Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Senior Politics & Democracy Editor, @us.theconversation.com; co-founder w/hubby John Christie of The Maine Monitor. Family of journos & writers. We proofread menus.
Global affairs columnist @WashingtonPost.com, anchor of The Post's WorldView column and newsletter on int'l politics. Dad. New Yorker. Victoria concordia crescit. New to BlueSky!
Historian of race, blackness, and complexion in modern Britain | Teaching & Research Fellow in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh | Convenor at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
https://oliviawyatt1999.wordpress.com/
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
a historian currently writing a book about how visitors, newcomers, and outsiders came to dominate Washington, DC and another book about how we do history now.
https://linktr.ee/comingtowashington
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions.
History PhD at KCL on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS.
historian of gender, labour, sexuality, emotions, & experience. DH enthusiast & AI skeptic. labour lady & postdoc @USask. she/her 🌈💅📚
https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2024.2423763
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/duncan.wilson
Retired university History teacher. Modern British politics. Short history of British Liberalism published by Agenda April 2025. Occasional LRB reviewer. Part-time resident and unofficial chronicler of Sark.
Senior Lecturer in English Studies, Teesside University. Interests: fin-de-siecle literature; women’s writing; feminist recovery; socialist writing and print culture; the Gothic; literary representations of insects.
Historian. Author. Associate Professor.
Studies: Britain, British Empire, South & Southeast Asia, women’s history, migration history
Author of:
Waiting on Empire: Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023)
Fleeting Agencies: Coolie women in Malaysia (CUP, 2021)
Fellow in Political Theory at @lsepoltheory.bsky.social | Working on socialism, democratic theory, and economic justice.
Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian. Staggeringly conventional social democrat.
Analysis, insight and informed opinion on politics and public policy. https://politicalquarterly.org.uk
Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
Feeling literary? Come see us at www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com!
Publisher/editor with the great www.hurstpublishers.com
team, biryani (mutton), Herzog and Madeira wine aficionado, gardener, Irish citizen, NUFC. History, politics, colonialism, war, intelligence/cyber, religions. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Historian of women and politics, feminism, the left in modern Britain.
Recovering academic turned parliamentary clerk.
Author of Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill and the Second World War.
Brisbane, Australia.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/blue-jerusalem-9780198868491?cc=us&lang=en&
We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
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
Historian of medicine, gender, sex. Part time metalsmith. Book on the long history of abortion out now! US: https://bit.ly/4iwTsoL
UK: bit.ly/4aCNEqu Substack: https://maryfissell.substack.com/
History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd. Professor at Sussex.
Prof agrégée d'histoire et doctorante contractuelle (Sorbonne Univ.)
Sujet de thèse : La gauche plurielle au pouvoir (1997-2002)
La genèse de la gauche plurielle aux PUR : https://pur-editions.fr/product/6385/la-genese-de-la-gauche-plurielle
Writer * Historian * Author of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (Bloomsbury; FSG, 2023). She/Her leahredmondchang.com
Historian of Modern Britain 💫 interested in all things women, activism, and religion. Based at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
economic historian-emeritus at Glasgow. Working mainly on deindustrialization.
French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
I make a weekly podcast feat. talks w/writers, artists, cartoonists & other culture-making people, at https://chimeraobscura.com/vm
Also: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-virtual-memories-show/id531173075
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VMSpod
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
Senior Commissioning Editor, Modern History and Current Affairs at Yale University Press London (views my own)
Historian of religion, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity@KCL. Coffee lover, diasporic Melbournian, feminist, LGBTQ+ and CSA ally, and apologetic workaholic. https://www.thehortonninethousand.org/
History Prof.; Director Dresher Center for the Humanities at UMBC; early modern Britain, women's history, financial history
Political scientist at @RichmondUniLdn. Interested in parties and ideologies and quite a few other things. More of a fox than a hedgehog.
Editor, Writer, Scholar. Alum of CNN Opinion and New America. Co-editor of THE CASE OF LIZZIE BORDEN AND OTHER WRITINGS.
Emeritus Prof, stalled writing about Labour’s existential struggles since 1976 for Polity.
“'Tis a muddle, and that's aw.”
Teach history - https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/black/ - or where, when and how politics and culture met. Or didn’t. Likes flawed red things.
