Creative histories
people / groups / organizations doing creative things with histories - if that’s you and you aren’t on here, let me know
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@willpooley.bsky.social
@outofthestacks.bsky.social
PhD Philosophy in History (ABD) Queer Artist, Historian, & Library worker Expect some dissertation musings, performance art, Chautauqua Movement, reenactments, queer theory, book discussion reads, and research assistances (aka fur babies) postings.
@zibaldoni.bsky.social
山人. 'The Notebook: a History of Thinking on Paper' is available everywhere. 'Book of the Year' pick by Waterstones, New Yorker, New Statesman, Spectator, Toronto Globe, Engelsberg Ideas, Lit Hub, Austin Kleon, Ryan Holiday, Stephen L. Carter...
@roseplayhouse.bsky.social
Bankside's first theatre Built by Philip Henslowe 1587, rediscovered 1989 Original home of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd & many others Scheduled Monument & Registered Charity www.roseplayhouse.org.uk Rose Theatre Trust 56 Park St, London SE1 9AR
@storiedselves.bsky.social
writer. researcher. flutist. teacher. stitcher of stories. https://linktr.ee/sonjaboon
@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
@dominicaplum1.bsky.social
Playwright, theatre reviewer, knitter. Vermont Democrat. Yale School of Drama. My full length play Antwerp 1658 about Margaret Cavendish longlisted for RSC’s #37PlaysProject Lead reviewer for thespyinthestalls.com 🇪🇺🏴🇬🇧🇺🇸
@jshermanroberts.bsky.social
Novelist. PhD in early modern lit. History of science fan. THE VILLAGE HEALER'S BOOK OF CURES (Lake Union 10/23). Oregonian. Rep'd by Alicia Brooks/Martin Literary Management
@redlunapixie.bsky.social
Necromancer of time. C18th Naval historian & BCMH MA dissertation winner: Hulks of the Hamoaze. Member of Royal Hist Soc. Friendly neighbourhood Goth 🖤⚓🖤 🗃️
@theozymandiasp1.bsky.social
Connecting Modern Societies to Ancient Worlds. Ancient Office Hours Podcast & The Reading Party Podcast. Pnyx Digital Magazine. #history #Archaeogaming, #podcasts, #reception #funding & more!
@passamezzo.bsky.social
Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA. Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre. Early Modernist. Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project. Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
@drchristinah.bsky.social
Roman historian working as a Program Manager. Gender, material culture, digital humanities, classical reception in metal music. I also make chain maille. Academic CV and links to my other pages: https://linktr.ee/infestissima
@chriskempshall.bsky.social
President @fwwsoc.bsky.social. Public Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. He/him https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
@chrissmithmuso.bsky.social
Professor & director @ www.vernacularmusiccenter.org. Off X/Meta entirely. I post daily & intend positivity about what I know & wish to learn: music, history, politics, community, Buddhism. linktr.ee/drchrissmith @Chris01247.56 on Signal
@sarageorgini.bsky.social
Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. President, @susih.bsky.social. Views mine, history for all.
@cliomz.bsky.social
Cultural Historian • Anglo-German Heritage & Nostalgia — along the Romantic Rhine (1813-1863) and in Midsomer Murders | MidsomerMurdersHistory.org | @bolztribuene.de | Mezzosoprano | My dæmon is a cat | #M05 #UTB #WhoDat
@buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Buddhist material culture in media for Western audiences, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD (@peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social) 🗺 buddhasinthewest.com 🌟 New Posts: Mon, Wed, & Fri
@leticiafontecha.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, science, childhood, pain. Writer. Poet. Book: Childhood, Pain and Emotion: A Modern British Medical History (CUP soon!). Current project: Infants: A Medical History of Early Life
@nilsvisser.bsky.social
Author, care worker, somewhen poet, somewhen archer. D&D. Gen X, ('e, 'im & oi). Writes about the Flying Dutchman, Smugglepunk, Brighton & Sussex folklore, and occasional non-fiction for magazines. Perpetually broke, no quick buck to be made here.
@evelyneferron.bsky.social
Historienne (Égypte gréco-romaine), passionnée d’histoire et d’archéologie! Enseignante, autrice, animatrice de balado, conférencière, chroniqueuse et grande consommatrice de thé! 🫖 Fil d'actualité https://rss.com/podcasts/historioinf
@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/
@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/
@eveyreidy.bsky.social
PhD candidate & playwright at Roehampton/Shakespeare's Globe | early mod. women performers, festive performance cultures, protest-performance London for now, Chicago forever | always knows where to get ice cream | usually found in a graveyard (she/her) 🏳️🌈
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://sethcotlar.substack.com/
@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 🏳️🌈
@koutny.bsky.social
art historian | author | tutor at cambridge uni | VISUAL CULTURES OF DEATH (out now) | https://www.instagram.com/aleksauthor/ | photo by Philippa James
@dreadships.bsky.social
Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
@obyrska.bsky.social
PhD researcher in post-WW2 intellectual history at the @EUI_EU. Teaching Fellow in history at @sciencespo Reims campus. Sometimes making theatre. 🏳️🌈 she/her
@lonelytower.bsky.social
Independent Media Productions YouTube - http://youtube.com/@lontower767 News & Documentaries include - A Passion for Vaux, Hollowed Ground, and Iron & Steam
@ncph.bsky.social
NCPH advances the field of public history, promoting professionalism among history practitioners and encouraging historians' engagement with the public.
