Dr Amanda McVitty @dramandamcvitty.bsky.social Professional historian FRHistS | Social, cultural and legal histories of medieval Europe and modern Aotearoa New Zealand | Writing a book on colonial ghosts #UncannyCountry https://phanza.org.nz/historian/amanda-mcvitty/
PHANZA Professional Historians of New Zealand / Aotearoa @phanza.bsky.social Need a historian or help with heritage? PHANZA is the Professional Historians’ Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa. Our members work in sectors including central and local government, academia, museums, archives and libraries. https://phanza.org.nz/
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Mark Crookston @markival.bsky.social archivist and librarian
Bridget Williams Books @bwbnz.bsky.social Bridget Williams Books is an independent publisher focusing on history, Māori experience, contemporary issues and women's studies. Publisher of BWB Texts.
www.bwb.co.nz
Materialist Institute for Research @ucmarxistinstitute.bsky.social 
Emma Hislop @her-slop.bsky.social 
Valerie Love @digivall.bsky.social Digital archivist and curator in Aotearoa 🌈🏒 (she/they) Views here are my own.
Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi @christchurchlib.bsky.social Official account of Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi located in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://my.christchurchcitylibraries.com/
Kristyn Harman @drkrissyh.bsky.social Sewist, foodie, historian, kiwi, Chair of Academic Senate at the University of Tasmania
bella cuts @bellacuts.bsky.social 🎧 @thesolidarityindex.bsky.social
🎵 sometime dj / music-maker
🌍 pākehā in catalunya
Tess Maxwell @tessmaxwell.bsky.social Feminist media and archives phd student in Ōtepoti, Aotearoa (she/her)
toitū te tiriti & free Palestine
Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social Historian of environment, climate-related disasters & waterways. ARC Industry Fellow, Griffith University
Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social "This heaven gives me migraine."
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
a quivering leaf 🍃 @roadsidefruitstand.bsky.social aspiring cloud-eater
naive, cynical and unserious- P Lissa Mitchell @photocuratornz.bsky.social
- A Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social Professor of Political Economy, Labour and resistance to exploitation. Blogs at http://andreasbieler.blogspot.co.uk Views my own!
David Aviles @davidaviles.bsky.social PhD in Political Economy from USyd. Economic Geography Postdoc at SMI-UQ. Lecturer at UTFSM, Valparaíso.
Researching Critical Minerals, Energy Transition, Commodity Frontiers, State Theory, 🇨🇱+🇦🇺
Tom Goyens @tomgoyens.bsky.social Professor of History, Salisbury Univ | Anarchism | Author of "Beer and Revolution" & "Johann Most" | Belgian beer lover
https://txgoyens.wixsite.com/tomgoyens | https://tomgoyens.substack.com/
Notes South from Nowhere @notesnowhere.bsky.social A hub for all my projects, from archives to airwaves. Currently bashing my head against a PhD. Writings on history, politics, and theory in (mostly) Aotearoa.
https://notessouthfromnowhere.com/
Matthew Goody @needlesandplastic.bsky.social Author of Needles & Plastic: FlyingNun Records 1981-1988, published by Third Man Books (US/UK) and Auckland University Press (NZ): tinyurl.com/35hu5s99
Rosi Crane @rosicrane.bsky.social Honorary curator history of science, Otago Museum
19C New Zealand natural history
Tenor City Choir Dunedin
Book sorter for the Regent Theatre annual book sale
Appreciator of turn-of-the-century printmaking
Victoria 💚 🌏 @vebate.bsky.social Thinking about climate, equity, rainbow/trans rights. Toitū te Tiriti. Mum. She/her. Love a good book, especially NZ fiction. Cat person with a dog. Aotearoa. 🍉
Claire Waddell-Wood @clairewwood.bsky.social Environmental, gender, & activist historian 💚 currently based in naarm/melbourne
Katrina Qiyao Wang @katrinaqwang.bsky.social Ph.D.-ing @ Wisconsin Sociology - Org Theorist & Hist Demographer
Alumna @ Beijing University - '18, Hist & Econ, and M.S. '21, Econ
Dutch Colonial History | Corporate Governance | College Admissions Battle
Like Grains of Sand @starsinmypocket.bsky.social Recovering philosopher, writer, trans activist. #Abolitionist. #AntiFascist. #FreePalestine. #Cyclist. Science Fiction and Fantasy, Horror, #MonsterSmut, #Creepypastas, #Botany, #Geology, #Anarchism. #PronounsAreHeAndHimAndHis.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Routledge History Research @routledgehistory.bsky.social We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
DV @nightingveil.bsky.social History librarian, autistic, queer. Former union rep and not a moderate.
