Gwion Wyn Jones @gwionwynjones.bsky.social Historian of American religion in the c19 and Leverhulme Research Fellow at Oxford University.
Author of 'Christ, Church, and Country: Home Missions and the Religious Reconstruction of the United States After the Civil War' (UVA; out December 2026)
Kentucky Historical Society @kyhistsoc.bsky.social 🏛️ The guardian and voice of Kentucky’s past – documenting, clarifying, and preserving the stories that define our Commonwealth.
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
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
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social X: @jrhentschke. Chair of Latin American History and Politics, Newcastle Univ. UK; Specialisms: History of Brazil, Southern Cone and Colombia, late 18th-mid 20th cc.; SLAS President 2015-17; Chair of UK Standing Conference of LA Centres 2017-19. Own views.
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)
Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
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🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧 @drkdwatson.bsky.social Historian of forensic medicine and crime at Oxford Brookes University. Cricket lover. Collector of shoes, perfumes and nail varnish.
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Scholar.DIY @scholardiy.bsky.social Scholar.DIY | Empowering scholars to build public platforms that humanize expertise, promote media literacy, and strengthen democracy. Digital storytelling for PhDs tired of talking to themselves. 🌍📚
Kelly Therese @feministkelly.bsky.social Univ admin by day. Knitter & Podcaster by night. Feminist mom in Chicago always. Lover of mystery novels, espresso, sauv blanc & kittens. She/her.
Host, Unsung History. https://www.unsunghistorypodcast.com
Writing a transatlantic family history/memoir.
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the Native South. Also interested in empires and anti-slavery. Lecturer in Early American History at KCL.
Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
Join my Civil War Memory newsletter: https://kevinmlevin.substack.com
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Richards Center Penn State @richardscenter.bsky.social We Are the Richards Civil War Era Center, a scholarly home dedicated to the idea that the Civil War was fundamentally a struggle over the intersections of race, slavery, and democracy.
British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
Siân Round @sianround.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in American literature, Swansea University. Working on Harlem Renaissance writers' tours of the South. Book: The Serial South: The Little Magazine in the US South (UGA Press, June 2027) linktr.ee/sianround
OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute) @oieahc.bsky.social We support the scholars and scholarship of early America, broadly understood to mean the Atlantic World between roughly the 1480s and 1820. We publish the William and Mary Quarterly and a series of award-winning books as well as sponsor conferences & more.
Robert O'Sullivan @rosulli.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oxford and Jesus College
Historian of Immigration, Race and Nationalism in 19th Century USA.
Finishing book on Irish-American views on imperialism and anti-slavery 1840-1865
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/
https://histecon.fr/en/
HOTCUS @hotcus.bsky.social Historians of the Twentieth Century U.S. (HOTCUS) promotes scholarship in 20th century American history through conferences and awards. Become a member! - https://hotcus.org.uk/
Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
@daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social Historian of slavery, age, and gender in the US. Co-editor of American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Most recent book, Old Age and American Slavery (CUP, 2024).
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social https://www.routledge.com/Britain-and-Ireland-from-the-Treaty-to-the-Troubles-Independence-and-Interdependence-c-1921-1973/Carr/p/book/9781032879871
History/politics lecturer. My views only.
Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc
UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social 📖 The University of North Carolina Press
💚 Est. 1922 | First University Press in the South
📚 Publishing books & journals for academics, students, and general readers
Adam Smith @aipsmith.bsky.social Professor of US Political History at Oxford. Director of the Rothermere American Institute. Research conservatism, parties, Civil War. Host of The Last Best Hope? Podcast.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Dr. William A. Booth @williamabooth.bsky.social Historian of Latin America, especially Mexico. Armchair for cats, short-order chef for children.
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Alex Goodall @alexinternational.bsky.social International historian at UCL. Author of Loyalty and Liberty (2013) and The Open Door Era (2017). Current project is on late-nineteenth-century US imperialism in the Caribbean from the bottom up.
Liz Barnes @embarnes.bsky.social Historian of rape in the Civil War Era US South at the University of Reading. She/her.
https://genderedstateviolence.com
Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social Historian of US liberalism, Congress, and the C20th Democratic Party. Trade unionist. Lanyard class warrior.
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Bostonian |🎙️ Ben Franklin’s World | 🐾 Mother of schnauzers | I help adults see how early America shapes today.
https://linktr.ee/lizcovart
Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. *Empire Ablaze* out in summer 2026 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3442-empire-ablaze. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* (Princeton, 2017).
