Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital History at UCL. All things census related + agrarian/industrial development of Britain 16th-19th centuries.
https://www.joshuarhodeshistorian.com/
AlanDRitchie @alandritchie.bsky.social Cycling, data and information architecture, books, libraries, food, government information, cats
failed philosopher/failed librarian/basically pleasant bureaucrat
cisgender: he/him/his
Andrea Broomfield @andreabroomfield.bsky.social Food historian, professor of English, author Food and Cooking in Victorian England, Kansas City Food Biography, Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City
Oskar Jensen @oskarjensen.bsky.social Novelist, Historian, BBC New Generation Thinker, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | Song, streets, balladry, Jacobins, Whodunnits | If Love Should Die | Helle in Venice out 18.2.27 | he/him
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Prof Debby Cotton @profdcotton.bsky.social Dean of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Plymouth Marjon University, UK. Interested in all things HE. Sustainability education and behaviour change researcher. Accidental AI expert. NTF.
João Oliveira, MA @joao-pedro-oliveir.bsky.social BA in History | MA Student in Digital Humanities at NOVA-FCSH | Future PhD Student somewhere in the world 🌍
Collaborator at https://eark.online
NIcholas A. R. Fraser @narfraser.bsky.social (he/him) forensic systems auditor, political scientist, migration & multiculturalism expert @utoronto.ca; RT is not agreement/endorsement; #FirstGen
http://nicholasarfraser.com
Sue McNeil @susieqmc.bsky.social Passionate history & English teacher; fierce defender of the Oxford comma and the overworked apostrophe. Follower of all things archaeology related. Firm believer that time spent in nature is time well spent. Kindness is key! 🇨🇦
Institute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social The UK's leading centre of expertise for research software
Charlotte Taylor @proftaylor.bsky.social Professor of Discourse & Persuasion
Rhetorics of nostalgia | migration discourses & memory | metaphor | WATER metaphors | mythopoesis | corpus linguistics | (critical) discourse analysis
Posting in a personal capacity
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9516-207
Simon Mahony @simonmahony.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies, University College London (UCL). Visiting Professor at the Department of Information Management, Peking University.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uczcsbm
Joe Harley @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History at ARU | Researches poverty, welfare, consumption and material culture | Obsesses over fonts far too much
Emanuela Vai @emanuelavai.bsky.social Renaissance/Early Modern Historian: Musical Instruments, Space, Sound and the Senses | Head @batecollection.bsky.social Head of Research(Hums) Fellow @Worcester College @ox.ac.uk | Digital Humanities & Sensory Heritage @torchoxford.bsky.social (FRHS,FHEA)
Peter T. Evans @petertevans.bsky.social Digital Humanities | NLP | Computational Theology
Now: Drifting...
Before: Institute for Digital Humanities, University of Göttingen.
Before Before: Digital Academy, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony.
Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social 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- B Felix Oke @bfiliks.bsky.social Digital Humanities; Textual Studies; Data Visualization
Hansraj Meena @hansrajmeena.bsky.social Environmental & Socio- Political Activist with Principle of secularism, Equality,Humanity & Justice. A Tribal, Son Of Farmer. Founder of Tribal Army.
•Twitter : https://x.com/HansrajMeena
•Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/hansrajmeenaofficial
Anne Jonas 🌻 @annejonas.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UM-Flint CIT. Studying digital technologies, schools, community, and power through qualitative and design-based research methods. Previously at MSU, UC Berkeley, Barnard, and Brown. she/her 🏳️🌈
Ryan Randall @handle.invalid A better world is possible, together.
Instructional design, humanities/Cultural Studies, pedagogy, open ed (OER/OA), library work, accessibility, ADHD.
https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com/
https://hcommons.social/@ryanrandall
Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Director of Digital History at More Perfect | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Scotland Enthusiast | Views my own.
www.jimambuske.com
Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social 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.
Paul Rayson @perayson.bsky.social Prof of #NLP in School of Computing and Communications @LancasterUni, word boffin, ex-CLARIN Ambassador, Director of @ucrelnlp.bsky.social #NLProc #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities, Doctor Who & stuff. Ravenclaw.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/perayson/
Sara Ellis-Nilsson (she/her), PhD 🕊️ @ellisnilsson.bsky.social Canadian Medievalist
Senior Lecturer/Associate Prof @Linnaeus Uni.
Docent @Lund Uni.
PI @MappingSaints.
WebEditor @info_Scandia.
Saints & society; Digital History; Medieval book fragments; Mediating the past via reconstructions/re-creations, (re)enactment
Dr. Erica Johnson @drericajohnson.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History at Francis Marion University, Editor for @AgeofRevs, Codirector of AAAS, USS faculty coordinator, LACS-SHA treasurer, she/her
Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social Public historian:
Archives & Special Collections at Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass., USA) https://phillipsacademyarchives.net/
Swimming, hiking | Seacoast NH (she/Dr.)
