Modern British History (1900-) Part 1

@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)

@designarchives.bsky.social

Award-winning archive of British & international industrial & communication design designarchives@brighton.ac.uk https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesignarchives/ https://linktr.ee/design_archives

@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)

@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

@c20society.bsky.social

The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Report buildings at risk to caseworker@c20society.org.uk www.c20society.org.uk

@jessicareinisch.bsky.social

Modern historian at Birkbeck, working on UNRRA, relief & humanitarianism, internationalism. I edit the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series & direct the Centre for the Study of Internationalism.

@sexhistorian.bsky.social

Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions. Researching the health history of fuel poverty in North East England @ Northumbria University They/them

@mariegardiner.bsky.social

Writer of social history, heritage, culture, film, including three history books. Photographer. Partner/docu producer at Lonely Tower Film & Media. MDANT 🏅. Check lists & starter packs. https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner 📌 North East England

@whitchurchhospital.bsky.social

Whitchurch Hospital is a closed Mental Health Hospital in Cardiff 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 1908-2016 Used as a military hospital during both World Wars. Originally known as the Cardiff City Mental Hospital. Account run by Whitchurch Hospital Historcial Society (Est. 2009)

@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

@lonelytower.bsky.social

Independent Media Productions YouTube - http://youtube.com/@lontower767 News & Documentaries include - A Passion for Vaux, Hollowed Ground, and Iron & Steam

@polprofsteve2024.bsky.social

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

@racheljcollett.bsky.social

PhD on the Merseyside Women’s Movement 1969-1990s + teaching history at University of Liverpool Keen gardener, rubbish morris dancer, folk enthusiast, and occasional witch 🌙

@amywb.bsky.social

History prof at LMU in LA, CA: author of Transformative Beauty, working on museums, anthropology, art, & empire. I teach about these & global environmental history. Activist for reality + democracy—& against climate change + single-use plastics. LFG

@sabineschneider.bsky.social

Economic Historian, University of Oxford | History of economic governance and financial stability. Views are my own. Website: https://glocobank.web.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-sabine-schneider

@asls.org.uk

Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present. https://asls.org.uk

@camunicampop.bsky.social

Interdisciplinary research group at the University of Cambridge. https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/ Follow our blog: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages. https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog

@amrcampop.bsky.social

Historical demographer at CAMPOP, Geography Dept Cambridge University. See also http://PopulationsPast.org. Views my own.

@tomhulme.bsky.social

Reader in History based at Queen's University Belfast. Interested in queer Irish history, 1880-1960s. PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”. Secretary of local UCU branch. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/tom-hulme

@luciejones83.bsky.social

Victorian historian at a UK post-92. Usually lost in the past & admin. Slowly writing book on British settlement houses 1880-1920. Looks at home, & gender. Interested in pedagogy, & disability in higher education. Dyslexic/dyspraxic. Her/she.

@imanimosley.bsky.social

your favorite musicologist’s favorite musicologist. ✨ music/cultural historian at the University of Florida 🐊, Tar Heel bred, professional social media haver. is always on brand, & the brand (🇬🇧) is strong 😉 she/her 🏳️‍🌈 https://linktr.ee/imanimosley

@kingtekkers.bsky.social

Professor of Medical Humanities (historian of medicine and science) | ageing, germs, advertising, technology | sports, musics, runs, foods, gardens

@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

@jonesemily.bsky.social

Historian of politics and ideas at the University of Manchester. Author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism. Writing a book about the Disraeli myth and One Nation.

@dramamen.bsky.social

Historian of Modern Britain from 18th-21stc; Expert on masculinity; sexual violence; British Period Drama; TV/Media Studies; Public Historian; Royal Family expert; environmental activist; visit me at julieannetaddeo.com for more. Views all my own.

