Local History (Britain)
Local historians. Amatuer, professional and organisations.
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@joesaunders1.bsky.social
@meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social
Food Historian and Cook. Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe. Archaeologist. Researcher. Writer. Organic Vegetarian. Experimental Archaeology | Historical Archaeology insta: @meganfoodhistorian
@welwynarchsoc.bsky.social
The Society's Blue Sky feed run by the Director with an interest in all things archaeological especially archaeological method, geophysics and fieldwork. Have been known to publish a few things on coins and stats too. Always looking for speakers!
@svbrg.bsky.social
We record and study historic buildings in the county of Somerset, UK. Events, surveys, research, publications. Established 1979. https://svbrg.org.uk/
@thevicsoc.bsky.social
The national charity fighting to save our Victorian & Edwardian heritage. Join us! linktr.ee/victoriansociety Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
@socialhistsoc.bsky.social
Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
@fcelh.bsky.social
Our aim is to promote, support, and assist in the study of Local History as taught and practised in the Centre for Regional and Local History (formerly the Centre for English Local History) at the University of Leicester
@cbhistory.bsky.social
Local history and genealogy enthusiast, particularly Chesterfield area: Brampton, Walton, Newbold, Stonegravels, Whittington, Hasland, Spital, Calow, Brimington, Wingerworth, Birdholme, Tupton, Shirebrook, etc.
@clha.bsky.social
A gathering of societies with an interest in and an understanding of the history of Cheshire. Reposts are not endorsements. See more on our website: www.cheshirehistory.org.uk
@simondmd.bsky.social
Founder of http://WeAre.xyz... Establish your Family or One Place Study archive in a couple of clicks. Also guardian of Kevin the Drone!... Trustee of Shropshire Family History Society (home of my coolest ancestors) #genealogy #FamilyHistory
@suemajor.bsky.social
Railway historian, living in York UK. https://susanmajorhistory.wordpress.com. Working class railway excursions mid-19c Britain, inc women's leisure mobility. Women railway workers WWII. FellowRHS. Local history for www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk
@historyrosalind.bsky.social
History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025.
@carolineknight.bsky.social
Museum Professional, Genealogist based in south Lincolnshire with WW1 interests as well as Lincs & Rutland folks.
@genealogyjude.bsky.social
Always thinking about the past & the people who lived in it. Genealogist (DipGen), tutor with @IHGS and genealogy columnist, otherwise known as Judith Batchelor. I love to share my passion for #familyhistory so check out my website: www.genealogyjude.com
@manchesterhistory.uk
Historian, Orwell prize nominated journalist, Angel Meadow author, Manchester History Club newsletter writer, pro genealogist, tour guide, podcaster, History PhD. Here for #history #genealogy chat Join the club: www.manchesterhistory.uk
@divorcehistory.bsky.social
A New Methodological Approach to the History of Divorce 1857-1923 @drjenniferaston.bsky.social @dianeranyard.bsky.social @Northumbria Law School #ESRC #UKNatArchives #WelshWomen'sAid #CAFCASS Website: https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_history
@phillyadam.bsky.social
Collector & researcher of English, Irish & Scottish hammered coins minted in the 13th-14th centuries. Member BNS, RNS, ANS & ANA. Cambridge United supporter
@tim-lewis.bsky.social
Sound recordist, camera, editor, history guide. Social, historic, environmental documentaries. Walker in woods or by rivers, writer and dreamer and mentor. Creator of thelondonwalker.com and manager at ifnotusthenwho.me.
@eric180uk.bsky.social
Senior Archaeological Investigator @ Historic England. Landscape Archaeologist. Pub Lover. Cricket Tragic. Guitar Hero. BHAFC fan. Husband. Dad. Views my own.
@chapmanbookman.bsky.social
I help authors/indie presses publish non-fiction books. Editor of 3 British history magazines, including northernearth.co.uk (folklore, archaeology, psychogeography, landscape). Writer, walker, ambulomancer, neoantiquarian. andrewchapman.info
@rwldproject.bsky.social
Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester. #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200 www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
@colinruneckles.bsky.social
Researcher into urbanism & housing: Ancient (@OU_Classics) - currently writing a book on non-elite housing Modern (Writer, Speaker, Treasurer - @ilfordhistory.bsky.social Likes music. A lot of music. Can often be found at Cafe Oto.
@susanmooreresearch.bsky.social
Freelance researcher specialising in Chancery records and other records of places and people in the 16th and 17th century. Trustee of British Association for Local History, BALH
@majorhistory.bsky.social
Masters in Military History, working full time, side projects in community history, FRGS, MRHistS https://www.major-history.co.uk
@mwilljones.bsky.social
Historian of cinemas and their audiences. Escape room champion, optimistic hiker, book writer, board game player, cat tickler, very lucky husband🏳️🌈
@latemedievalist.bsky.social
Medieval historian | postdoc at the University of Bristol | Interested in processes of decision-making, borders, networks, and digital humanities | Canadian in the UK | she/her
@wiltshistory.bsky.social
The Victoria County History of Wiltshire. New to BlueSky and happy to be here.
