Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
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/
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Holly Gruntner @hollygruntner.bsky.social Landscape Historian at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Recent PhD frm William & Mary. Early America, knowledge-making, & kitchen gardens 🌱 public & digital history. She/her. Views my own.
Katy Telling @katytelling.bsky.social JCB Postdoc 2026 Coordinator || PhD, History. Family + Household Authority + Quakers in the 18th/17th-c. American South. Texan. She/Her. All views my own. 📍 PVD.
Productions Editor: Commonplace Journal
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
Alicia Andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz.bsky.social associate prof. of Shakespeare | book: “queer pregnancy in Shakespeare’s plays” | proud CUNY alum | bylines: Chronicle, Boston Globe, LA Review of Books, Electric Lit, Catapult, American Theatre, LitHub, Huffington Post, etc
aliciaandrzejewskiphd.com
Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Gaelic, University of Edinburgh
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Kathleen DuVal @kathleenduval.bsky.social Historian, UNC professor
Christopher Jones @ccjones.bsky.social Historian.
Author, Methodist Connections: Early American Religion in the Revolutionary Atlantic World (forthcoming, Cornell UP).
Now researching global history of religion + soccer.
Editor, Journal of Mormon History.
Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social Brown postdoc writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martin’s www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
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https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
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McNeil Center for Early American Studies @mcneilcenter.bsky.social Facilitating scholarly inquiry into the histories and cultures of North America/Atlantic world before 1850
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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Abby Mullen @abbymullen.bsky.social Naval historian, professor at USNA (views are my own), digital historian sometimes.
Emma Hart @emmahart.bsky.social Historian, mum, and trivia aficionado
Jacqueline Beatty, Ph.D. @jmbeatty.bsky.social History prof & author of *In Dependence* (NYU Press). Runner; baker; list maker. Never met a cheese I didn’t like. I should be writing. Views mine.
Alison Games @gamesaf.bsky.social No Kings! Free DC. Historian.
Laura Stevens @lauramstevens.bsky.social I'm a Professor of British, American, and Indigenous lit, pre-1800, & Director of Auburn University's Honors College.
Rebecca Brannon @brannon.bsky.social Historian. Writer. American Loyalists. History of Old Age. American Revolution. 🏳️🌈 mommy. Embrace life and live it.
Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
Rebecca DeWolf, PhD @rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.social Historian. Author of Gendered Citizenship: The Original Conflict over the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920-1963. (UNP, 2021) posts=my own thoughts. #ERA
www.rebeccadewolf.com
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
John Newhall @johnnewhall.com Early American Historian | Unitarian Universalist | Sailor | Film & Sound | Avid Fantasy Reader | Liverpool Fan | Cat Dad 🙀
From in Salem, Mass.
Kirsten Wood @kirstenwood.bsky.social Historian, Episcopalian, cat person, human parent, wife to a math prof
Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social Historian & Writer. THE TAME & THE WILD: PEOPLE AND ANIMALS AFTER 1492 (Harvard, 2024).
Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor. Community College enthusiast. Researching 17th-c gossip. Weighs more than a duck. Employed by George and Gracie. She/her.
Abigail Swingen @abigailswingen.bsky.social EM British & Atlantic history. Competing Visions of Empire (Yale, 2015). Now: Britain's Financial Revolution & Moral Crisis. She/her. New Englander (usually) in Texas. Views my own. Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2023.74
Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social Semi-retired history professor, University of Oregon. Thinking about genocide.
Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social Historian of early modern European ideas and culture, researching (Greek) early printed books; co-ordinator of #HorizonEurope #GrECI project (2023-25) http://greci-twinning.org #bookhistory #classicalreception #skystorians
Elizabeth Reese @elizamreese.bsky.social Historian of grief and public memory | Senior Manager of Interpretation at Woodlawn & Pope-Leighey House | Writing about Edwin Booth, celebrity, and grief | Author of Marquis de Lafayette Returns (History Press, 2024) |
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John Fea @johnfea1.bsky.social Historian at Lumen Center (Madison, WI) and Messiah University. Author of 6 books. Blogger and podcaster at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. #LGM #Bruuuuuce!
