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Chris Monnox @cmonnox.bsky.social Historian of elections and electioneering, particularly early 20th century. I'm based in Canberra and also do ACT politics.
Sasha (Alexander) Mikheyev @sasha-mikheyev-anu.bsky.social I am a professor at the Australian National University, studying evolutionary biology... bees, parasites, snakes, you name it. Father and aspiring cellist.
Dominique Jones @dominiquedjones.bsky.social She/her | History PhD Candidate @ unimelb | Researching the Yugoslav Diaspora(s) in Australia
Camille Mahé @camillemahe.bsky.social MCF en histoire à l'Université de Strasbourg (Composante IEP/LinCs)
Guerre et sortie de guerre / WW2 / Enfants-childhood studies / Enfants mutilés de guerre / France - Allemagne - Italie 
Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Modern British Studies and Director of the Centre for Modern British Studies, University of Birmingham. Author of Growing Up and Going Out. Interested in pop culture, youth, leisure, consumption, and urban space.
History Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social We connect Victorians with history and inspire engagement with the past. Website: historycouncilvic.org.au
Jianhao Xu @jianhaoxu.bsky.social PhD student in Newcastle University. My research field is in the history of emotion, Chinese childhood and children’s literature.
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Oral History Society @oralhistsoc.bsky.social Founded in 1973, the Oral History Society is dedicated to collecting, preserving and promoting the use of recorded memories. Run by volunteers, the OHS plays a key role in supporting and developing oral history practice in the both the UK and abroad
Julia Bishop @drjuliabish.bsky.social Folklorist researching (mainly but not exclusively) traditional music, and children's folklore, including games, humour, and song.
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
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Caring Communities @caring-communities.bsky.social A UKRI funded project on the history of children's social care from 1800-present. PI: Claudia Soares; Project team: Dr Jade Shepherd, Dr Jim Hinks and Dr Kate Wilson.
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
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social Writer, journalist, former editor of The Monthly.
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social Independent Senator for the ACT.
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Marija Taflaga @marijataflaga.bsky.social Political Scientist at The Australian National University.
Political Tragic, co-host of the Democracy Sausage podcast
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Maureen Gallagher @maureenogallagher.bsky.social Academic. Immigrant. Feminist Killjoy. Cat Fancier. Lecturer in German Studies at Australian National University. Not in Kansas anymore.
Karen Downing @drink-an-ocean.bsky.social Historian, living and working with gratitude on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land.
Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social We're the national voice for cultural, creative & ethical thinking and one of Australia's five Learned Academies. We promote the study and application of the humanities. Posts by Comms team. Re-posts not endorsements.
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Peter Stanley @stanleyhistorian.bsky.social Canberra-based historian; author of 50 books, mostly on Australian and British Indian military history. Joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History 2011. Author of historical fiction, notably the Mansergh novels and The Sherrin (2025)
Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com Demographer | Demography, populations, social trends, surveys, data, methods, census. Educator, researcher. | Author ‘The Future of Us’.
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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social Staff campaigning against cuts and poor governance at the Australian National University.
Australian National Dictionary Centre @ozworders.bsky.social The Australian National Dictionary Centre, ANU. For the dinkum oil on Australian English, historical lexicography, Australian Oxford Dictionaries. CRICOS: 00120
Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
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Marshall Beier @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social Researching imagined childhood as a social technology of governance and the everyday militarization of children’s lives; International Relations; Critical Security Studies. Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University. marshallbeier.com
International Australian Studies Association @intlausstudies.bsky.social The International Australian Studies Association brings together Australianists from across the world and publishes the quarterly Journal of Australian Studies.
Sandra Swart @wildpasts.bsky.social Animal history. Stellenbosch University. Lion’s Historian.
NTEU ACT @nteuact.bsky.social National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) in the ACT. The union for all higher education staff.
Authorised by Dr Lachlan Clohesy, NTEU ACT Division, Acton.
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Michelle Staff @michellestaff.bsky.social Feminist historian | Online + outreach manager @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social | Hazel Rowley Literary Fellow 2025 @writersvictoria.bsky.social | Co-convenor @auswhn.bsky.social | on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land | she/her
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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social 📖 Est. 1959
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https://adb.anu.edu.au
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Anna Kent @annakent.bsky.social Historian. International education, international development, scholarships. 
Cheryl Ware @cherylware.bsky.social 
Courtney Barrett Peters @courtbarrettpeters.bsky.social Journalist aspiring to be a WAG
Dr Rachel Franks @cfwriter.bsky.social crime fiction | crime facts | Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard | coffee | history | libraries | newspapers | once turned up an hour early for a lecture on cats
Centre for the Study of Violence @studyofviolence.bsky.social The Centre for the Study of Violence, University of Newcastle is a group of active scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences whose work focuses on the origins, causes and experience of violence, historically and in the present.