Orwell Prize-winning writer and DPhil researching women's homelessness at Oxford. I am especially interested in oral history and life-writing. I've written for the TLS, Guardian, Prospect etc | she/her
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 online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Challis Professor of History
@sydney_uni. Co-editor @TCBHjournal. Council @HumanitiesAU. Writes about history of censorship, popular intellectual life, racism.
Prof Social History LSBU | Female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism & #Afterlives | Visiting full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social
anticolonialism / antifascism / anarchism / author of 'Anarchy or Chaos: M. P. T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom' (2023) https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/anarchy-or-chaos/
Associate Professor of Political Science
Research on Abolition of passports, Free Movement, Political theory, Migration studies
University Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social
https://u-paris.academia.edu/SperantaDumitru
Assistant Professor of Modern British Studies and Director of the Centre for Modern British Studies, University of Birmingham. Author of Growing Up and Going Out. Interested in pop culture, youth, leisure, consumption, and urban space.
Recent British history is my thing (political, governmental, economic); armchair strategic studies my secret vice. Emeritus Prof at Bristol. Sometime historian of the UK civil service, more recently of Thatcherism. But often on my allotment these days
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
Political economy, finance, empire, decolonizing economics. ingridhk.com
historian at the University of Mannheim. Wrote a book on the intellectual history of #Britishness. Now: the bible, #secularism, and #modernity in the 19th/early 20th cent.
IR prof | Toronto Metropolitan University | Visiting Fellow, Centre for Women, Peace, Security, LSE | Editorial Board, WPS Series, de Gruyter press | Books - Windows of Opportunity (OUP 2016) Trnsn’l Actors in War&Peace (GUP 2017)
Tech & Politics. Career Development Research Fellow at St Johns College, Oxford. PhD from Uni of Cambridge via Queen's University Belfast & Stanford. Host of Anti-Dystopians. she/her
Agent, @agentbal.bsky.social
www.alinautrata.com
Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
Professor of 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.
Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at University College Cork. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Book on agrarian violence and British policy w Cambridge (2022). Next project on Irishmen, education, and empire.
▫️Political Scientist @gwu1821.bsky.social
▫️Editor-in-chief of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social
▫️Nationalism | nation-building | migration | diasporas
🔗 https://harrismylonas.com
Demography nerd at Pew Research Center
Global religious change, sociology
Head of Contemporary History, History of Parliament Trust. Oral History, Politics, Parliament and some cricket
Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. *Empire Ablaze* out in summer 2026. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691172668/gentlemen-revolutionaries
Eaton Professor of Government & Director, Center for European Studies @Harvard/ WZB Berlin/author of 'Tyranny of the Minority', 'How Democracies Die', & 'Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy.'
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)
I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
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 now: www.samwetherell.com
Assistant Editor of the History of Parliament's House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. Cambridge/London.
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.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.
Global Studies Quarterly (GSQ) is the International Studies Association’s fully open access journal. Editors-in-Chief: Brent J. Steele & Jelena Subotic
https://academic.oup.com/isagsq?login=false
Teaching Modern History @ City St George’s, among other things. Interested in empire, internationalism, southeastern European history & politics. www.geogian.com
Military Historian. Writing a book on Economic Statecraft and Money as a Weapon of War (OUP, 2026). Strategy. Author of 2 award-winning books on the First World War. Professor at University of Birmingham.
History, TV, Cricket and Random stuff
Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
Politics Professor, University of Manchester.
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes, good & bad, are mine only.
My Substack, "The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Emmy-award-winning journalist
https://lukemcgee.substack.com/
luke@luke-mcgee.com
Historian mostly, bunch of degrees; sporty, ex-elite athlete; MTBer; geocacher. Not much of a follow-backer. My book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/rebuilding-britains-blitzed-cities-9781350168800/
Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
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.
Historian of politics and ideas at the University of Manchester. Author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism. The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition forthcoming with Princeton UP!
Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New projects: Pandora's Box: The First Fossil Fuel Economy (Princeton UP, 2027). And with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1500-1950.
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
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 🇨🇦
Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism; writing politics in modern Britain; & women in British politics
Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
PhD Candidate AU History - Program Manager IWPR MENA - Iranian-American - inforezaakbari@gmail.com - I write The Guarded Domains, a Substack newsletter focused on Iran and the broader Middle East region. https://guardeddomains.substack.com
she/her
📍Washington, D.C.
public historian, choux pastry (home) chef, & avid collector of all things blue-and-white-striped. i’m mostly on here for survivor and cats tbh
historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor at W&L | views mine | she/her.
🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS). Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
