Dominique Jones @dominiquedjones.bsky.social She/her | History PhD Candidate @ University of Melbourne | Researching the Yugoslav Diaspora(s) of Australia
Sam Furphy @scfurphy.bsky.social Historian at ANU in Canberra.
@frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social
Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social Staff campaigning against cuts and poor governance at the Australian National University.
Cheryl Ware @cherylware.bsky.social
Sylvia Martin @sylvmart.bsky.social Queer biographer, loves women, cats and gardens, living on Darug and Gundungurra land.
Liz Conor @lizconor.bsky.social Nano apocalyptarian, billionaire busting, carbon baron toasting, kale cynic, WOKE af
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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Opening the Multilingual Archive of Australia project @omaausyd.bsky.social Rewriting Australian history through multilingual sources https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au
NewSouth Publishing @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social Books that make you think. 📕
Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social Anthropology/STS/genomics/colonialism. Deputy Director @Deakin_ADI. Past President @4sWeb. New book out with DUP #hauntingbiology surname pron. Koval
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Simone Battiston @sbattiston.bsky.social Researching different aspects of Italian emigration, with a particular attention to the Australian context. Snr lecturer, history and politics @ Swinburne. He/him
Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social he/him | Humboldt research fellow | environmental history | Universität Augsburg
ANU Centre for Australian Literary Cultures @calc-anu.bsky.social CALC honours the foundations of Australian Literature at the ANU while connecting a global network of literature and media scholars and practitioners. We focus on Australian reading, writing & publishing: https://slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/calc/home
Scott McKinnon @sjmckinnon.bsky.social Historian and Librarian. Author of Gay Men at The Movies (Intellect, 2016) and Co-author of Australian Queer Screens (Bloomsbury, 2026) 🏳️🌈
Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social Historian & Editor | Playtime (La Trobe, 2025) | Australian Dictionary of Biography | Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
History Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social We connect Victorians with history and inspire engagement with the past. Website: historycouncilvic.org.au
Georgia McWhinney @georgiamc06.bsky.social Historian for The Lodge and Kirribilli House. Living and working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. She/her. All views my own
Kerri Armstrong @kerriarmstrong.bsky.social PhD student at University of Northumbria examining the lives of female convicts in 19th century Durham, Newcastle and York.
Dr Natali Pearson @sea-greeny.bsky.social ocean + heritage + Southeast Asia
living on Gadigal land
DECRA Fellow 2025-2027 + Senior Lecturer at University of Sydney | President, Indonesia Council | Councillor, Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology | author #BelitungBook
Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social Professional family, Local & House Historian, International Speaker, Member of APG, AGRA, Official RootsTech Media Group. Blogger, Love Maps! Based in Australia, hobbies writing, travel and photography. Currently writing a children’s fantasy novel 8-12 🐉
Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social 📖 Est. 1959
🖋 Based in the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
📍 On Ngunnawal/Ngambri land
https://adb.anu.edu.au
https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb
Michelle Staff @michellestaff.bsky.social Feminist historian | Online + outreach manager @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social | Hazel Rowley Literary Fellow 2025 @writersvictoria.bsky.social | Co-convenor @auswhn.bsky.social | on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land | she/her
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Ben Wilkie @benwilkie.bsky.social Proud Dad. Sometimes a historian. Often a lawyer | Adjunct Research Fellow at La Trobe. https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/bwilkie | Wrote 'The Scots in Australia 1788-1938' and 'Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians'
Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Publishing the latest research and news on all aspects and periods of history.
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Thomas Rogers @drtom-historian.bsky.social Interested in history:
colonial Australian, Australian Indigenous, British Imperial, violence, military, genocide. Views my own.
Charmaine Robson @charmr.bsky.social Historian of Australian missions and colonisation, nursing and health history. Hon lecturer, UNSW. Writing a biography of a woman activist/musician/author.
Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social Feminist media and archives phd student in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (she/her)
toitū te tiriti & free Palestine
Amy Mullins 🎙😷🎓 @amymullins.bsky.social Radio Presenter, Uncommon Sense on 3RRRFM Melbourne • long-form interviews on history, art, politics, science + nature •
Art History 🎓 at Unimelb • Versailles ⚜️, rocaille, 🇫🇷 XVIIe & XVIIIe siécles, decorative arts, architectural & garden history
Nathan Hobby @nathanhobby.bsky.social Biographer, scholar & special collections librarian in Perth, Australia. Author of THE RED WITCH, 2023 WA Premier's Prize Book of the Year. Working on a biography of John Curtin. https://nathanhobby.com
Cassie Byrnes @cassiebyrnes.bsky.social Historian of reproductive rights, abortion, consent | lecturer at UQ | living and working on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands | she/her 📚
Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social Professor of history, empire, colonialism/postcolonialism. Australia/Pacific. Feminist. Lazy Buddhist. On unceded Kaurna land | Author: Settler Colonialism and Reconciliation https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137304544
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia @acadsocsci.bsky.social Elevating social science for the benefit of Australia
Anisa Puri @anisapuri.bsky.social Historian, Author, Research Manager. Oral history, public history, Australian history, migration history, digital history.
she/her
anisapuri.com
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Mike Beggs @mikejbeggs.bsky.social Political economy, history of Australian capitalism (esp. macroeconomic policy), history of monetary theory, unions, socialism, dad jokes, some other stuff
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Christopher Hilliard @chrhilli.bsky.social Challis Professor of History
@sydney_uni. Co-editor @TCBHjournal. Council @HumanitiesAU. Writes about history of censorship, popular intellectual life, racism.