@oldenoughtosay.bsky.social
chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)
@kfullagar.bsky.social
Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
@amycking.bsky.social
Historian. Into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered, how it remembers. Antifascist. University of Bristol. She/her.
@cerihoulbrook.bsky.social
Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
Lecturer in history at QUB. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
@sulinlewis.bsky.social
Professor of Global and Asian History at the University of Bristol. Previously: Cosmopolitan port-cities/ These days: Third World Solidarity and Socialist Internationalism She/her
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at Exeter Uni on the Seven County Witch Hunt Project 🧙♀️ Author of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic ✨ First Gen 👩🎓 Cats 🐈⬛ Trees 🌳 Books 📚She/her
@elwinhofman.bsky.social
Historian | Crime, emotions, sexuality & self 18-20C | Assistant Professor & MSCA fellow Cultural History Utrecht University | Latest books: The Business of Pleasure | Trials of the Self
@drhelenkara.bsky.social
Independent researcher, author, teacher, speaker. For hire worldwide. https://linktr.ee/helenkara She/her. 🌈 #ActuallyAutistic
@helenkingstone.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London. I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations.
@freyagowrley.bsky.social
Art Historian, makeup aficionado, antiques hoarder, snappy dresser.
@emilyrobinson.bsky.social
History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd. Professor at Sussex.
@markhailwood.bsky.social
Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
@marakeire.bsky.social
Historian of sexual violence. Should come with a content warning. Has strong opinions about the importance of gossip past and present.
@johnjoemctague.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
@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.
@cadebellaigue.bsky.social
Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her
@victoriabates.bsky.social
Historian at University of Bristol, but not representing my employer etc etc etc
@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).
@inneskeighren.bsky.social
Professor of Historical Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-convenor of the London Group of Historical Geographers. Writing a book on the global lives of William Macintosh (1737–1813). www.inneskeighren.com
@rummage.bsky.social
Cultural/social/materials historian: Hubbub / Cheek by Jowl / Rummage (reuse & recycling) /Penning Poison. Anonymous letters (OUP, 2023) UEA Associate Prof at UEA History. + embroidery & occasional cats. Agent: Clare Alexander. Website: www.rummage.work
@sarahmpicks.bsky.social
Historian of exploration, extreme environments, material culture + outdoor gear. Hist. sci & med PhD, editor at Endeavour, History of Anthropology Review, and Global Maritime History. I unpack packing. She/her. www.sarahmpickman.com
@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 \\
@dudleymarianna.bsky.social
Environmental historian & Senior Lecturer in Environmental Humanities. My book ⚡️ ‘Electric Wind’ a history of wind energy is coming soon 💨 Co-VP of ESEH. She/her.
@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.
@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.
@sallyholloway.bsky.social
Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture, researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow | On maternity leave until 05/25
@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.
@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
@nevillemorley.bsky.social
Classics & Ancient History at Exeter, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
@cathrynpearce.bsky.social
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
@janmachielsen.bsky.social
Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
@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
@williamcarruthers.bsky.social
Lecturer in Heritage @phaisessex.bsky.social . ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk // williamcarruthers.wordpress.com
@jfwinters.bsky.social
Professor of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.
@elliemackinroberts.net
Slow runner. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat. https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
@menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in medieval history, feminist, parent, widow, sequin aficionado. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
@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)
@rebeccarideal.bsky.social
Historian (early modern & true crime). TV & Podcast producer / writer. Author - 1666: PLAGUE, WAR & HELLFIRE (out now), GOD’S THRONE: THE STUARTS 1603-1714 (currently writing). Director of HistFest. Host Killing Time podcast.
@onslies.bsky.social
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
@gregjenner.bsky.social
~Public Historian 📜🤓 ~Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐📻📜🏛️ ~Hon. Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓 ~ Author of 7 funny history books ✍️📚 ~ CBBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV (series 1-9) 🎭🤣 ~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️ www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@cherylmorgan.bsky.social
Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
@hollynielsen.bsky.social
Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit she/her
@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/
@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
@ladyburglar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Reviews Editor for Social History. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
@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
@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
@mrfw17thc.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. All opinions my own.
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcraft, folklore, tarot, france, 18-20th c creative histories ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic assoc. ed. @FrenchHistory aspiring acronymancer