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Lindsay Keiter @lkeiter.bsky.social Historian of marriage & family in early(ish) British America. Knitter.
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Amy Renee Haines @amyreneehaines.bsky.social PhD candidate CU Boulder: Cultural & Environmental Hist. US West. Civil War & Recon. Memory & Identity. Material Culture. Indexer. Partner. Mom. knit & crochet. Loose Ends finisher 🗃️📚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧶🧟♀️
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
David Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social Milbauer Chair of Southern History, University of Florida
https://history.ufl.edu/directory/david-silkenat/
Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark
Brian DeLay @briandelay.bsky.social Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts. For Norton, finishing Aim at Empire: An international History of American Revolutions, through the Barrel of a Gun. Also 2nd Amendment cases. Birds, too. https://history.berkeley.edu/brian-delay
H-Net Reviews @hnetreviews.bsky.social Active since 1993, we publish 1,500 reviews annually thanks to the volunteer service of our review editors and reviewers. All reviews are freely available around the world to increase readership and citation. https://networks.h-net.org/search-reviews
H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social The H-Net Job Guide is proud to be one of the leading sources of position announcements in the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences • https://www.h-net.org/jobs/home.php
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UCU Commons @ucucommons.org UCU Commons is a broad activist community working within and alongside the University and College Union (UCU). We are also on http://UCUCommons.org #UCUCommons
McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Facilitating scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America/Atlantic world before 1850
https://www.mceas.org/
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.
Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social Historian of politics, business, media in early America. Author of Revolutionary Networks. He/him. See https://josephadelman.com for more.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social Asst Prof/Lecturer in environmental history at University College London. Researching climate, energy, capitalism, and labo(u)r; author of The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants (Princeton University Press, 2026). Also novelist, musician.
Miguel Hernandez @miguelhernandez.bsky.social Lecturer in American History at Aberystwyth University, specializing in the history of white supremacy, nativism and organized violence in the United States - Committee Secretary for HOTCUS
Daniel Rowe @danrowe.bsky.social Historian. Director of Academic Programmes, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Political economy, capitalism, urban, and policy history.
Niels Eichhorn @nielseichhorn.bsky.social Civil War Historian, Editor H-CivWar, posting about history, my two cute little boys, and my two puppies, living in Germany working as an IB GloPo and History teacher, Website: nielseichhorn.com All views are my own.
Connie Thomas @conniethomas.bsky.social Historian of early US migration politics & American identity
Lecturer in US History @UCL.ac.uk
Comms @branchuk.bsky.social
Ann Tucker @annltucker.bsky.social Historian of the US South, Civil War, Reconstruction in transnational perspective. Assoc professor. Newest Born of Nations (UVa 2020). Opinions=mine.
Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
Dr Mara Oliva @maraoliva.bsky.social Historian, Digital Humanist, Associate Prof of 20th century US History @ Uni of Reading, Visiting Fellow @ British Library Eccles Centre, Editor @ DHQuarterly, US-UK Fulbright alumni
Oxford Brookes Open Research @brookesscholcomms.bsky.social We are the Open Research team in the Oxford Brookes University Library. Until we can distinguish our Blue Sky from a hole in the ground, we will echo https://twitter.com/brookes_oa.
Peter Edge @edge-law.bsky.social Law Professor, Oxford Brookes University. Specialises in Manx law, small jurisdictions, and the interaction of religion and law. Blogs as @edge_law on wordpress.
Aisha Djelid @aishadjelid.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the antebellum South, Broadbent Career Development Fellow in American History at the Rothermere American Institute & St Edmund Hall at Oxford
Steven P. Rodriguez, PhD @stevenprodriguez.bsky.social Marketing Coordinator @harvard-ed-press.bsky.social. Former editor Vanderbilt University Press. Interviewer @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
C19 Americanists @c19americanists.bsky.social C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
C19 2026: Cincinnati, OH -- March 12-14
Theme: UNDERGROUND
c19society.org
Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social Semi-retired history professor, University of Oregon. Thinking about genocide.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Katie Fapp @katiefapp.bsky.social Historian of transnational women's suffrage, departmental lecturer at University of Oxford; film fanatic on the side
Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social Oxford City Councillor and Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick. Research: gender, sexuality, law; migration; legal theory; and law and popular culture. Views my own, obviously.
Catriona Mackie @cmackie.bsky.social Lecturer in History & Heritage at University College Isle of Man. Doesn't fit neatly into disciplinary boxes.
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social UAlbany professor Studies insurgency/ terrorism & Ethnic & LGBTQ Discrimination & Pedagogy.
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