The Connected Past @theconnectedpast.bsky.social The official BlueSky handle for The Connected Past community. Find upcoming events: https://connectedpast.net/
Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social Underviser i historie og samfundsfag.
Forperson for Historielærerforeningen for stx & hf -> @historielaerer.dk
Likes and reposts doesn't equal agreement.
#skolechat #dkhist #dkøko #dkpol #uddpol #histmed #30DayChartChallenge
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uopmaritime @uopmaritime.bsky.social The Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth focuses on the past, present and future importance of urban-maritime cultures and communities within a global context. Find out more at www.port.ac.uk/portcities
Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Vice-President of the European Commission
Baltic Connections: a Conference in Social Science History @balticconnections.bsky.social Baltic Connections brings together researchers from around the world to explore #econhist, #socialhistory, #bizhist and #comparativehistory, with a special focus on the Baltic Sea region. Topics include trade, migration, social change, and political econom
René Bøgelund @rbogelund.eurosky.social Engineer by trait. Er her for det sjove og skæve. Natur, hemmeligheder, politik og kort. Og naturligvis #obdk. Og Daft Punk.
Mette Brunette @mettelykkebo.bsky.social
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Dr Ian Friel @drianfriel.bsky.social Independent historian, FSA and FRHistS, specialising in maritime, local and house history, based in UK. Author of five books on maritime history, multiple research papers and house histories. www.ianfriel.co.uk Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Deputy Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities. She/her
Early Modern Metals Research Network @emodmetals.bsky.social EMMRN is an interdisciplinary, international research network for scholars interested in metals in the early modern world.
https://earlymodernmetals.wordpress.com/
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Dr. Barry Torch @barrytorch.bsky.social He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Matthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social Icelander in Ireland. PhD Candidate @historytcd.bsky.social and Fellow @tlrhub.bsky.social. Social and political history of global Scandinavia and the Nordic region. Researching governance and policymaking in the Danish Oldenburg Empire in the long 18th c.
Karen Vallgårda @kvallgarda.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Copenhagen
Jeannette Ehlers @jeannetteehlers.bsky.social Visual artist with a global perspective and engagement based in Copenhagen ✨
Practice based PhD student.
SlaveryMuseum.org @slaverymuseum.bsky.social This page concerns the history and news of the Global Black, Indigenous, and First Nation people. We are not the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.
Henrik Holm @henrikholm.bsky.social Profession: I'm an art historian, curator and teacher.
Private life: married, two children, one cat, two turtles, one fish tank.- L Lincoln Paine @lincolnpaine.bsky.social Maritime historian—The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, among other things. LincolnPaine.com
In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social ERC and University of Copenhagen research project investigating the shared history of the Lesser Antilles, 1650-1850. Website: www.inthesamesea.ku.dk
Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network @oxscandistudies.bsky.social We're a @torchoxford.bsky.social Student Network, at @ox.ac.uk, run by Sarah Fengler, Leif Hammer, Marie Martine, and Tzen Sam. Our focus is on Scandinavia as a region. Read more on our website: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/scandinavian-studies-network
Kristiane Strætkvern @kristianes.bsky.social Conservator at the National Museum of Denmark.
Anisia A. Iacob @alisiacob.bsky.social Gliding between history and philosophy. PhD @ University of Kent and King's College London. Knowledge Orders Before Modernity, ex RKD & Leiden Universiteit
UCPH School of Archaeology @ucph-soa.bsky.social UCPH School of Archaeology is a cross-faculty initiative bringing together the rich diversity of expertise in the field of archaeology found at the University of Copenhagen in unique and innovative ways.
Søren Nørby @navalnoerby.bsky.social Naval historian. Mainly Danish. And submarines. #topgunisanavyfilm Www.noerby.net
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social Professor of eighteenth-century lit and culture; person who studies pirates; dragon aficionado; proud parliamentarian dork. Opinions are my own and no one else's.
Timothy Choi @timdocchoi.bsky.social Ship modeler, all-around Canadian boat guy (and gov't goon, so usual caveats apply). PhD'd in Norwegian, Danish, and Canadian naval forces: book version coming Soon™️(Fjords Deep and Oceans Blue - Bloomsbury).
Stephen Fisher @seaspitfires.com Author, historian & archaeologist, Lindblad Expeditions guide, National Geographic expert. Has a soft spot for WW2 Coastal Forces, landing craft, LCT 7074 & D-Day. Servant to Flynn. Writes books for Penguin.
www.seaspitfires.com
Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
John Rawlinson @johnraw.bsky.social Amphibious History, Museums, Countryside, Heritage, Royal Marines, Militaria, Food
Anne Marie Høier Eriksen @amresearch.bsky.social Researcher
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home- K Kristoffer Buck Pedersen @kbuckp.bsky.social
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.
Robb Robinson @robb51.bsky.social Maritime and British historian. British Commission for Maritime History Trustee, Hon Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interests include the Yorkshire Coast, fisheries history and the role of smaller vessels in the Great War at Sea.
Nicole Maceira Cumming @nicolemaceira.bsky.social Historian of early mod animals /environment / Reformation 🐏🪻⛪️ Postdoctoral Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Lecturer in Global Environmental History @glasgow.ac.uk
PhD hunting in James VI's court 🦌 👑
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Alexandra Wieland @viadiversi.bsky.social Archivist. Loves a good paradox. Consumes many books and cups of tea.
Videnskab.dk @videnskab.dk Nyheder, overraskende historier og vigtige perspektiver fra videnskabens verden. #dkvid \ http://videnskab.dk/nyhedsbrev
Business History, a Taylor & Francis Journal @businesshistory.bsky.social #BusinessHistory is an international #journal concerned with how businesses, #organizations, and their environment develop over time. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbsh20 #bizhis
TannerRitchie Publishing 🍁 @tannerritchie.bsky.social Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers.
www.tannerritchie.com
Mikkel Thelle @mthelle.bsky.social Historian, researching cities, welfare and cultural history. National Museum of Denmark.
Anette Larner @anettelarner.bsky.social PhD in criminal history | Now setting up a maritime careers center at Aarhus University👊🚢 #MaritimeGateway
#ynwa⚽️ #dkpol #altac #maritime
Calvin Schermerhorn @calscherm.bsky.social Author of The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (2025) @yalepress. From Southern Maryland🍂. Teaches history in Arizona 🌵
Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social Archaeologist researching the US Southwest, professor, museum professional. My website: https://michelle-turner.owlstown.net/
Andrés Gattinoni @andresgattinoni.com.ar Historiador de melancolías ajenas. Amante de las etimologías, cuanto más truchas mejor. Influencer de notas al pie. / Historian of alien melancholies. Lover of (specially false) etymologies. Footnote influencer. #18thc #EarlyModern 🗃️
Projekt Runeberg @runeberg-org.bsky.social Fri nordisk litteratur, på Internet sedan 1992.
https://runeberg.org/
Project Runeberg is a volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet.
Natalie M. Smith @nataliesmith.bsky.social Associate lecturer at @mhafhs.bsky.social; Rettig Fellow. History PhD on the Swedish Empire & identity from St Andrews. Swedish & Sami History, history of empire, science and knowledge. Also expect baking, crocheting and cats 🐈
Scilicet - History of Knowledge @scilicetblog.bsky.social 📖 A History of Knowledge magazine by Guy Fassler, James Fox, and Natalie Smith.
⌛️ Middle Ages to Modernity
👉 Check out our website: https://scilicet.org.uk
Sidsel Eriksen @sidsele.bsky.social Associate Professor, Ph.D. in History
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social Every system is a sensor if you hold it right.
Main arena, Baltics. 🇸🇪
mastodon.world/@auonsson , x.com/auonsson backup 🇸🇪
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Karen Gram-Skjoldager @karenskjoldager.bsky.social Historiker, viceinstitutleder for forskning på AU. Forsker i international politik og diplomati i det 20. århundrede. Er ikke kommet for at slås.