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social Professor in Long Beach, CA. She/her. Early modern women writers, drama, and book history. Blogs on early modern women. Opinions my own (of course)
bio.site/martinevanelk
https://hcommons.org/members/martinevanelk/
https://earlymodernfemalebookownership.w
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Dr. Emily Rhodes @erhodes.bsky.social Recently completed PhD in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge
Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social Historian of politics, business, media in early America. Author of Revolutionary Networks. He/him. See https://josephadelman.com for more.
Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com
Xiang Wei @xiangwei.bsky.social PhD from Cambridge on religion and Scottish military culture #EarlyModern | academic publishing
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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Scottish Historical Review @scottishhistreview.bsky.social Tweeting all things #ScottishHistory. Journal: SHR via
@EdinburghUP
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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
Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Craig Bruce Smith @craigbrucesmith.bsky.social Historian
Wrote "American Honor" http://amzn.to/2wComsY Views mine.
www.craigbrucesmith.com
Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social Historian of imprisonment, abolition, debt, and radicalism in early modern England. He/him.
Alanna MacTavish @alannamactavish.bsky.social A lover of Glencoe, no matter how much it rains. A historian of Jacobite Studies, studying at the University of Aberdeen, the best of the ancients. A United Nations staff member with an unwavering commitment to human rights.
David Parrish @dparrish0.bsky.social Historian studying #jacobites.
Scottish Council on Archives @scotsarchives.bsky.social We provide leadership for the archives and records management sector in Scotland. Lead. Inform. Inspire.
Website: https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/
University of Stirling Archives @unistirarchives.bsky.social News, events and activities related to the collections held in the University of Stirling Archives.
Find out more at:
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Craig Gallagher @kreggallagher.bsky.social Scottish émigré. Assistant Professor of History at Colby-Sawyer College. Early America, Early Modern Britain, Atlantic World.
Puppy raiser with Guiding Eyes for the Blind: https://www.guidingeyes.org/volunteer
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social Heritage & conservation professional & enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃
Curator of Properties for English Heritage, & freelance heritage consultant.
Studying p/t for PhD in lime finishes.
Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social 🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social Historian. Manager. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, University of the Highlands and Islands. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/about-uhi/senior-management/professor-david-worthington/
Neil Ritchie @neilritchie.bsky.social Editor: @scottishhistory.org, @militaryhistory.org.uk and @jacobitewars.com • Military & Defence Matters • Military History • Scottish History • Nikon D850 user
National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Stories from Scotland's national collections.
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Daniel Johnson @danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social Theology and Worship Studies programme leader at London School of Theology. Researching evangelical hymns, slavery, and abolition. Infrequent guitarist. Views mine
Northern Early Modern Network @nemn-network.bsky.social Early Modern History network based in Scotland & the North of England, but expanding worldwide - Bringing together Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers interested in all things Early Modern.
Join us here: https://earlymodernnetwork.wordpress.com
Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
The Lyon in Mourning Manuscript (1775) @lyoninmourning.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities project by @drleith.bsky.social and The Digital
Humanities Innovation Lab at Simon Fraser University Library to analyze the #jacobite #manuscript by Robert Forbes held in the National Library of Scotland. #Scottish @scottishsfu.bsky.so
Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social Emotional historian
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Massachusetts Historical Society @mhs1791.bsky.social First Historical Society in the US, founded 1791.
Research library, programs, exhibitions & online resources.
www.masshist.org
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 | my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow, coming 2027
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
Guelph Centre for Scottish Studies @uguelphscottish.bsky.social Research, graduate training and teaching on Scottish history and Scottish culture, with special emphasis on their global dimensions - at the University of Guelph.
News & Events: https://www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottish
Rachel Weil @racheljweil.bsky.social Early modern historian @Cornell. Prisons, law, politics, gender in 17th-18th c. England. Terminated NEH fellow, @IAS member 2024-25. Writing "Detention and Punishment in Early Modern English Prisons, 1600-1815" Rescue-🐶 mom, BLM, Democrat, she/her 🏳️🌈💙🏳️⚧️🌻
Michael Fraser @mcfras15.bsky.social PhD Candidate: Scotland in the Protestant International, 1689-1732 | University of St Andrews | Funded by SGSAH.
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London + Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes.
https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
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"
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social US foreign policy, human rights, decolonization, Indonesia, UConn, DIPG dad. #DefeatDIPG
https://www.bradleyrsimpson.com
My new book from Oxford! https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-first-right-9780199944408?q=the%20first%20right&lang=en&cc=us
Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
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