Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Where Canada’s Health History Lives!
Ann Baillie Building (NHS)
32 George Street
Kingston, ON
Aka hpsvanessa - here for beachcombing and drift archaeology. Find me as @shorelarking on insta. 🏳️⚧️
historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Teaches English. Research in Victorian literature, medical humanities, sensory studies, queer things, music 🎵 🏳️🌈 Leads the Affective Experience Lab, Durham.
18th c. social networks, abolition and history of education | Trustee Hannah More Trust hannahmoreletters.org | President NDLHS | Chair of Trustees Nailsea Tithe Barn | Continuing Education Tutor and examiner.
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
#histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | Osiris Editor | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
🥊 1880s boxing + wrestling historian
✨ 1980s charity shop fashion fan
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth, 2027)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR manager
🏖️ Clacton 💚
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Archives, DH, Museums, African American studies, C19 and early C20.
all opinions my own, not my employer's
www.dorothy-berry.com
A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
Historian of anatomy, disease, and medical books. Associate Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Medical school, Uni of St Andrews. Support Chester FC and edit the fanzine The Blue & White.
Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
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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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
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP): Technologies of Science Communication and Public Health in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Project funded by EU CHANSE. https://mediaepidemics.com
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International supports research, collaborative exchange, & professional training opportunities around the globe | INCSA Partner | linktr.ee/CNCSInternational
Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). he/him. Writing and researching to answer the timeless question: how do cooperatives and capitalism and trans theory and queer kinship fit together?
Health Humanities is an interdisciplinary research group in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. Posts by @hannahpalmer.bsky.social
Official account for the University of Birmingham.
Changing how the world works.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
History PhDer, Wolfson Scholar & tired but joyful toddler mum. Researching formation of imperial identities across diverse spaces and 'contact zones' in the long 18th century and pondering ideas of time, transformation and imagining. Just happy to be here!
AHRC-funded project ‘Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers’, based at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/
@manchester.ac.uk @uomhums.bsky.social
Historian, prof at U Oslo
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Birmingham. Prints and books, materiality, sex and medicine! Author of Birth Figures (she/her)
historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c
ass. ed. French History
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
that’s an actual photo of me
We foster research on issues concerning health and medicine in Europe and the world.
Wellcome PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, History of Art. Researching visual humour and jokes from the UK disability arts movement | Visual medical humanities and histories of disability | She/her | remembering how to be Online
The world's most ambitious study on reading, the imagination, and wellbeing.
Partnered with the Edinburgh International Book Festival | Funded by Wellcome
readerbank.org
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
Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
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/
PhD candidate focusing on early modern women’s material culture and libraries.
Molly Lepell’s biggest fan.
Future country house ghost.
Historian of early modern health, religion, & emotions | Critical AI studies & historiography
Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg
Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, social harms, sustainability, co-production. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary academic, podcaster, 'A Feminist Family History in Eight Lives' https://open.spotify.com/show/3wQk4knM8L8P8FSZ52FJqg Into creative research dissemination and supporting academic writing. www.thinkthreeways.com
Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. Personal views. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | PGR rep @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Senior Lecturer in English Literature at LJMU; author of Housing, Class and Gender (2016) and Maritime Relations (2025)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
📖 Project Coordinator at Lambeth Palace Library
🖋️ Research background in Black British and Caribbean history in the long eighteenth century.
[views my own]
This is the account for the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective at the University of Manchester. Exploring bodies, emotions and objects in the past!
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotions-material-culture/
Historian, researcher, author
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
misssarahwise.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/misssarahwise
Latest book: The Undesirables
https://www.stanfords.co.uk/the-undesirables-the-law-that-locked-away-a-generation
Research Fellow at Durham University, exploring narratives and experiences of madness, mental illness, and mental distress. Interested in stories and why we tell them.
Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @LeverhulmeTrust.bsky.social
placememory.net
Historian of prisoners across the British maritime world, and boaty things.
