Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
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
Donna Trembinski @medievalatx.bsky.social New to bluesky! Finally leaving the darkside that was twitter.
Who I am:
Professor of Art and Material Culture at STFX
Settler living in Mi'kma'ki, unceded territory
Specialist training in medieval religion and medicine
Student of the global premodern
The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social Combating antisemitism and protecting democracy
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social 📚 Home to great stories and bestselling authors
📚 Award-winning independent division of Bloomsbury Publishing
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Rijksmuseum @rijksmuseum.bsky.social The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, a must-visit for art lovers, showcasing over 8,000 works of art, including masterpieces by Rembrandt & Vermeer. ❤️
This is the official account of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
www.rijksmuseum.nl
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Alan van Beek @thiliel.bsky.social Medieval Literature, Games, Data. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography.
Current book-project on the My Lai Massacre of 1968 - the final instalment in my massacre trilogy that also includes Amritsar 1919 and Bud Dajo 1906.
Rep by Wylie Agency
EditionsScpo @editionsscpo.bsky.social Presses de Sciences Po, maison d'édition de sciences humaines et sociales. #shs #sciencespo #socio #droit #économie #international #histoire #santé #genre #climat
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
🆁 🆄 🅵 🆄 🆂 @puprufus78.bsky.social Muscle. Theme Parks. Star Trek.
Staffordshire, England 🏴🇬🇧
48 yo Alpha Pup - Gay - Top Vers
🔞 Sometimes NSFW 🔞 No Minors 🔞
Alpha to @dobiedoggie.bsky.social and @rockydapuppy.bsky.social
https://allmylinks.com/puprufus78
🔜 DW '26
🔜 Darklands '27
Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators
Historica Canada @historicacanada.bsky.social Historica Canada is a charitable organization that offers educational programs in both official languages. / Historica Canada est un organisme de bienfaisance qui offre des programmes éducatifs dans les deux langues officielles.
Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social archaeologist, at the moment studying volcanic tuff as a building material but interested in all old trash
ΟΣΟΝ ΖΗΣ ΦΑΙΝΟΥ
he/him
Pisa (but bury me beside the Piramide)
🥖🌹
Huttonite Uniformitarian
simultaneously more and less fun than profile suggests
Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social
John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe. DE, EN, FR & IT; working on CZ (permanently) & NL. Posting in a personal capacity on history, literature, arts, &c.
Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social PhD; associate professor of Roman history and literature; particularly enthusiastic about Roman religion and insults; author of Stealing from the Gods: Temple Robbery in the Roman Imagination (Michigan, 1/2026); never speak for my employer
KrysMc @krismcd.bsky.social Shakespeare prof, historical fiction and SF/F reviewer, budding editor. Pro: knitting, books, cats, comedy, fat liberation, people standing up for each other. Miss my native South but glad to live in Blu(ish) Michigan. She/her/hers.
Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social UAlbany, SUNY Assistant Professor of American Politics. Researching Black Politics, Distrust, and Neighborhood Institutions.
Peter Gainsford @kiwihellenist.bsky.social Kiwi Hellenist, Homerist, classicist, NZ. He/his/him/ia.
Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social Antiquity. Cats and kids. Books. Humanities. Education. NY/MA/TX
contact JoelChristensen @ gc.cuny.edu
Check out Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things:
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300269239/storylife/
avatar by Beverly Beverung
Hayden L. Nelson 🌲🐺🦫🔥🪵 @haydenlnelson.bsky.social PhD in History | Environmental and Indigenous History in the American West & Borderlands | Writing an Environmental History of the North Woods | Research Historian @ Minnesota Historical Society | WI➡️MT➡️KS➡️MN
haydenlnelson.com
https://firearchive.omeka.net
Historian1661 @historian1661.bsky.social Independent scholar. I'm not in academia.
Comparativist.
Former staff member, Princeton U. Library.
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social Puts the 'fun' in 'executive dysfunction' | Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, C18/19th, and baseball-esp. minor leagues | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823 | Hope, always. | he/him.
Dr. Natasha Henry-Dixon @nhenrydixon.bsky.social Assistant Professor of African Canadian History, York University | PI for "One Too Many: Black People Enslaved in Upper Canada
Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social Writing in the age of AI stuff
Newsletter: writinghacks.substack.com
Also curate theimportantwork.substack.com
Tom MacWright @tmcw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy engineer, writer, "artist"
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@tmcw, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Rabbi David Polsky @motownrabbi.bsky.social Friendly Orthodox rabbi; NYC➡️Nola➡️ Michigan;
👨👩👧👧 Torah thoughts and #dadjokes; #blacklivesmatter; he/him/his
Marnie Hughes-Warrington @marnieh-w.bsky.social Standing Acting Vice Chancellor and Provost, Bradley Distinguished Professor @UniSA.
