Dr Vicky Randall's Starter Pack
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@vrandall.bsky.social
@vbivar.bsky.social
Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; St Anne's College at Oxford 🇨🇦
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social
Queer history. Queer science. Queer history of science! 📚Agent: @phi11y.bsky.social. He/him. Darwin's Closet: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 Mendel's Closet: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036
@katecarp.bsky.social
Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing. https://draftingthepast.com/ http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/ Profile 📷 John Legg
@kimatiwagner.bsky.social
Historian of empire, violence and atrocity photography - currently writing about the My Lai Massacre in 1968. Latest book: 'Massacre in the Clouds - An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History' (PublicAffairs, 2024) London - Wylie Agency
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c ass. ed. French History ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic also #CreativeHistories not *literally* a birb
@lsangha.bsky.social
Associate Prof at Exeter Uni | English history 1480-1700 | CI: Material Culture in English Wills | reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brown-ish | 1st gen Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/ Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
@davidandress.bsky.social
Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
@mbarcia24.bsky.social
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
@purseigle.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Warwick Writing a global history of urban disasters for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
@katrinanavickas.bsky.social
Historian of protest, political movements and public space. Preorder my new book, Contested Commons: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons Croydon/Rochdale UCU rep Rural modernism on Insta. 🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally. She/her
@danwaterfield.bsky.social
Wrote a History PhD on The Burney Family / Social Democrat / gam zu l'tovah. Interested in lit, theology, history, software, systems, &c. Soon to be Pākehā.
@noreenmasud.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
@davehaslam.bsky.social
Hacienda DJ, journalist (Guardian, LRB, etc), writer (recent books about Sylvia Plath, Keith Haring, Picasso). “An exceptional writer” - Olivia Laing.
@agnesjuliet.bsky.social
Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy | Think Tanks / Academia | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
@davehitchcock.bsky.social
Historian: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Course Director and research unit lead, CCCU. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800' (2nd album). He/him.
@hagenilda.bsky.social
cultural historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | welsh | precarious | palaeographer | ocd | neurodivergent | dogs | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | cofounder MadCovid | she/her agent: Fabienne @kiagency.bsky.social www.ki-agency.co.uk
@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.
@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.
@eve.gd
Tech Lead @ Knowledge Commons/MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
@petermandler.bsky.social
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College
@hannahrosewoods.bsky.social
Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain; currently writing a history of university students. Unlikely cathedral verger https://smarturl.it/rulenostalgia
@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.
@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.
@historianjen.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Uni of Herts. Working on reproductive histories and pregnancy loss. SHS committee member Also likes baking cakes
@boddice.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket. Montreal and Tampere. https://www.robboddice.com/
@historygriffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
@ltotelin.bsky.social
Historian of Ancient Mediterranean science and medicine. Mother of two. Feminist. Plant lover. Trade unionist. Super Belgie. Welsh by adoption. Many typos.
@matthewjkelly.bsky.social
Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.
@profmarylewis.bsky.social
Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements.
@williampurkis.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History and Head of the School of History and Cultures at the University of Birmingham | #CrusadingInContext | #DistantCamera
@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.
@erikahanna.bsky.social
Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Manchester and host of New Books in Critical Theory. Currently on secondment to DCMS, also at Creative PEC and the Whats On Project too
@afrayn.bsky.social
Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); non-canonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
@historymatt.bsky.social
Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
@drchrislouttit.bsky.social
Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies. President of the Dickens Society. He/him
@tomhulme.bsky.social
Reader in History (Queen's, Belfast). "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" (coming Apr 2026, Cornell). PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”. Sec. of local UCU branch. 🏳️🌈
@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
@richardtoye.bsky.social
Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain
@saimanasar.bsky.social
Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own. PI: Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
@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
@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.
@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.
@liamliburd.bsky.social
Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
@elainefarrell.bsky.social
Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. 19th-century Irish social history, gender, crime, gossip and secrets. #BadBridget co-lead with Leanne McCormick @badbridgetbook
@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.
@drhanwill.bsky.social
Reader in History of Art, Queen Mary University of London http://artistsinparis.org Co-Editor of https://www.journal18.org/
@djrgrey.bsky.social
Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
@vrandall.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History. Interested mainly in Victorians and their interaction with the Arab-Islamic World.