Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social Oral historian researching war (Vietnam War & War on Terror), trauma, memory, gender, security. Postdoc fellow at Deakin. She/her. miamartinhobbs.com
Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social Academic, Asia-China-Australia
Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social Co-Founder Ette Media | Co-Host ‘We Used To Be Journos’ | TEDx Speaker | Author | Mental Health Ambassador | Charity CoFounder | Popular in WhatsApp Groups
www.ettemedia.com
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
@frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.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
Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social Professor of Sociology | Researching social inequalities in global cities | co-existence | inclusive cities | informal sport | migrant workers in Singapore & Australia | global far-right. | Platform labour | Technology & Society | All views my own
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Meanjin Quarterly @meanjin.bsky.social
suzan ilcan @suzan-ilcan.bsky.social Sociology professor & University Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, Canada — critical migration & border studies | political sociology |citizenship & social justice
Website: https://uwaterloo.ca/sociology-and-legal-studies/profiles/suzan-ilcan
Konstantin Schischka @justakidfromvienna.bsky.social Research Associate at the Institute for Contemporary History (@univienna) | Digital Humanities | HGIS | Public History
https://zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/projektmitarbeiterinnen/konstantin-schischka/
Minja Bujakovic @minjabujakovic.bsky.social PhD researcher at EUI | Historian |Researching Socialist & Communist Women's Movements and Activism| Women's & Gender History | History of the Left | HNR- 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
Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com Demographer | Demography, populations, social trends, surveys, data, methods, census. Educator, researcher. | Author ‘The Future of Us’.
The original Dr Demography!
@DrDemography on X and Insta
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!
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. 🌿
Australian Journal of Political Science @ausjpolsci.bsky.social Official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association (@auspsa.bsky.social). Find us at https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/cajp20
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
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'
De Gruyter Brill History @dgb-history.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the History department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Thomas Rogers @drtom-historian.bsky.social Interested in history:
colonial Australian, Australian Indigenous, British Imperial, violence, military, genocide. Views my own.
Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social Historian of migration, media, radicalism, oral history & memory in AU/NZ/US/Pacific. Based in Naarm/Melbourne.
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- V Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Western Pacific; labour migration, kava, social change. Co-editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
@susielee1.bsky.social @susielee1.bsky.social My little secret: ❤️ Canberra... ssshhhh
Ben Mercer @mercerb77.bsky.social Historian of 20th century Western Europe. Author of Student Revolt in 1968 (CUP, 2020) Australian National University.
Katie Holmes @katieholmes.bsky.social Historian of environment, gender & culture; gardener; mum. La Trobe University. Co-author of Mallee Country: land, people, history (Monash Uni Press 2020)
Lizzie Martin @lizzieajmartin.bsky.social phd student @ birkbeck, uol. researching the history of the international refugee regime, disability, and the 'hard core' of 'difficult to resettle' displaced persons in postwar europe.
D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. Currently researching and writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI (& beyond).
sundeep @historysunny.bsky.social Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social Immigration historian (PhD) and Director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Mom of teens. Raging at the dying of the light. Views my own.
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
Ann McGrath @amcgrath.bsky.social Historian, Kathleen Fitzpatrick laureate fellow, Australian National University, writer, artist. Deep histories, colonialism, indigenous justice. Inspired by friends, music, birds, beaches, oysters, wine, growing edible stuff.
Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social Canberra, South Coast, London.
Prof at Uni of Canberra.
Know the past, do the future better.
https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/chris-wallace
Yasmeen Abu-Laban @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair at University of Alberta. Focused on anti-racism, immigration, citizenship and human rights. She/her.
Bleeding heart @dicentraspect.bsky.social Latte sipping, chardonnay swilling reptile.
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/
Benjamin T. Jones @drbenjaminjones.bsky.social Associate Professor in History at Central Queensland University. Australia on the World Stage (Routledge, 2022).
LadyV Prole @val-secretsquirrel.bsky.social Just another armed Queer. ACAB. Abolitionist. Land back. Anti racism. Anti capitalism. Transformative Justice. Lover of science. Permaculture-northeast highlands-living on Wabanaki land. Community🥰
FREE PALESTINE FREE CONGO FREE SUDAN FREE YEMEN
Centre for Refugee Studies @crsyork.bsky.social CRS at York University is an interdisciplinary community of researchers dedicated to advancing the well-being of refugees and others displaced by violence, persecution, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation.
Lea Müller-Funk @leamullerfunk.bsky.social Assistant professor @demigkrems.bsky.social | formerly @giga-hamburg.de @aissr.bsky.social @politicsoxford.bsky.social | (im)mobility & displacement | diaspora | MENA & Europe
History Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social We connect Victorians with history and inspire engagement with the past. Website: historycouncilvic.org.au
Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social Historian & Editor | Playtime (La Trobe, 2025) | Australian Dictionary of Biography | Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
EMMIR - Migration and Intercultural Relations @studyemmir.bsky.social Erasmus Mundus master's programme: The European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations (#StudyEMMIR). 🌍 Reflexivity, identity, dialogue, & learning in 9 partner institutions in Europe, Africa, & Asia.
🔗 Learn more at emmir.org!
