Modern British History (1900-) Part 1
Historians, archives, museums and other Blueskyers who research, write about or regularly post on aspects of British history from 1900 onwards. See 'Modern British History (1900-) #2' for more great accounts on this subject.
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@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@lselibrary.bsky.social
Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events!
@rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social
News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
@ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social
Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad
@chppc.bsky.social
Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
@lbwfarchives.bsky.social
Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library, Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, London E4 7EN. Collections documenting history of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Research visits by prior appointment. Email wfa.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk
@thecommonroomgn.bsky.social
The Common Room in Newcastle upon Tyne is a heritage venue, library and archive. It has a cafe bar called 5|Quarter.
@mpsheritage.bsky.social
Metropolitan Police lives and stories 1829-now. Open to researchers and visitors by appointment. Like/repost/follow≠endorsement No bio or posts, no follow back. https://t.co/f5xOlVyLoc
@satisfactory20.bsky.social
Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS
@georgesevers.bsky.social
Historian of sexual health, sexual violence and HIV/AIDS. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Usually found reading or swimming.
@lucydelap.bsky.social
Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
@liamliburd.bsky.social
Historian using the lens of the Black British historical experience to think about whiteness and the white supremacist movement in modern British history. Views own.
@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
@simonjones.bsky.social
Writes about the First World War. FRHistS. Late museum curator. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
@christinegrandy.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); forthcoming book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of data usage and online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
@historygriffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
@lizegan.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and the Caribbean (She/Her). Duolingo obsessive and probably running late. Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick & RA, Trinity Hall. ECR Rep History UK & Conference Coordinator Society for Caribbean Studies
@jburkett.bsky.social
Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
@coreenanne.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Twentieth-Century British History @Durham_uni #dishist #histtech #histmed #ownviews #she #her
@rhiggitt.bsky.social
Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland & Honorary Fellow at STIS, University of Edinburgh. Views own. Formerly known as @beckyfh #histsci #histSTM #museums 📜🗃️ https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
@drsarahlkenny.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Modern British Studies and Director of MBS Birmingham. Author of Growing Up and Going Out. Interested in pop culture, youth, leisure, consumption, and urban space.
@mbsbirmingham.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Birmingham. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/mbs
@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.
@katemcal993.bsky.social
Historian of Modern British Medicine and Psychiatry ■ Research Associate, University of Kent ■ https://research.kent.ac.uk/buzzers-for-bedwetters/ she/her
@hannahcharnock.bsky.social
Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian and southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own
@carorusterholz.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva Prof Social History, Fribourg University History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics She/her. Breast cancer survivor
@tortietabby.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
@echomikeromeo.bsky.social
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow
@ewangibbs.bsky.social
Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing the Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
@janehamlett.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
@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
@constancebantman.bsky.social
Associate Prof. in French, U.of Surrey, UK. History of anarchism & print culture (1870-1930s); Anglo-French exile & migration; transnational radicalism; women & feminism. Views own. Posts in 🇫🇷&🇬🇧. Forthcoming book “Femmes de révolution” (Le Seuil, 2025)
@profdavidturner.bsky.social
Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Writing Disability: A History of Resistance for The Bodley Head / Vintage.
@zoethomas.bsky.social
Historian researching work, gender, & the arts in the Anglo-American world, c 19th & 20th centuries Deputy Editor @ WomensHistoryReview
@jameskneale.bsky.social
Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him. Journal of Victorian Culture co-editor @jofvictculture.bsky.social Drinking Studies Network starter pack gardener
@alexclifford.bsky.social
Research & write on 30s Britain, Spain, Germany. Britain's Iron Chancellor out now! Author of Hindenburg, Ludendorff & Hitler, Fighting for Spain & The People's Army and of the introduction to new release Britain's Iron Chancellor
@michgreig.bsky.social
Falling off bikes, history and rampant imposer syndrome. Undertaking a PhD at University of Glasgow. Interested in space, conflict and 20C Britain. wappingtransformation.wordpress.com
@lccmunicipal.bsky.social
London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc. lccmunicipal.com
@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)
@historitage.bsky.social
Social historian, researching & writing about #PubLibs in the long 19C. Mostly in London.
@elenamary.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck. https://elenamary.co.uk
@gillianmurphy.bsky.social
Archives The Women's Library Hall-Carpenter Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social
@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
@eriklinstrum.bsky.social
Historian of Britain, empire, and decolonization at the University of Virginia. Author of AGE OF EMERGENCY: LIVING WITH VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Spending the 2024-25 year at The Huntington Library in California.
@wugolini.bsky.social
Professor of Second World War Studies (Edinburgh Uni). Co-founder of RSE-funded Second World War Network (Scotland); PI on AHRC project 'Beyond Borders: The Second World War, National Identities and Empire in the UK'; Author of Wales in England 1914-1945
@katebradleyhistory.bsky.social
Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
@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
@alfiesteer.bsky.social
Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History. Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards - Britain and beyond. Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more! https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc