David Merrell @davidmerrellart.bsky.social 
David Merrell @liberaltoall.bsky.social Alma 1:30 in their prosperous circumstances, they did not send away any who were naked, or that were hungry, or that were athirst, or that were sick, or that had not been nourished; . . . therefore they were liberal to all.
Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'. 
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)
Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
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
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Michael Taylor @mhtaylor.bsky.social Historian, cat-guardian, legal consultant, and diminishing cricketer
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Christian Burset @cburset.bsky.social Law professor and legal historian at the University of Pennsylvania
Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social Writing and teaching about C19 literature, empire, race, and climate collapse. Editor of Victorian Poetry (JHUP). Lover of all things goth. She / her.
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
J. P. Daughton @jpdaughton.bsky.social Writer, historian, teacher, husband, cat owner, thrower of pots. Author of In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism (WW Norton).
Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social Historian, 🐶 🐩 mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford commas and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. All opinions my own not my employer. Go Bills!
roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france & empire; nuclear harm/fear/memory; fiction/film/art/music; thievery; founding/former host-new books in french studies; brown; settler; NOT my employer
roxannepanchasi.com
——FREE PALESTINE——
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
Mark Jones @mark18681918.bsky.social PhD student @cardiffuni.bsky.social/Prifysgol Caerdyd. Critical historian researching regimental identity, organisational culture & learning processes within the British Army during the Cold War.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/jonesma19
Andrew Muldoon @arjm5184.bsky.social Historian, goalie, not a historian of goalies. Father of goalie. History at MSU Denver. Wartime Calcutta. Usually in the far corner of the rink.
Jason A. Higgins, Ph.D @jasonhiggins.bsky.social Author. Editor. Historian. Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (UMass Press) Digital Scholarship Coordinator Virginia Tech Press; Assistant Professor. My views don’t reflect my employer. https://shorturl.at/HpPO7
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Tessa Murphy @murphyte.bsky.social Canadian historian of the colonial Caribbean. Associate Prof. of Early American History, Syracuse U. Author of “The Creole Archipelago.” She/her.
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Oleksandr Polianichev @opolianichev.bsky.social Historian of Tsarist Russia at Södertörn University, Stockholm | URIS Fellow at @unibas.ch | Colonial and transimperial history | Ph.D. from @eui-eu.bsky.social
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
Nick Ferns @nickferns.bsky.social DECRA fellow in history at Monash University. Working on histories of development and decolonisation in Australia and the Pacific.
Jess Bier @bierjess.bsky.social Professor at large
PI: DIGIPORTS project, automation + racialization in maritime logistics
Author: Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge
Pro 🍉 ⚧️🌈 🏴☠️
Seokweon E. Jeon @seokweonjeon.bsky.social US Religious Historian with focus on MBC (migration, borders, citizenship), Asian America, US Imperialism | PhD Candidate @Harvard Religion & Fellow @Weatherhead | Every Thu.@BOS.Symphony | Reading Now:📚 How Our Days Became Numbered
🔗 seokweonjeon.com
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list. Financial Times “Best Books.”
David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts. 
Hanna Hodacs @hannahod.bsky.social Historian of science, global history, natural history, substitutes, and (as of recently) History of slavery
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements. 
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social Prof & DH Coordinator @CPP. Early Americans abroad, merchants, smugglers, capitalists, family history = labor history. In it for the gossip. Views my own.
Chas Reed @reedhistory.net Britain, empire, esp southern Africa, historian. HBCU prof. @h-empire ed. Human, cat, tortoise dad. Veg korma lover. Ancient millennial. Views my own. #blm https://linktr.ee/cvreed
Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee
Christina Carroll @chcarroll.bsky.social Associate Professor of History @kcollege. Modern France, imperialism, politics, culture. Views my own.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france/
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/
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Ken Smith @kensmith199.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Historian of Booker T. Washington, the Black Diaspora, & Empire. Penn State and K-State alum. Proud Californian. Cat dad. Views are my own.
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Bernhard C. Schär @boscha.bsky.social "Hat durchaus seine Verdienste." (Laudatio NZZ)
https://unidistance.ch/en/history/research/global-history-of-europe-and-switzerland
Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social Historian | University of Agder | Author | Discovery of the Third World (CUP 2016) | Postcolonial People (CUP 2022) | New project: European Languages in Post-Independence Africa |
Carolien Stolte @carolienstolte.bsky.social Historian | Leiden University | India | Peace | Decolonization | Books | Running
peace.lucdh.eu
Robbie Aitken @rjmauk.bsky.social Professor of Imperial History at Sheffield Hallam. Working on the Black experience during the Nazi period. Long suffering follower of terrible sports teams.
shu.academia.edu/RobbieAitken 
Itay Lotem @ilotem.bsky.social Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
Caroline Sequin @carolinesequin.bsky.social Historian of France—race, gender, sexuality, empire, migration. Author of Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press). https://tinyurl.com/ejs3udt2. Views expressed are my own.
