Tara tells stories with art and music.
Researching the environmental impacts of filmmaking via histories of Star Wars. Film critic (as seen in/on Sight&Sound, BBC, etc.). Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Postdoctoral Research Associate - Monastic Economies (Farfa & Fulda) (University of Liverpool) | Carolingian monasticisms, intellectual culture and digital humanities
Historian at Brunel Uni of London working on borders in modern Europe. Author of The Return of Alsace. Current project: the idea of the Channel tunnel.
Scholar and writer, working in Higher Education Welfare. Currently turning my PhD Thesis into a book: On Liberal Democracy and the Temperaments of the 20th Century Essay. Trying.
"Ideally, one should be able to pay attention to everything." - Sontag
Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus.
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Published by WILEY.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bekir Düzcan (e.duzcan@uu.nl)
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Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Recovering academic. Institute manager at the Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social
Well-meaning liability.
British (derogatory)
Sexual swear words are those of my employers.
https://ko-fi.com/samanthawhyte
Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
Investigative Journalist, Good Law Project. Feminist.
Published in The Guardian, CNN, New Internationalist, Reuters, TIME, Al Jazeera, BBC News. They/them. Views my own.
www.alicemccool.com
Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Labour MP for Jarrow and Gateshead East.
Proud Trade Unionist, fighting for socialism, equality, LGBTQ+ rights
Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
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www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
Manchester Green Badge Tour Guide. Walks and tours. The original lunchtime Manchester Netwalks for business.
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Researching women in the footnotes of Manchester history.
🎨 oil painter | painting through the sapphic gaze
Author, speaker, and organizer. PhD researching political philosophy, social movements, and trans history. She/her
STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: especially gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British women composers
#womencomposers
Long-term housebound with v. severe long covid
#longcovid
Material Culture | Women’s History | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📚 Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury) |✍️ Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP) | sarahabendall.com
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Lancashire.
Avid writer and reader (#crimefiction); guitarist; snooker nut; nature lover (especially cats).
Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
I wrote a book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691222516/the-celts?srsltid=AfmBOorQvQJyyJARlZquwqfL1UdsDYDrOFbYrbzGJbAcMxEvaZZkl5CV
The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Site)
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Associate Professor of Modern History at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway. 'Invasions: Fears and fantasies of imagined wars in Britain, 1871-1918' out now
Labour Party Candidate in High Barnet 🌹
UK infrastructure + energy policy 🏗️🚈
History of political thought on voluntary associations DPhil @ Oxford 🎓
Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic »
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
History PhD at KCL on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS.
Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
PhD | Researches #smellstudies, #envhum, #inequalities, #hstm, and #19thc #frenchstudies
Disabled academic
Hallsworth Research Fellow @manchester.ac.uk
Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice.
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hello@jessothomson.co.uk
Trans woman 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist & Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. All opinions expressed here are my own. 🇵🇸
Link to academic publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
“Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester
http://andrew-seaton.com
Senior Lecturer in IR @ St Andrews | Historian of War | next book strategy & seapower in the FWW | own views
Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
Senior Lecturer in C19 AmLit at the University of Manchester. Editor: Cambridge Companion to Literature & Food (CUP, 2020). Author: Sensational Internationalism (EUP, 2016). UCU NEC member representing members in the NW. She/her.
THINK!
Stop, Look, Listen, Live
February 2026: Liberalism & the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
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Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Writing a book on a monastery for repentant prostitutes. Open University. Feminist. Strong words; weak tea. UCU rep. She/her.
GenAI is not inevitable, no matter what AI salesmen tell you.
Manchester and Salford anniversaries, memories and photos. Also RTs relating to history and events.
She/her. Researching language, gender & sexuality, especially LGBTQ+ youth identity and intersectionality.
