James D Kightly @jdkightly.bsky.social Does history - not an historian. Does aviation - not a pilot. Writes, reads, learns, communicates. Aviation Cultures Conferences. Interested in many things. Freelance. No AI. He/him. Aviation content based at: https://vintageaerowriter.wordpress.com/
Kate Merkel-Hess @katemh.bsky.social Also 梅凯悦. Historian of Modern China. ME carer.
Books: Women and Their Warlords (2024), The Rural Modern (2016).
Simone Sharpe @sharpehistory.bsky.social Historian – local history, urban history, public history, manufacturing/industry, digitisation, archives, Melbourne, Australia. She/her
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
Cassie Byrnes @cassiebyrnes.bsky.social Historian of reproductive rights, abortion, consent | lecturer at UQ | living and working on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands | she/her 📚
Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social Historian at the Australian National University
Christian missions, Indigenous history, deep history, gender, religion
Editor History Australia & Aboriginal History Monographs
Anna Ezekiel @annaezekiel.bsky.social Feminist historian of philosophy & translator of work by historical women philosophers. Parami University (Myanmar) ACEzekiel.com 🏴🇨🇦🇭🇰
Christopher Wilson (he/him) @christopherspaniel.bsky.social Art Historian with a research focus on trans and queer studies; art of early modern Europe and Latin America; dad of two spaniels (English Springer and Cavalier King Charles).
Christian Kleindienst @postkulturwissenschaften.de PhD Candidate @UniLeipzig.bsky.social | '22 @Harvard.edu Fellow | Theory and History of Antisemitism, Critical Theory, Women's and Gender History #TransnatHist
▓ https://postkulturwissenschaften.de/
▓ https://christiankleindienst.com/
Michael Stelzer Jocks @usedbookman.bsky.social History teacher, dad of two teen girls, dog and cat home-sharer, used bookstore aficionado
John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social Antifascist.
Lecturer in British History (https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/john-erik-hansson-fr/).
Intellectual Hist./William Godwin/Radicalism/Anarchism/18th-20th c.
Reviews ed. - Anarchist Studies (https://journals.lwbooks.co.uk/anarchiststudies).
Corinne Wieben @medievalpast.bsky.social Professor of medieval history, podcaster, writer, & bibliophile. MA/PhD from UCSB. Working on masculinity, marriage, & law in late medieval Italy. D&D & TTRPG enthusiast. Dabbler in history of magic & witchcraft.
@enchantedpodcast.net
enchantedpodcast.net
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) @ardc.edu.au Enabling the Australian research community and industry access to nationally significant digital research infrastructure, platforms, skills and data collections. Enabled by #NCRIS. Visit https://ardc.edu.au/
Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social Professor, Historian, Author of A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement; Her Own Hero: Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement; Children of Chinatown, 1850-1920, History Teacher Prep, (she/her) #WomensHistory #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈 🗃️
WendyLRouse.com
Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social The Family History Federation, supporting #Genealogy and the membership of #FamilyHistory societies worldwide 🌳 #FamilyHistoryFriday familyhistoryfederation.com / http://exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk
Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social Oral historian researching war (Vietnam War & War on Terror), trauma, memory, gender, security. Postdoc fellow at Deakin. She/her. miamartinhobbs.com
Feminist Studies Journal @feministstudies.bsky.social committed to publishing and championing interdisciplinary research in gender & sexuality studies; unabashedly feminist; fiercely independent; feministstudies.org
Emily Maher @emily-maher.bsky.social Medievalist and PhD student at the University of Southampton. Researching women in manorial law.
Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social research scientist in infectious diseases, health equity advocate, director & ceo burnet institute (www.burnet.edu.au), chair, australian global health alliance & pacific friends of global health (www.ausglobalhealth.org)
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Emerald L King @emeraldlking.bsky.social Japanese literature and cosplay studies scholar University of Tasmania
Award winning 🇦🇺cosplayer she/zir
日本文学とコスプレの博士 (タスマニア大学)
WCS Australia rep 2024
Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social The shining city on the hill...was Carthage. Dress history, hand embroidery, native plants, and dogs. Lots of dogs. Recreating ca.1600 jacket V&A 173-1869 in silk on linen.
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
Kirsty Peacock @ka-peacock.bsky.social History DPhil on women clerks’ opportunities and experiences of work in the City of London, 1873-1939 | she/her
Rach Cottle @rachcottle.bsky.social PhD candidate - Women on the Victorian Railways (Aus.) | railway history & heritage | women’s history | local history
Two Centuries of Chinese Heritage in Western Australia @chinesewa.bsky.social Discover, record, and tell stories of two centuries of Chinese communities’ contributions to State of Western Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia.
https://linktr.ee/chinesewa
Ed B @ebenyon.bsky.social Texmanian Ameristralian
University Research Manager
Community Volunteer
Lutruwita Explorer
Think creatively, ask probing questions, engage with & transform your world.
