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
Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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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
Dan David Prize @dandavidprize.org The Dan David Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.
The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es A celebration of the French Republican Calendar.
Posts daily at midnight, Parisian time.
Website is https://frenchrepublican.info
Ping @folkwizard.online if I'm broken
NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social Get ready for a new era in astronomy and astrophysics with Rubin Observatory!
Para español siga a Instagram: http://instagram.com/rubin_observatory
Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan
Co-Editor of Historical Methods.
Environmental and digital historian of London, Canada and the British World in the 19th century. #dyslexic
Taig Dara 🌹🌳 泰格·達熱 @taigdara.bsky.social Phd-ing institutional history at the University of Hawaiʻi: "The China Democratic League at the first People's Political Consultative Conference"
John Foot @footymac.bsky.social Historian specialised in contemporary Italy - has published books on Italian football, radical psychiatry (Franco Basaglia), Fascism. Book on the Red Brigades out in 2025. John-foot.com
CineCalendar @cinecalendar.bsky.social When you absolutely, positively got to know every "On This Day" in movie history, accept no substitutes.
10+ years & 50,000 followers on Twitter, making a new home for ourselves here. (formerly Dates in Movies)
Liz Emrich-Rougé @e-emrichrouge.bsky.social Independent Art Historian, Art Educator, Museum Professional, Lover of 川菜
http://e-emrichrouge.owlstown.net
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Maarten Jonker @mjhjonker.bsky.social MPhil/PhD candidate in International History @LSE
Working on a transimperial history of the Dutch Empire
James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.
The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social Kay W. Historical geography (PhD) researching housing, local and family history. Edinburgh 🏴 Resources at The Past and other Places (blogs rarely). Takes photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver.
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
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
ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au News and analysis from Australia’s most trusted news organisation.
Rosaria Franco @rfrancophd.bsky.social Historian of refugees, humanitarianism, childhood, empires, Cold War.
Centre for Transimperial History, Leipzig University @transimperial.bsky.social https://recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/en/forschung/forschungsprojekte/centre-for-transimperial-history
The Centre endeavours to further transimperial history while making more visible and accessible all things transimperial.
H-Empire @h-empire.bsky.social H-Net's interdisciplinary network on colonial and imperial studies. https://hnet30prod.h-net.org/h-empire
Xinyue LI @xinyueli.bsky.social PhD candidate at CHSTM, University of Manchester. History of Meteorology, Environmental History, Modern Chinese History
Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c France—incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia) 📕Dangers of Youth www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Professional editor www.brionyneilson.com
Sydney, Australia
brisradhis.bsky.social @brisradhis.bsky.social This is the Bristol Radical History Group’s Bluesky account. We’ve been organising events in the West Country & beyond since 2006. We’re a publisher & manage several research projects. We organise a major annual Radical History Festival in central Bristol.
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and modern SE Asia @UTU.fi｜🌲 Currently working on transimperial histories of forestry 🌲｜Previously: colonial cities 🏛️ and travel 🚢｜PhD from EUI｜📚 occasionally writes about books and films 🎞️
Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social Curator, Northwestern University Transportation Library. All scanned images are from NUTL’s collections, unless otherwise indicated. Banner photo is from a promotional packet for the L-1011.
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institute of Economic and Social Research. PhD from King’s College London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.
Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social anticolonialism / antifascism / anarchism / author of 'The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire' (2026) https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781807810153
Ghostcards @ghostcards.bsky.social We're all ghosts now. Curated by @pastpostcard.bsky.social. Represented by http://morgangreencreatives.com
sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social historian | japanese empire, environment, technology | wabanaki territory
more here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/schristm/index.html
Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net brucespringsteen.net
London Group of Historical Geographers @lghgseminar.bsky.social The London Group of Historical Geographers is a seminar series hosted by the Institute of Historical Research. Conveners: Felix Driver, Margot Finn, Innes M. Keighren, and Miles Ogborn. https://lghgseminar.wordpress.com/
@lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]- D David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
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.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Chris Campbell @chriscampbell1.bsky.social History PhD student, St John's College, Cambridge | Researching the British Council and soft power in the twentieth century
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 🐈
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Sarah C. Dunstan @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social Historian of 20thC French & US Empire| Human rights, Citizenship, Race & Gender at the University of Glasgow
Author of Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War (CUP, 2021).
Miloš Vojinović @infinite-milos.bsky.social Historian. Research interests: photography, knowledge, and the Balkans.
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social Archaeology PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & the Minoans🏺💀
Archives volunteer @ Griffith Institute & Ashmolean Museum
In Oxford/from Dublin
Reading: Queen's Play, Dorothy Dunnett
Max Bickers @maxbickers.com 
Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social List of *online* and *open access* collections of historical documents relating to radical history (broadly defined). Nearly 1000 collections from around the world listed (and always looking for more).
Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures.
https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/
British Society of Criminology @britishcriminology.bsky.social 
Amy Stanley @astanley711.bsky.social Historian of Japan. Loves dogs. Famous 女史, notorious enemy of all sexual relations.
Gwen Seabourne @gwenseabourne.bsky.social #LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law. Account nobody else's fault. Working on: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'.
Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Bristol University, Queen Mary University of London and British Library AHRC project, Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present'
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social Jurors have a right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience, irrespective of a Judge’s directions. Every defendant deserves access to fair justice.
We are a UK-based campaign to ensure fair justice in UK courtrooms.
www.defendourjuries.net
Kelsey Granger @kelseygranger.bsky.social Historian of China and the Silk Roads, esp. animal history, manuscripts, labour, and pet-keeping
Research Fellow @ IHR London | Co-founder of Chinese Animal Studies Network | Book Review Editor @ Animal History
Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies @durhamchina.bsky.social we are a multi-disciplinary research centre dedicated to the study of contemporary China and the wider East Asian region, based at Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/contemporary-chinese-studies/
SOAS History @soashistory.bsky.social News and events from the History Department in the School of History, Religions and Philosophies @SOAS University of London www.soas.ac.uk and the SOAS History Blog blogs.soas.ac.uk/soashistoryblog/
British Association for Chinese Studies 英国汉学协会 @chinesestudies.bsky.social The British Association for Chinese Studies 英国汉学协会 英國漢學協會 is a non-political organization which aims to encourage and promote Chinese studies in the United Kingdom. For more information about us, please visit https://bacsuk.org.uk/
Pauline Fairclough @paulinefairclough.bsky.social Music Prof, University of Bristol
NCC (北米日本研究資料調整協議会) @nccjapaninfo.bsky.social Your guide to Japanese library and information resources. 📚💻
http://nccjapan.org/
The International Flann O’Brien Society @flannobriensoc.bsky.social The International Flann O’Brien Society
Organising conferences, books, readings, screenings, events dedicated to the life & works of Brian O'Nolan
Profile pic by David O'Kane
Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com Hong Kong's impartial, non-profit, award-winning English-language newspaper: https://hongkongfp.com/about/ 100% independent, backed by an Ethics code and reader-funded: https://support.hongkongfp.com/
April Wei-West @aprilw.bsky.social PhD researcher in Music at SOAS, University of London (CHASE-funded) | vocaloid and virtualities | digital ethnography | CHASE DiSCo network lead
From the river to the sea
More: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/april-wei-west
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Wei-chieh Tsai @weictsai.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at National Chung Cheng University | Inner Asia, Central Eurasia, Central Asia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Tibet & Xinjiang | President of Taiwan Society for Inner Eurasian Studies
https://ccu-tw.academia.edu/WeichiehTsai- P Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
Get the paper delivered to your door: membership.theonion.com
Join The Onion Newsletter: https://theonion.com/newsletters/
Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897). Just finished another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world.
MA Naval, Maritime and Coastal History Portsmouth @navalhistory.bsky.social Study watery history at the home of the Royal Navy through distance learning. Bringing together students from all over the world. #NavalHistory #CoastalHistory #MaritimeHistory 
https://stephenjones.blog/ @stevejonesblog.bsky.social Daoism—lives—language—performance. And jokes
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"
Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD student (SWWDTP) | Space and feminism in the British Women's Liberation Movement | Virgo | she/her
@katemedwards.bsky.social @katemedwards.bsky.social 
Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
Xianglong Zhu @shannonzhu.bsky.social Studying modern Chinese history of science and technology @HPS Cambridge
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
Diplomatic History @diplomatichistory.bsky.social Official journal for the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) @shafrhistorians.bsky.social
https://academic.oup.com/dh
@tomhunterart.bsky.social @tomhunterart.bsky.social 
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social Historian of modern China living in Dublin
Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social The Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition @BristolUni.bsky.social. Promoting research into Greco-Roman culture, from antiquity to the present day.
igrct.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social The interdisciplinary Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol concerned with all aspects of the history, culture, art and representation of medieval Europe.
English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social Department of English, UoB 📚
Top 10 UK university and 54th in the world (QS Rankings 2025)
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com A digital magazine on all things China and bookish, publishing reviews, essays, excerpts, lists and more. Organizer of the Baifang Schell China Books Prize
https://chinabooksreview.com/
Kate O'Malley @kateom.bsky.social Mam, historian, northsider.
🏸🏃♀️🤘🌱
Co-producer & co-host RTÉ Radio 1's #IrishImperialLives
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/irish-imperial-lives/
History of South China Workshop @southchinahistory.bsky.social Workshop on the histories of South China, based on new sources, methods, and approaches.
4 July 2025, @ox.ac.uk
For more info: https://bit.ly/HistoryofSouthChina