Author Melvin L. Edwards @aumelvinedwards.bsky.social An adventurous storyteller inspired by a love of family, the outdoors, and new experiences, the author brings history, adventure, resilience, and family together in "Eldene Ana McGrady: Tragedy, Adventure, and a New Beginning."
Rhonda Evans @rhondaevans.bsky.social Coal miner's daughter, dog lover, and director of a Center for Australian & New Zealand Studies at UT Austin. I research courts, human rights, critical minerals, environmental policy — and the global spread of Aussie cafés. ☕ https://aussiecafesabroad.com/
Lee Gilmore @legacylinesau.bsky.social Genealogy and productivity addict.
Mohamed Elnakep @mohamedelnakep.bsky.social
lecture of Islamic history, Mansoura University. PhD in Imāmī Shīʿīs at Universität (Göttingen, Hamburg). Member of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO).
@mramreid.bsky.social @mramreid.bsky.social
@jcya.bsky.social @jcya.bsky.social
Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. International law, history of property, political economy of science and technology. Writing on patents + climate struggle.
annasaunders.net
law.anu.edu.au/about/our-people/anna-saunders
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
abettertax.com.au @abettertax.bsky.social An Aussie trying to convince our politicians to model a simpler & more effective tax for Australia, invented by a mining engineer & two chartered accountants back in the 80s after hearing about the National Party's 15% flat tax idea. #abtax
Sydney Aus
Ella Byrne @byrnee.bsky.social
Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Transnational & global history, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory & urban history. Cape Town - NYC - Chicago - London – Berlin | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
Ross Webb @rosswebb.bsky.social Historian, New Zealand https://oup.nz/library/the-cost-of-living/
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Matthew Klugman (they/them) @raw-toast.bsky.social Migrant queer non-binary academic living on unceded Kulin lands.
Rhiannon Stevens @ransos.bsky.social features reporter abc news
Megan Graham @meggraham9.bsky.social Histories of race, resistance and health activism in 20thC Australia • History PhD at the University of Leeds • prev. Visiting Researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine (US) & NCB at ANU (Aus)
National Archaeology Week @archaeologyweekaus.bsky.social National Archaeology Week aims to increase public awareness of Australian archaeology and archaeologists, and to promote the importance of protecting Australia’s unique cultural heritage | 16-22 May 2027 | https://archaeologyweek.org
@sandramorosoli.bsky.social @sandramorosoli.bsky.social
gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social journalist, author etc
Jane Carey @janechistory.bsky.social
James Appleby @chisanga.bsky.social Professional procrastinator
Jo Savill @josavill.bsky.social Science communicator | @ardc.edu.au research infrastructure advocate | parent | reader | traveller | Brisbanite | #scicomm
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
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Postscript: www.pscript.app
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Lee Rippon @leerippon.bsky.social Australian military historian
Bede Kelleher @thevenerablebede.bsky.social Of senior counsel. Father of daughters. Lover of good music. History tragic. Groucho Marxist and Milliganista. Employed by me.
Mathew Nicolson @eyjarskeggi.bsky.social Did a PhD in Scottish island political & constitutional history, now working in public sector. Shetlander.
Can be found doing things at:
@EuropeElects.bsky.social
@ShetlandElects.bsky.social
@HistoryofElections.bsky.social
@ScotHistNetwork.bsky.social
Jack Cox @jackandrewcox.bsky.social PhD History studying convict transportation to America, Australia and within British-Occupied India.
Archives Assistant at Northamptonshire Archives and Heritage Service.
HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow.- M @magentaflame.bsky.social @magentaflame.bsky.social
Koen Stapelbroek @stplbrk.bsky.social Professor & Dean @jcucase.bsky.social (Early) Modern Political Thought & Intellectual History. Institutions of trade, free ports, commercial treaties and other. Working and living on Bindal and Wulgurukaba Country. He/him.
Cathy Coleborne @cathycoleborne.bsky.social Historian of illness, health & medicine, with a focus on institutions & psychiatry, based at the University of Newcastle, Australia. New project on polio memories & experiences.
Max Billington @atomicmax.bsky.social Apprentice Historian | Nuclear testing, Cold War Australia, Security policy | Video Game Enthusiast | They/them
James E. Bennett @drjamesebennett.bsky.social Australian-based. Historian of 20C Australia and Aotearoa NZ; rainbow histories (including conversion practices & marriage equality), transnational histories, history through film. Keen traveller, occasional hiker, recent convert to supported cycle tours.