Lecturer in Public History @keeleuniversity.bsky.social. Formerly Leverhulme Trust ECF at Liverpool.
PhD on Prison Hulks- contact via website: http://www.anna-mckay.com/
Historian of eighteenth-century Britain at University of Birmingham. Walker, swimmer, dog-lover, reader. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/smith-kate
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Galway. Research: periodicals, fiction, material texts, sociability. Co-editing a book on character for Palgrave. Writing a book on periodicals for EUP.
Senior Commissioning Editor, Manchester University Press. Modern history and history of medicine. Michigander, lover of food and cats.
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/
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.
PhD on early modern domestic service and skill from Birkbeck School of Arts, London. Sometime academic working on women's writing and non-elite writing in the 17th and 18th centuries. He/him
AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨
https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. New book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Canine enthusiast.
Digital Development & Communications at durhamimh.bsky.social
Speaking up for social justice in mental health. Find out more https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/
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.
Professional nerd. Follows feminists. Forthcoming book: Do I Know You http://shorturl.at/apEIJ agent @mackenzieagency, bylines in various places, she/her/היא
Senior Lecturer in Sociology/Deputy Director of Sustainable Futures at university of Manchester. Interested in sustainable consumption, diverse economies, waste & disposal.
Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social
#bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
History of OCD, clinical psychology, concepts, methods, evidence.
Archive manager 4 @eshhs.bsky.social, Editor in Chief
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
Author. Feminist life lessons, informed by history and experience. Advice about grief and recovery, and the feminist joys of outdoor adventure. Writing retreats. Substack: https://rachelhewitt.substack.com
The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
“Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
Researching 19th-century literature, culture, medicine, and psychiatry ∣ health humanities ∣ mental health and the body ∣ gender & masculinity ∣ history of emotions ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & chronic pain (she/her)
UK
Historian researching work, gender, politics, & artistic cultures in the Anglo-American world, c 19th & 20th centuries
Deputy Editor @ WomensHistoryReview
Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director and founder of Historical Reconstruction Lab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine 📚 Psychiatry, Madness, Mental Health, The Arts & Experience. Project Manager @HubMetPsych
Writer, Researcher, Heritage Professional
@ukri.org AHRC Standard Research Grant project (2024-28) exploring historical & contemporary understandings of the human hand. Hosted by @lcflondon.bsky.social & @lancasteruni.bsky.social & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & medhistoryman.bsky.social
👩🏻🏫Tutoring English @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social
✍️Co-writing book for @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Deputy @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Historian of Psychosurgery, Lobotomies, Millies and Medicine
Working Class | Neurodivergent | Mad
Historian 📜 | Survivor 💜 | Joy as resistance ✨
🎙️ Podcast + 📖 Substack
Link hub: https://beccadoesthings.carrd.co/
Historian, Professor, author of Policing Pregnant Bodies (Hopkins, 2024)
Reader in Early Modern History at Uni of Herts. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780.
Also likes baking cakes
18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com
Babiesinmuseums.com
Research on the literary culture of the c18th country house. Garden rambler, book hoarder, coffee fiend, art dabbler, and servant to my cat. Views own.
Fellow in History at King's College London. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.
Professor Cultural History of the Body at Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/WGRuberg. History of law, gender, body, culture. Research Network for Culture, Law and the Body (@culturelawbody.bsky.social). #running
Historian @c2dh (University of Luxembourg)
Mainly publishing on the history of psychiatry and tax havens
Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections.
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html
Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press.
🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on the sensescapes of cancer in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Creative researcher / textile artist
Arts, design & health
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société internationale d'étude du dix-huitième siècle.
http://www.isecs.org
Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd)
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
Writer. Literary & cultural historian.
Senior Lecturer @ L’boro Uni.
Expertise: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters, queer genders + sexualities, health humanities.
Editor-in-Chief, Brontë Studies
https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
CHiPH is part of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social and at the forefront of historical research into public health and health services
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-history-public-health