Lauren Samuelsson @clemloz.bsky.social PhD in History.
Come for the food history... stay for the gifs.
Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social Frightful hobgoblin
Kama Maclean @kamamaclean.bsky.social Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
Vincent O'Malley @vomalley.bsky.social FRHistS FRSNZ PhD Historian and author of 'The New Zealand Wars', 'The Great War for New Zealand' and other works.
https://www.meetingplace.nz/
https://buttondown.com/unsettling
Dr Rachel Franks @cfwriter.bsky.social crime fiction | crime facts | Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard | coffee | history | libraries | newspapers | once turned up an hour early for a lecture on cats
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social 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/
Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
Dr Aleisha Ward @nzjazzhistory.bsky.social NZ Jazz Historian; Lilburn Fellow 2017; Professional Teaching Fellow Music at Auckland Uni. Come for the music, stay for everything else. Opinions definitely my own! She/her
Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social Bridget Williams Books is an independent publisher focusing on history, Māori experience, contemporary issues and women's studies. Publisher of BWB Texts.
www.bwb.co.nz
Amanda Harris @amaharrisusyd.bsky.social Cultural historian, musicologist, ARC Future Fellow. PARADISEC Sydney. Author “Representing Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance” (Bloomsbury 2020)
Libby Robin @libbydeq.bsky.social Writer, historian of ideas, Curator-at-Large
Environment in museums and the wider world
What Birdo is That?
A Field Guide to Bird People 🦅
New book coming soon on Conservation and Care. 🌿
Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social Environmental historian on Durramuragal and Awabakal Country. 🐨🦘🍁. University of Newcastle. Coral Thomas Fellow, 2024-25, State Library NSW. On execs of OzAHA and AANZ Environmental History Network.
Jennifer McLaren @histmcjen.bsky.social School Archivist/Historian/Governance/Laughs
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/
History Council of SA @historycouncilsa.bsky.social HCSA is the peak body providing a representative voice on historical issues, celebrating and raising the profile of history in South Australia.
Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social Historian of environment, climate-related disasters & waterways. ARC Industry Fellow, Griffith University
Melanie Burkett @melb2001.bsky.social Historian of 19th century working-class immigration in the British Empire & settler colonialism. Author of "Opposing Australia's First Assisted Immigrants, 1832-42." PhD from Macquarie Uni, die-hard Duke alum. Mother to a Muppet dog.
Joshua Black @joshuablackjb.bsky.social Views are my own
Liam Byrne @liamliamliam1234.bsky.social Labor historian. Political biographer. Star Wars prequels admirer. Author of 'Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin'. My substack "Maintain Your Rage" focuses on Australian political history: https://byrnel.substack.com/
Melbourne University Publishing @mupublishing.bsky.social Our non-fiction books are expertly researched and finely curated. We publish enduring ideas across politics, culture, science, history and more.
Monash University @monashuniversity.bsky.social Welcome to Monash! Use #MonashUni in your tweets so we can like and share your stuff!
Located on the lands of the Kulin Nation. CRICOS number 00008C
Jennifer Ashton @jenashton.bsky.social Historian, Aucklander, sporadic exerciser, cricket fan
www.jennifer-ashton.com
Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social Director, International and Security Affairs at @australiainstitute.org.au. All things Australian foreign policy and US history & politics.
Annemarie McLaren @amclarenhistory.bsky.social historian of imperial, cross-cult, & Aus history • book out w/ OUP• lecturer @notredameaus • Reviews Ed @AboriginalHist
Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social Aust aviation & captivity historian. 6th book Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III (alexanderfaxbooks.com.au or Amazon) winner 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards. Reading, cats & cake. #IAmWriting (at last!)
Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social Australian academic (media production & journalism), historian of gendered labour & technology in media industries, factual content producer. Lover of radio & GLAM. She/her. Dharawal country, Wollongong & Awabakal country, Newcastle, Australia.
Dr Jenny Macleod @jennymacleod.bsky.social Historian of war and memory, commemoration and national identity. First and Second World Wars, especially Gallipoli. Co-founder @fwwsoc. Wannabe digital humanities type.
Tristan Moss @tristanmoss.bsky.social Historian at UNSW Canberra | DECRA | Researching Australian space history and military history
Dr Vicky Nagy @drvnagy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Tasmania
Research interests: gender + history + crime, CSA prevention, SXA, VAW prevention. Cairn Terrier & cat aficionado. Horse mum.