Grouchy Marx @grouchymarx57.bsky.social Refugee Solidarity
FREE PALESTINE 🇵🇸
Neurodivergent
Books, Books, Books 📚
Class War- Catering & PR dept
Militant Librarian
BLM ✊🏾
Trans Rights are non-negotiable
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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
Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c France—incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia) 📕Dangers of Youth www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Professional editor www.brionyneilson.com
Sydney, Australia
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social academia | the #humanities | popular culture | other whims. Literally wrote the book on #Eurovision & Australia. I teach politics, IR, and pop culture but still identify as cultural studies. Proud cat lady. Views are her own.
https://linktr.ee/jesscarniel
@nikkhenn.bsky.social @nikkhenn.bsky.social
Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social The Australian Histories Podcast: a fresh look at some brilliant stories from Australia’s past.
An Australian history podcast presented as themed topics - see if the current topic sparks your interest!
AustralianHistoriesPodcast.com.au
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.
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.
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social Researching and teaching refugee history.
No DMs, I'm afraid, please email me (easy to find).
James Keating @jameskeating.bsky.social 📖 Historian of suffrage, feminism and internationalism | 🖊️ Distant Sisters (MUP, 2020) | @ahsjournal.bsky.social Book Review Editor | he/him
@loripat.bsky.social @loripat.bsky.social
Nick Ferns @nickferns.bsky.social DECRA fellow in history at Monash University. Working on histories of development and decolonisation in Australia and the Pacific.
Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social Twentieth Century Communism is a journal of communist history and theory from across the globe. Posts about radical history, and its writing and research. Published by Lawrence & Wishart.
Megan Cassidy-Welch @megancw.bsky.social Medievalist, historian, writer. Working on ideas of home and homelessness in premodern societies.
Dean of Research Strategy, University of Divinity
President of the Religious History Association
FAHA, FRHistS
Chrissi Theodosiou @pothiki.bsky.social History is fun. Brisbane lifer. Old Daintree activist. Film history, libraries and archives, trashy tv, food, climate and Ελλάδα. Not necessarily in that order.
Alexandra McKinnon ✨ @alxmck.bsky.social historian & jd grad, working on casualty identification from the world wars.
interested in transnational histories and the impact of conflict, specifically memory, commemoration, and material culture.
📍 somewhere between melbourne and ottawa. 🌻 🇦🇺 🇨🇦
Michael Pearson @mprpearson.bsky.social 📚Historian & researcher
⚽ Melbourne Victory tragic
👨💻He/him
📄Personal account, opinions my own
Ava Trimble @harlotryhistory.bsky.social I'm Ava and I'm a trained public historian in Albuquerque trying to turn my opinions into YouTube videos and rekindle some old dreams while managing complex chronic illness 🐑 Hampshire College alum 🐑
Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social Professor of cultural heritage/archaeologist/everyday heritage/ University of Canberra, Australia
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
Miranda Francis @mirandafrancis.bsky.social Historian, Librarian. Oral history, gender and public history.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/m3francis
Jo Dicksen @jodicksen.bsky.social She/her. Lover of stories told in songs, museums, on stage and everywhere else. Museum engagement professional in 🇦🇺. Living on unceded Wiradjuri land.
Emma Waterton @emmawaterton.bsky.social Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York. Heritage, identity, memory and affect; migrant heritage-making; community engagements; climate justice in the Anthropocene.
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
Sophie Couchman @sophiecouchman.bsky.social Professional Historian and Curator
Andrew Cong @andrewcong.bsky.social Reader
Shirleene Robinson @shirleene.bsky.social Historian, Author & Curator. Bridging academia & the GLAM sector. Oral history Always. Former @AMEquality Board Director & Co-Convenor, NSW. President Pride History Group NSW. Gadigal land. Opinions mine. She/her
Australian Policy and History @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social What can the lessons of history teach us about the present? Australian Policy and History links historians with policy makers in pursuit of a better society.
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.
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 ~
Eureka Henrich @eurekahenrich.bsky.social Historian interested in all things 'm' (migration, museums, memory, material culture, medicine) and a few others too. Currently writing a history of migration and health in postwar Australia. https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-eureka-henrich
Australian Historical Studies @ahsjournal.bsky.social Since 1940, Australia's oldest peer-reviewed academic journal of Australian history, dealing with all aspects of the history of Australia including its global context. Published by Taylor & Francis.
History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social HistoryAustralia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association. Pub. by T&F. Innovative scholarship in any field (not just Oz!)
Jacqui Baker @jacquibhistory.bsky.social Historian who works in an archive. Interested in researching gender, sexuality and feminism 📚🐶💖🪴📻
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’
Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social Historian of human antiquity in Australia writing critical histories of archaeology and settler intellectual logics.
Lecturer @GriffithUniversity
Collaborating Scholar @ANUDeepHistory
Lover of Austen and AFL.
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.
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
Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social Chancellor’s Fellow and Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Director Heritage Minds Lab. Philip Leverhulme Prize 2022. PI @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social. Researching the intersections between Heritage, Data, and the Politics of the Past
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
@anncurthoys.bsky.social @anncurthoys.bsky.social
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
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/
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/
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.
Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
Nicolette Snowden @nicoletteforlong.bsky.social Oral historian. Enviro and rural life histories are my fave. Journo researcher too. Kelpies are the best.
AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social 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
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
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.
Alicia Cerreto @aliciacerreto.bsky.social Historian, Educator, Speaker. Melbourne.
www.aliciacerreto.com