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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social Editorial Director of the Johns Hopkins University Press and acquiring editor for our Higher Ed. program. “Oh, I used to be disgusted. And now I try to be amused….”
The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social Your go-to for facts, sources & untold stories on all things #Palestine, #Palestinians & #PalestinianAmericans— politics, culture & activism. Connecting journalists with experts: info@imeu.org. Sister org of @imeupolicy.bsky.social
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art equator.org
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
Anatol Klass @anatolklass.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at US Naval War College
Dinyar Patel @dinyarpatel.bsky.social Associate Professor (South Asian History) at SPJIMR, Mumbai. Author of Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism (Harvard University Press, 2020).
J.P. @johnathanperk.bsky.social • fmr [fired] UCLA DEI Director • Project 2025 expert • fmr Harvard in-house counsel • UVa Law School 2011, Temple University 2008 #TeamGracie | Philadelphia enthusiast | cancer survivor | posts are NEVER legal advice
Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social Feminist STS, gender, race, algorithmic culture // Lecturer in Sociology (STS) at Australian National University// Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country // President @aussts.bsky.social
Tim McLellan @timmclellan.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology at ANU. Researching urban nature-based solutions, agroforestry science, audit cultures, and Nous UniForum data (themes that are more interconnected than you’d think…). https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/tim-mclellan
Rebecca Herman @rebeccaherman.bsky.social History prof at UC Berkeley // Writing about environmental politics https://history.berkeley.edu/rebecca-herman
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social Professor of environmental history at Georgetown University. Creator, "The Climate Chronicles." Author of the new book, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean." Interested in all things climate change, outer space, existential risk, and past for present.
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Nikita Sud @professorsud.bsky.social Professor, Politics of Development, Oxford Uni. Leverhulme Fellow. Study, teach: authoritarianism, postcolonial development, social justice, state, environment politics, India, Asia. Researching 📗: energy, extraction, assertion. Global South perspective.
Harjeet Singh @harjeet11.bsky.social Climate Activist | Founding Director @SatatSampada.bsky.social | Strategic Advisor @FossilTreaty.bsky.social | TED Speaker | Views=own | 📧 harjeet@SatatSampadaClimate.org; harjeet@FossilFuelTreaty.org
Kasia Paprocki @kasiapaprocki.bsky.social Associate Prof at LSE | Author of Threatening Dystopias: The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social 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
Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social Politics, author of Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed. Meidas Canada/ The Resistance Lead singer with Grievous Angels. Just a boy from Cobalt. Not a space for the cynical and snide.
Hans Pols @hanspols.bsky.social Interested in community mental health all over the world, but in particular in Indonesia and Australia. Also chickens. History of medicine.
Carole Bouchard @carolebouchard.bsky.social Writer. Author. Broadcaster. Consultant. 🎾 The Tennis Sweet Spot newsletter: https://tennissweetspot.substack.com/ 💙 IG: @carole_bouchard_ Substack for everything else than tennis (especially books): @carolebouchard
Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social PhD in history and philosophy of science (also JD and MLA), Stanford. Biology, complexity, diagramming. Philosophy of history. Curates these BlueSky feeds: History and Philosophy of Biology Complexity Science Philosophy of History and Historiography
The Second Serve @the2ndserve.bsky.social Free weekly newsletter and home of OPEN Tennis magazine. thesecondserve.com
Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social Staff campaigning against cuts and poor governance at the Australian National University.
Chris Kay @christopherkay.ft.com Mumbai bureau chief at the Financial Times. Previously with Bloomberg in India, Pakistan, Nigeria and the UK. https://chriskay.co.uk/ https://www.ft.com/chris-kay
Namwali @namwalien.bsky.social "I read books. I teach books. I write books. I think about books. It's one job." | "Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading." -Toni Morrison
Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary. Posting in a personal capacity. Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review. Representation: Wylie.
Micah Muscolino @mmuscolino.bsky.social Professor and Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, UC San Diego New book: _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_ https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753980/remaking-the-earth-exhausting-the-people/ #EnvHist #SocHist #AgHist
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
The Continent @thecontinent.org The Continent is Africa's most widely read newspaper. Get the most recent edition delivered for free on: WhatsApp: bit.ly/4b2gpfI Signal: bit.ly/TCSignal Telegram: t.me/continentnews Email: read@thecontinent.org Donate: http://bit.ly/3IYcp6X
Afrique XXI @afriquexxi.bsky.social L'Afrique au long cours: http://afriquexxi.info Our (fast-growing) English section: https://afriquexxi.info/en Le starter pack des auteurs et autrices: https://go.bsky.app/MoLFQbW Soutenez-nous / Donate: http://afriquexxi.info/Faire-un-don
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social 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/
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social 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)
Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography. Current book-project on the My Lai Massacre of 1968 - the final instalment in my massacre trilogy that also includes Amritsar 1919 and Bud Dajo 1906. Rep by Wylie Agency
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism. EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social AE @yiannicart.bsky.social BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Michael Taylor @mhtaylor.bsky.social Historian, cat-guardian, legal consultant, and diminishing cricketer
Christian Burset @cburset.bsky.social Law professor and legal historian at the University of Pennsylvania
Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social Writing and teaching about C19 literature, empire, race, and climate collapse. Editor of Victorian Poetry (JHUP). Lover of all things goth. She / her.
