Keeper of lost things. Returner of lost books to their families or archives 📚History and book hound. Writes poems sometimes. Maid of Kent. Never stop being curious.
Early modernist, lecturer at Uni of Greenwich, Lincoln Bishop, Oxford Conted, IES & AIFS. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. London, suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers). Co-editor How-to History
Doctorante en histoire - Sorbonne Université. Histoire du marronnage féminin, Antilles, XVIIIe
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
Historian of health and medicine in the 18th and 19th c. maritime world || Pearsall Early Career Fellow in Naval and Maritime History @ the Institute for Historical Research, London
Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
Associate professor at Université Paris Cité (history of knowledge - 17th-18th c.) Francis Bacon Foundation Fellow at the Huntington (April/May/June 2025) & Associate Fellow of the RHS. At work on a monograph about women's meditations in 17th c. England
Writer, historian and broadcaster
WRITING ON THE WALL (Profile, 2024)
AFTER DARK podcast (History Hit)
Currently writing about historical hoaxes, fake news and conspiracy theories
Freelance Historian | Part-time PhD English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Vice-Chair, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors. Co-editor How-to History. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
Inspiring the extraordinary.
Official Durham University Bluesky account.
Senior Lecturer in History at ARU | Researches poverty, welfare, consumption and material culture | Obsesses over fonts far too much
Historian of empire, museums and collecting in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. University of Lincoln. Also interested in islands, the environment and pedagogy.
Historical & Maritime Archaeologist | Shipyards, Dry Docks & Ship(wreck)s | Port Cities | Great Lakes-Atlantic Shipping | Welland Canal Heritage Advocate | Adjunct Professor. https://beacons.ai/shicklunashipyard
Professor at Queen Mary University of London; Chair of Trustees at the Geographical Association. Research, write and teach about Britain (especially London) since 1800. Collaborator, especially with heritage sector + food, music, books, Hackney.
Principal Research Fellow, Bentham Project, @ucllaws.bsky.social Editing Bentham's works and correspondence. Historian of convict transportation and the Norfolk Island penal station.
An award-winning crowdsourcing initiative led by the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, engaging people in the transcription of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for a new edition of his Collected Works.
Interested in co-production, archives and public histories. Historian of 18thC poverty, marginal communities and cleanliness. Currently researching 19thC prisons. I did a thing here www.thomasturner.org.uk #18C
Historian of medicine, science, forensics & prisons. Freelance curator and heritage consultant. Former curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine. She/her
Our world-leading institute, established in 2006 at the University of Hull, is at the forefront of researching and tackling slavery and injustice, giving voice to the exploited, both past and present. www.hull.ac.uk/wilberforce
Person of Hearing Dog Neve. Catholic. Crafter. Bookbinder. Calligrapher. Early modern historian, specifically in clergy-lay relations in C17th Herefordshire. She/her.
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Historical geographer at Queen Mary University of London | writes books | reads books | working on working on the 1831-2 Uprising in Jamaica | picture from Keith Piper (2007) Lost Vitrines.
Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Civil servant by day, historian by night. Researching the military in British India. Accidental First World War historian. WFA Universities Trustee. Husband & Dad. Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/adamprime
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.
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
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Art Historian at University of Oxford. Interests = material culture, collecting, gift exchange & the ivory trade in East Africa and the British empire
Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Golestan Fellow NIAS-KNAW https://nias.knaw.nl/fellow/rebecca-wynter/ Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
School of Criminology, Sociology & Policing at University of Hull.
News re. Jail, Prison, Abolition, Decarceration, Criminology, Addiction, Sex Work, Blood Borne Pathogens, et al. ($) = Paywall.
Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.
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Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own
#Liverpool #YNWA 🇵🇸🇾🇪
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
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Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London.
Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
Online journal for the history of #revolutions, #revolutionaries, & the idea of “revolution” itself. Est. by @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social & @cindyermus.bsky.social.
ageofrevolutions.com
GMH is a forum for discussions of maritime history, broadly conceived. Get in touch if you'd like to post an article, blog, CFP or podcast. Social media run by @canadianerrant
No ChatGPT or AI art permitted for content on our website.
Historical crime online.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org
Historian (early modern & true crime). TV & Podcast producer / writer.
Author - 1666: PLAGUE, WAR & HELLFIRE (out now), GOD’S THRONE: THE STUARTS 1603-1714 (currently writing).
Director of HistFest. Host Killing Time podcast.
Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
Anthropologist and historian. Polar exploration: Erebus, Terror, Scott, Shackleton. Senior Curator National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Trustee UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. Sing London Oriana. Views my own.
Historian of Science | Based in Dept Sociology, University of York | Futures | Oceans | Sci Diplomacy | Conferences Chair
@bshsnews.bsky.social
| Fellow Royal Historical Society
Tea drinker. Cartophile. Lecturer in History at University of Tasmania. Currently writing a book about colonial land granting in Van Diemen's Land (lutruwita Tasmania) & crawling around archival rabbit holes. plotsandacres.wordpress.com
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.
Digital Humanities person | Historian of C18: maritime communities, labour, poverty, identity | Research Fellow at University of Southampton
Mostly maritime archaeology, splash of maritime history, occasionally climate heritage, & some ocean science. Searching for interesting and engaging channels into watery worlds.
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(professional side of @sarahelektra.bsky.social)
History, data, pictures, food. Still lazing about.
http://sharonhoward.org/
ORCID: 0000-0002-6051-6274
Assistant Curator of Art at Royal Museums Greenwich
& AHRC PhD in C19th Sailors’ Craft at Cardiff University. Interested in making, materiality, emotion and communities.
Naval historian. Associate Professor at US Naval War College. Views own. New book with Paul Kennedy: Planning for War at Sea: 400 Years of Great Power Competition.
Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
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.
Historian; Food & Alcohol History; Music & Growing Things!
Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. 19th-century Irish social history, gender, crime, gossip and secrets. #BadBridget co-lead with Leanne McCormick @badbridgetbook
Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. Gotta lotta love to share.
Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Drugs & Alcohol Historian | Research Fellow @lshtm.bsky.social
| "Kicking the Habit" - Addictive Sponsorship in British Sport | Managing Editor @History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals
Historian of protest, smuggling, and the British state, 1700-1850.
Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/claire-jowitt
https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/claire-jowitt-416943160/
The Australian Historical Association was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians working in all fields of history.
https://theaha.org.au
Communications and public engagement professional. Chair of the Friends of Charlcombe Community Nature Reserve (facebook.com/groups/charlcombenature). Lover of coffee, Bath Rugby, butterflies and swifts.
Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Naval & diplomatic historian with a side gig in maritime strategy | Senior Lecturer at UNSWCanberra
| #PomInOz
Historian, living and working with gratitude on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land.
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
CEO @thetvfoundation @edinburghtvfest. Would like Dave Grusin to soundtrack my life.
Assistant Professor at University of New Brunswick Saint John | Napoleonic #histmed #histnursing and Royal Navy hospital ships | Cat lover | she/her
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Art Historian, makeup aficionado, antiques hoarder, snappy dresser.
Artist & academic: cultural industries, immersive media and documentary, visual anthropology. Research Fellow in Centre for Cultural Value @valuingculture.bsky.social. Co-director Bradford Digital Arts Lab | 🦄 | https://robeagle.art
Historian of 19th-century France—juvenile incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia)
Book: "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Based in Sydney, Australia
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Historian of Banditry, Settler Colonial and Public History | Chancellor's Research Fellow @UTS | Former JRF @camhistory.bsky.social | She/ her | FRHistS
The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland promotes an inter-disciplinary approach to Irish studies.
ssnci.org
Prof of Cultural Studies at Flinders University. Pop Cult Obsessive. Fan. Listener. Learner. Teacher. Writer of 22 books. AM.
Associate Professor in the History of Strategy and International Law at the University of Lincoln. Director of the Maritime Studies Centre
Book: Balancing Strategy
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/balancing-strategy/305960D358172DBCF641320024BFF71D#
Recent X-ile | Visiting history fellow at the Open University | freelance historian | researcher and writer e.g. the material culture of the archives, crime and police records | Find me at: https://angelasuttonvane.com/
Lecturer in Public History at University of Leeds. Research Interests: history of women and science. Teaching Interests: creative teaching and assessment. Views my own.
Historian | Research Associate: Inclusive Histories Project 25-26 | Former IHR Pearsall Fellow 23-24 | Research interests: c.18-19th naval and military families, marginalised histories, lone women, petitioning, welfare and care
Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
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Historian | Head of Collections Research at The National Archives (UK) | Maritime & colonial history | History of science & medicine | Currently researching Royal African Company/Company of Merchants.
Recently quit my PhD but have created a census of John Flamsteed’s two star catalogues (AMA).
British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://stephanieemmabrown.co.uk/