Professor of Sociolinguistics at University of Nottingham, UK.
https://queerlinglang.wordpress.com/
ORCID: 0000-0002-8947-9577
Views my own
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
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Professor at Swansea University. Interested in internationalism, humanitarianism, reparations, war and peace. Currently writing book about creation of UNESCO.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/feeding-the-mind/54928931819294582DE0357C61AEBD7F
History of political thought @ Princeton (PhD candidate). Big Padres fan, video game enjoyer, and lover of emo music. Really only here to (doom)scroll, I guess.
Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). Candidate for VP (Higher Ed). More at: https://ucucommons.org/mark4vp/ He/him
Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Professor of history • Knowledge, ideas, people, universities, the humanities, Europe – past and present • Director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK)
History PhD student at the University of Manchester researching John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor, and republican political thought.
The Simons of Manchester (2024)
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176387/
🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Read my work at thedissident.news
Historian of the British Empire, race, gender and newspapers. Lecturer in Modern History at University of Manchester
Head of Collections, Teaching and Research at the University of Manchester Library/John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
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Assoc. Professor of History, University of Cambridge. Writer on the history of democracy. Hailing from Normal, Illinois
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?
Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
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Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife 🔶 Chief Whip
Shinty player 🔶
Wendy.Chamberlain.mp@parliament.uk
she/her
Member of Parliament for Hazel Grove constituency. Home Affairs spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats.
Promoted by HGCLD, 34 Stockport Road, Romiley SK6 3AA
Historian, study the ‘Middle Ages’, work at the great School of History at Queen Mary University of London.
MP for Ely & East Cambridgeshire
East Cambs District Councillor for Bottisham
Promoted by the Liberal Democrats, 1 Vincent Square, SW1P 2PN
The official account for news from History at the University of Manchester
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Mostly retired qualitative health services researcher, linguist, europhile, cat lover. Other animals welcome.
Mostly in Oxford, occasionally in Aberdeen
I block if you have no bio or posts
She/her
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8109-1930
UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Author of "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton University Press, 2025). Professor of the History of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London.
Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
📍Manchester, UK
Specialising in Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries - University of Sheffield
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
New account (migrated from @ctismanchester) for the Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies @ University of Manchester.
Follow us for news about CTIS students & staff, research seminars, and all things translation and intercultural studies!
Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
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Join the tax fight at Families Over Billionaires: familiesoverbillionaires.org
Comedy writer: Onion, McSweeneys, others.
Currently in bed. Email nice things only: quintmaura@ gmail
Author of Neuroqueer: a neurodivergent guide to love, sex and everything in between & the Notts Queer History Archive 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Queer non binary journalist with adhd 🇵🇸
Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. Book PRE-ORDER: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Historian of Sexuality & Gender @ Amherst College. #LGBTQ #FirstGen Author of Female Husbands (2020) and Liberty’s Prisoners (2015). WELLFLEET
Heavy poster • Tudor history enthusiast • loveable shithead • Islington Greens
(She/her/hers)
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Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
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information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff)
kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey)
though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things
she/her
more: casey.prof
Researcher, therapist, heavily caffeinated. Frequently described as a bit of a handful. 🖤 (She/her) 🏳️⚧️ jessk.org/blog
Parent, designer, business owner, European citizen.
London lover.
Leeds and Depeche Mode fan. Trans.
Anti fascist. Anti tech bros. Anti billionaires.
#LUFC #DepecheMode
#Trans 🏳️⚧️ #LGBTQ+🏳️🌈
#FBPE 🇪🇺🇪🇸🇺🇦
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Novelist (SF fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, Enlightenment, Italy, classical reception), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), food, history pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com
Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
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
Careers consultant. Still loves mountains, knitting, bumblebees, agus Gàidhlig cuideachd. #Archbiscuit of #TheBiscuitAppreciationSociety Inbhir Nis. #BeeKind
Editor of The National 🏴
Life is weird - let’s laugh at it before it eats us.
Professor of Law & Democracy @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Constitutional Law | Human Rights | Brexit | Devolution | Political Violence | Colonialism | Other Assorted Dourness
He/Him
Lecturer in Human Rights Law at University of Manchester
History Senior Research Fellow & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge; British Academy PDRF. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