Bob Cullen @robertgcullen1.bsky.social An information professional who also happens to be a historian, writer, and reader. I wish all of you who have likewise landed here a wealth of peace and goodness!
Fiona Gatt @fgatt.bsky.social historian, lazy veggie patch owner
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.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social Aust aviation & captivity historian. 6th book Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III (alexanderfaxbooks.com.au or Amazon) winner 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards. Reading, cats & cake. #IAmWriting (at last!)
Rachael Bahl @ozbandicoot.bsky.social Librarian, mother, TV watcher, slightly geeky. | Higher ed, books, social justice, CBR. | Personal account. | Retweet =/= endorsement.
Francis Maravillas @francismaravillas.bsky.social Programme Leader BA (Hons) Art Histories and Curatorial Practices: Asia and the World, and Senior Lecturer @ LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore
https://www.lasalle.edu.sg/about/academics/dr-francis-maravillas
Omeka @omeka.org Open-source web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.
Sheila A Brennan @sheilaabrennan.bsky.social digital public humanist, Digital Scholar 🙋♀️, former NEHer, pop culture consumer, outdoorsy, eater and maker of tasty foods
Kelly Burke @burke-guardian.bsky.social Arts writer, Guardian Australia
Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social Connecting history to the present—articles, teaching materials, & advice for the contemporary historian | Accepting submissions | Eds @malszy.bsky.social & @sarahking.bsky.social | #bskystorians | clioandthecontemporary.com
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Emily Fitzgerald @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social Historian, data-nerd, map maker, cat lover. (She/her)
Katrina Grant @katrinagrant.bsky.social Researcher - art history, early modern Europe, Rome, landscape, environment, museums, collections, cycling, running, cats, etc etc
http://katrinagrant.net/
Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
John Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social By day: Professoring; social work/social policy/complex systems; faculty lounge exotica; PhD/JD.
By night: Food/drinks; burritos; vapid entertainment; sport.
24/7: Epistemic humility; posting through the polycrisis; personal account.
Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social Historian, former Chair of Oz Kiwi, and student of Hokkien/Taiwanese.
A Melbournian living in Wellington. 
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Megan @msherstorian.bsky.social Public Historian, Genealogist, and Historian. Research Focus: American Revolution, America 250, Embroidery and Sewing, Historic Fashion.
Pet Mom to Quincy, Aziraphale, Winifred Sanderson, and Yadi. Disabled Girly Trying to Survive.
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
Patrick Weil @patrickweil.bsky.social 
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.
www.humanities.org.au
Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com Fashion/material culture scholar. Curator at GCVM (opinions my own). Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
Sewell Chan @sewell.bsky.social Journalist
Paige Roberts @paige-roberts.bsky.social Public historian:
Archives & Special Collections at Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass., USA) https://phillipsacademyarchives.net/
Swimming, hiking | Seacoast NH (she/Dr.)
Interested in #EnvHist
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; 🗃️
On The Great Courses & Audible
Views=my own. On #TikTok
http://buymeacoffee.com/PhDRachel
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Steven J Phipps @stevenjphipps.bsky.social Climate change, climate resilience and the energy transition | International relations and humanitarianism | Tasmania and Japan | Order of the Rising Sun (Japan) | Optimist, problem solver
Location: Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Website: stevenphipps.com
Amanda Finley Digs All the Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social COVID long-hauler. Former archaeologist, opera, fed employee. Kids & homeless. Feral princess. Topes #WearAMask Comms: @publichealthaction.bsky.social
📍 Ba'al Pit
FB: is.gd/bp2vTA
Media: covidlonghaulers@gmail.com
YouTube.com/@covidlonghaulers
She/her
The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au An independent weekly newspaper, from the publisher of @themonthly.com.au
📨 Newsletters: http://satpa.pe/4Yzr3gJ
🗞️ Subscriptions: http://satpa.pe/pNZhFij
Erica Cervini @murgyjournalism.bsky.social PhD in family history, contributor to eurekastreet.com.au, tutor @unimelb
Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social Award-winning academic. Lecturer in AusPol. Research examines the gendered media coverage of women in politics. Also loves craft. #feminist #disabilityactivist #unionist #craftivist TEDx speaker 🏳️🌈
Canberra
Trevor Owens @tjowens.bsky.social Chief Research Officer at the American Institute of Physics. Working on the history of science, libraries and archives, and social science research. Fan of bike rides, small dogs, and vegetarian cuisine. 
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social Art historian of the early modern world. Lover of wine and cats.