Jacqui Baker @jacquibhistory.bsky.social Historian who works in an archive. Interested in researching gender, sexuality and feminism 📚🐶💖🪴📻
jane phượng, Ph.D (she/her) Ngunnawal Country @janephuong.bsky.social Education is kindness
All photos are mine except reposts
Our articles
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03128962231180261
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My research
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yOzjAop3gU
Nick Tochka @nicktochka.bsky.social Ethnomusicology, popular music studies, creative nonfiction. Eastern Europe / Albania, United States, and Multicultural Australia.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Meg Brayshaw @megbrayshaw.bsky.social John Rowe Lecturer in Australian Literature @ USYD. Editor, Aust Lit at Sydney UP. Co-editor, Australian Literary Studies. Current projects: resource extraction & settler colonial spatial imaginaries; Dymphna Cusack & literary commitment in the Cold War
Owen Smith @owensmithguitar.bsky.social Eclectic. Musician. Songwriter. Founder. AI/Data Practitioner. SciFi. Comedy. Theology. Decolonisation. Antitrust. Also, cats.
🎸 Australian Country/Rockabilly 🎸
Where tall tales and adrenaline meet
👉 https://owensmithguitar.com/inside-scoop
Jack van Lily @jackvanlily.bsky.social 🙍🏼♂️Husband | Guncle | Man about town
📍Gadigal Country
Cam Dexter @dexcamer.bsky.social
Gavin Miller @glmiller.bsky.social Scientist, student of the Anthropocene, skeptic/sceptic, 'dump the duopoly 2025'- B @brizzlerob.bsky.social @brizzlerob.bsky.social
Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social Cultural historian, musicologist, ARC Future Fellow. PARADISEC Sydney. Author “Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance” (Bloomsbury 2020)
Simon Hume @humesimon.bsky.social
Rules based international order respecter @caramelisedcat.bsky.social On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social 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
Brett Holman @airminded.org Independent PhD historian (aviation, bombing; #WW1, #WW2; Britain, Australia; emotions, spectacle); books (Home Fires Burning (WW1 air raids on Britain; in progress), The Next War in the Air). Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He/him. airminded.org
Stevie Lane @stevielane.bsky.social Scholar activist & writer | Human rights & social justice | Higher ed | Advisor for Rainbow Futures WA | LGBTIQA+ law reform 🏳️🌈 | 📍 Whadjuk Noongar land 🖤💛❤️
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Victor Osprey @victorosprey.bsky.social https://nodawningmorrow.substack.com
Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social Historian of migration, media, radicalism, oral history & memory in AU/NZ/US/Pacific. Based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Srishti Guha @srishti-g.bsky.social Historian of visual culture | Aus-Ind colonial relations | Associate Lecturer @ University of Newcastle, Australia. she/her.
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/srishti-guha#career
Sam Furphy @scfurphy.bsky.social Historian at ANU in Canberra.
Communist Party of Australia @cpaecho.bsky.social Not an official account, just a supporter who reposts CPA stuff from the Bad Site. Go to cpa.org.au for the good stuff
Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
Verbatorium @verbatorium.bsky.social Aus Politics #auspol, Climate Change, Biodiversity. Anti-SARS-CoV-2. Anti-genocide. He/Him. #VaccinesPlus #CovidIsAirborne #WearAMask
Andrew Novak @indyj02.bsky.social Instructional Associate Professor of Criminology Law & Society, George Mason University 🐨 clemency/pardons, tribal law, comparative law, punishment, sport history ⚽️🏳️🌈
Simon Wyatt-Spratt @swyattspratt.bsky.social #Archaeology PhD student at the University of Sydney researching the lithic technologies of the ancestors of Indigenous Australians
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5976-3614
Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social Historian and Wu Tang affiliate, among other things | Usual disclaimers | My pronouns are ze/zir or they/them
Rach Cottle @rachcottle.bsky.social PhD candidate - Women on the Victorian Railways (Aus.) | railway history & heritage | women’s history | local history
3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social Yes it’s that 3wombats Retired costume maker. Gardener. Music lover 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈Friendly 🦘🐨(Need wombats emoji) Also 3wombats@Mastodon exTwitter
Anti Zionism is not Antisemitism🍉
NO DMs from total strangers thank you
Michael Dawson @mdawsonhistory.bsky.social Historian of popular and political culture. Comparing Canada, Australia, and Aotearoa New Zealand. Also sport, tourism, and Disney. St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada.
https://www.michaeldawsonhistory.com
https://www.stu.ca/history/michael-dawson/
Tom Marshall-Davis @tommarshalldavis.bsky.social PhD candidate, Monash University. Works on Australian political culture (I write junk about the Liberal Party). World expert on Brendan Nelson I guess.