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
J. P. Daughton @jpdaughton.bsky.social Writer, historian, teacher, husband, cat owner, thrower of pots. Author of In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism (WW Norton).
Laprofmme 🦬⚔️🏒 💙💛❤️‍🩹 @laprofmme.bsky.social Historian, 🐶 🐩 mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford commas and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. All opinions my own not my employer. Go Bills!
roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france & empire; nuclear harm/fear/memory; fiction/film/art/music; thievery; founding/former host-new books in french studies; brown; settler; NOT my employer roxannepanchasi.com ——FREE PALESTINE——
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking...w/ signature typoes
Mark Jones @mark18681918.bsky.social PhD student @cardiffuni.bsky.social/Prifysgol Caerdyd. Critical historian researching regimental identity, organisational culture & learning processes within the British Army during the Cold War. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/jonesma19
Andrew Muldoon @arjm5184.bsky.social Historian, goalie, not a historian of goalies. Father of goalie. History at MSU Denver. Wartime Calcutta. Usually in the far corner of the rink.
Jason A. Higgins, Ph.D @jasonhiggins.bsky.social Author. Editor. Historian. Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (UMass Press) Digital Scholarship Coordinator Virginia Tech Press; Assistant Professor. My views don’t reflect my employer. https://shorturl.at/HpPO7
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian http://earlymodernjustice.org/ Sample articles: https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/ https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf Opinions my own
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. 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!
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Tessa Murphy @murphyte.bsky.social Canadian historian of the colonial Caribbean. Associate Prof. of Early American History, Syracuse U. Author of “The Creole Archipelago.” She/her.
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social This account is dedicated to the recently published book "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" by @mihatsch.bsky.social & Michael J. Mulligan. We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
Oleksandr Polianichev @opolianichev.bsky.social Historian of Tsarist Russia at Södertörn University, Stockholm | URIS Fellow at @unibas.ch | ‬Colonial and transimperial history | Ph.D. from @eui-eu.bsky.social‬
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
Nick Ferns @nickferns.bsky.social DECRA fellow in history at Monash University. Working on histories of development and decolonisation in Australia and the Pacific.
Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social Professor at large PI: DIGIPORTS project, automation + racialization in maritime logistics Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge Pro 🍉 ⚧️🌈 🏴‍☠️
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social US Religious Historian with focus on MBC (migration, borders, citizenship), Asian America, US Imperialism | PhD Candidate @Harvard Religion & Fellow @Weatherhead | Every Thu.@BOS.Symphony | Reading Now:📚 How Our Days Became Numbered 🔗 seokweonjeon.com
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list. Financial Times “Best Books.”
David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts.
Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social Historian of Science, Knowledge, Intellectual Culture | Occasional Orientalist
Hanna Hodacs @hannahod.bsky.social Historian of science, global history, natural history, substitutes, and (as of recently) History of slavery
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social Prof & DH Coordinator @CPP. Early Americans abroad, merchants, smugglers, capitalists, family history = labor history. In it for the gossip. Views my own.
Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social Americanist Military Historian & Genocide Scholar. Kean University History Adjunct. Expat Twitterstorian. Skystorian. Cancer Survivor. He/Him. https://linktr.ee/deckofcarterhistory
Chas Reed @reedhistory.net Britain, empire, esp southern Africa, historian. HBCU prof. @h-empire ed. Human, cat, tortoise dad. Veg korma lover. Ancient millennial. Views my own. #blm https://linktr.ee/cvreed
Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee
Christina Carroll @chcarroll.bsky.social Associate Professor of History @kcollege. Modern France, imperialism, politics, culture. Views my own. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france/
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020). More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Ken Smith @kensmith199.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Historian of Booker T. Washington, the Black Diaspora, & Empire. Penn State and K-State alum. Proud Californian. Cat dad. Views are my own.
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress #architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa Own views 🌈 she/her
Bernhard C. Schär @boscha.bsky.social "Hat durchaus seine Verdienste." (Laudatio NZZ) https://unidistance.ch/en/history/research/global-history-of-europe-and-switzerland
Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social Historian | University of Agder | Author | Discovery of the Third World (CUP 2016) | Postcolonial People (CUP 2022) | New project: European Languages in Post-Independence Africa |
Carolien Stolte @carolienstolte.bsky.social Historian | Leiden University | India | Peace | Decolonization | Books | Running peace.lucdh.eu
Robbie Aitken @rjmauk.bsky.social Professor of Imperial History at Sheffield Hallam. Working on the Black experience during the Nazi period. Long suffering follower of terrible sports teams. shu.academia.edu/RobbieAitken
Itay Lotem @ilotem.bsky.social Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
Caroline Sequin @carolinesequin.bsky.social Historian of France—race, gender, sexuality, empire, migration. Author of Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press). https://tinyurl.com/ejs3udt2. Views expressed are my own.
Claire Eldridge @eldrclaire.bsky.social Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and the environment @IEG Mainz. Author of "Nature of German Imperialism" (2016)
Dr Adam Prime @primeadam.bsky.social 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
Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Russian Empire history at ULB #Brussels Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, 1917-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)