Modern British History (1900-) Part 2
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-) Part 1' for more great accounts on this subject.
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@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
@ljmu-sca.bsky.social
Home to: LJMU's history; punk & pop culture; visual arts; music; women & girls' comics (Femorabilia); Stafford Beer; Liverpool theatre; 19th Century periodicals; & more! ✏📰 https://linktr.ee/ljmu_sca
@derbyshiredro.bsky.social
Free access to 900 years of history - Derbyshire, Britain and beyond: books, archives, maps, prints and photographs. Explore online or visit us in Matlock. Website: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recordoffice
@bdcmuseum.bsky.social
Welcome and explore with us some of the treasures from the UK's leading moving image museum, based at the University of Exeter. Free to visit and open 10am to 5pm every day. www.bdcmuseum.org.uk #FilmSky #🎥 #cinemahistory
@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
@samwetherell.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out in 2025: https://www.waterstones.com/book/liverpool-and-the-unmaking-of-britain/sam-wetherell//9781801
@documenting-hiv-uk.bsky.social
Project to survey HIV and Aids archive collections in the UK. Based at West Sussex Records Office in Chichester, West Sussex.
@jamescrossland.bsky.social
Professor of History. Author of "Rogue Agent" and "The Rise of Devils". #History #spies, #terrorism, extremism, propaganda, weird people and things that are not real Substack - https://jamescrossland.substack.com/
@meltorrent.bsky.social
British & Commonwealth history, Franco-British relations and connected ends of empire, foreign policy & diplomatic cultures Université Picardie Jules Verne & Institute of Commonwealth studies
@annamariabarry.bsky.social
Writer & historian in London, working in heritage. Specialises in Victorian/Edwardian culture - especially women's writing, music, art, death masks. Usually found in a graveyard or at a gig!
@clarepaterson.bsky.social
Author and former documentary producer. The Nine Lives of Annie Besant, Victorian rebel, out 2025. Volunteer with Care4Calais. Cold water swimmer, avid reader and painter.
@allanburnett.bsky.social
Academic historian. Apocalyptic imaginaries. Media history. Media and war. Pedagogical and political uses of war memory. Linköping LiU. Author of history books for children & dad of 3.
@rowan-thompson.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain. Former IHR Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History. Writing a book on militarism in interwar Britain.
@beckhistorian.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 they/them 🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester ♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑🦯➡️ #DisHist 🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together
@drolibetts.bsky.social
National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
@imperialhistorian.bsky.social
💁🏾 Imperial Historian 📝 Race, Ethnicity, Migration, Multiculturalism 🦉 @reed_college_ 📕 Hear Our Voices - out now from Quarto Kids! https://linktr.ee/radhikanatarajan
@tabithalambertb.bsky.social
PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, researching the relationships between domestic servants and middle-class professional women 1880-1960 (she/her)
@skelding.bsky.social
PhD candidate focussing on language of marginalised histories in the 1921 census @LAHP_DTP CDA project @findmypast @IES_london
@jonhistorian61.bsky.social
Historian of class and politics in Modern Britain - author of Me, Me, Me? The search for community in post-war England @ https://tinyurl.com/463e6tff
@rebwright.bsky.social
Energy historian based at Northumbria University, working on histories of heat and fuel poverty in 20th Century Britain. PI of the Wellcome CDA "Carbon Bodies". My book, "Moral Energy in America" (JHUP) is out in the Spring. https://shorturl.at/9tFaV
@amyloulongmuir.bsky.social
PhD @ Uni of Reading researching Socialist-Feminism and Work in post-1968 Britain. Feminist, Flautist and 80s Music fan.
@deborahsuggryan.bsky.social
Prof Emerita of Design History & public historian FRHistSoc📙Ideal Homes ✍️ history of the kitchen 📺📻rep by Knight Ayton https://bio.site/deborahsuggryan
@lgupbook.bsky.social
Gavin McCann, UNISON E Mids & formerly ISTC (now Community). Hopefully a book will emerge to provide a history of TU education for its members and I will post my findings on here as I go.
@ncmme.bsky.social
Open Wednesday-Sunday. Visit for a unique all-weather adventure! Meet a miner on an Underground Tour, explore exhibitions and enjoy the great outdoors. Explore more: www.ncm.org.uk
@sarahcrook.bsky.social
Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
@ralphdarlington.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of the legendary labour leader Tom Mann https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ralph-darlington
@helenantro.bsky.social
📚 Curator & historian working for a big conservation charity, nattering about 20th c women, political and landscape histories (sometimes all at once). 🎧 Presenter and giddy kipper of #BackWhen, the National Trust's history pod: https://shorturl.b
@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
@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.
@nansloane.bsky.social
Labour, historian, feminist, author, LWN trainer & Leeds Utd fan, so accustomed to winning, losing and living in hope. (Pic: Emily Goldie)
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social
A podcast about art & visual culture, the histories of science & medicine, and the macabre. Hosted by Christy Slobogin (@slobogin.bsky.social) and Emma Merkling (@emmamerkling.bsky.social)
@shirinhirsch.bsky.social
Anti racist historian at Manchester Met and People’s History Museum. Views my own
@qmcbs.bsky.social
Queen Mary Centre for British Studies Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
@coldwarpod.bsky.social
Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost... Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/ Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
@valerawlings.bsky.social
Writing about forgotten trade unionist Vale Rawlings and the ‘flycatcher girls’ strike. #LabourHistory #SocialHistory #tradeunions #Staffordshire Posts by Elaine Pritchard of Burton-on-Trent.
@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/
@iainandteddy.bsky.social
Proud dad of three. Husband. Anglo-Scot. Dog lover. Naval, Military and Aviation history. Enjoying the ridiculous. RPs not endorsements etc. NO DMs!! NO BITCOIN!! 🇬🇧🏴🏴⚓🐕
@joparsons.bsky.social
Researching #bonktastic #bonkbusters Senior Lecturer Falmouth Uni @EdinburghUP.bsky.social Series ed: #Gender and the #Body, and #19thC and #NeoVictorian Cultures Co-Ed #13CornishGhostStories #TalesoftheWeird #DoomedRomances #histsex
@emilyrobinson.bsky.social
History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd. Professor at Sussex.
@alibennett.bsky.social
Historian of Br imperialism in EAfrica. Interests = material culture, collecting & the ivory trade. Hallsworth Fellow @Univ Manchester hist dept / Adjunct Lecturer @YaleinLondon
@alexmayhew.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at LSE International History | Great War + Morale + Crisis + Mesopotamia + Technological Innovation Written a book for Cambridge University Press | Past me: University of Birmingham, LSE100 and LSE LIFE.
@npjgarland.bsky.social
Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian. Staggeringly conventional social democrat.
@punkacademic.bsky.social
Historian and politics academic. Anarchist. MS/CKD/PTSD. He/him. Evertonian. Saints RLFC, Boston Celtics, Sale Sharks RUFC.
@garylove.bsky.social
Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism in Europe/ the world; Genres of political writing in Modern Britain; & women in British politics
@mwpalen.bsky.social
Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list 2024. Financial Times “Best Books of 2024.”
@mideastineurope.bsky.social
Global+Colonial Historian btw London/Paris/Berlin & the Mid East. Writes on Photography, Memory, Heritage, Museums of 'Lost Objects' & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social https://100histories100worlds.org/mirjam-brusius
@lauratisdall.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
@josephfinlay.bsky.social
Historian of British Jews and race relations. Composer and Musical Director. Socialist and דאָיִקער
@salvarmyarchive.bsky.social
The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally. https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
@jpaprice.bsky.social
Public and Community Historian; Director, Museum of Everyday Life; Visiting Research Fellow, KCL. Historian, educator, author, walker, talker, academic, freelancer, wild swimmer, taphophile. www.drjohnprice.net www.moel.org.uk buildingstories.co.uk
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@modinmetro.bsky.social
Art Deco, Modernism and Brutalism in London's suburbs and beyond. https://www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk
@northernhistory.bsky.social
Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England.
@tidesofhistory.bsky.social
Commentary on Labour History, British Politics and Working Class Culture - Author of Hope & Glory
@socialhistsoc.bsky.social
Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
@nlheritage.bsky.social
Connecting you with North Lanarkshire's industrial & social heritage | Explore museum, archive & local studies collections | Visit our museums & search rooms
@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab @ihr.bsky.social
@owalpodcast.bsky.social
The First World War meets popular culture and the media. A podcast presented by @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social, @chriskempshall.bsky.social, & @anguswallace.bsky.social ohwhatalovelypodcast.co.uk
@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