Dr. Carol Tilley 🏳️🌈 @anuncivilphd.bsky.social Library & Info Sci Prof @ U of Illinois | #Comics #Libraries #Education #Kids #History | '16 Eisner '20 Ringo '22 Lynd Ward ’25 Ignatz Juries | PhD | Queer | Hard of hearing | I debunked Fredric Wertham & lost on Jeopardy | https://ko-fi.com/caroltilley
Riley Linebaugh @rileysline.bsky.social
historian, archivist
global history @ uni potsdam
she/her
Louise Edwards @ledw.bsky.social Academic, Asia-China-Australia
Lars Döpking @larsdoepking.bsky.social Historical Sociology | Taxation & Capitalism in Western Europe | Sociological Theory | Italy since 1945 | WiMi @dhiroma.bsky.social | HP:
http://dhi-roma.it/index.php?id=doepking
Meg Parsons @drmegparsons.bsky.social Māori, Pākehā Other Hybrid from Aotearoa New Zealand. Disabled scholar. Loves researching and teaching about climate change adaptation, environmental management and governance, and historical geography through decolonial, anti colonial and feminist lenses.
Joseph @queertauqua.bsky.social PhD Philosophy in History (ABD)
Queer Artist, Historian, & Library worker
Expect some dissertation musings, performance art, Chautauqua Movement, reenactments, queer theory, book discussion reads, and research assistances (aka fur babies) postings.
Rachel Weil @racheljweil.bsky.social Early modern historian @Cornell. Prisons, law, politics, gender in 17th-18th c. England. Terminated NEH fellow, @IAS member 2024-25. Writing "Detention and Punishment in Early Modern English Prisons, 1600-1815" Rescue-🐶 mom, BLM, Democrat, she/her 🏳️🌈💙🏳️⚧️🌻
Maggie Blackburn @mrcblckbrn.bsky.social History PhD student at the University of St Andrews researching 19thC New Zealand popular politics and petitioning | Pākehā | Aotearoa New Zealand
Aliqae Geraci @aliqaesong.bsky.social Labor libraries + archives. CUNY librarian. Proud member of PSC-CUNY. NY/Detroit🌹
Erik Kennedy @erikkennedy.com Poet behind beloved classics like 'Sick Power Trip' (2025) and 'Another Beautiful Day Indoors' (2022), @thwupbooks.bsky.social. Leading voice of millennial vegan socialist cat-fancying indie pop kids.
📍 Ōtautahi Christchurch
http://www.erikkennedy.com
Shelley Lynn Tremain she/her/they @shelleytremain.bsky.social Ph.D. in Philosophy, coordinate BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blog, disabled feminist killjoy, ed. of _The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability_ and _Foucault and the Government of Disability_, author of _Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability_.
Alexis Wilkin @alexisawilkin.bsky.social Professeur d histoire médiévale, Université Libre de Bruxelles @Universite Libre de Bruxelles/ Professor of medieval history@ Universite libre de Bruxelles
#Moyen Age, # Histoire économique #Middle Ages, #Economic History
Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social Ⓐctivist Ⓐnthropology MAs + PhDs
🌍 Journal: https://jwsr.pitt.edu/
📕 Books: https://blog.pmpress.org/kairos/
🏴☠️ Lectures: https://www.ciis.edu/news/david-graeber-memorial-lectures
Dr Nathan Fioritti @nathanfioritti.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics, School of Social Sciences, Monash University | Expertise in comparative environmental politics
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social Historian of Atlantic slavery & the British Caribbean | Professor | Author of THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY (2024) and SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN (2017) | randymbrowne.com 
Neil Evans @neilevanshistory.bsky.social Historian of Modern Wales and beyond. Vice president of Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society; Joint editor (with Charlotte Williams) of UWP series 'Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the World' Published on urban history. women's social movements, empire.
Ulas Ince @ulasince.bsky.social Associate Professor of political theory at SOAS; British Academy Senior Research Fellow; author of Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism (Oxford 2018; https://bit.ly/3a8F0mr); writes on colonialism, capitalism, race; www.ulasince.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).
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
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
Jared Hardesty @drhardesty.bsky.social Professor of History at Western Washington University. Historian of colonial America, labor, and slavery.
Most recent book:
https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman
The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social The Prize Papers Project is dedicated to the study and digitization of the Prize Papers collection stored at The National Archives, UK. It is based at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the National Archives, UK.
Learn more: www.prizepapers.de
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
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.
@jeremyzallen.bsky.social @jeremyzallen.bsky.social Historian at Lafayette College. Author of "American Lucifers," a labor/environmental history of the work of making artificial light.
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
Joshua Black @joshuablackjb.bsky.social Views are my own
Daniel Macfarlane @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social Professor in SEGS @ WMU. Dual Canada-US citizen. Books about: Niagara Falls; St. Lawrence; IJC; border waters; Lake Ontario; 🇨🇦-🇺🇸 enviro&energy relations; now working on Lake Michigan & St. Clair- I Ian Walsh @ianwalensis.bsky.social History | Law | Books
Interested in historical methods, legal history, genealogy, history of inquests, the family, and migration.
Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social Library Writer at www.teenlibrarian.co.uk
South African abroad 🇿🇦
No one is free until we are all free!
Signal: mattlibrarian.01
This is a personal account, all views & opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer!
On Our Own Authority! @oooabooks.bsky.social Radical independent book-publishing house based in metropolitan Atlanta since 2012.
Order books here: www.oooabooks.org
Andrew Zonneveld @andrewzonneveld.bsky.social Historian. Anarchist. Author of "All Will Be Equalized!: Georgia's Freedom Seekers of the Swamps, Backwoods, and Sea Islands."
Order here: www.oooabooks.net
Gerard Fitzgerald @gfitz.bsky.social Military-Environmental History, #envhist Department of Engineering and Society, UVA, Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities U. Stavanger, History of Airborne Disease, Technology, Chemistry, Biology, Senses, CW & BW… and ships and railroads.
Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social Historian of France/Atlantic World, Assoc. Prof, Book on Huguenot refugees. Working on a book about the Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789. Co-founder www.AgeofRevolutions.com. Story-teller.
Eva Bischoff @curiousherstorian.bsky.social coffee addict, interested in German and British imperial histories and how we got into this mess of 423.16 ppm
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social Historian of the Russian revolutionary emigration. Formerly Russian curator at the British Library. Based in East Neuk & Edinburgh, Scotland.
Latest book:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spark-that-lit-the-revolution-9781350344730/
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
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
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
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
Anna-Luna Post @annalunapost.bsky.social Researcher @ Universiteit Leiden • Early Modern History of Science, the Environment, Capitalism • Book: Galileo's Fame https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948599/ • My dog’s name is Freddy
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Philip Matthews @secondzeit.bsky.social Journalist in Christchurch, New Zealand. Senior writer with The Press newspaper. Reviewer of the year (Voyager Media Awards 2022). Author of The Quiet Hero (2023), the story of a peaceful NZ volunteer's death in Ukraine.
Mary Hicks @maryhicks.bsky.social Author: Captive Cosmopolitans:
Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469671468/captive-cosmopolitans/
Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social Sometimes pirate, othertimes historian.
Records Specialist (Early Modern Parliament) at The National Archives UK. Views own &c
Curator of REVOLUTION 250 exhibition - now OPEN at The National Archives!
Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism. Writing a book on the history of water in southern Africa.
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Zululand.
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
David Wilson @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social Historian working on legal and environmental history within context of colonialism & oceans / lakes, esp. piracy, fishing, & marine science. Current focus: Law, Science, and the British Colonial Fisheries Advisory Committee. Senior Lecturer @ Strathclyde.
Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast 
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social 17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. interested in all things early modern and boaty - currently writing about women and the navy
Dr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social History PhD. Pirate expert. ☠🏴☠️⚓️ Author/Editor. Educator.
As seen on TV (History Channel). 📺
Elder Millennial. Forever emo kid. ♉ Tattoo lover. AuDHD. A makeup obsessed LEGO enthusiast & vinyl hoarder.
📸: L_Historienne
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Niamh Hollis-Locke @niamhvh-l.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly).
UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk.
https://linktr.ee/nh_l
Anthony Lapwood @antzlapwood.bsky.social Fiction writer. He / him. Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi, Ngāti Whakaue, Pākehā. Won the Hubert Church Prize for Fiction for my story collection Home Theatre. My novel Mincemeat is out in November 2026. Views my own.
www.anthonylapwood.com
Merciless troll lord @gorsebloom.bsky.social Rebecca Hawkes: bitchy damsel, beefy eel, haggard sylph. NZ poet: author of Meat Lovers, king simp for poems at Sweet Mammalian. Words in Palette, Glass, Cordite, & suchlike
takahē magazine @takahemagazine.bsky.social Aotearoa’s longest-running independent journal of poetry, fiction, art, comics, and culture in review. Since 1989. https://linktr.ee/takahemagazine
stuart everly-wilson @basicwriter.bsky.social stuarteverlywilson.com
Published author of 2 novels.
My second, 'THE MASKEYS' - Transit Lounge - is out there...now...somewhere. Maybe its in your favourite bookshop. Why don't you go in and ask for it?
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.