@slobogin.bsky.social

Art historian of medicine Assistant Professor, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ University of Rochester (Joint Appointment in Art & Art History) plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host she / her

@stephanieolsen.bsky.social

Historian of childhood, experience, emotions and education of Britain, Empire, Global. Editor of History of Education. Senior Researcher, Centre for the History of Experiences (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦

@mandisbarnard.bsky.social

Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her

@kamack.bsky.social

Writer and PhD researcher documenting refugee histories of contemporary Scotland. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com https://redsundayschool.org/ she/her

@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

@claireljones.bsky.social

Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱

@davidcvessey.bsky.social

Historian of modern Britain and the media. University of Sheffield. Probably won’t rant about Sheffield Wednesday on here (I’ll save that for the hellsite formerly known as Twitter).

@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

@janetskwatson.bsky.social

History professor at UConn, mother, knitter, long COVID and cardiac arrest survivor. Author, Fighting Different Wars. Be kind, stand strong, and aim for democracy. Cats. Personal account.

@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 🏳️‍🌈

@delayedscholar.bsky.social

Historian of class, labor, and gender in Britain, Ireland, and Empire. First-gen, non-traditional, advocate in Equity initiatives. Old-school D&D nerd. 🏳️‍🌈

@arjm5184.bsky.social

Historian, goalie, not a historian of goalies. Father of goalie. History at MSU Denver. Wartime Calcutta. Usually in the far corner of the rink.

@susielaurie.bsky.social

Jewish, Minnesotan (via the Bronx), widow, historian (c19 Britain). Understanding the Victorians 3e now out!! https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-the-Victorians-Politics-Culture-and-Society-in-Nineteenth-Century/Steinbach/p/book/9780367421021

@drangelabuckley.bsky.social

Crime historian and author. Victorian crime, police detectives and history of forensic science. New book: The Bermondsey Murder. Rep Past Preservers. Also languages, literature, genealogy and travel. FE College governor. http://drangelabuckley.substack.com

@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social

natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING ANIMAL MAGNETISM (2026)

@mollygroarke.bsky.social

History PhD, University of Cambridge | Researching 19th cent. British Empire, antislavery, and family networks

@brookenewman.bsky.social

Historian of Britain & empire; cocktail enthusiast; lover of books, pets, podcasts, & snark. Upcoming—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com

@jenniferwellington.bsky.social

Modern History, University College Dublin. My book: Exhibiting War. Researching war trophies and trophy-taking.

@airminded.org

Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org

@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/

@yorkhillyankee.bsky.social

Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @ Edinburgh Uni. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. No, I don't know 1978's top goalscorer for Partick Thistle. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com

@hornseyhq.bsky.social

Teaches and researches modern British History. Nottingham and Brighton, UK. He/him.

@phghaslam.bsky.social

PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social | Queer and gender historian | Researching confirmed bachelorhood in England 1880–1960 | they/he

@bigandylock.bsky.social

Great War, History, & Rugby. PhD @ University of Suffolk, BEF Infantry tactical development 1916-1917. Guiding battlefields, Germany and London. Karaoke hound.

@erinacean.bsky.social

Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @erinacean@h-net.social www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/

@cjdrury.bsky.social

Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/

@millieqed.bsky.social

Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.

@christiandp.bsky.social

Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover

@mtoiv.bsky.social

Research fellow at FU Berlin｜global/colonial history & 19thC SE Asia｜🏬 cities and publics｜🌲 forests and forestry｜PhD from EUI｜📚 occasionally writes about books and films

@drjenniferaston.bsky.social

Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC. York and Newcastle.

@exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social

Join us in exploring the University of Exeter Library's Special Collections, which include archives, manuscripts, rare books and maps. There's something for everyone, and everyone is welcome. Find out more! ➡️ libguides.exeter.ac.uk/archives

@dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social

De Montfort University Special Collections, part of Library and Student Services. Explore our collections on our catalogue: http://specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk

@hellohistoria.bsky.social

BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️ Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees

@mooresci.bsky.social

Contemporary History Person - Histories of activism and suchlike. Malvern dweller, Bham worker. Trier. Proper info here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/moores-chris.aspx

@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

@chriscampbell1.bsky.social

History PhD student, St John's College, Cambridge | Gender, class and race in twentieth-century British cultural diplomacy

@clartyclara.bsky.social

PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, gender, the family, welfare.

