Nykle Dijkstra @nykledijkstra.bsky.social Geschiedenis (o.a. maritiem en WO1).
Werkzaam bij Historisch Centrum Leeuwarden en Fries Scheepvaart Museum. Bericht op pers. titel
Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social Pictures, facts, memories and emotions from an irrepressible, sweeping, wild, exciting time of the 70s and 80s.
http://allmylinks.com/nokon1501
Suze Zijlstra @suzezij.bsky.social Historian | Colonial & Maritime History | Assistant Professor in Public History of Slavery at University of Amsterdam | Research Curator at the Dutch National Maritime Museum, Het Scheepvaartmuseum | Author of 'De voormoeders'
CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social French miniature painter. I paint lot of pride inspired minis, so if you like colors, welcome! (He/Him).
Sanne Muurling @smuurling.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Social History @ Radboud Uni | History of gender, social inequalities, crime, death & disease | Editor TSEG & HISFAM | 📚🎮 🗺 🐈
Lex Heerma van Voss @lexhvv01.bsky.social Fellow International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. History of work, social security, North Sea, Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland. Tsundoku. Tweets private views.
David Wilson @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social Historian working on legal and environmental history within context of colonialism & oceans / lakes, esp. piracy, fishing, & marine science. Current focus: Law, Science, and the British Colonial Fisheries Advisory Committee. Senior Lecturer @ Strathclyde.
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
Material Culture Studios @mcshistory.bsky.social Indie dev. studio specializing historically accurate RTS city builders, artifact/site digitization and reconstruction, historic consultation/research, and educational materials. Blending digital and physical media to put in history into the hands of all.
Hannah Leonard @hannahleonard.bsky.social PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 🎓
@brusselsbioarch.bsky.social
Expect to hear about isotopes, climate change and funerary practices in the Bronze Age
🔥🦴🏺💀⚰️🦷🪦🧪
LEArning from the Past (LEAP)
https://www.leap-belgium.be/
Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social goblin • he/him • patreon.com/adamtots • Let Me In Your Window: https://amzn.to/4l2oOFw
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Global Maritime History @globalmarhist.bsky.social GMH is a forum for discussions of maritime history, broadly conceived. Get in touch if you'd like to post an article, blog, CFP or podcast. Social media run by @canadianerrant
No ChatGPT or AI art permitted for content on our website.
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Jessica den Oudsten @jessicadenoudsten.bsky.social PhD candidate Radboud University丨Guest researcher Huygens Institute丨Data curator Amsterdam City Archives丨Early Modern History丨Migration History
International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social IMHA is a professional association of Scholars. The International Journal of Maritime History is published quarterly, on various dimensions of maritime history
www.imha.info
Jeremy Land @jeremyland.bsky.social Econ and Biz Historian of the Early Modern World, including but not limited to trade, war, and state capacity. Researcher at Uni Helsinki, Meetings Coordinator of the Econ Hist Assoc, and Exec. Director of @socscihistory.blsky.social. More: jeremyland.org
Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
Benjamin Asmussen @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social Maritime historian & Senior Researcher @National Museum of Denmark interested in global connections - especially early modern Danish-Norwegian trading companies and their encounters. Experimenting with LLMs to gain historian superpowers!
Alexandra Pereira @parachute80.bsky.social Migration Researcher. Postdoc UCP/Porticus. PhD Sociology. MA Psychology (céd. 16483). IMISCOE/Migration Research Hub.
https://linktr.ee/alexandrapereira1980
Prof Hannah Cobb @archaeocobb.bsky.social Prof of Archaeology & Pedagogy at the University of Manchester, NTF, PFHEA, UoM Academic Development Lead, CoDirector of the Ardnamuchan Transitions Project. #EDI. Giddy is my base state. she/her.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah.cobb
Stuart Major @majorhistory.bsky.social Masters in Military History, working full time, side projects in community history, FRGS, MRHistS
https://www.major-history.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/MajorHistory1
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
James Kennaway @jgkennaway.bsky.social Historian of medicine etc. at the University of Groningen.