Geoff Barker @spritebark.bsky.social Add in equal parts - History, Photography, Music, Wikis - digitise - then serve chilled. Library/Museum Curator. Works @ State Library NSW. Shared views mine own. https://geoffbarker.wordpress.com/ & Q64778919- P Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
@spaghettiarchitect.bsky.social @spaghettiarchitect.bsky.social Hoping to build a better future from the strands of present. Planner 🏘, archaeologist⚱️, 📚 lover, 🏕 finder, and 🍪 hoarder
Sabrina Balfour @sbalfour.bsky.social Bipedal homo sapien on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar land- M Jock Moncrieff @moncrieff.bsky.social
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Mal Teggins @malteggins.bsky.social Regrarian, permaculture warrior, anti-capitalist.
Kelly Cornwell @whoamiftr.bsky.social Who Am I? Professional Genealogist, Tutor (with Pharos Tutors) and Family History Speaker. Tells tales about Transportation to Tasmania.
Francis Maravillas @francismaravillas.bsky.social Programme Leader BA (Hons) Art Histories and Curatorial Practices: Asia and the World, and Senior Lecturer @ LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore
https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/about/academics/dr-francis-maravillas
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Independent scholarly publisher of distinguished books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Message to join our Berghahn author & editor starter pack!
Dr Ross Mahoney @airpowerhistory.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of 'From Balloons to Drones.' Specialist in Air Power History, Transport History, & Heritage. Brit in Brisbane, QLD. Posts ≠ endorsement.
https://drrossmahoney.substack.com/ & https://balloonstodrones.com/
Lloyd Rothwell @lloydrothwell.bsky.social PhD - CEO networks and succession in sport orgs, Dad, waterman, marathon runner
Anisa Puri @anisapuri.bsky.social Historian, Author, Research Manager. Oral history, public history, Australian history, migration history, digital history.
she/her
anisapuri.com
OCEANIA's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoyoceania.bsky.social EXPLORE Oceania joy: events, culture, biz, music, food, tourism: linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyOCEANIA featuring Australia Fiji Kiribati Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Niue Palau Papua New Guinea. Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu too. PLUS Cook, Marshall, Samoa, Solomon Islands
ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
Olga Prokopis @olgaphoos.bsky.social I live and work on unceded Bunurong country. Disabled scholar researching Shakespeare and Richard III. Graduate researcher in history at Deakin University.
Liz Conor @lizconor.bsky.social Nano apocalyptarian, billionaire busting, carbon baron toasting, kale cynic, WOKE af
Dr David Canty @drdavidcanty.bsky.social Academic Cardiac and Mobile Anaesthetist | University of Melbourne and Medical School | Medical Director of Sleep Dentistry Services | Day Care Anaesthesia Special Interest Committee
🌐 www.sleepdentistryservices.com.au
📞 0429 058 878
Dear Diary @deardiaryoftoday.bsky.social
Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia project @omaausyd.bsky.social Rewriting Australian history through multilingual sources https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au
Phillip Jaworski @phillipjaworski.bsky.social Digital Media, RAHS. Associate Member, PHA (NSW & ACT). BA (Hon), History, ACU. Interests: Settler Colonialism, Australian History, British Imperialism.- D David Roe @davidroe.bsky.social Like all imitations better than the original
Alex Searle @alexsearle.bsky.social (She/Her)
Student. Historian. Student Historian. Mad cat person who adores her dog. Passionate about architecture, heritage, narrative, historiography, photography, and much, much more.
Jarett Henderson @jaretthenderson.bsky.social Historian of colonial Canada living in California.
James Donaldson @cairojim.bsky.social Australians, Antiquities and WW1.
The Shellal Mosaic.
Collecting Antiquities in the Antipodes.
Manager/Curator at UQ Antiquities Museum.
Museums & Galleries of NSW @m-g-nsw.bsky.social Museums & Galleries of NSW supports museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres in metropolitan and regional NSW.
@deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social @deadbunyipsociety.bsky.social Hosted by Jesse and Liam, Dead Bunyip Society is a popular history podcast about the people that made modern Australia.
Ranga V @rangav.bsky.social Thinker, reader, runner, introvert. Photography, art, history.
Opinions are earned, not an entitlement.
Skin is waterproof.
Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social We're the national voice for cultural, creative & ethical thinking and one of Australia's five Learned Academies. We promote the study and application of the humanities. Posts by Comms team. Re-posts not endorsements.
www.humanities.org.au