Sydney Morning Herald @sydmorningherald.bsky.social Independent. Always.
Naomi Rendina @naomirendina.bsky.social PhD from @cwru. Historian of Medicine, Modern US, and birth. Writing on natural birth and the use of induction drugs. Posts are my own.
Zahra Ayubi @zahraayubi.bsky.social Associate Prof of Religion: Islamic Studies at Dartmouth College | Gender-Islam-Ethics | author of Gendered Morality at ColumbiaUP
Brannon Ingram @brannoningram.bsky.social Professor at Northwestern. Posts about Islam and colonialism, the British empire, and the occasional political rant
Maribel Fierro @mifierro.bsky.social Research Professor Arabic and Islamic Studies. CSIC
Phil Dorroll @phildorroll.bsky.social Religious Studies professor in South Carolina; research on Islamic and Orthodox Christian theology in Turkish and Arabic; supports 🇺🇦
Javi Albarrán 🍉 @jalbarran.bsky.social Loving husband, proud father and passionate historian of the Medieval Islamic West at the University of Granada. Living the Albayzin. Writing on the loss of al-Andalus, Crusades in al-Andalus, jihad, Andalusi Christians, Andalusi memory... Antifascist.
Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social Digitally distracted Professor. Researcher/author on Islam, Muslims and the internet. Emoji-free zone. Posting does not imply endorsement, etc. Based in Wales. X antidote. https://virtuallyislamic.com 
Brian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social Professor of History @ShippensburgU, focused on Middle East since the rise of Islam, author of The Medieval Persian Gulf (https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/), views are my own
S.J. Pearce @homophonous.bsky.social Andalusi lit and cultural history at NYU. Medieval, but not like that. Trying to strike a balance between critical and creative writing. Chaos muppet, always. Still perfecting my gazpacho.
Conor Dube @conordube.bsky.social Research Fellow in North African Medieval History @uclarchaeology.bsky.social; postdoc with the MEDGREENREV project; philologist and historian working on the Islamic West. Rock climber in my spare time.
Joshua Little @islamicorigins.bsky.social Historian | Islamic origins, Hadith, textual criticism | Research Fellow at RUG | DPhil from Oxford | anti-imperialism, anti-Islamophobia
https://islamicorigins.com
Haaretz.com @haaretzcom.bsky.social All the news, opinion and analysis from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World
Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social Dad, ecologist & conservation scientist living on unceded Wurundjeri Country in Narrm. He/him.
Research: https://euanritchie.org/
The Conversation: bit.ly/2rjBg9A
Nature, SciComm, Politics, Music, Shodan🥋, 🏀, Carlton FC
🌈 Ally Born: 331 ppm CO2
Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social Doctoral student at UTS. Researching transnational Right’s infiltration of Australian politics and society, esp religio-ethnonationalism. Writer of explanatory journalism. Living on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung land. She/her
https://linktr.ee/Lucyham
Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Queensland.
Karen Annette O'Brien @drka.bsky.social early modern history, women’s narratives in manuscripts, petitioning, global socio legal, medical customary knowledge, sovereignty
https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/petitioning-for-land-9781350010703/
https://link.springer.com/book/9783031440441
David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social (he/him) Prize-winning Irish poet writing in English & Ulster Scots. Pushcart nominated. MA from MMU. Archival poetics: Islandmagee Witch Trial & Irish War of Independence
Thomas Rogers @drtom-historian.bsky.social Interested in history:
colonial Australian, Australian Indigenous, British Imperial, violence, military, genocide. Views my own.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
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.
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——
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/
Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking...w/ signature typoes
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. 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
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.”
Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social Historian of Science, Knowledge, Intellectual Culture | Occasional Orientalist
Hanna Hodacs @hannahod.bsky.social Historian of science, global history, natural history, substitutes, and (as of recently) History of slavery
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. 
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 Ham House @OOCDTP | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
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/
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.
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
Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and the environment @IEG Mainz. Author of "Nature of German Imperialism" (2016)
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/)
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
Dr Nina S. Studer @drninastuder.bsky.social Historian.
History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. 🗃️🍸
Passionate about literature and theatre.
She/her
https://nina-studer.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..
🕺🎶🍞📸🤡
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.
Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social Early-modern history of science |
Commerce and Science
-Practical Maths
-Natural History
@sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social
Uni. of Tennessee |
PhD Cambridge HPS
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).
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.
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
Mathilde von Bülow @muvonbulow.bsky.social Mom. Historian. Lecturer in School of IR @ University of St Andrews: decolonization & Cold War, colonial conflict, intel & security, Algeria, Franco-German relations, civil society actors & IR
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
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
Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton.
Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
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.
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.
Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki | Working on Caribbean Marxism, utopia, temporality, and political imagination
Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social Ex-D1 swimmer, historian, ADHDer, @endofsportpod.bsky.social. A sportsperson for life who critiques it to make it better for others. Writing slowly on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her.
Stacy Nation-Knapper @stacynationknapper.bsky.social Historian | Mom | Goofball | Settler on Apsaalooké, Salish Kootenai, Tséstho’e lands (Bozeman, MT) | she/her
cover image: https://www.umt.edu/this-is-montana/columns/stories/ekalaka.php 
Dr Jatinder Mann 🏳️🌈 @drjatindermann.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at @uniofreading.bsky.social
https://reading.academia.edu/JatinderMann
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-8324
Sean D Lawrence @seandlawrence.bsky.social Assist. Prof. European History. Germans, Ottomans, environment, political economy. Cinephile.
Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // views here are my own.
- miguelchavez.net
Holly Hiscox @hollyhiscox.bsky.social PhD researcher | Schools of Empire - Rugby School | OOCDTP | 19th/20th century public schools, elite formation, the City of London and imperial finance | former history teacher
Martin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social Historian, intersections of nature and empire in Southern Africa (esp. #Namibia); author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (open access);
Views my own;
Worried about planet;
#FckNZs
martinkalb.com
Christopher Rose @khowaga.bsky.social I’m not clumsy, I’m just sensitive to gravity.
Historian | Professor | Traveler | Foodie |
👨🏽🤝👨🏻@pistorin.bsky.social | ATX & SATx | Usually in bed by 10.
Pronouns & langs: He / él / هو / hey you
christophersrose.com
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
Sarah Longair @scl1979.bsky.social Historian of empire, museums and collecting in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. University of Lincoln. Also interested in islands, the environment and pedagogy.
Indigenous Echoes - Rio de la Plata @indigenousechoes.bsky.social This page explores the History of Indigenous individuals who inhabited the Rio de la Plata region during the colonial period. Run by @guillaumecandela.bsky.social