Claire Eldridge @eldrclaire.bsky.social Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and the environment @IEG Mainz. Author of "Nature of German Imperialism" (2016)
Dr Adam Prime @primeadam.bsky.social Civil servant by day, historian by night. Researching the military in British India. Accidental First World War historian. WFA Universities Trustee. Husband & Dad. Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/adamprime
Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Russian Empire history at ULB #Brussels
Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, 1917-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
Sakshi @sakshi.bsky.social 🐦 Vibing environmental justice, constitutionalisms and sovereignty in Australia. Marx in everything. Canberra ❤The other half is here: @guyjackson.bsky.social
The employer doesn't share any of these views. Naturally.
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Speranta Dumitru @spe07.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Science
Research on Abolition of passports, Free Movement, Political theory, Migration studies
University Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social
https://u-paris.academia.edu/SperantaDumitru
Jan Eijking @janeijking.com Assistant Professor, Leiden University. International Relations Theory & History.
Out now:
"The Technocratic International" (OUP)
"Experts in a Turbulent World" (ed) (OUP)
www.janeijking.com
mj @malthusjohn.bsky.social Philosophy & History of Science, Complex Systems, Knowledge Management. Networks, Harmony, Co-Evolution, Autopoiesis, Neurodiversity♾️AuDhD.
Ecology, Digital Revolution ~> Information Paradigm.
Theorist, .. wait!- come back, there's more..
🕺🎶🍞📸🤡
Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian of northern and western Canada. Associate professor @ SFU. Author: *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North.* New research: oil & queer histories🛢️👩❤️👩 More @ tinaadcock.com
Justin Gage @justingage.bsky.social Historian, Assistant Professor in Arkansas. Author of awards winning We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us. https://linktr.ee/justingage
Catherine Gibson @catherinegibson.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe at the University of Tartu working on intra-imperial solidarities (ERC-EMPSOLID https://empsolid.ee/) and entanglements (ETAG https://sisu.ut.ee/entangledborderlands/). Author of Geographies of Nationhood (OUP 2022).
Dan Rohde @danrohde.bsky.social Assistant Prof @windsorlaw.bsky.social | legal history of money, banking and central banking, especially in Canada | LPE/Const Approach to Money | co-ed @justmoney.bsky.social | Bio: https://www.uwindsor.ca/law/3424/dan-rohde
Tom Lawson @tgplawson.bsky.social Vice Chancellor at the University of Hull
Stephen Jackson @stomperjax.bsky.social Historian of education at the University of Kansas interested in the British Empire, world history, and settler colonialism. All views my own.
Gwyn McClelland @gwynjapan.bsky.social 🐨 oral historian of Asia and 🗾Japan. Born🇵🇬Raised🇧🇩 Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Working on a Goto Islands oral history. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation.
Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. 🏀 🏃♂️
Brian Drohan @briandrohan.bsky.social US Army officer and historian of war, humanitarianism, human rights, and the United Nations at the US Military Academy - West Point. Author of *Brutality in an Age of Human Rights* (Cornell UP ‘18).
Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social Ex historian ( #SaintDomingue/ #HaitianRevolution / early #Haiti) at @unitrier.bsky.social / Uni Halle / Uni Milan.
Now PR, Press & science comm @mpici.bsky.social
From 🇮🇹, living in 🇩🇪
https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/MiriamFranchina
Edward Jones Corredera @edjonesc.bsky.social Historian - UNED | New book out: Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (OUP) | FRHistS & FRSA | Past: Max Planck Institute, Cambridge & LSE
Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
Michael Vann: Orca 5th Columnist @michaelgvann.bsky.social Anti-fascist surfer, grappler, & historian. "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt", Jacobin Southeast Asia Columnist, mumbled podcast musings as a host on New Books and guest on Long Reads, Southeast Asia Crossroads, Napalm in the Morning, Bungacast, AmPrest, DLL
Michael McDonnell @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Historian. Gadigal country aka University of Sydney. Powerful Stories, purposeful history. Website michaelamcdonnell.org
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East
Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS
Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social
https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542
Faridah Zaman @faridahzaman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford | working on ideas, empires, and religion | Director of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social 
Adam A. Blackler @adamblackler.bsky.social Historian of Germany, colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. Associate Professor and proud cat dad. Views my own.
https://www.uwyo.edu/history/people/faculty/blackler.html
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
James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022)
https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton.
Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
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
views are all mine 💫
Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social Historian of Modern France at QMUL
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
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 
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Reka Krizmanics @rekakrizmanics.bsky.social Historian, PhD. Akad. Rätin a.Z./Asst. Prof. @unibielefeld
Writing a book on
women│global│solidarity│state socialism. Posts on events, lit, job calls, and ongoing research. Parttime feminist killjoy, fulltime foodie. Runner, biker, overthinker.
Michael Röllinghoff @roellinghoff.bsky.social Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto, Postdoc at UTokyo.
Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses