Prof. Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Rochester (she/her)
tesswingard.wordpress.com
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
Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
Andrew Haxell @adhaxi.bsky.social Higher Education careers & employability, football (Arsenal, Southend United, Morpeth Town, Napoli - in that order), Northumberland, walking, tea shops, and a bit of politics, are my things
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Christian Goeschel @drgoeschel.bsky.social Professor of Modern European History at the University of Manchester.
https://www.chbeck.de/goeschel-hedinger-muenchen-38/product/37979255
https://yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300254730/mussolini-and-hitler/
Pontifacts: Ranking the Popes @pontifactspod.bsky.social Bry and Fry host a slightly blasphemous papal history podcast, ranking the Popes from Peter to LEO XIV. #Rexypod
Pontifacts Tour of Italy, Jan 30-Feb 7 2027
9 days across Rome Viterbo Orvieto and Florence! tinyurl.com/pontifactstour
Kate Watson @loreandordure.com Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, lexicographer, ADHD+ & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, bookbinding, (alt-process) photography.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️⚧️🇵🇸🏳 @racheledini.bsky.social Lurcher mum+newly redundant lecturer in US literature.Writes on waste, gender, housework, appliances, ads, politics of nostalgia. Looking for new collaborators
Books: http://tinyurl.com/3rf4fr & http://tinyurl.com/3er6t3h9
Founder http://literarywaste.com
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Dr Catherine Bateson @catbateson.bsky.social American History Lecturer/Ithaca College London/ British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / FRHistS/“Irish American Civil War Songs” https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social We are the UK’s national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! 👉 https://historylab.plus/
Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social 'Give her a helmet and a sword, she'd look like a brave little Hobbit'
Dr. Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social Librettist, lyricist, poet, scholar, teacher. Writing operas about kickass women and nb folks. Runs the Silent Film Sound & Music Archive (sfsma.org). Autistic. Disabled. Alphabetize under Leonard. kendraprestonleonard.hcommons.org
Will Barber Taylor @willbarbertaylor.bsky.social Host @debatedpodcast.bsky.social
Love & Hisses @mizrobyn.bsky.social Yes, the one with all the cats.
Love-and-hisses.com
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Substack Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Robbie Morrison @robbiemorrison.bsky.social Writer. Novels: Edge of the Grave (Bloody Scotland Debut Crime Novel 2021); Cast a Cold Eye (Shortlisted for McIllvanney Prize 2023).
Comics: Nikolai Dante, Doctor Who, Judge Dredd, Drowntown, Heretic, etc. 
Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social Interested in how the rich stay rich and the poor poor. Sociologist at @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk. He/him/his. http://perengzell.com Photo bomber @simoneschneider.bsky.social
Old Street Publishing @oldstpublishing.bsky.social Independent British publisher of non-fiction and fiction. Highlights include James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany and Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother, winner of the 2020 'Crime Fiction in Translation' Dagger.
Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social Historical / Cultural Geographer; Here to gripe about academia and talk about my cat; social reproduction feminist; writing about home, education, colonialism. Luddite who wants publicly owned computation. She/Her
Michael Barany @mbarany.com Historical and cultural theories about maths and science theories. Fields Medal killjoy. Scotland enjoyer. formerly @mbarany on birdsite and intermittently @mjb@mathstodon.xyz on fediverse
Tony Patrickson @anpatric.bsky.social Originally art, nowadays lecturing in moving images. Part cirrus cloud. Functional introvert. West of Ireland. That's enough excitement for now.
Dr Kate Maltby @katemaltby.bsky.social weekly at the i newspaper (news column)
monthly at Prospect & at The Stage (on theatre)
often at FT & Observer (books, culture)
also Deputy Chair, Index on Censorship; Co-Chair, Critics' Circle (Drama); Senior Research Associate, Jesus College, Cambridge
Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester, specialising in the cultural history of early America. Writing Edible Empire, a book on foodways and the making/breaking of Anglo-America. Indigenous knowledge, colonial appetites.
David Parry @drdavidparry.bsky.social Tutorial Fellow in English @regentsox.bsky.social. Early modernist. Interests around English literature, history and religion 1500-1800; allegory; rhetoric; neurodiversity; literature and theology. Oxford Handbook of Allegory out now!
Zamira Rahim @zamirarahim.bsky.social Staff editor for The New York Times (in London). Previously writing for CNN and Time Magazine. One of those Brits who ended up in American media.
Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
@thebelovedaunt.bsky.social @thebelovedaunt.bsky.social 
Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social Historian of science, collecting, plants + museums // professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // writing books // contr. ed. at Public Domain Review // elaineayers.com
Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social i'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at espace, since i'm positive we won't have a decent table http://rachaelmeager.com http://rottenandgood.substack.com
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social she/ her Independent museum collections contractor (looking for work) . Talks about museums, horror, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social Historian of early Middle Ages, Grandmother, Leftwing, Labour, Leeds, British, European. Emerita Prof University of Liverpool
@brian-tutt.bsky.social @brian-tutt.bsky.social Academic, background in politics and public administration, interest in classical music, jazz, art and satire. LGBT+🏳️🌈
Audrey Martel-Dion @amarteldion.bsky.social History PhD candidate @ Stanford History, working on early modern transmasculinity (she/her)
Susan Smith @susansmith65.bsky.social Reposts and likes are endorsements of the post (not necessarily the poster) unless indicated otherwise - why "like" something I don't agree with? 
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
@newadrian.bsky.social @newadrian.bsky.social History, cricket, TV shows. 
Chelsy Clark Proper @properhistory.bsky.social social historian and museum director. "images of america: goose creek" out with arcadia publishing. she/her. views my own. no gen-ai.
Liz Davidson @beyondsolitaire.bsky.social 🎲 Board Game Designer
📚 Historical Games
Creative Director at Leder Games
Come talk history, games, and culture with me:
YouTube.com/beyondsolitaire
Kat Molesworth @thatkat.bsky.social Revolutionary. Event producer. Influencer Marketing Expert & Consultant. Speaker, coach, photographer, quilter. Surfing powers for good. The Oracle.
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Blackwell's Manchester @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/blackwells-manchester-11315868456
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Planning a new project on emotions and the environment. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
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
Michael Carley @drmcarley.bsky.social If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property. Lefty migrant
Phil Gibbon @philgibbon.bsky.social Adj. Prof. of History, Jefferson-East Falls
U.S. in the World, Global Politics, Human Rights, War & Political Violence
Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Patrick Barker @patombark.bsky.social Historian of the Caribbean and Atlantic World. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Omohundro Institute. Asst. Prof of History at Miami Dade College. Views my own, not my employer's.
Lisa Voigt @lisaluso.bsky.social Professor of Spanish & Portuguese @Yale; previously @Ohio State (2008-2023)
Special Issues Editor, Colonial Latin American Review
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Nicholas Allott @nicholasallott.bsky.social Linguist, Oslo Uni. Migrant. Cat bed. Pragmatics, related philosophy, politics and cat photos, not necessarily in that order. Neotenous, crepuscular and thigmotactic.
Queen Mary Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences @hssqmul.bsky.social Explaining the past, understanding the present, and imagining the future
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Mike Collins @mikeyc74.bsky.social Communications and public engagement professional. Chair of the Friends of Charlcombe Community Nature Reserve (facebook.com/groups/charlcombenature). Lover of coffee, Bath Rugby, butterflies and swifts.
Charlie Bowden @charlie-bowden.bsky.social charliefromthetopofthehill.substack.com
JC_Spurlock @historiator.bsky.social Historian, author of Youth and Sexuality in the 20th-Century U.S. and other works on American sexuality. Teaching interests in global history, World War II, genocide. Blog : bluemonkeyreview.wordpress.com/
Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social Norwegian medievalist, bibliophile, music lover and art enthusiast.
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Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social Author of LOVE AND OTHER POISONS 'enthralling, a beautifully structured tale' The Scotsman; CLAIRMONT 'Riveting...clever portrait of a fascinating woman' The Times @wildfirebooks.bsky.social Repd by @sheilland.bsky.social ExJoycean Still Glaswegian she/her
LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. A small but lively modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social Writer | Mother | Immigrant | Managing Editor @mlnjournal.bsky.social | PhD Hispanic Lit | Fulbright (Brazil) | Bylines WaPo, Time, Guernica, etc. (she/her)
Book forthcoming w Bloomsbury Academic
Human Generated: https://victorialivingstone.substack.com/
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Brepols @brepols.net Brepols publishes world-class academic research, with a particular focus in history, archaeology, history of the arts, language and literature, and critical editions of source works.
www.brepols.net
James Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social Senior UK Financial Services Reporter @POLITICO.eu
Australian journo in London, originally from Adelaide/Tarndanya.
- views & rants my own -
- jfitzgerald@politico.co.uk
Sara Wolfson @sjwolfson.bsky.social Early modern historian, The Open University, formerly Canterbury, who specialises in the court of Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria, queenship, gender, exile and diplomacy. Proponent of innovative teaching methodologies within the Humanities at HE Level.
Christine Gundermann @cgpublichistory.bsky.social Prof. für Public History an der Universität zu Köln/ Sprecherin der AG PublicHistory im VHD/ KGD Arbeitsgruppe Historische Lernorte/ privat
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman @josie.zone Josephine Riesman. NYT-bestselling US-born immigrant living in Portugal. Books: RINGMASTER; TRUE BELIEVER; and on Oct. 6, @beckbook.com. Married to @sirosenbaum.bsky.social. Co-hostess of @herecomestomorrow.net. Profile image is Julianne Moore.