David Tuller @davetuller1.bsky.social Senior Fellow in Public Health and Journalism, Center for Global Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. I blog at Virology Blog (virology.ws). My academic position is largely funded by donations from patients. davetuller@berkeley.edu
Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
Neurobiology and Long Cövid
WHN Long Covid Working Group Vice Chair
Heather Hogan @heatherhogan.bsky.social your friendly neighborhood soft butch // she/her // @thesicktimes.org engagement editor // http://theheatherhogan.substack.com // #LongCOVID
betsy ladyzhets 😷 @betsyladyzhets.bsky.social editor/co-founder @thesicktimes.org | journalist covering Long COVID & related crises | she/her/🏳️🌈
email: betsy@thesicktimes.org | signal: betsyladyzhets.25 | https://thesicktimes.org/
Meg Samuelson @coastalthinking.bsky.social Sea-creature, shore-dweller, gardener. #LongCovid #MECFS #POTS. Engaged Buddhism.
i used to think read write teach (literatures of the South/Africa/Australasia/Indian Ocean & climate, colonialism, environment, littorals, the sea, water, women’s stories)
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.
K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social 台灣戰貓. Associate Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, August 2025). she/hers
SUNY Press @sunypress.bsky.social Internationally acclaimed publisher of distinguished research and works of general interest since 1966 / Learn more about the State University of New York Press at sunypress.edu
Margaret Allen @marghistorian.bsky.social Historian. Living on unceded Kaurna land. Feminist. 
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. 
Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
Digitised Archive @digitisedarchive.bsky.social For academics who need archival research without the travel. We digitise your requested documents from London’s libraries and archives, delivering high-quality scans worldwide.
www.digitisedarchive.co.uk
Jen Walklate @museojen.bsky.social Museologist, Historian, Literary Theorist. Lecturer and Honorary Curatorial Fellow, University of Aberdeen. Senior Managing Editor, Museum & Society. Runner. Skier. Musician. Aerialist. Breadmaker. Fermenter. Reader. Prone to enthusiasms.
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Antoine @ant.bsky.social 📚 Internet Archive.org & @EOTArchive.org & FDLP 🏛️ We build tools so the past and future can meet.
Michelle Watson @michwatsonoz.bsky.social Archivist. Community historian. Genealogist. Stockton, NSW during WW1. MIM - family history researchers as an uni archives user group. Digital Humanities. LOD. (she/her) - https://www.michellewatson.org - Worimi Country
Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social Romance author, romance scholar. Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature & Culture at Deakin (Naarm/Melbourne). My newest rom-com, An Academic Affair, is out now.
💾💜 Digital ⚓️ Vagabond 💜💾 @b33tk33p3r.bsky.social Digital preservation consultant. Systems analyst, software architect, domain specialist. Leipzig.
https://linktr.ee/ross.spencer
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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Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ the University of Washington iSchool | formerly an Innovator in Residence @ Library of Congress | essays in WIRED, Gawker, The New Republic, Longreads, Current Affairs, etc.
🌐 www.bcglee.com
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Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com De/anti-colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS).
Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country.
Programming: londonaustfilm.com
Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
Peri Coleman @pericoleman.bsky.social Botanist, Quaker, grandmother, friend of dogs, and lover of all things saltmarsh & salt lake.
Sally Beach @sjbeach.bsky.social History@UTAS
Naarm
Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social English Prof and Director of American Studies at Boston University. Gay dad and husband. 2024-2025 NEH fellow for “The Racialization of Print,” forthcoming from OIEAHC & UNC Press. https://www.josephrezek.com/
Wilfrid Laurier University Press @wlupress.bsky.social WLU Press publishes books in the humanities and social sciences in Waterloo, Ontario. Member of the Association of University Presses. www.wlupress.wlu.ca
Carmel Pascale @carmelpascale.bsky.social Cultural historian and Visiting Research Fellow at Adelaide Uni - 20th century Australian nationalism, settler colonialism, ideas of Britishness and imperialism, federation, commemoration.
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
Pedro Urbano @pedrourbano.bsky.social 19th century #Historian, #researcher at IHC, Nova FCSH #womenegoproject
He/him
Vivian Kong @viviankonghk.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at University of Bristol; Hong Kong History Centre Co-Director @hongkonghistory.bsky.social; Multiracial Britishness, migration, marginal subjects. Foodie.
Shane Landrum, PhD @cliotropic.bsky.social Independent scholar, historian, technologist; they/them. Gardening, fluffy cats, practical animism. All opinions mine, not my employer’s.
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Everyday Heritage @everydayheritage.bsky.social ARC Linkage project exploring everyday heritage in Australia UniCanberra | GML Heritage | UWA | UTAS | UNSW
https://everydayheritage.au/
#everydayheritage
James Leibold @jleibold.bsky.social Professor of politics and Asian studies, LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia
Fuchsia Dunlop @fuchsiadunlop.bsky.social Cook and food-writer specialising in Chinese cuisine. Latest book 'Invitation to a Banquet'. China food tours https://wildchina.com/?s=Fuchsia%20&tab=tours