@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.
@balhnews.bsky.social
The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
@layersoflondon.bsky.social
https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
@janiceheppenstall.bsky.social
writer, genealogist, family historian, rejoiner, book lover, lifelong learner, needleworker... web/blog: https://englishancestors.blog/ author at: https://sussexbylines.co.uk/author/janice-heppenstall/
@midlandhistory.bsky.social
We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
@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.
@kathywatson.bsky.social
Kid Lit Writer. Music and theater fanatic. Space Nerd. Author of MY CITY IS A FORT and featured in BOY MOMS. #SCBWI #StorytellerAcademy #ManuscriptAcademy
@kathyw.bsky.social
Yorkshire based. Professional genealogist, adoption search specialist. RQG and AGRA Member, chair of AGRA Northern Network Group.
@handhyorkshire.bsky.social
Independent researcher/writer/broadcaster in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Also write's on poverty, community and other things. Regular Bylines Network writer. Servant to a Patterdale
@hellohistoria.bsky.social
BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️ Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀 Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
@samuscript.bsky.social
Part-producer, part-historian, 100% in the archives. PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Learner gardener. Human 🦜 perch. www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
@familyhistory.academy
Family Historian. Educator. Speaker. DNA Sleuth. Research Enthusiast. Owner, Family History Academy (familyhistory.academy) & Ancestor Discovery (ancestordiscovery.com.au). Innovating #familyhistory one story at a time.
@julzmuirhead.bsky.social
IHGS Student, Family Historian, Genealogist, Local Historian, avid reader St Mary Bourne One-Place Study Archive https://app.weare.xyz/public/st-mary-bourne-one-place-study/places/5wyz815llyrq Blog: https://julzgenealogy.wordpress.com/
@scientistsoph.bsky.social
Pro Genealogist & Scientist at www.khronicle.co.uk, #Genealogy Expert for Time Team, #DNA Specialist Tutor at IHGS. Oxford D.Phil.(SysBio), Fiend for #maps & #research methods. Big hair, big heels, weakness for cake.She/her. Blog: www.parchmentrustler.com
@sophiemhistory.bsky.social
Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales. Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
@dianeranyard.bsky.social
Historian researching marriage & divorce @ Northumbria Law School working on ESRC funded @divorcehistory.bsky.social. Interested in social, cultural, legal, gender, class & emotions history
@linziw.bsky.social
History - Military and Garden. Especially all things 17th Century. Often found on a battlefield. Bit of a photographer. Oh and Leeds United. No bio … don’t expect a follow.
@sarafoxwales.bsky.social
Historian & archaeologist. Formerly househistorianwales on the other side. Areas of freelance research: houses, gardens, landscapes, people. PhD candidate: 'Wales located women's writing in English & the country house.'
@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
@genejean.bsky.social
Local Historian. Rillington One-Place Study. Ginger Goodwin. IHGS Licentiate Candidate. Professional Genealogist (retired) Loves: The great outdoors Churchcrawling Architecture Disused railways Landscape photography Maps https://www.rillingtonhistory.com
@fraternalwriter.bsky.social
Researcher, author, mostly UK & 18th-20thC social history especially friendly societies, banners, the Open University, the Labour Party and the history of local history. Escapes through running.
@awdorset.bsky.social
Former Archaeologist, now a naval Project Manager, based in Dorset. Loves crumbling buildings, broken ceramics and hidden earthworks. Particularly interested in medieval ports and towns. Occasional posts on ships & aviation.
@janetfew.bsky.social
Family, social and community historian. Author and educator. Writer of #nonfiction & #histfict. #C17th historical interpreter. Part of the A Few Forgotten Women team. Mostly historical and bookish posts. Sometimes stray posts about #travel and #gardening.
@springhillops.bsky.social
One Place Studies of Springhill in Rossendale, Lancs and Newlands, Cumberland. History PG student. Also birding, anaesthesia and Burnley FC.
@janeroberts.bsky.social
Professional family, local & house history researcher. Author. AGRA Associate. History graduate. Batley St Mary’s One-Place Study. Connecting past & present. Website & blog: https://pasttopresentgenealogy.co.uk
@karenaverby.bsky.social
karenaverby.co.uk Buildings Historian/Consultant Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk FRHistS ACIfA Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist Rep Past Preservers Brum/London
@annalujz.bsky.social
book history | digital humanities | early modern Postdoc on Continental European Books in Early Modern England project, Manchester. Also: parish/public libraries, book data, early Bodleian library, early modern provincial English book cultures.