Prof. Katerina Teaiwa @kteaiwa.bsky.social Professor of Pacific Studies 🌊🏝️ ANU @anu-chl.bsky.social
Artist, 🍉Anti-Colonial, Mama. WNBL & NBA fan - UC Caps & Brooklyn Nets. My own views.
Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social Historian at the Australian National University
Christian missions, Indigenous history, deep history, gender, religion
Editor History Australia & Aboriginal History Monographs
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social The first and largest open-access university press in the world. Based at ANU, we publish academic monographs and journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
International Association for Political History @associationpolhist.bsky.social The International Association for Political History (APH) aims to strengthen international cooperation in the field of education and research | www.associationforpoliticalhistory.org
Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social Historian.
Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social Author @cambridgeup.bsky.social
http://www.cambridge.org/uncertainty-emotion
Visiting Fellow ANU CAP
Popping off! New projects out soon
@carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social
Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social Professional historian, consulting archivist, museum researcher, occasional academic, reader, film fan, musician, occasional DJ, one-time photographer, dad, queer, goth, Naarm resident, and maker of lists. https://mikejonesonline.com
Australian National Dictionary Centre @ozworders.bsky.social The Australian National Dictionary Centre, ANU. For the dinkum oil on Australian English, historical lexicography, Australian Oxford Dictionaries. CRICOS: 00120
Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social Historian and Wu Tang affiliate, among other things | Usual disclaimers | My pronouns are ze/zir or they/them
Jen Rose @jenmrose.bsky.social Historian with a focus on Melbourne’s cultural, migrant and urban history. Currently both a PhD candidate at ACU and practicing public historian. Finds calm in stitching. jenrosehistorian.au
Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social Lecturer & History Teacher
PhD (History) graduate
Assistant Editor @jich.bsky.social
Co-Editor @NCC journal
https://yiannicartledge.wordpress.com/
Closet horticulturalist: https://yiannischilli.blogspot.com/
Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in heritage studies; researcher of diaspora history, memory studies, oral history with migrant background communities, multiculturalism/s, public history, social history, labour history @ the ANU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-2419
Jane Lydon @janelydon.bsky.social Australian historian of colonialism, legacies of slavery, & visual culture. Perth, West Australia. Author: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? (Routledge) & Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire (CUP)
Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social War, protest, psychiatry & trauma. Historian @Uni_Newcastle. Author: Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (UNSW Press, 2026). Deputy co-director, Centre for Society, Health and Care Research. Editor, Health & History. She/her.
Naomi Parry Duncan @drnaomi.bsky.social Historian, writer, editor, whippet custodian, living and working on Dharug and Gundungurra Country and Palawa/Pakana Country. She/her. We cannot have peace without academic and artistic freedom. Free Palestine.
Jacqui Baker @jacquibhistory.bsky.social Historian who works in an archive. Interested in researching gender, sexuality and feminism 📚🐶💖🪴📻
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Andy Kaladelfos @andykaladelfos.bsky.social Criminologist & Historian @ UNSW, unceded Bedegal Land
Co-Convenor Gendered Violence Research Network
Co-Lead Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer, Trans, and Intersex People
They/Them 🏳️⚧️
https://linktr.ee/andykaladelfos
The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social JPH is a leading refereed journal dedicated to research about the Pacific Islands, their peoples & their pasts (est. 1966).
https://linktr.ee/journalofpacifichistory
Account run by @colourfulhistories.bsky.social
Lynette Russell @lynetterussell.bsky.social Always was, always will be. ARC Laureate Professor. Posts are my own views. Reposts are often ironic. Historian and political junkie. Always tired,
@MonashUni
I prefer dogs to most people.
Julie McIntyre @julie-mcintyre.bsky.social Historian of commodities (e.g, winegrapes, coal) in Australian environments, economy and Indigenous-settler colonial relations. She/her. Working on unceded Awabakal Country: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/julie-mcintyre. Suburban organic gardener.
Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas) @phavictas.bsky.social PHA (Vic & Tas) is a thriving, dynamic community of professional historians who communicate history in diverse ways.
Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social Professor of Global History at King’s College London.
Histories of development, non-elite politics, Australia & Asia. Books: ‘Saving the World?’ (CUP, 2021) & ‘Visiting the Neighbours’ (UNSW, 2014). Next: ‘The World vs the World Bank’
Sophie Couchman @sophiecouchman.bsky.social Professional Historian and Curator
Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social ~ https://www.auswhn.com.au/ ~ the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) promotes research, writing + advocacy in feminist, gender + women's history + publishes the peer-reviewed Lilith: A Feminist History Journal + #VIDAblog ~
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social Historians wanna talk like they got something to say | NZ and Australian history, politics, trains, music, sport, higher ed | he/him | "Australian-adjacent person": Melburnian Kiwi in Perth
Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social Scholarship and reviews on Australian culture, society, politics, history, and literature. Published on behalf of the International Australian Studies Association (InASA).
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rjau20
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
Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social Here to help you to publish and make an impact with your research.
Vannessa Hearman @vhearman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Writes on Indonesia, East Timor, Cold War, decolonisation and related topics.