@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

@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

@themerl.bsky.social

We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Posting hog on main. Chaotic Good. Website ➡️ https://merl.reading.ac.uk/ Merch ➡️ https://merl-shop.co.uk/ Podcast ➡️ https://merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/absolute-units/

@thehistorygirl1.bsky.social

Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.

@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social

Associate Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths. British, American, comparative and global politics and culture. Dad; Londoner; Cypriot. Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com Academic publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dion-Georgiou

@mbhjournal.bsky.social

https://academic.oup.com/tcbh Modern British History publishes peer reviewed work in modern British history. We skeet our articles, reviews, and the latest British history news. Formerly 'Twentieth Century British History'.

@cammbhw.bsky.social

The Cambridge Modern British History Workshop is open to postgraduate students working on any topic related to the history of Britain and Ireland since 1750. Convenors: @chriscampbell1, @mollygroarke, @tkmaidment

@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

@beyondnotables.bsky.social

an AHRC funded project (2021-2024) re-evaluating women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in Britain 1870-1950

@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/.

@vahs.bsky.social

VAHS aims to promote the study of voluntary action history and to develop an understanding of this history for the public, for academics, and for people working in the voluntary sector.

@bssh.bsky.social

British Society of Sports History promotes the study of sport history and physical education

@icshc.bsky.social

The International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) is based at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom. We are the world's leading research centre for the study of the history of sport.

@histparl.bsky.social

Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day. You can find us at other places, here: https://linktr.ee/historyofparliament

@caitbeaumont.bsky.social

Prof Social History LSBU | Female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | History of Experience | Council @royalhistsoc.bsky.social | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism & #Afterlives | Visiting full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social

@historianhelen.bsky.social

Cambridge Historian, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy

@shaneewen.bsky.social

Professor of urban history and fire safety, editor Urban History, trustee of the Historic Towns Trust Before Grenfell - free OA https://uolpress.co.uk/book/before-grenfell/ Free resources - https://forged-by-fire.wixsite.com/home?fbcli

@sslh.bsky.social

Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk

@vchlondon.bsky.social

Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people. https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history

@historyworkshop.org.uk

// Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ // || enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ || \\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\

@drjn.bsky.social

Historical Geographer YPCCS University of Warwick (Caribbean histories & geographies) Also Nottingham and OU Geog Depts. (Martial) Arts, photography, films, comedy, books, libraries, archives, trees, pottery. Always curious. https://jonorcup.com

@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/

@oneplacestudies.bsky.social

For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies – where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday! www.one-place-studies.org

@sshmedicine.bsky.social

The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/ #histmed

@alistairfair.bsky.social

Reader in Architectural History, University of Edinburgh. C20th architecture in Britain. New towns. Book 'Building Modern Scotland' now available! Own views.

@saimanasar.bsky.social

Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. PI: Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social

@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.

@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

@historianmemory.bsky.social

Historian- Memory scholar- Research Prof. SOAS University of London. Sankofa. Yoga practitioner, accidental gardener & sea lover. Ubuntu. Agent: https://georginacapel.com/

@cont-brit-hist.bsky.social

The account for the Contemporary British History seminar at @ihr.bsky.social Fortnightly seminars, alternating between in-person and online. Follow us for details of our programme and other related talks and events that may be of interest.

@hannahelias.bsky.social

Historian. Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. IHR Fellow for 2024-5.

@bho.bsky.social

British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/

@bharchives.bsky.social

Explore nearly 900 years of history through the archives and objects cared for by Barts Health NHS Trust Archives. Part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Find out more at www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/barts-health-archives

@elaineamitchell.bsky.social

PhD’er UniBirmingham. Unearthing gardening and horticulture in 18thC Birmingham. Book 📣 Gardens and Green Spaces in West Midlands since 1700, UniHertsPress.

@tricksterprince.bsky.social

Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, 20s30s. Out Oct 2025 - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP) Now - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world

@helenglew.bsky.social

Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd. Current projects: social & cultural history of the marriage bar; history of women typists She/her https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/ Research/writing services: https://helenglew.com

@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/

@benmechen.bsky.social

Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / new thing is on late 20thC political ecologies. New co-edited book: Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526174703