Systems Philosopher and historian. Current project Artificial Historians
Flavia De Nicola, PhD @flaviadenicola.substack.com 🔎 Early Modern art historian from Rome, PhD, and professor working on Provenance Research in dialogue with Art History and Museology.
📝 https://flaviadenicola.substack.com/
🗃️ flaviadenicola.com/provenance-research
✉️ provenance[at]flaviadenicola[dot]com
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
Image credit: Lorna May Wadsworth
Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social Head of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️⚧️ @canopyrobin.com Professional tree enthusiast with a PhD about it.
Not being super professional here.
I make pride pins to fund my transition.
canopyrobin.com/links
(they/she)
Kristof Selleslach @kristofselle.bsky.social Curator of Archives at Museum Plantin-Moretus • Self-funded PhD Candidate at University of Amsterdam • Posts about the printing staff of the Plantin Press
Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social Hungry historian. Novelist. Vancouver Island dweller. I post a lot about old books I'm reading, and sometimes new ones. Also art and nature shots. I avoid posting about politics because what the fuck's the point. You know what I think.
Mistrbear @mistrbear.bsky.social
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social researcher, writer, literary historian 📖 early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 book reviews editor at The Bottle Imp 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
Andrew Bloomberg @andrewbloomberg.bsky.social He/him. Dad, husband, immigration lawyer (but doesn’t work here). Pro Popular Front, pro Sewer Socialism, anti borders. Upper Midwest Nationalist. Mostly posts food, bad history jokes, kid stuff, and about the Minnesota Goddamn Timberwolves.
Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social Early modern historian of the Atlantic world, Indigenous Americas, Western Africa, France. Editor, Huntington Library Quarterly. brettrushforth.com
StatsJew @statsjew.bsky.social Progressive Masorti/Conservative Jew. Statistician and US policy wonk. Married aroace with 3 kids.
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Gustavs Strenga @strenga.bsky.social Medievalist. Cultural historian. Interested in the late Middle Ages, collective memory, commemoration, gift-giving, medieval heroes after the Middle Ages, medieval Hanse and Livonia. Associate professor at the Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga)
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social Scholar of Fortune @History Department - Ghent University. Everything you wanted to know about The Fall of Rome but were afraid to ask. Gallivanter extraordinaire. Italophile. Homeric Laughter.
Cambridge Medieval @camedieval.bsky.social Official account for the medieval history subject group at the University of Cambridge. Posting about all things medieval
Tim Schmalz @timschmalz.bsky.social Head of History, Deputy Housemaster and Rowing Coach | Cambridge PhD | Historian of Interwar Europe
William M. Barton @krithemp.bsky.social Greek & Latin | Early modern literature | Uni Innsbruck | sometimes running | 📀
Jay Moschella @jaymoschella.bsky.social Parent, librarian, public servant, person in Boston
פינחס יוסף מונד @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social Personal account of @pymundgenealogy.com
🟣 𐃆
גירא בעינא דשטנא
📍 Hamilton, ON (#HamOnt), Canada
🔗: pymundgenealogy.com
Read The Talmud @read-the-talmud.bsky.social Like Daf Yomi, but much slower.
(I've heard some people do it in a weekend, but that's not my style)
Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social PhD candidate
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
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
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social History postdoc in Gotha (FZG) and Turin (THP), soon Halle (IZEA).
Working on race, politics, and education in the German Enlightenment (and beyond). Interested in all things early modern. Enjoys hiking, hummus, horror films, and heavy metal. Jewish.
Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social Futures of work. Writing, researching, teaching, lefting. Ruthless everything, existing. http://dmgreene.net
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
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/
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day your friendly local yorkshireman from transylvania
That's So Medieval Podcast @thatssomedieval.bsky.social A twelve episode series funded by Fordham's Center on Religion and Culture in which Ph.D. candidate Benjamin Bertrand tries to find the connections between the medieval Church and the modern world. New episodes release on Wednesdays.
Justin Searle @jfsearle.bsky.social Shaved sasquatch, ready for life in the big city!
Likes: Humanity, Trains
Dislikes: Moral Absolutism
Bird pictures/ References to Clue (1985) = automatic follow
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social Imaginaria, libraries, archives, book history, history of science, social/environmental justice, music, birds, plants, funny things
Water creature | she/her | Californian in northeastern US
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
Executive Chef, Sardaukar Mess Hall @jpnudell.bsky.social Pizza appreciator, ancient historian, reader, writer, baker. In some order. Looking forward to the pivot past video.