James Pennock @corporategorillajp.bsky.social Meat-free caffeine-fuelled pain-magnet. Back in taxing employment. Talented wife, demanding daughter - lost them both to Zelda & Taylor Swift. Music, Philly Eagles, Sheffield, pissing & moaning. Front for Rosie the cat.
Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social Editor in Chief at Cornell University Press acquiring in ancient, medieval, military, *and* European history. In a past life, completed a biology Ph.D. In this life, likes books, Criterion, rye, history, science, all the things in between, *and* donuts.
Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social Investigating the Iron Age and Roman period in SW Britain. Bournemouth University #HillfortsWednesday Posts (mostly) by Miles Russell
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
UNISON Manchester Metropolitan University @unisonmmu.bsky.social The branch of UNISON for professional services staff at Manchester Metropolitan University, the students' union and the Royal Northern College of Music. All posts are our own.
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
Koch History Centre @khc-oxford.bsky.social A new institutional home in Oxford for the pursuit of world-class historical research, housed in Wadham College and the Faculty of History.
https://khc.web.ox.ac.uk/
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Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social Historian of Capitalism and the Pink Pound (he/him)
Writer | Speaker | Traveller
Editor: @historyworkshop.org.uk
Founder: @notchesblog.bsky.social
Convenor: @histsex.bsky.social
justinbengry.com
Pam Forster @pamelaforster.bsky.social British Academy ECR Network Project Manager (North West & North Wales), PhD student in Linguistics, carer, and cat Mum
Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, University of Glasgow. Chair of Philosophy of Education Soc. Religion, Myth, Arts, Humanities, Music, Education, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—all posts etc personal
Jo Simons (she/her) @josimons.bsky.social Dr. Jo, Pākehā, Academic Librarian in Aotearoa NZ, Plant enthusiast, fibre crafter, hoarder of pens, herder of children and cats
Working with Digital Library team at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland, opinions mine not my employers
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social Associate Professor in Early Modern Performance at University of Bristol: early modern bodies, PaR, gender. Formerly thinking about hair, now thinking about walking: also defining 'the Predramatic'. Teacher, cat-lover, writer, and mum, in varying measures.
Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social Falling off bikes, fighting men in swimming pools, history and rampant imposer syndrome. SGSSS funded PhD at UoGlasgow. Interested in transformations within 20C Britain. Awful spelling all my own. Constantly distracted.
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social Independent Historians Working Group
. . . a collaboration between independent historians for mutual support.
www.bit.ly/INDY_HIST
Wargames Atlantic @wargamesatlantic.bsky.social Prolific manufacturer of hard plastic and digital miniatures and tabletop games.
Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social History Professor @ UC-Santa Barbara => science + tech + environment
Cairn kicker 🚵 🎣 🧗♂️⛷️🏄🏼♂️🏔 in Cali-Rado.
New book = https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262553483/readme/
More = https://www.patrickmccray.com
Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social Historian, Hayes Chair @OhioState Mershon Ctr Carnegie Fellow 6 Books: Ideology in US Foreign Relations, Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Promise & Peril. Isolationism, Internationalism, Globalization. ⚾️
Hoosier Homer is reading Crucible of War by Fred Anderson @hoosierhomer.bsky.social The donuts and beers one. Certified Barracks Lawyer. Guardian of the Thermostat. Consumer of Food and Drink. Actually forklift certified. Semper Gumpy. Drunken BBX Advocate. Writing at: https://inconvenientwarstudies.net/
Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery. Guggenheim class of 2025-26- J Julia Eichenberg @jeichenberg.bsky.social Historian of War and Peace and other things. Currently: Cooperation in Exile "The London Moment": https://exilegov.hypotheses.org/ and Post-War Periods: https://conflicts-meanings-transitions.de/
Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Former soldier learning how to be a civvie. Accidental journalist. Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy.
Thoughts & feelings on defence and other things. Views my own.
Longer thoughts & feelings on substack:
https://crackingdefence.substack.com/
Ettore Morelli @ettoremorelli.bsky.social Historian, Antifascist. Last time seen wandering between the Mohokare and the Molopo, three hundred years ago.
Doing some work at Università di Pavia / @africarivista.bsky.social
/ Five Hundred Year Archive
Dr Colin Runeckles @colinruneckles.bsky.social Researcher into urbanism & housing:
Ancient (@OU_Classics) - currently writing a book on non-elite housing
Modern (Writer, Speaker, Treasurer - @ilfordhistory.bsky.social
Likes music. A lot of music. Can often be found at Cafe Oto.