Place - Heritage - Emotion - Urban History
Professor of Urban Studies at University of Glasgow
Arts & Humanities Research Council Place Programme Director
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Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Economic and Social Research. PhD from King’s College London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.
Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Ginger - German-Speaker - Bradfordian - General Bohemian - Curator
Museumsmensch.
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Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
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The official Twitter account for the Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS), the regional affiliate of the North American Conference on British Studies in New England and eastern Canada.
Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
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Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
Irishman in Yorkshire. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Preserving & sharing 800 years of Birmingham's history at the Library of Birmingham.
For enquiries, please email archives.heritage@birmingham.gov.uk
Follow our blog @ www.theironroom.wordpress.com
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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.
Historian @ Queen’s Uni Belfast
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell 2019)
AHRC PI of Queer NI: Sexuality b4 Liberation
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Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow, coming 2027
The International Commission for the History of Representative & Parliamentary Institutions promotes parliamentary, constitutional, legal & political history
ICHRPI website: https://ichrpi.info
Journal website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rper20
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
Bisexual history, queer history, cats. she/her
Manchester and Salford anniversaries, memories and photos. Also RTs relating to history and events.
Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out March 2026. Wrote Concretopia and Iconicon. Also, maps. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk
Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Historian of UK but living in Sweden - working on stammering, patient organisations, diabetes and rheumatism. https://www.actdisease.org/
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Mass Observation and Frågelista fanboy. He/him.
Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Historian researching work, gender, politics, & artistic cultures in the Anglo-American world, c 19th & 20th centuries
Deputy Editor @ WomensHistoryReview
Historian (identity, race, popular culture, cities, memory, politics) trying to survive the times. Writing a book about transatlantic hip-hop. Work at @yorknsc.bsky.social.
Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in Britain.
Historian of Wales & the UK. Books include: Aberfan, Wales since 1939, England's Colony?, Welsh Not, Christmas & the British, History of sport in Wales.
Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historywo.bsky.social | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs
Historian of protest, political movements, public space. My new book, Contested Commons, is out now: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
Croydon and Rochdale
UCU Herts branch secretary
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
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Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
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.
Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
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.
Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS). Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright
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/
Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
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
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/
Historian (mainly of medicine and child abuse), sea swimmer, greyhound guardian from the People’s Republic of Cork
Modern British Historian at Exeter. Class and mobility, elites, women, the state. Written a book on Women of the Welfare State Generation. She/Her.
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, #20s30s.
Now - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
Next - The Self-Improvers: The restless people who remade themselves and made the Pelman Age
Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / new thing on late 20thC political ecologies.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
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.
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
historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
Bodies, medicine, + colonialism in the British Empire // Assistant Professor of History Kenyon College (she/hers)
Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our website: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/
Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. Recently joined Green Party.
Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast. MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY out now with Hurst: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/multicultural-britain/
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Journal: Immigrants & Minorities. Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora.
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)
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).
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!
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
🇨🇦 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 Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Historian of US immigration | 19th-century | race | labor | slavery | global migration | diaspora
historian of modern science and technology
Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.
Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
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Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
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British History and Victorian Studies. Late Adopter of Social Media Platforms. Living in a Small Blue Dot in a Midwestern Red State. Older Child Adoption. Hiding out with my Dogs.
Cities, multiculturalism, economic life | Assistant Professor of History @ Tufts
We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
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
#Historian of Medicine & Modern Britain, University of Birmingham | Medical Humanities | UKRI FLF & PI on Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980 | Series Editor @sshmedicine Book Series | https://healthhistorian.wordpress.com | #histSTM #MedHums
Writer & historian. European. Professor of History, University of Bristol. Rewriting British and other history is my job. Find out more via my staff profile: http://tinyurl.com/rbickers, & blog: http://robertbickers.net I also run http://hpcbristol.net
Historian working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Academic Engagement Officer, Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
📧 enquiries: drhannahelias@gmail.com
Historian, feminist, academic (UCD) - #EYA Ambassador 2024-25 / Research-gendered & to sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
Founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
Presenting the most innovative research in the field of history and social sciences.
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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
He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Historian of modern Britain with interests including family, law, gender.
Health humanities and history of mental health, psychology, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
Currently at Leeds, formerly LSHTM and Cambridge. Affiliated at Birkbeck.
Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
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(he/him/his) Assistant Professor, Poet: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies
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Professor of History; author of C19 books on Leisure, Citizenship & Working Class Men; Visions of Empire; The Devil's Highway: London's Sailortown,1850-1900. Co-Director of Port Cities & Maritime Cultures Research Centre: port.ac.uk/portcities.
British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
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/
Writer, feminist, intersectional inclusive historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
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 feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
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.
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