History in Africa @historyinafrica.bsky.social Scholarly journal of the @asanewsonline.bsky.social publishing innovative research and critical commentaries on African & Diasporic history sources, methods, and debates.
Institute of Commonwealth Studies @icws-sas.bsky.social Leading impactful research, education and collaboration on challenges to strengthen democracy, human rights and the rule of law in the modern Commonwealth and globally | Part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. https://linktr.ee/icws
IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social 'Black British History: Concepts, Geographies, Debates' covers all aspects of Black British history from the ancient to the contemporary. @ihr.bsky.social
SOAS History @soashistory.bsky.social News and events from the History Department in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies @SOAS University of London www.soas.ac.uk and the SOAS History Blog blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryblog/
Aili Mari Tripp @ailitripp.bsky.social Vilas Research Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scholar of gender and politics, comparative politics, and African politics. Weaver, rower, and amateur horticulturalist. https://ailitripp.com
George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social Community archive of black grassroots activist and cultural movements associated with John La Rose and Sarah White, co-founders of New Beacon Books, and many others. Testimony to the creativity and resilience of black resistance.
https://linktr.ee/thegpi
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
Afriques. Débats, Méthodes et Terrains d'Histoire @afriques.bsky.social Internationally refereed, Afriques is an academic journal about African worlds focusing on periods prior to the twentieth century.
journals.openedition.org/afriques/
afriques.hypotheses.org/
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Priya Lal @priyalalista.bsky.social Historian of Africa and the world
Joël Glasman @glasmanjo.bsky.social historian, prof, author: 'Minimal Humanity' (London 2020) ; 'Les humanités humanitaires' (Paris 2023). African history, global history, humanitarian aid. Views are my own. https://joelglasman.com
The Harvard University Center for African Studies @africaharvard.bsky.social Where Harvard and Africa meet.
Official account for Harvard’s Center for African Studies
africa.harvard.edu
Nordic Journal of African Studies @njas.fi Supporting stellar scholarly work on Africa. Providing opportunities. No fees, open access.
Visit our website: https://www.njas.fi
African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social The African Studies Centre Leiden of @unileiden.bsky.social is the only research centre on Africa in the Netherlands. African Library. Master and Graduate Programme. Seminars. Publications. Visiting fellows. 
tom westland @tomwestland.bsky.social the haughty people of the earth do languish
economic history of africa + southeast asia, comparative development, markets and industrialisation
(he/him)
tomwestland.com
Keren Weitzberg @kerenweitzberg.bsky.social #biometrics #borders #digitalidentity #migration #austerity #STS; senior lecturer in School of Politics and International Relations & IHSS Fellow at Queen Mary University of London
Vincent Hiribarren @bixhiribarren.bsky.social Historian of West Africa based at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #Nigeria #DigitalHumanities www.vincenthiribarren.com
IHR African History Seminar @ihrafricanhistory.bsky.social The African History Seminar @ihr.bsky.social seeks to open the most recent scholarship on African history to a wider public, foster a new generation of historians of Africa, and to encourage academic exchange in and beyond the United Kingdom.
Zimbabwe has enough problems without hadedas @shonatiger.hararereview.com Storyteller.
📚 @hararereview.com
linktr.ee/hararereviewofbooks
#Afrisky #Zimsky
💜 #Obsidianmd and 🇿🇼 #Zimbabwe feed links in pinned thread.
jayson m porter @roguechieftan.bsky.social environmental historian and writer, & asst. prof @UMaryland: Environmental justice histories, food systems, agrochemicals, & racial ecologies in Mexico & the Americas. @nacla @PlantPerspectives
Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social Professor of European Prehistory
Vice President, The Prehistoric Society
Archaeologist • digs hillforts, Celts • writes disciplinary history • resolving the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past • radical
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
k’eguro @keguro.blacksky.app imagining freedom
Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social Historian. Working on the history of colonialism in Africa from a global perspective at Ghent University. Also doing history of science and medicine.
PI ERC Project CATTLEFRONTIERS www.cattlefrontiers.eu
Ex-Berliner. Academic Dad.
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
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
Alex Baker @anomiegeog.bsky.social 
Vintage Obscura Radio @vintageobscura.net Listen to the station live here: http://vintageobscura.net
All tracks are:
- More than 25 years old
- Have fewer than 30,000 views on YouTube
- Curated by community reddit.com/r/vintageobscura
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.
AC Fick 📚 @acfick72.bsky.social Reader; Emperor of Solitude; self-ironising Don of #NorthJozi; Anarchosyndicalist Czar of All Tolstoyan Russian Multiverses; House Fuller-Hallim; Mr Havisham.