Lauren Samuelsson @clemloz.bsky.social PhD in History.
Come for the food history... stay for the gifs.
Julie McIntyre @julie-mcintyre.bsky.social Historian of commodities (e.g, winegrapes, coal) in Australian environments, economy and Indigenous-settler colonial relations. She/her. Working on unceded Awabakal Country: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/julie-mcintyre. Suburban organic gardener.
Tristan Moss @tristanmoss.bsky.social Historian at UNSW Canberra | DECRA | Researching Australian space history and military history
Annemarie McLaren @amclarenhistory.bsky.social historian of imperial, cross-cult, & Aus history • book out w/ OUP• lecturer @notredameaus • Reviews Ed @AboriginalHist
Scott McKinnon @sjmckinnon.bsky.social Historian, Librarian, Author of Gay Men at The Movies (Intellect, 2016) and Co-author of Australian Queer Screens (Bloomsbury, coming 2026) 🏳️🌈
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
Thomas Kehoe @thomasjkehoe.bsky.social Historian of public health specialising in cancer, tobacco, skin, and screening. PhD (History), MPH, Head of Heritage at Cancer Council Victoria. Fellow at the University of Melbourne History. Bereaved parent of permanently 2 year old daughter 
Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social Historian of environment, climate-related disasters & waterways. ARC Industry Fellow, Griffith University
Georgia McWhinney @georgiamc06.bsky.social Historian for The Lodge and Kirribilli House. Living and working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. She/her. All views my own
ChiYHA @chiyha.bsky.social The Child & Youth History Alliance is a research community for those working on histories of childhood, youth and the family in the Asia Pacific region. PM us to join our mailing list!
Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections.
My main project at the moment is the #GLAMWorkbench, which […]
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Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas) @phavictas.bsky.social PHA (Vic & Tas) is a thriving, dynamic community of professional historians who communicate history in diverse ways. 
Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in heritage studies; researcher of diaspora history, memory studies, oral history with migrant background communities, multiculturalism/s, public history, social history, labour history @ the ANU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-2419
Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social The Australian Histories Podcast: a fresh look at some brilliant stories from Australia’s past.
An Australian history podcast presented as themed topics - see if the current topic sparks your interest!
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Prof Sharon Crozier-De Rosa @scrozierderosa.bsky.social UOW Historian | Bks on Shame, Anti-Feminism & Empire, Remembering Women's Activism, & Emotions Sources | Irish Migrant | Dep Editor Women’s History Review | Views my own
Benjamin T. Jones @drbenjaminjones.bsky.social Associate Professor in History at Central Queensland University. Australia on the World Stage (Routledge, 2022).
Dr Meg Foster @mfoster-history.bsky.social Historian of Banditry, Settler Colonial and Public History | Chancellor's Research Fellow @UTS | Former JRF @camhistory.bsky.social | She/ her | FRHistS
Harry Croft @harrycroft.bsky.social he/him | Humboldt research fellow | environmental history | Universität Augsburg
Nathan Hobby @nathanhobby.bsky.social Biographer, scholar & special collections librarian in Perth, Australia. Author of THE RED WITCH, 2023 WA Premier's Prize Book of the Year. Working on a biography of John Curtin. https://nathanhobby.com
@carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social 
Public Record Office Victoria @vicarchives.bsky.social Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) is the #archive of the State Government of Victoria, Australia. We hold records from the mid-1830s to today. Visit our website at prov.vic.gov.au
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Sophie Couchman @sophiecouchman.bsky.social Professional Historian and Curator
Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
Nancy Cushing @ncushing12.bsky.social Environmental historian on Durramuragal and Awabakal Country. 🐨🦘🍁. University of Newcastle. Coral Thomas Fellow, 2024-25, State Library NSW. On execs of OzAHA and AANZ Environmental History Network. 
James Keating @jameskeating.bsky.social 📖 Historian of suffrage, feminism and internationalism | 🖊️ Distant Sisters (MUP, 2020) | @ahsjournal.bsky.social Book Review Editor | he/him
Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social History, justice, education | postdoc UniMelb | queer sports fan | he/they 🏳️⚧️ https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/880052-matthew-keynes
Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social Historian and Wu Tang affiliate, among other things | Usual disclaimers | My pronouns are ze/zir or they/them
Amanda Laugesen @alaugesen.bsky.social Historian, lexicographer, and chief editor of the Australian National Dictionary. Latest book 'Australia in 100 Words' out now with NewSouth Publishing.
Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social Historian of human antiquity in Australia writing critical histories of archaeology and settler intellectual logics.
Lecturer @GriffithUniversity
Collaborating Scholar @ANUDeepHistory
Lover of Austen and AFL.
Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social History, empire and the politics of knowledge. University of Technology Sydney
Ruth Morgan @ruthamorgan.bsky.social #envhist | #envhum | #climhist | opinions my own | Raised on Noongar country 🏳️🌈 living & working on unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri country | ANU - http://bit.ly/3ITky85
Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social Just a soul whose intentions are good | she/her 🇱🇹🇦🇺 Insta- ifyouseeamy/pyjamapolitics
aremeikis@thenewdaily.com.au
Emily O’Gorman @emilyogorman.bsky.social Environmental historian | Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor | Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University
Katie Sutton @katielmsutton.bsky.social Hist. gender & sexuality, Weimar Republic, LGBTQ pasts, sexual science / psychoanalysis, visual cultures, neuroqueer. German & Gender Studies, ANU. Views mine. she/they
@aholland14.bsky.social @aholland14.bsky.social Historian of Indigenous-settler relations in Australia | Histories of Indigenous governance | Histories of race and antiracism | Writing a history of ATSIC.
Ann McGrath @amcgrath.bsky.social Historian, Kathleen Fitzpatrick laureate fellow, Australian National University, writer, artist. Deep histories, colonialism, indigenous justice. Inspired by friends, music, birds, beaches, oysters, wine, growing edible stuff.
Prof. Katerina Teaiwa @kteaiwa.bsky.social Professor of Pacific Studies 🌊🏝️ ANU @anu-chl.bsky.social
Artist, 🍉Anti-Colonial, Mama. WNBL & NBA fan - UC Caps & Brooklyn Nets. My own views.- M Meggie Hutchison @meggiehutchison.bsky.social
Australian Historical Studies @ahsjournal.bsky.social Since 1940, Australia's oldest peer-reviewed academic journal of Australian history, dealing with all aspects of the history of Australia including its global context. Published by Taylor & Francis.
Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social Professor of history, empire, colonialism/postcolonialism. Australia/Pacific. Feminist. Lazy Buddhist. On unceded Kaurna land | Author: Settler Colonialism and Reconciliation https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137304544
Katie Holmes @katieholmes.bsky.social Historian of environment, gender & culture; gardener; mum. La Trobe University. Co-author of Mallee Country: land, people, history (Monash Uni Press 2020)
@frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social 
The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au The Australia Institute is a leading think-tank based in Canberra http://australiainstitute.tv | Authorised by E Bennett, The Australia Institute, Canberra 2603
Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social Lurking for now, but getting ready to roll
Noah Riseman @noahriseman.bsky.social Australian-American historian who specialises in LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous histories. Author. Amateur ice hockey player. Hablo español. Views expressed are my own.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/nriseman/publications
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social Postdoc in modern history @liu.se, currently working on Scandinavian childhoods and the Cold War.
20th century Scandinavia| Childhood, civil society and political cultures| History education and teacher training
Dr Susannah Wright @susannahwright.bsky.social Reader/Postgraduate Research Tutor in Education, Oxford Brookes. Proud mum of two sons. Historian. Loves music, film, books, walking. Not necessarily in that order. Views my own.
Kristine Moruzi @kmoruzi.bsky.social Associate Professor in Children’s Literature. Currently working on children’s literary culture, far right children’s books, and consent in YA fantasy
Jane Lydon @janelydon.bsky.social Australian historian of colonialism, legacies of slavery, & visual culture. Perth, West Australia. Author: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? (Routledge) & Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire (CUP)
Society for the History of Emotions @ehcsjournal.bsky.social The Society for the History of Emotions, home of peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal Emotions: History Culture Society (EHCS). Publisher De Gruyter Brill.
www.societyhistoryemotions.com
The Betoota Advocate @thebetootaadvocate.bsky.social Australia's oldest newspaper.
Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social Historian of childhood, experience, emotions, education and nationalism of Britain, Empire, Global. Senior Researcher, NARS (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
Dr. Elisabeth M. Yang @emyang.bsky.social Philosophically-bent, historian/childhood studies PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, history of medicine, material culture/moral babies & children/amateur thespian/tea snob
Based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at University of Leeds
Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social Historian, professor, mom, wife, feminist, rower.
PI of ERC-project WEB CHILD, which studies changing childhoods in the early era of the WWW across the US, South Korea, and Denmark.
Latest book: "Sesame Street. A Transnational History." (OUP, 2023).