograpy, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Tango dancer, Italophile, Chair in History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com

@justcode.bsky.social

Writer I Professor I Historian I Ctr. Dir. Director, CBI for Computing Info. & Culture Prof. HSTM/STS, U. of MN. Co-edit JHUP Computing & Culture bk. srs. Research: Social Study of HCI, AI, Privacy, Security, Labor, Race, Gender & Inequality. JUST CODE

@shirinhirsch.bsky.social

Anti racist historian at Manchester Met and People’s History Museum. Views my own

@ophelie-simeon.bsky.social

Lecturer in British history at Sorbonne Nouvelle University | FRHIstS | Editor at the Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle

@johnerik-h.bsky.social

Lecturer in British History (https://larca.u-paris.fr/en/membre/hansson-john-erik-en/). Intellectual History/William Godwin/Radicalism/Anarchism/18th-20th c. Reviews editor - Anarchist Studies (https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies)

@josephfinlay.bsky.social

Historian of British Jews and race relations. Composer and Musical Director. Socialist and דאָיִקער

@mabelwinter.bsky.social

Socio-economic historian of early modern England Everyday history of provisioning | banking and finance | urban and civic politics | projecting and improvement | Postdoc on https://politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/

@kerith.bsky.social

Associate Professor. Argumentation, Advocacy, Rhetoric of Religion. #TeamRhetoric

@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

@efbond.bsky.social

Professor of Italian & Comparative Studies, University of Oxford. Interested in migration, museums and empire. New book CURATING WORLDS out Dec 2024.

@womenslibrary.bsky.social

The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities

@cslbs.bsky.social

Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery Department of History, University College London ucl.ac.uk/history/cslbs

@srburgess.bsky.social

Distinguished Prof. Emerita, Ohio University. Various books on Politics: law/courts, LGBTQ politics, social movements, radicals, pop culture. I edit a book series in LGBTQ politics at NYU Press. Also music, animal friends, nature. Chicago. Dublin.

@drmaimusie.bsky.social

Ancient Historian| Public Engagement Specialist | Co-founder @ClassicsinComm @UniofOxford |Trustee @TheRomanSoc @classicsforall Agent:www.hkmanagement.co.uk Website: https://www.drmaimusie.com

@coryellen.bsky.social

Postdoc, L&D/abortion & Public Health RN. #HistNursing, #HistMed, #STS. PhD, MFA. Caregiver. Queer, Jewish; she/her. Too curious for my own good. Funding abortion and supporting doulas. Opinions: many, my own. http://coryellen.com

@historyworkshop.org.uk

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