@annacusack.bsky.social
Early modernist. Lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste & Uni of Essex. Tutor at Oxford Conted & WEA. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London, c.1600-1800', London, suicides, crime & punishment, dead, burial, religious outsiders. Co-editor How-to History
@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 🐄
@ftsgenealogy.bsky.social
Heather Nowlan - Professional Genealogist at Family Tree Searchers; Vice Chair - Board of Trustees for Society of Genealogists; AGRA Associate
@womenof1000.bsky.social
Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/ PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music. she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
@stephaniekw.bsky.social
Pro Genealogist | Family Historian | Married | RQG Student Member & IHGS Student | Local History | Medieval Genealogy | Genetic Genealogy | Feminist, Humanist, Socialist | 1940s Vintage | Cat Lady | Norfolk UK | She/Her
@erhodes.bsky.social
PhD student in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
@kfduggan.bsky.social
Dog lover | Pasta addict | Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries
@lynneaboutlboro.bsky.social
Life-long librarian, life-long learner, local & family historian, author, talker, & walker, aka a qualified Leicestershire tour guide specialising in Loughborough! Mother of 3, music-lover, walker etc.. Banner credit: @willcoxe_architecture over on Inst
@ruthslatter.bsky.social
Material & participatory approaches to everyday histories of faith | Lecturer in Historic Environment at @ihr.bsky.social | Member of @chppc.bsky.social | Co-General Editor @vchlondon.bsky.social | https://www.history.ac.uk/people/ruth-slatter
@ruthwillmore.bsky.social
Events and Education Manager at SoG, Genealogy, Heraldry & Palaeography PGDip student, lives between Snowdonia and the sea. Enjoys rail travel. At the beck and call of 3 cats.
@simonbriercliffe.bsky.social
Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
@ihrlibrary.bsky.social
The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
@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
@househistorian.bsky.social
Historian • author • speaker • TV consultant • presenter. Specialist in researching the history of houses. Otherwise known as Mel Backe-Hansen. Books incl. #AHouseThroughTime and #HouseHistories Rep #PastPreservers http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
@pharostutors.bsky.social
💻 Online Courses 📜 Certificate programmes 🕵️♂️ #FamilyHistory 🗺️ #LocalHistory 🌳 #Genealogy ✍️ #DistanceLearning 👩🏼🏫 #OnlineCourses Professionally recognised by AGRA @agragenealogy.bsky.social https://www.pharostutors.com/
@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
@docuracy.co.uk
Technical Director & Lead Software Developer, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org Research Associate, Unlocking Upcycled Medieval Data @ihr.bsky.social GIS Consultant, Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social
@turnstonegenie.bsky.social
Pro genealogist (PGDip, RQG), librarian, statistician, maths tutor #OPS for #WestwardAndBoltons & #RutherglenCemetery CWGC volunteer Wildlife watcher, wanderer in wild places #AuDHD
@willsmanonename.bsky.social
Tracing my #FamilyHistory in 🏴 & 🏴 Passionate about #OnePlaceStudies, #LocalHistory & cats. Practicing my photography skills. This account is for history, not politics - need the escapism! My websites & socials 👉🏻 https://linktr.ee/WillsmanOneNa
@davelifelines.bsky.social
Family historian, lecturer, author. Former Principal Family History Specialist at The National Archives. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 41 years in the business. Loves a good map. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory https://lifelinesresearch.co.uk/
@trixiegadd.bsky.social
Historian working on clerical lives in 17th-century Dorset. Academic proofreader. Walker and knitter.
@justinepick.bsky.social
Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
@cspence.bsky.social
Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
@stephemmabrown.bsky.social
Historical Criminologist | Legal and social perceptions of violence, 1300-present | Lecturer at Hull | Member of CAMPOP and Cambridge's Violence Research Centre.
@drangelamuir.bsky.social
Associate professor, historian, sometimes musician. Interested in gender and deviance in 18th century Wales & England. I co-host Wines & Crimes events in Cardiff. Currently writing a non-academic true crime history book (out in 2026) www.angelamuir.co.uk
@lrylandepton.bsky.social
Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social. Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies. VF @openuniversity.bsky.social https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
@markhailwood.bsky.social
Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
@materialwills.bsky.social
The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 25,000 wills. Volunteer for us: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmith/the-material-culture-of-wills-england-1540-1790
@dralexcraven.bsky.social
FRHistS. Freelance historian, working mainly for the VCH in Gloucestershire and Somerset. Interested in the English republic, radicalism, religion, and Reading FC.
@marinelives.bsky.social
Lives touched by the marine, 1574-1688. A volunteer led collaboration publishing to the Commons. Please join our ai-and-history collaboratory for all students of history and public historians: https://github.com/Addaci/marinelives-collaboratory/wiki
@oldbaileyonline.bsky.social
Historical crime online. https://www.oldbaileyonline.org
@tracelarkhall.bsky.social
Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
@victoriancommons.bsky.social
The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our blog: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/
@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.
@drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social
Professor (Em.) of Medieval Archaeology, University of Cambridge. Early #medievalEngland c400-1200CE; #commonrights & governance; #fen #watermanagement; #landscape⚱️& 🗃️. #medievalsky Research & publications @ https://profsusanoosthuizen.wordpress.com
@drdan.bsky.social
Historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England. Researching the trade and their goods. Visiting Research Fellow at CDAS, University of Bath. Associate Fellow of Royal Historical Society
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
@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.
@brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
@timhitchcock.bsky.social
Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
@lauragowing.bsky.social
Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
@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 in June. Indefatigable Allan Pettersson enthusiast.
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @cambridgeup.bsky.social