🤴🏽📚🤓📖📝🌍
Obsolescent isolate losing hearing & sight at the end of this brief life.
Harare Review of Books @hararereview.com ✍🏾 Jacqueline Nyathi, librocubicularist, friendly neighbourhood "You *Must* Read This" person.
https://hararereview.com
📝📚 @thecontinent.org, @strangehorizons.bsky.social etc
(Incidentally, also @shonatiger.hararereview.com)
Rachel King @rachelking.bsky.social Assoc Prof at UCL
History in/of archaeological thought, disorder, 🇱🇸🗻🇿🇦, mobility: https://tinyurl.com/4rb3av9n
Neoliberalism + heritage: https://tinyurl.com/5bedkshr
Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies: https://tinyurl.com/92rmc887
CATTLEFRONTIERS @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social ERC Starting Grant CATTLEFRONTIERS
(Post)colonial Cattle Frontiers: Capitalism, Science and Empire in Southern and Central Africa
For more info, check our website: https://cattlefrontiers.eu/
Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social So-called scholar activist
Z Samudzi @zsamudzi.bsky.social visiting assistant prof @ clark university’s strassler center, aspiring hot girl
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
Resisting Empire: A History Podcast @resistingempire.bsky.social A history podcast that explores how people resisted empire all over the world and throughout time.
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
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
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social Art Historian looking for dirt on Britain’s imperial past in museums & archives. Author of “The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector". Wife, mother, pug owner.
www.jenniferhowes.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/
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
Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social We're a news service that helps you understand climate change and what you can do about it. Get climate solutions in your inbox: https://yaleclimateconnections.org/newsletters/
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
Fabi Kutsche @fabikutsche.bsky.social Historian & archivist in training / Global Labour & Colonial History, Intersectional & Queer Feminisms, History of Psychiatry, Digital Methods and Archives. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them - keine Pronomen / https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8348-9889
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social reporter at cnbc.com. email: lora.kolodny@cnbc.com - ex-wsj, techcrunch & all over. i cover: elon musk cos. mostly tesla & spacex (some climate tech). my posts here are my own. optimistic on the inside. dm me on signal: lorakolodny.55
Andrew Hipp @andrewlhipp.bsky.social Plant systematist, herbarium director, ASPT outgoing president, naturalist, in the Chicago suburbs; posts reflect my views, not my employer's.
2024 book: Oak Origins... check it out:
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo236998258.html
blackecofeminista.bsky.social @blackecofeminista.bsky.social Black feminist historian dreaming of communal farm living. Free all colonized peoples ✊🏽 I teach, I think, I write, cite me don’t fight me 👊🏾
@tiyamiles.bsky.social @tiyamiles.bsky.social 
Jared Farmer @geohumanist.bsky.social Place-based historian based in Philadelphia; professor at Penn; author of “Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees”
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
Andrew Needham @andrewneedham.bsky.social Historian at NYU. Environment, energy, climate, Indigenous history, American West. Also gripes and misadventures.
The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social hpeproject.org
International Institute of Social History @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social Established in 1935, the IISH is an archival and research institute on labour and social movements. iisg.amsterdam
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
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/
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/
Dan Feather @danieljfeather.bsky.social Historian interested in cultural diplomacy, the 'British world', and southern Africa. Attempting to write a book about British-Rhodesian cultural relations during UDI while also examining British policy towards the South African Bantustans 
Tony Beall · Where Sacred Fires Burn @ajbeall.bsky.social Historian of religions, using archival and ethnographic methods. A decade in Namibia on ritual, memory, and the dead who orient the living. I write Where Sacred Fires Burn; subscriptions support the Etanga Development Foundation. ajbeall.substack.com
Dalindyebo Shabalala (he/him) @dyebo.bsky.social Prof of Law @Suffolk University Law School. Climate, IP, Indigenous Rights. Blog and Publications - https://dalishabalala.com
Steering Committee - https://greenleadershiptrust.org/
Former Board - www.ciel.org
Queer/Bi 🏳️🌈 - protect trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social Photo sharing bot for planetary and deep space images.
Run by @kevinmgill.bsky.social
Content providers added with permission.
Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social Finance | History | Trance
Patreon http://patreon.com/isaacsamuel64
Substack https://www.africanhistoryextra.com/
Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social Research Associate at The John Carter Brown Library; GMU History PhD researching early American disability and religion; Formerly doing DH at RRCHMN; GWU Fencing coach; Ask Me Anything coordinator at r/AskHistorians
🤺🏳️🌈
dhowlett1692.com
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
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/
JEAS @jeasjournal.bsky.social Journal of Eastern African Studies. From the British Institute in Eastern Africa. RT ≠ endorsement. https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjea20
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no a… @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy 🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://pluralistic.net/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/pluralistic.net
Diego Millan @diegom.bsky.social Books, food, flowers, running, coffee, mostly in reverse order.
