Bénédicte Hertz @benedictehz.bsky.social French baroque music
Researcher (Centre de musique baroque de Versailles)
Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social History of science PhD candidate at Uppsala Uni working on animal breeding and natural history in 18th-century France
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Hispanic pixie dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social Historian of 17th century German religion and culture in the San Francisco area. Part time German teacher of moppets. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden.
Proponent of the weird guy theory of History.
Posts mostly in 🇺🇸, occasionally in 🇩🇪 or 🇲🇽.
Olivier Ritz @olivier-ritz.bsky.social Professeur de littérature française à l’Université de Poitiers.
UFR Lettres et Langues.
Laboratoire @forellis.bsky.social
Histoire littéraire de la Révolution française
Imaginaires de la Révolution de 1789 à nos jours
Marissa Perez @structuralcolors.bsky.social graduate student @ university of washington
art and science in the ancient world & 18th century
Robert Armstrong @robarmstrong.bsky.social US Financial Commentator, Financial Times. Opinions mine, unfortunately. The pursuit of pleasure is hard work.
MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com The fastest growing independent news network in the world. We cover breaking news, politics, law and more. We are unapologetically pro-democracy.
Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social Teaches at the City College of New York, edits the Journal of Genocide Research. www.dirkmoses.com
Humberto Beck @humbertobeck.bsky.social Professor El Colegio de México
Intellectual History Ph.D. Princeton
Author PennPress
https://linktr.ee/humbertobeck
Pascal Laucoin @pascal-laucoin.bsky.social Docteur en histoire. Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. Démocratie. Etat de droit. Thèse sur Mirabeau. #Montagne #jardin #art et #littérature.
Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social First University Press in the US
Established 1869
http://cornellpress.cornell.edu
Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowlege at NYU. New book: *2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed.*
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
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Jonathan Derbyshire @jderbyshire.ft.com US opinion editor at the Financial Times
Lowry Pressly @lowrypressly.bsky.social writer, teacher | new book The Right to Oblivion https://bit.ly/3W5dv5p | rep
@FischbachCre8
Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me Multilingual digital humanities, founder of the Textile Makerspace at Stanford & the Data-Sitters Club, teaches data visualization with textiles, helped start #DHmakes. SUCHO 🇺🇦 co-founder, archiving at-risk cultural heritage. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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/
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com Political and cultural criticism. Since 1988. Online and in print. https://thebaffler.com/
John Hodgman @hodgman.bsky.social Good evening. My name is John Hodgman. You are invited to join a secret society: hodgman.substack.com
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Noah Shusterman @ncshusterman.bsky.social Above-average historian
Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social 18th-century cultural history, French literature, art etc. Currently Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford/All Souls College
Joël Castonguay-Bélanger @joel-cb.bsky.social Associate Prof. / Prof. agrégé @UBC_FHIS
// Histoire et littérature 18e siècle; Lumières; Transmission des savoirs; Révolution.
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social Historian of France
Chair of the History Council of Victoria, Australia
Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
Latest book: An Environmental History of France, 1770-2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/environmental-history-of-france-9781350523852/
Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social Professor of French Studies, working on the culture of French Revolution and Napoleonic period. Committed to supporting the learning of languages in schools & universities and to public engagement.
Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 4yo & 7yo. Views my own.
Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social Online journal for the history of #revolutions, #revolutionaries, & the idea of “revolution” itself. Est. by @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social & @cindyermus.bsky.social.
ageofrevolutions.com
Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social Historian (she/her)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
Philippe Sands @philippesands.bsky.social @ucllaws.bsky.social
@11KBW
#EASTWESTSTREET
#THERATLINE
#THELASTCOLONY
#38LONDRESSTREET
Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social Political Theory and Intellectual History. Politics of Architecture and Iconography. Some Public Affairs Commentary.
Posting in a personal capacity.
Texts mostly in LRB, Guardian, Foreign Policy, Architectural Review.
Representation: Wylie.
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr Founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
Presenting the most innovative research in the field of history and social sciences.
👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales
👉 https://shs.cairn.info/revue-annales
Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social Writer of books (latest one is END TIMES FASCISM with Naomi Klein), maker of documentaries, schemer with the Debt Collective, editing at Hammer & Hope.
"A hugely influential figure on the modern Left" — City Journal
Catherine Fieschi @cfieschi.bsky.social Comparative political analyst. Populism, authoritarianism, social and political identities. Fellow @EUI_Schuman
Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social | Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at http://www.patrickdeoliveira.com | ICE is a terrorist organization |
Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Maryland. History of Sexuality, Modern Europe, Feminist and Queer Studies. http://www.andrewisraelross.com 🏳️🌈
French Studies @frenchstudies.bsky.social Society for scholars and students of French in higher education
https://www.sfs.ac.uk
Annabel L. Kim @annabel-l-kim.bsky.social French prof at Harvard // UNBECOMING LANGUAGE (OSUP 2018) // CACAPHONIES (Minn 2022) // dua lipa stan & miley cyrus enthusiast // VERY into cats // vegan climate griever
Juliet Bellow @julietbellow.bsky.social Associate Professor of Art History at American University; author of Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Parisian Avant-Garde (2013) and Rodin's Dancers: Art and Performance in Belle Époque Paris (forthcoming from Yale University Press, 2025).
Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
Colin Foss @cofo.bsky.social Cultural history of the French 19th century @ Austin College. Book review editor @ NCFS. “Culture of War” now out in paperback https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-culture-of-war-9781837644131
Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.- M Michael Lucey @michaellucey.bsky.social Author of "What Proust Heard" & the Misfit Trilogy: "The Misfit of the Family," "Never Say I," "Someone." Throw in some translating, piano, yoga, and cats.
Kylie Sago @kyliesago.bsky.social Assistant Professor of French, Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at San Diego State University. Web Editor, H-France Forum. Author of "Revising Race through Literary Adaptation in the French Empire" (forthcoming with Liverpool UP in 2027).
Susan Hiner @srocher.bsky.social French and Global 19C prof. Accessories to Modernity and Behind the Seams. Dogs know best.
Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social I teach French lit sometimes in English @ Boston U. Also history, visual, popular & material culture, gender & sex at the fin de siècle, photography & mass press. Books: Before Trans; Having it All in the Belle Époque; The Hysteric’s Revenge.
Prof. Francesca Berry (she/her) @francescaberry.bsky.social Art Historian| Professor of French Art History| author of Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity (2025)| MY VIEWS| Arsenal ♥️🤍
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/historyofart/berry-francesca
Robert Pike @pikerobert.bsky.social Historian & PhD candidate at Cardiff University ‘Resistance Villages: understanding rural resistance'. Author: Silent Village: The Life and Death of Oradour-sur-Glane, Defying Vichy (The History Press) and Oradour s'est tu (Flammarion)
www.robertpike.co.uk
CNRS @cnrs.fr Organisme public 🇫🇷 de recherche pluridisciplinaire, le Centre national de la recherche scientifique c'est 33 000 personnes qui font avancer la connaissance. #HelloESR
Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
French History (Journal) @frenchhistory.bsky.social French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social The 76th most followed account on bluesky. I will NOT be updating this ranking when it’s no longer true
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
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).
Holly Grout @playingcleo.bsky.social Historian of modern 🇫🇷. Gender, celebrity, beauty. Professor. Friend to all creatures furry and feathered. All views expressed are my own.
Paris Spies-Gans @pspiesgans.bsky.social Writer, historian, & art historian, #womenartists, A Revolution on Canvas (YUP), writing A New Story of Art (Doubleday)
parisaspiesgans.com
Laura @lleigha.bsky.social Illegitimi non carborundum
Miles Farmer @mfarmer.bsky.social clean energy policy, strategy, and law
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. MSCA post-doc at Trinity College Dublin. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MPIL Heidelberg, and KU Leuven.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Corinne Gressang @corinnegressang.bsky.social Historian of the French Revolution. Dog mom. Auntie. Learner.
Any posts here do not reflect my employer.
Paul Franke @paulfrahistory.bsky.social Historian Philipps University Marburg | Interested in (il)legal Economies, Art & Antiquities Market, Gambling and Gamblers, Napoleon | Probably looking for a Coffee right now
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Sailing with the French @sailingwthefrench.bsky.social Tracing lives, linking oceans ⛵ 🌊 🗃️
wint @dril.bsky.social Never Bullshit
I challenge any and every one who wants to kick my ass to a debate .
https://www.patreon.com/dril
https://www.instagram.com/dril
https://linktr.ee/drilreal
MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social Art from the MoMA's Paintings and Sculpture collection.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in New York City. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social
https://www.moma.org
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Jemima Kelly @jemima.bsky.social Financial Times columnist and writer.
👩🏼💻 https://www.ft.com/jemima-kelly
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com Editor of FT Alphaville, co-host of The Story of Money and author of Trillions and A Fabulous Debt. Norwegian, despite the Harry Potteresque name.
Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @francescoppola.bsky.social Woke lefty remoaner. Writes stuff on finance and economics at coppolacomment.substack.com. Wrote a book on QE, currently writing a book on banking. Sings a bit. Autistic.
Joe Weisenthal @weisenthal.bsky.social Cohost of The Odd Lots Podcast
Singer and guitarist in Light Sweet Crude
Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social FT Alphaville reporter. Ex-“veteran” fund manager. Resolution Foundation Assoc. Baring Foundation Trustee.
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.
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social Historian, bibliophile, early modernist.
Assistant Prof in History @ UT Austin (I don’t speak for my employer)
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
@danedels.bsky.social @danedels.bsky.social
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
永原宣 Hiromu Nagahara @hiromunagahara.bsky.social MIT historian of Modern Japan
MIT教員・近代日本史
https://history.mit.edu/people/hiromu-nagahara/
Currently researching: cultural history of diplomacy, Japanese Anglophones and Anglophiles
Public transit-appreciator and photo-taker
James Fisher @jamdanfish.bsky.social Historian of work, knowledge and capitalism (C16-18th) | Lecturer at Uni of Exeter | Author of THE ENCLOSURE OF KNOWLEDGE (CUP, 2022)
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social Historian of France and Algeria, editor, translator at Les plumes rouges. Author of “Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria” and “Modern France and the World.”
www.lesplumesrouges.com
www.darciefontaine.com
Stella Ghervas @stellaghervas.bsky.social Eugen Weber Chair in European History at @UCLA. Author of CONQUERING PEACE, by @Harvard_Press (2021), http://tinyurl.com/5fuz4w2u. 2023 Laura Shannon Prize for the best book in European studies. Lover of peace and chocolate.
Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social I’m not in James Thurber’s attic any more! right now I’m home yay ! I’m the one who writes this column https://www.theatlantic.com/author/alexandra-petri/ and loves puns
Judith DeGroat @jdegroat.bsky.social historian, modern France, gender, loves goldens, cats, knitting, gardening, & justice. she/her. trans rights are human rights.
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
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