A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Reader | writer | teacher. Been there, done that, got the T. rex.🦖 Researching death, famine, and apocalypse. Irish Studies and beyond. Reviews books. Also writing about Moomins, because why not. Asst Prof at Radboud University, NL. He/him.
The IAPH is the organisation for professional & graduate historians within and outside the academy. The #IAPH directory lists #historians and their related subject areas #Skystorians #History #AcademicSky #Speirgorm #Ireland #Research
ERC Advanced Grant Project at Trinity College Dublin
PI Jane Ohlmeyer. Harnessing #knowledgegraph, #semanticweb and #AI technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland voicesproject.ie
women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️
Early modernist, UCD; currently editing 17th-century Boyle women’s letters; interested in epistolary culture, women’s manuscript writings - diaries, accounts, wills, and also book ownership.
Book: Four Courts Press. Views own. She/her.
Maynooth University, School of Law & Criminology - doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
Award-winning Indie bookshop, Derry, North of Ireland. 70k new & used books. Est 2011. Two LegenDerry Chairs (380 signatures). Typewriter Museum due to open 2025. Donegal owner💚📚
Historian of child welfare and poverty in early 19th Century Belfast. PhD from QUB and currently working as the historian of Clifton House.
Historian of late 20th century Ireland. Interests in media, recreation, gender, and sexuality. Dog parent. Historian for the lols.
Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century Studies, School of English, Trinity College Dublin | Author of Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
Historian of the Irish in the Caribbean. Volunteer bookseller.
Subject Librarian for Schools of HAPP and Law at Queen's University Belfast. Historian in a previous life. Reader, runner, mum. Blueskies personal.
Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. I write on feminism and conflict, state violence, gender and social movements, and academic precarity. Cork by way of Dublin, Belfast and Newfoundland. She/her. 🍉
PODCAST LAUNCHING 7TH JAN!
Each week, Amy and Emma will be joined by a different expert to discuss the life of a woman from the past who deserves to be better known. They could be from anywhere in the world, and have lived at any time in the past.
Historian of the Victorian countryside, agrarian radicalism. and 20th Century global Catholicism and female religious. Hon. Fellow Durham University Theology and Religion.
Historian of the US at University College Dublin
Social Movements, Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, History of American Conservatism, author The Pro-War Movement
http://umasspress.com/9781625340184/…
Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
PhD candidate in MIC, researching Guinness’s Dublin brewery and its employees during the First World War.
Authored, World War One Irish soldiers-Their final testament. CD-Rom.
Archival Researcher | PhD from Ulster University | Historian of women, gender and medicine
Researching maternal and infant welfare in Belfast during the 20th century
Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Linguist interested in Syntax, Multilingualism, Onomastics and Digital Humanities. Gaeilgeoir and occasional triathlete.
Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Historian of eighteenth century, women, gender, towns and childhood, usually Scotland and Europe (which does include Britain).
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
Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
PhD. Lecturer. Historian of Modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Historian of the Family @UL Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
Out Now! *Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love & Family in Presbyterian Ulster* https://shop.ria.ie/products/pious-and-promiscuous
Interested in grassroots peacebuilding, conflict legacies, gender, beach volleyball | Views my own | She/Her
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
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics. And for a newspaper.
Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Historian of medicine, science, forensics & prisons. Freelance curator and heritage consultant. Former curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine. She/her
Historian, writer, researcher.
Human. I love cats, brilliant 🥷🏾, and thinking out loud. Not in this particular order.
Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian literature, and 19th century newspapers.
New book coming soon(ish)
Rep: Aevitas Creative UK
Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
Historian of sexuality and Ireland at St Olaf College. Executive Producer digpodcast.org. Layout Editor nursingclio.org. (3rd place) Winner of the 2024 MN State Fair Gingersnap competition.
SPIRITUALISM'S PLACE out now. LOVE IN THE LAV coming soon
historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners
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 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 Digital Humanities,
School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.
Mainly politics and cute animals, with occasional images from the archives. For the day job, follow the Irish Cultural and Media History blog at irishmediahistory.com
Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
📚Eighteenth-Centuryist
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
No pasarán ✊ She/her Teacher 👩🏫 Radical Left Scum 💅Words in Tes, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald📝 Neurodivergent ✨🧠 Love parkrun 🏃♀️ ‘literal demon’ and ‘evil propagandist’ according to men on X.
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
Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
Historical fiction novelist #hisfic; senior lecturer #earlymodern & #creativewriting; mum; grandma; gardener; open water swimmer.
www.sararead.co.uk
Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
History Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University // President, American Conference for Irish Studies // Visiting Professor, Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College, Summer 2026
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
Historian, mostly of Ireland,1912-37. New book, 'Vying for Victory', on the 1923 election, co-edited with Elaine Callinan & Thomas Tormey https://tinyurl.com/4jtm4ndb . Also a big Villa fan & music lover. Any views, are my own.
Associate Prof of Irish History at University College Dublin, interested in women’s history, and WWI. Enjoy film, fiction and fun. Always looking for fiction recommendations!
#Feminist cat mom | @sinnfeinireland Cllr @OffalyCoCo and GE Candidate for Offaly | Former Lecturer in Law l @iccltweet & @flacireland Alum | All ‘Mews’ my own
early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Literary geography, crime fiction, literature and medicine, comedy of complicated life choices. Surviving the c-words. 🏳️🌈🇫🇮🇬🇧🇪🇺 Lecturer but views own. Loves all the cats except one. Formerly doombiscuits. Masked-up af.
Culinary historian. History of the recipe in Ireland, through manuscript and print.
https://shop.ria.ie/products/irish-food-history
Co-editor European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/
Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore. Joint editor IHS.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
Social historian of Ireland (landed estates; family, urban and local history) | Working @ria.ie & @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Lecturer, researcher & writer | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
Associate Professor, Dept of History, University of Limerick. Currently writing about the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
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.
History of the Body, Medicine, and Gender. Host of
My Body, My Book Club (she/her)
17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. interested in all things early modern and boaty - currently writing about women and the navy
Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Procrastinator
The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
Historical crime online.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org
Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í
Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored
Research interests: sex and death
I’m not terrific but I’m competent
All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast
An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....
Cultural historian looking at science, leisure, horses, and visual culture in 19th c Ireland. Willing dogsbody to a whippet and a pony, fond of cake, lapsed artist. Also crochet, sew, cook and generally mess around. ❤ bad jokes and good wine.
Cycling. Public Historian.
Northern Ireland (the border bit).
Daughter of a Weaver.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
A piece of archive film for every occasion.
Also: https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.bsky.social
Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times.
https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
Freelance photographer, Galway born, based in Dublin.
🏳️🌈 She/Her
☕ Coffee lover
☀️ Sunrise/sunset chaser
📸 Portraits & all things literature!
www.gerhollandphotography.com
Writer and historian focusing on the Irish revolutionary period 📚✍️
writer, mamaí, history and politics, Belfast/County Down, she/her.
📖 The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798
www.clairemitchell.net
Broadcaster @rte.ie - currently on Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Arts event curator and moderator.
Quizzer.
Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History. Interested mainly in Victorians and their interaction with the Arab-Islamic World.
Senior Lecturer in International Relations Queen’s University Belfast | Feminism Peace Security| Creative Methods | Dance Culture & Global Politics| she/her
From Sardinia like Antonio Gramsci
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/maria-adriana-deiana
ARINS Programme Manager, University of Notre Dame
Research Fellow @ Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB
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Historian: gender & politics modern Ireland and Britain.
PhD from QUB.
Formerly: Oxford, TCD, UC Berkeley.
Sociologist. Chip lover. She/her/nerd.
Work in EDI & Sexual Violence Prevention in Irish HE. Research & write about gender politics & elections. Book worm. Latest publication: https://www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/article/abs/pii/S0962629825001969
Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
Digital Humanities person | Historian of C18: maritime communities, labour, poverty, identity | Research Fellow at University of Southampton
Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
Historian of early-modern Ireland. Has a fondness for pillboxes and airfields that's not entirely healthy. Segued to WW2 somehow.
Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism