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a cooperative digital library and network for resources from & about the Caribbean & circum-Caribbean. | Est. 2004 | http://dloc.com | Subscribe to receive our email updates: https://go.fiu.edu/DLOCPUBLIC
Dr. Mollie Carlyle @molliecarlyle.bsky.social Maritime musicologist and author of 'The Shantyman's Compendium'. Completed a PhD on ‘the last shantyman’, Stan Hugill, at the University of Aberdeen.
https://www.molliecarlyle.com
@sorenbindesboll.bsky.social @sorenbindesboll.bsky.social
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Houssem E. Chachia حسام الدين شاشية @hchachia.bsky.social 🧿| Assoc. Prof. (HDR) in History of Early Modern Mediterranean World (Univ. of Tunis). Specialist in #Morisco History. Winner of the 2024 Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
مختص في التاريخ الموريسكي
Meaghan Walker @madbirds.nl Historian of clothes and the maritime world in the long nineteenth century, 1660-1989. Aspiring Titanic influencer. Freelance researcher at http://www.madbirds.nl. She/Her
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Forsvaret @forsvaret.dk Officiel Bluesky-profil til Forsvarskommandoen (Danish Defence Command). Alm. henvendelser: fko@mil.dk. Pressehenvendelser: fko-presse@mil.dk.
John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology at Flinders University
Dan Pascoe @danpascoe79.bsky.social Maritime archaeologist specialising in the investigation of shipwrecks. PhD.
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
John Theibault @jtheibault.bsky.social Thirty Years War. Digital Humanities. Other Stuff.
Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social Hello from Medievalists.net, the leading online resource for the Middle Ages - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
@jensthidemann.bsky.social @jensthidemann.bsky.social
Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
Buy our book here:
linktr.ee/museumbums
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Anders Dalsager @andersdalsager.bsky.social Forperson for de 5000+ kultur- og medieansatte medlemmer af fagforeningen DM. Engageret historiker, museumsinspektør og arkivar / andersdalsager@gmail.com
Emilie Luther Valentin @eluthervalentin.bsky.social Social and cultural historian at University of Southern Denmark with an interest in crime and punishment in the early modern period. Currently working on digital history, witchcraft and court records in early modern Denmark.
Louise Hauberg Lindgaard 🗃️✨ @lhlindgaard.bsky.social Danish #earlymodern historian. #witchtrials | #digitalhumanities. One of the people behind HEX! Museum in Ribe. PhD fellow at University of Southern Denmark, researching the nobility's role and agency in Danish witch trials (1584-1660). #skystorian
Digital Scholarship at Oxford @discoxford.bsky.social An initiative to support and enhance humanities research through the use of innovative digital methods.
https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/home
Louise Nyholm Kallestrup @witchykallestrup.bsky.social Professor, Head of Doctoral School, SDU, #earlymodernist, witchcraft persecutions, Christian 4., dog person
King Ludd @kingludd.bsky.social Historian, wargamer, miniatures painter.
Lego, classic menswear, scale models, vinylcollecting, heavy metal, music, history, art, boardgames, movies, books.
@danneskiold.bsky.social @danneskiold.bsky.social
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Asia-Pacific Economic History Review @asia-pacific-echr.bsky.social The Asia-Pacific Economic History Review invites submissions in global, comparative & long-run economic history including local studies & the economies & populations of the Asia-Pacific region.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
Christoph Ellersgaard @chellersgaard.bsky.social Elite researcher (pun unintended). Contact: +4551789040
Lars K. Christensen @lkchr.bsky.social Historian, ph.d. & dr.phil., specialised in labour history and industrial heritage.
Also into politics, photography - and travelling to Italy.
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social History of sciences, humanities, and universities. Interested in alternatives and experiments in higher education, and likes old stuff. Author of "Modern Historiography in the Making" (Bloomsbury, 2022).
https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/eskild
Aske Laursen Brock @askebrock.bsky.social Working on urban development, gender and history from below more broadly in the early modern period
jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social they + she
art historian poet
Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices
U Delaware + Philly
co-founder of the journal Selva
https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
Gabriëlle La Croix @lacroixgabrielle.bsky.social Historian / PhD fellow at IN THE SAME SEA, University of Copenhagen / Family & Inter-island connections / Dutch & Danish in the 18th c. Caribbean
Peter Good @pejgood.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Iran, the Middle East and Indian Ocean
Marsely Kehoe @marselykehoe.bsky.social Early modern Dutch global art history | digital humanities | textiles | knitting | weaving | urban farming
Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social Senior researcher in Early Modern Dutch History and Culture at @KNAWHuC.
History of media and international relations in early modern Europe.
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social writing and teaching histories of 19 and 20c South Asia and Indian Ocean Worlds.
PHEDRA International Research Network @phedra-project.bsky.social International Research Network in European legal history of business, trade, merchants...
https://phedraproject.wordpress.com/
CIEE - Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Études Européennes - École normale supérieure - Paris