Blogging here: https://joshuapnudell.com/blog/
Wonder of Science @wonderofscience.bsky.social "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein
linktr.ee/wonderofscience
Troy Goodfellow @troyg.bsky.social PR Manager for Historical Strategy Games at Paradox Interactive. Former podcaster, former games critic.
Mostly happy, always worried.
Ontario, Canada
https://linktr.ee/troygoodfellow
Emily PhD 🎓 @ejwillingham.bsky.social I’ve angered famous men. Scribe @thinkingautism.com: https://tinyurl.com/TPGA-NL. Books: PHALLACY+TAILORED BRAIN+. Journalist, words@ SciAm++. Biologist: embryos/gonads+. Human-crafted work. Pro-woke/antifascist. Very Texan 🤠 https://tinyurl.com/526jrcuv
Andrés E. Caicedo @andrescaicedo01.bsky.social Father of two. Set theorist. Editor at Math Reviews.
Dr Ashley Firth .bsky.social @drashleyfirth.bsky.social Medieval Historian and author. My research interests include the history of women, the Crusades and medieval kingship. My forthcoming book 'Trailblazing Medieval Women' is now available to preorder.
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature.
Quinten Somsen @quintensomsen.bsky.social Dr. | Historian | Lecturer at Radboud University | Book Project: Asserting Princely Power in Hesse-Kassel and the Dutch Republic | Holy Roman Empire & Dutch Republic | #earlymodern | https://independent.academia.edu/QuintenSomsen
Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social eighteenth-century scholar in Heatstroke, TX. let's see how this goes.
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
Seán Thomas Kane @sthosdkane.bsky.social Historian of 16th century French natural history focusing on three-toed sloths (Bradypus sp.). Ph.D. Candidate at Binghamton University. Fellow of the Linnean Society. Gaelgeoir. All opinions are my own.
Jennifer Park @jennmpark.bsky.social early modern literature, critical race, history of science & medicine • environmental and disability justice • community care • she/her • crip time #LongCovid
Dr Adrea Johnson @adrearj.bsky.social Early Modern Historian - poetry, theology, & women’s writing | Teach @UFV & Lecturer @ Regent College | Fond of 📚 & 🐝| @adrearj 🇨🇦
Mexican Studies Research Collective @mexicanists.org Mexican literary and cultural studies mexicanists.org
Charlotte Meijer @chrmeijer.bsky.social PhD candidate @Radboud University studying the history of human-insect relations 🐜🦗🪰 | Editor for the Yearbook of Women's History (AUP)| #envhist #entomology
Nederlands & English
Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social Coach/Developmental Editor for social science academics, including dissertators. Sometimes methods prof; author of _Empirical Research & Writing: A Pol Sci Student's Practical Guide_. Accepting manuscripts for summer & coaching clients year round.
Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host.
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.
Sean Kheraj @seankheraj.bsky.social Canadian and environmental history Professor and Vice-Provost Academic, Toronto Metropolitan University. Executive member of Network in Canadian History & Environment. https://seankheraj.com He/Him
💛Magda Teter🟦📖 @mteter-historian.bsky.social Historian/author: "Blood Libels, Hostile Archives"/"Christian Supremacy"/"Blood Libel"/"Sinners on Trial"/"Jews&Heretics" Fordham; NYRB
Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk Assistant Research Professor @camunicampop.bsky.social
Technical Director, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org
Research Associate & GIS Consultant @ihr.bsky.social & @layersoflondon.bsky.social
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@drjoshmeyers.bsky.social @drjoshmeyers.bsky.social Recovering Academic and Sci-Fi connoisseur reporting from the North Shore
Helen Lovatt @helenlovatt.bsky.social Professor of Classics at Nottingham, writing, cats, brass banding, flowers. Power of Sadness, Latin Epic, Argonauts crossing. She/they. Legally blind
claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social ¶ a figure of tollerable [sic] disorder ¶ plays & typography & dirty books ¶ accidental miltonist ¶ editrix ¶ elder-cat mom ¶ she|her|hers ¶ all opinions my own ¶ https://www.ofpilcrows.com
The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social A journal embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past & present | Published by Taylor & Francis for London Journal Trust | Articles & Special Issue proposals welcome | thelondonjournal.org
johnhunt1610.bsky.social @johnhunt1610.bsky.social Rogue Scholar, Historian of Vice and Street Life in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, Papal Historian, Belgian Beer Advocate, Left Academe for the Love of Sanity