Lu Stanton-Greenwood @covetroll.bsky.social BAJR-affiliated data hellion | Archaeonerd | Big Data Evangelist | Völur Researcher | Queer, she\her 
Andrea Campanella @emuboy.bsky.social I see beauty in everything, I'm passionate and curious, love technology, humans and life.
Collect 💾🖥️
Embedded 🐧 dev
Ally of 🏳️🌈
"The Funniest Man I Ever met" (H. O'Hara, journalist)
Stasi DeMaio @thelalilulelo.bsky.social Archaeologist. Museum writer. Union. My opinions are my own and don't represent any employer.
Nicolas Deneschau @nicozilla.bsky.social Plume d’occasion pour Metal Hurlant | L'Ecran Fantastique | Jeux Video Magazine | Third Editions | PixnLove
Dr. Lisa M. Daly, PhD @planecrashgirl.bsky.social Airplane archaeologist (NL focused, 1920s-1940s aviation mostly), researcher, author (fiction and non-fiction), cat lover, crafter, ballroom dance instructor, explorer, and all about all things Newfoundland and Labrador history, heritage, and culture.
Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social Roman historian at W. Mich U. specializing in gender, sexuality, & their reception in tv, music videos, games, & film. she/hers/ista Mom of 3. Avid baker & traveler. Antifascist. Always learning from unusual niche subject experts. Opinions are my own.
The Bishop @nomuskplease.bsky.social Education, Lecturer, Councillor. Interests are many but specifically are : Early modern political history ( print, Parliament and Succession) , London history, politics and the natural world. West Brom Fan. Not in any particular order. #Skystorians
Internet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social #OpenAccess peer-reviewed #digital #journal for #archaeology at University of York (UK). Posts by Judith Winters (Ed) #publication #digital #heritage 🏺
Dr Melanie Holihead @mmr-holihead.bsky.social Late-start historian, proud Corpuscle, author ‘Naval Seamen’s Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ (https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837650118/naval-seamens-women-in-nineteenth-century-britain/). DPhil, FRHistS. Winner 2012 Corbett Prize in Naval History.
King Ludd @kingludd.bsky.social Historian, wargamer, miniatures painter.
Lego, classic menswear, scale models, vinylcollecting, heavy metal, music, history, art, boardgames, movies, books.
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
Elke Papelitzky @elkelitzky.bsky.social Associate professor of early modern Chinese history at the University of Oslo working on maps and maritime history
sorcha ✨ @duckingwhat.bsky.social Miniaturisation in Roman Britain || archaeology & gaming
Robert Houghton @robehoughton.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester. Author of The Middle Ages in Computer Games. Co-organiser of the Middle Ages in Modern Games conference. Italy; Investiture Contest; Games.
Digcrazygal @digcrazygal.bsky.social #Archaeologist, #YACLeader, #educator, #independentresearcher, #womensrefugeworker, #mindfulnesslifecoach, #herbalist. #EDI and #wellbeing. #PublicOutreach. #Author. Devotee of #TheMorrigan Views own. Looking for forbearance with disingenuous folk...
Jake Dyble @jakedyble.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher in Padua 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 Early modern commercial law, capitalism, slavery
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
Daniel Gilman @danielgilman.bsky.social Researching 18th century eloquence and anti-slavery advocacy l PhD candidate at Cambridge University l Legislative Advisor for the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking l Speech in CS Lewis
Dr. Kira Jones @flaviansophist.bsky.social Classicist. Gamer. Art historian. Actual Dr. Jones. she/her, stick around for antiquity in videogames and general nonsense.
Anna Gibson Holloway, PhD @monitorkitty.bsky.social Maritime historian, author, curator - specializing in Naval and Merchant Marine history, and 19th century marine salvage firms. Erstwhile straight edger, bass player, understudy fire eater, and hurdy gurdy player. My opinions are my own. Mine mine mine.
Aidan Holtan @aidanholtan.bsky.social Medievalist studying the body in Old English and Old Norse Literature. She/her/hers. All views expressed here are my own.
Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight @canadianerrant.bsky.social Maritime Historian. Chief Mate (150 GT). Dad & Husband. Gardener, Cook & Brewer. Ngāi Tahu & McLean of Duart. Toitū te Tiriti. TCEU 416/CUPE L79. Canadian & Kiwi. Go Blue Jays. Cymru am byth. Alba gu brath. Go All Blacks. He/Him. Likes fashion/style
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Syncoplay Retro Gaming @syncoplay.bsky.social (Joe Bourrie) Author: Beyond the NES, Owner: Syncoplay Retro Gaming. Founding member of THE VOID VR, Game Designer for EA/THQ, Tetris Blitz designer, Famicom enthusiast.
Errol 🦇🏳️🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social Award-nominated Writer and Narrative Designer. Queer historian of queer history. Nightmare enthusiast. Editor. Bisexual. Cat owner. Listen, how long have you got?
➡️ errolseymour.carrd.co ⬅️
Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social Studio manager/producer @suspicious.dev. Co-founder @jank.cool. Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Crate & Crowbar, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
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.
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social Historian of science, mostly medieval to early modern astronomy & mathematical arts. Things German, Polish, Egyptian, or hey that looks interesting. Ex public policy + occasional tuba. Copernicus book in progress. Don't get long covid, it sucks.
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
Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Munich
https://tinyurl.com/4ynbth3x
Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social Rare Books Librarian at UofArizona. PhD candidate in Info Science. #BookHistory of early modern Navarre (bookselling/private libraries), #DH, #DHmakes, libraries, rare books. Senior Bibliography Editor for Chymistry of Isaac Newton. Opinions are my own.
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). Abolish ICE
Madeline McMahon @madmcmahon.bsky.social Historian, bibliophile, early modernist.
Assistant Prof in History @ UT Austin (I don’t speak for my employer)
Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social Historian of religion, culture, books, music | Postdoc KCL @DORMEME16 on music books | Early Modern Catholics | Sir Thomas Tresham | Antiquarianism | Soprano | Anglican | Anti-semitism not tolerated
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social Historian | 18thc France, sci/med, gender | Author: Sentimental Savants (UChicago) | Currently: Enlightenment public health & medical authority | she/her | My views | meghankroberts.com
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.
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social Curator of rare books and manuscripts at Museum Plantin-Moretus ❦ Doctor in early modern history ❦ Book historian and bibliographer ❦ Research on the materiality of early modern books
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Katherine Ibbett @eparpillee.bsky.social Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Guillaume Candela @guillaumecandela.bsky.social Colonial Latin America, Indigenous History, Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University. Member of the UKLAH board. Colonial LASA Social Media committee.
https://guillaumecandela.github.io
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social Award-winning Author. Associate Professor, School of History, University of Leeds. Author of The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico. Research: Black people, Women, Slavery, Freedom, Law, Jesuits.
Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh. World History, Atlantic History, Iberian Empires and many other things, too. Editor, Journal of Early Modern History. Author, American Baroque (Omohundro/UNC Press, 2018)
Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social Feminist, musicologist, musician, extreme knitter, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Girl groups from Ferrara to Motown; all the nuns, all the time; disability studies
Prof Emerita of Music, Uni of Southampton, FRHistS; @musicasecreta.bsky.social
Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Europe and the World @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
Formerly SNSF PostDoc @Zurich|Past & Present Fellow @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @ihr| EUI PhD
Iberian & North African Empires, Material culture, Mobility in the EM World 🌊
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social Reformation historian, immigrant, birder, dochter van Nederlanders, author of REFORMATION IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, 1500-1620 (Cambridge UP, 2022). Working on a book on the year 1572 in (mostly) Europe. Opinions all mine, and I speak only for myself.
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social Philly Philly. Go Birds. Also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
VAP @ Oberlin
https://www.oberlin.edu/amanda-summers
Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence and prison hijinks from the 17th century
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social History, strategy & communication | game designer | researcher in applied history | PhD early modern history, MPhil international relations | www.branwenadvisors.com, www.sunkentower.be
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire & Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Writing a book about multilingual London. Learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!