Interested in #EnvHist
Rachel Hogan @rnhogan.bsky.social Instruction & Research Librarian for the Arts & Digital Humanities @ William & Mary Libraries. Passionate about dh in and out of the library, arts-based research, academic librarianship, information literacy, medievalisms, arthurian lit, and victorian lit
Jesse Sadler @vivalosburros.bsky.social Digital Humanities at Virginia Tech and early modern historian of Dutch mercantile families. Interested in using open source tools in DH.
Susan Banki @susanbanki.bsky.social U Sydney A/Prof, Dir. Master of Social Justice. Kids books author and total ultimate frisbee tragic/zealot. Tweet on Myanmar, Bhutan, diasporas, ocean swimming, teaching, and all funny/shocking things that come my way. https://linktr.ee/susan.banki
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
chad black @chadblack.bsky.social Impostor. Latin America, Theory, Marx, Freud, Lacan, Horror, Monsters. Cycling, trail running, music. RDU, TYS, UIO, ABQ, BAL, SAN
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Benjamin Breen @resobscura.bsky.social Associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, father of a 3 year old and 1 year old. History of science, medicine, technology, drugs, and empire.
Book: https://benjaminpbreen.com/books/tripping/
Writing at https://resobscura.substack.com
Ash Kelleher @akelleher.bsky.social New media, games & culture in a computer @ Royal Danish Library 📚 prev British Museum, British Library, Flickr Foundation. Canadian in Copenhagen, wholesome hybrid. she / they
Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social Data, Information and their Histories. At UCL.
danielwilson.info
🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci
Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social Modern historian at Birkbeck, working on UNRRA, relief & humanitarianism, internationalism. I edit the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series & direct the Centre for the Study of Internationalism.
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Agata Paluch @agpal.bsky.social Professor of Jewish Studies in the Premodern Era, University of Cologne | early modern Central-Eastern Europe - Jewish history & book cultures - kabbalah & Jewish knowledge | neurodivergent | views my own
Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social I think and write about the impact of technology on society // I teach and do digital humanities at the department of Information Studies at UCL.
Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at The Open University. Art Historian interested in 19thC to 20thC British art and visual culture, disease, climate, empire, and air pollution, as well as museum studies and the legacies of empire in collections.
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Innes M. Keighren @inneskeighren.bsky.social Professor of Historical Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-convenor of the London Group of Historical Geographers. Writing a book on the global lives of William Macintosh (1737–1813). www.inneskeighren.com
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Alayne Moody @menyalas.bsky.social PhD student in the digital humanities interested in life writing, well-being, sustainability, and mixing methods, especially multilevel Bayesian modelling, critical reflexivity and natural language processing.
Public History, Western University @westernupubhist.bsky.social MA & Undergrad Minor #PublicHistory @huronatwestern
@westernu @kingsatwestern. Affiliated with @westernumedarti IG: westernupublichistory TikTok: westernupubhist
#LdnOnt https://www.history.uwo.ca/public_history/index.html
Charlotte Gauthier @faraiunvers.bsky.social Historian of late medieval/early modern religious conflict and diplomacy. England and Christendom, the crusades, and the Reformation. Also: digital humanities, early music, historical theology, and public history. www.charlottegauthier.com
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social Historian of Early America, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY. Leading AHA wit. Latest AmRev book: "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" 🔥 Dad, Mets fan, fantasy reader
David Pizzo @pizzohistorian.bsky.social All pics and opinions mine unless otherwise indicated. Historian. History professor at Murray State University: Modern Germany, Eastern and Southern Africa, the World Wars, Genocide, & Slavery. Director of KIIS Austria & SiR Berlin Program. All views mine.
Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social Extinguished Perfesser of Anguish at Ruckers–Nork; mooseophile; wine guzzler; author of many books, a few of them readable; harmless eccentric.
C18 BritLit, dictionaries, book history, fakery, life-writing, political smartassery.
https://jacklynch.net
Print and Probability Project @print-and-prob.bsky.social developing tools, data, and machine learning methods to discover new bibliographical evidence in early printed books
Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social Historian, professor, mom, wife, feminist, rower.
PI of ERC-project WEB CHILD, which studies changing childhoods in the early era of the WWW across the US, South Korea, and Denmark.
Latest book: "Sesame Street. A Transnational History." (OUP, 2023).
VeDPH @vedph.bsky.social Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities
Department of Humanities
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
https://www.unive.it/vedph
https://www.instagram.com/ve_dph/
Brendan Tam @brendantam.bsky.social PhD candidate (History) University of Warwick (2022-2026) || Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| 🇦🇺 || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
Irish Historical Society @irishhistsoc.bsky.social https://www.irishhistoricalstudies.ie/irish-historical-society/
History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social Official BlueSky Account for History of Education Society UK. #histed
https://historyofeducation.org.uk/
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland.
Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on deborah.mason@archives.org.uk (quicker than a DM).
Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
British Association for Irish Studies (BAIS) @bairishstudies.bsky.social BAIS is the national network for those with an interest in the study of Ireland. Posts by our comms team and council members.
https://irishstudies.co.uk/
Stephen Gregg @shgregg.bsky.social Academic: 18thC literature, book history, critical digitization. Bath, UK. Accomplices Sid the greyhound 🌈 and Turner the whippet.
Programming Historian @proghist.bsky.social Award-winning Diamond Open Access journals of digital methods for the humanities.
https://programminghistorian.org • https://tinyurl.com/support-PH • https://linkedin.com/company/prog-hist
Tom Scheinfeldt @foundhistory.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Swimmer, Historian, Professor of Digital Humanities at UConn. Online at https://foundhistory.org
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Ian Milligan @ianmilligan1.bsky.social Professor of History and founding Director of the School of Social, Historical and Political Research at the University of Waterloo. Posts in a completely personal capacity.
Peter Findlay @ Artefact Books @pfin25.bsky.social Art, design, and architecture books and catalogues are a great way of educating ourselves visually. That's why I collect these artefacts and am creating a website about them (nearly there). You can sign up for my newsletter and a list of items for sale.
Belle de jour @bowman120.bsky.social Archaeologist & antiquarian; ex-Whitehall Digital programme mgr; Info & Rec Mgt; longbow archer; French 🍷; jazz 🥁 . Eclectic. Opinions own, retweets not always endorsements
Rieke Marie Kaiser @rmkaiser.bsky.social PhD student working on logbooks in the Prize Papers collection | Early Modern History | Maritime History | Digital Humanities 
K Colette Hill 🇨🇦 @k-colette-hill.bsky.social history MA student | SSHRC Graduate Scholar | I research 19th/20th century domestic marginalia, vernacular dwellings, food history, digital archiving of material culture.
Jack Newman @jack-newman.com Project Leader Victoria County History 'The Making of Maidstone'. Associate Fellow @ihr.bsky.social and Honorary Fellow @memsunikent.bsky.social. Formerly @ Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities & Literary Criticism.
https://www.jack-newman.com/
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Neil Grindley @neilgrindley.bsky.social Interested in digital humanities, libraries, archives, digital preservation and curation.
Julian Woodford @historylondon.bsky.social Historian (FRHistS), author of THE BOSS OF BETHNAL GREEN, a true foundation story of London’s East End and biography of Regency godfather Joseph Merceron.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boss-Bethnal-Green-Merceron-Godfather-ebook/dp/B086XFTWXK
Gillian Macdonald @gilliansmac.bsky.social Digital lab director | early modern Atlantic world + Scotland | digital historian
Mike Lee @mikelee02.bsky.social Food Futurist, Author, Innovation Consultant. https://mise.market
Nora Van den Bosch @nvdb.bsky.social PhD student @ EAST, ULB (2026-2029) | Sinologist interested in digital humanities | curator Modern China Biographical Database (2019-2025)
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1881-5801
Thomas Smits @thomassmits.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Digital History and AI @ University of Amsterdam | visual and digital history | http://thomassmits.eu/ | co-director Amsterdam Computational History Lab https://achl.nl
Alun Withey @dralun.bsky.social BBCRadio3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Award-winning historian of early modern medicine, the body & beards! Senior lecturer at Exeter Uni, loves guitars, drums & *good* coffee.
Blogs at DrAlun.Wordpress.com. TikTok & Instagram: @dralunwithey
Melvin Wevers @melvinwevers.bsky.social Assistant Professor Computational History - General Chair CHR - trail running - wine - games - music - https://www.melvinwevers.nl
Arjan van Dalfsen @arjanvd.bsky.social PhD candidate | Dutch disposition towards animals (1550-2000) studied with AI | Computational Humanities, Human Animal Studies, AI, Historical Literature
Amanda @lambsearsandhoney.bsky.social Australian-based. Interested in food, culinary culture, cookbooks, books and reading, and travel.
Dr Andrew S. Roe-Crines 🏳️🌈 @andrewcrines.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Communication | PhD Pol. Sci. | MA Acad. Prac. | Award-winning book author & editor, peer review articles, & media comments.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/staff/andrew-crines/
Liverpool | Yorkshire | United Kingdom
Michele Ciletti @mikcil.bsky.social PhD Student @ SapienzaNLP, bass player, huge fan of open access, orecchiette, haiku, myths, and cool tech.
Currently working on semantically-empowered Small Language Models, Word-Sense Disambiguation, and lexical semantics.
https://mikcil.github.io/
Cecilie Bjerre @cbjerre.bsky.social Historian | Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark. PI: Paternity in Denmark, c. 1900–2000 (PAID)
Co-PI: The Danish Family Revolution: Experiences & Institutions (FREI). https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/cbjerre
Ben Brumfield @benwbrum.bsky.social Open Source #DigitalHumanities software engineer.
Founder of FromThePage.com, a platform for collaborative #manuscript #transcription to engage the public in #archives and create digital scholarly editions.