Scott Sandage @scottsandage.bsky.social History isnβt reality, itβs methodology.
Historian. Husband. Iowan. Pittsburgh π³οΈβπππͺβΎοΈ Wrote a book long ago. Writing another on the MΓ©tis Rez in Nebraska. Most useful thing Iβve done is probably https://commonplace.online/article/how-to-read-a-book/
SamuΓ«l Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social Historian. Working on the history of colonialism in Africa from a global perspective at Ghent University. Also doing history of science and medicine.
PI ERC Project CATTLEFRONTIERS www.cattlefrontiers.eu
Ex-Berliner. Academic Dad.
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call βmental healthβ | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social Medievalist, English lecturer, storyteller, dramaturg, writer, folk dancer. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Early drama specialist. she/her.
History Today @historytoday.com π»ππ πππππ
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Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social Early Modern Literature and Digital Humanities. Keen on C16th letters & archives and their digital manifestations. Author of Elizabethan Diplomacy and Epistolary Culture. https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/26759-elizabeth-williamson/
Dr. Niall Allsopp @niallallsopp.bsky.social Early Modern English literature, English Civil Wars, Restoration, literature and political, social, local history.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/NiallPSER
Work: https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/allsopp/
Andrew Hill @andrewtghill.ft.com Journalist, speaker, writer. Forthcoming: 'Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand' (Profile Books, 2026)
Daniel Woolf π¨π¦ @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host.
James Boxall π¨π¦π @jamesgis.bsky.social Geography/GIS educator FRCGS FRGS ClimateSci | Adj.Prof. Dalhousie Marine Affairs Program | QE2PlatMedal |Semple GeogEd Award Apoplectic vs. adorable Shot 67. Addicted to books, CBCIdeas & Space COYI WHU I Shake a lot Parkinsons.ca Miβkmaβki (Nova Scotia)
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au "Young has nailed it." - Publisher's Weekly
Philosopher & author. Agents: Zeitgeist Agency (nonfiction) & Alex Adsett Literary (fiction)
www.damonyoung.com.au
Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social Too many Jeannes | Medieval lordship and power, French comparative history, archives | Associate prof. Universitetet i Oslo (personal account) | she/hun.
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts β endorsement.
Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc
Editor, The Teesside Lead
π https://theteessidelead.substack.com
Moby-Dick podcast:
π³ @thewhale1851.bsky.social
Teesworks expert. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
Kim Gilchrist @kimgilchrist.bsky.social Teaches Early Modern Drama at Cardiff Uni. Writing a book about Mucedorus. Will probably post music when I donβt know what to say. he/him. New OWC Cymbeline: https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/cymbeline-9780192882868?cc=gb&lang=en&
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Dr Tim Meek @limefinishes.bsky.social 
Dr Anna Harrington @amdharrington.bsky.social Social and cultural historian of eighteenth-century Britain and empire. Happy, tired mom to two nutters and a perfectly rotund cat. Lover of eclectic music, reading, womenβs football, and buying flowers I canβt keep alive.
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
#lawsky π
Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social Doting grandmother, among other things.
Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of science: experimentation, chemistry, and the epistemology of (science) education
FWO Senior Postdoc @ Ghent University.
Research: https://research.flw.ugent.be/nl/pieter.beck
Blog: https://pietertlbeck.wordpress.com/
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies π΅οΈ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Lisa Godson @lisagdub.bsky.social Historian of architecture & material culture; Programme Leader MA Design History Material Culture, NCAD, Dublin. Researching architectural-material history of Royal Hospital Kilmainham [also: tropical modern architecture; Catholicism; medical instruments]
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
RGS-IBG Higher Ed @rgs-ibghe.bsky.social The latest in geography higher education from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG).