Also an Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies working on a book about laughter.
Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social Woke Aristotelian
Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social I write sometimes
www.rabihalameddine.com
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
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Ben Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com 
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social Christina Sharpe. Writer/Professor/CRC. Ordinary Notes (2023). In the Wake: On Blackness & Being (2016). Monstrous Intimacies (2010). What Could a Vessel Be? (2027). Black. Still. Life. (2028) Agent: Jackie Ko/Wylie
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
Jo Guldi @joguldi.bsky.social Professor of Quantitative Methods at Emory. Data scientist, writer, historian. Newest: The Long Land War (2022), The Dangerous Art of Text Mining (2023).
Shannon Marcoux @shannonmarcoux.bsky.social Lawyer advocating for climate justice, human rights, and corporate accountability. 
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social 
Emily Conklin @emzconk.bsky.social Marine Scientist/Advocate/Enthusiast | I like birds | she/her | Newport, RI hyperlocal | I pay too much attention for my own good | Opinions my own |
Sune Vork Steffensen @sunevork.bsky.social Ecological language scientist, who draws on radical embodied cognitive science and Marxist anthropology. Working @ University of Southern Denmark & Danish Institute for Advanced Study. Dad, husband, slow racing cyclist and ☭.
Science and Empire Commission @sciemp.bsky.social Official account of the Science and Empire Commission - SCIEMP
> A Commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST / IUHPST) | https://scienceandempire.com/
@jackiebrownnow.bsky.social @jackiebrownnow.bsky.social In this moment I'm essentially Cecilia from The Purple Rose of Cairo trying to be Waymond Wang from EEAAO #Detroit 
Zamani Journal @zjahs.bsky.social A Journal of African Historical Studies. Zamani is an international biannual journal that welcomes submissions for publication consideration from all over the world on African rich and diverse history.
Derek R. Peterson @unseenarchive.bsky.social Ali Mazrui Professor of History & African Studies @umich. #MacFellow. New book: A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda. Just published! https://tinyurl.com/mtdy6yv2
Dave Glovsky @dglovsky.bsky.social African historian, Harvard History and AAAS. Here for the vibes (I hope)
Chana Teeger @cteeger.bsky.social Sociologist and Assoc Prof at LSE Dept of Methodology
researching race, education, collective memory, inequality, and elites.
** NEW BOOK: Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools (Columbia University Press) **
Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social Historian of science based at King's College London, working on history of evolutionary & deep-time sciences and environmental history. Runs #PopPalaeo ( www.poppalaeo.com ) and co-leads the King's Environmental Humanities network
Brian Leech @brianleechphd.bsky.social Historian of American West, Midwest, environmental history, mining, energy, food, animals. Currently working on a book about the history of U.S. speed limits & another book about mining in popular culture. https://brianleechphd.net
Tiffany Nichols, JD, PhD @tiffanynichols.bsky.social LSST-DA Catalyst Faculty Fellow
History of Astrophysics, Physics, and Science + Environmental History.
Miles Powell @milespowell.bsky.social Environmental Historian. Author of Shark Hunt: How the Oceans' Most Infamous Predators Became Prey (Harvard UP, 2027), and Vanishing America (Harvard UP, 2016).
Centro de Estudos dos Animais @centroanimais.bsky.social Somos um grupo de pesquisa ligado à UFMG/CNPq, dedicado ao estudo dos animais, particularmente no campo da história. Querem saber mais sobre o assunto? Sigam o perfil e apoiem a pesquisa nacional divulgando nossa conta 🕸🌎
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
Mona Bieling @monabie.bsky.social historian, researching and teaching at the intersection of colonialism and the environment. Lifelong learner. She/her.
https://www.hsu-hh.de/histec/mona-bieling
Mark Stoll @markstoll.bsky.social Environmental historian, author of Profit: An Environmental History (2023) and Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2015). https://www.markstoll.net/ Professor at @texastechuniv.bsky.social
Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social Professor of environmental history at Georgetown University. Creator, "The Climate Chronicles." Author of the new book, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean." Interested in all things climate change, outer space, existential risk, and past for present.
Sarah Johnson @sarahwhpress.bsky.social Partner in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, otherwise to be found obsessing about food, gardening, hiking, sailing, undertaking grandiose acts of DIY, hoping for the best