HWS History's Starter Pack
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@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie. https://eleanorjanega.com/
@gregjenner.bsky.social
~Public Historian 📜🤓 ~Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐📻📜🏛️ ~Hon. Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓 ~ Author of 7 funny history books ✍️📚 ~ CBBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV (series 1-9) 🎭🤣 ~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️ www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor. Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
@sathnam.bsky.social
Writer @thetimes. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. Join me on my Empireworld tour in 2025. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. www.sathnam.com
@workingclasshistory.com
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
@greenleejw.bsky.social
Surprised historian, not surprised eels. Doctor of medieval history, talking’ about eels, history, maps, and the Spaniel. Alt-text artist. I draw custom maps on commission: https://surprisedeelmaps.com/ Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
@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
@thehistoryguy.bsky.social
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
@k8lister.bsky.social
Blonde Bombsite. Sex Historian. Author of A Curious History of Sex & Harlot, Whores, & Hackabouts. Host of Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. Consider this your fair dos warning.
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@drjaninaramirez.bsky.social
Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. Gotta lotta love to share.
@drfernriddell.bsky.social
Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio. Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture. www.fernriddell.com **PREORDER Victoria’s Secret NOW** https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
@ottomanhistory.bsky.social
➥ Old Photos, Pics, Paintings, Maps ➥ Docs from Ottoman Empire Archives ➥ Historical Letters, Writings, Poems, Memoirs, Books, Real Human Stories: / Blog: https://ottoman-history-page.blogspot.com
@marcusrediker.bsky.social
Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh marcusrediker.com
@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
@edusky.bsky.social
Update - as Bluesky and #EduSky rapidly expand, Alice has created a team to best support the community! > Please now go follow @Eduskyteam.com
@davidolusoga.bsky.social
British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
@historytoday.com
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@enghistrev.bsky.social
Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods. Find our content here: https://academic.oup.com/ehr
@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.
@nicmorton.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (1000-1400) at Nottingham Trent Uni. Interested in pretty much everything medieval (all views my own) ✝️ University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
@locations.bsky.social
Educational and informative word maps. Scroll Down & Get More Knowledge.
@dreadships.bsky.social
Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
@historyhannahb.bsky.social
Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social
Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. Next book, The Blood in Winter, out 2025. ‘This isn’t the Eighties, Pat!’
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site. www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
@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.
@cromwellmuseum.bsky.social
World's best collection of items on life & times of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), telling his story 'warts and all'. "National Museum in a Matchbox". Huntingdon, UK www.cromwellmuseum.org
@freereed59.net
Teacher Education. History. Trad music. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing 📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl. https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/ https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
@histassoc.bsky.social
The Historical Association continues to support the study, teaching and enjoyment of history at all levels. We provide digital and face to face resources. Today there are approximately 50 branches around the UK. www.history.org.uk
@helencarr.bsky.social
Times and Sunday Times best-selling author Medieval Historian Mother of Doggos SCEPTRED ISLE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY OUT MAY 2025 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
@camhistory.bsky.social
News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
@kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher NT & OU | PhD global/East Asian material culture @ Stuart Ham House | MPhil, Cambridge - tobacco, Indigenous/African knowledge/labour in English Atlantic pre-TAST | BA Early America & British social history | KerryApps.com
@kirsteenmm.bsky.social
Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@natashawalter.bsky.social
Writer, feminist, climate campaigner Books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life, The New Feminism Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL Founder Women for Refugee Women Currently working on book on feminism & climate for Virago
@daisychristo.bsky.social
Director of Education at No More Marking, an ed tech start-up. Author of 3 books about education & 1 about football. West Ham & cricket fan. Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://substack.nomoremarking.com
@waseemahmed98.bsky.social
UCLHistory PhD Everyday politics in 1650s England, PGTA KCL, Interests: EM popular politics/political culture and practices, Left radical traditions
@annikabaerwald.bsky.social
Historian & teacher | researching slavery and the lives of people of color in 18th- and 19th-century Hamburg | PhD'ing at Universität Bremen | she
@ctimmermann.bsky.social
Historian of Science, Technology & Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Rheinländer. Cyclist. Gen X. Owned by dog. Unhealthily online. Posts personal. He/him. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
@bennewmark.bsky.social
Teacher, parent, school governor. Occasional blogger. https://bennewmark.wordpress.com/
@marcmorris.bsky.social
Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
@keithbeard.bsky.social
Socialist Beard Wearer Historian, Trade Unionist, Anti-Racist Tottenham & Cardiff, CAMRA member since 1975
@katejonesteach.bsky.social
Teacher. Senior associate for Teaching & Learning at Evidence Based Education. Author. Mum.
@uclholocaust.bsky.social
We are the world leader for research informed teacher and student Holocaust education. Part of IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society. https://holocausteducation.org.uk/ #edusky
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@hwshistory.bsky.social
Chris Holmes. Head of History & Politics at Highgate Wood School, North London. History is for life not just exams! For students, staff, alumni & parents. All views expressed here are strictly my own. Formerly https://twitter.com/HWS_History