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) π³πΏ
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social US carceral and urban history, jail and policing, historiography. AAUP, abolition, working mom in CT, personal account. newsletter publisher, plz subscribe: https://carceral-history.ghost.io/
Dr Karen Di Franco @archivist23.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, MA Curating & Collections | Programme Curator, Chelsea Space | Chelsea College of Arts, UAL π© Archives, Reproduction (artists' publishing), Feminisms, Writing π Personal account π
linktr.ee/karendifranco
Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social Politics Prof.| Kettering Foundation Research Fellow| Author of The Politics of Common Sense & Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements
Dr Rae Duncan @sunny-rae1.bsky.social Consultant Cardiologist, also treating and researching Long Covid. Long Covid Advisory Team @ WHN, #TeamClots, Medical Champion @ Long Covid Kids. Prevention is better than cure. Views my own and not medical advice x 
Chris Ponting @cgatist.bsky.social Disease genomics & molecular mechanisms; ME/cfs: http://decodeme.org.uk, SequenceME @ Edinburgh University. Views - my own. He/him.
Ramona NegrΓ³n @ramonanegron.bsky.social Postdoc at the KITLV | Editorial Assistant of the NWIG | Editorial Board Member of the EMLC | Historian of Empire, Maritime History, Slavery
https://ramonanegron.nl
John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social Professor @cais-exeter.bsky.social University of Exeter, UK. Author of "Security After Christendom" (2024) and "Indulging Kleptocracy" (2025). Academic freedom by/for/of academics.
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social Cellular microbiologist, #UTI host/pathogen interactions, lab head at University College London, novelist, broadcaster, writer, pundit, sci comm, musician, gardener, Editor of LabLit.com, all things geek-chic. M7HZT on ham radio. More at jennyrohn.com
c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Vera @infonta.bsky.social Type design & calligraphy β www.infonta.com.
The power of interpretation in type design. Historical material reimagined.
Letterforms of all kinds, styles and applications. Culture, research, fun.
Married, raising two bilingual kids.
Cambridge, UK
Fronteer @fronteer.bsky.social An artist-led art gallery in the heart of Sheffield
π Fronteer Gallery, Craft Unit 4, Orchard Square, Sheffield S1 2FB
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social Deep-sea ecologist investigating how humans shape and reshape the sea floor. Conservation technologist developing open-source tools to understand our changing oceans. Ocean educator creating novel programs to help students interact with marine ecosystems.
Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xNz9T8sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Views are mine and represent me
Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
π Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
π Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ.
https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
Michael Gallagher @michaelgtcd.bsky.social Emeritus professsor political science Trinity College Dublin. Co-editor How Ireland Voted 2024 (Springer 2025) and of Politics in the Republic of Ireland 7th ed
Mappa Dan @mappadan.bsky.social Archaic maps and mappae mundi, reconstructions and snaps people have taken of them, and my own redrawings. Mostly.
DisMember @dismember.co.uk http://dismember.co.uk/
Hansard: Cheat Mode Activated
Everything interesting MPs said since 2010, easily searchable, sortable, sliceable.
We also uncover interesting moments from the entirety of parliamentary history and share them regularly here.
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
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.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social Historian | Medieval and early modern Ireland and its women | Writing a new biography of GrΓ‘inne O Malley/Granuaile aka the Pirate Queen | Adjunct assoc prof @ucd | Repped by Watson Little
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
MNG Social Sciences @mngssbooks.bsky.social Featuring the latest social science titles from a range of international publishers. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social Sea-level and tidal scientist. Liverpool, UK.
Opinions own!
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
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)
Lucy Faire @drlucyfaire.bsky.social Historian of everyday life; enthusiast for adult education and cooperation; personal account 
CΓ©dric Moisy @cedric-moisy.bsky.social Research scientist ππ₯οΈπ±π¦ π¬
Plant Pathology | 3D+t imaging | MRI | Xrays tomography | IA | Image Analysis πβ’οΈπ§²
Trunk diseases | Fungal Pathogens | Genetics | Molecular Biology | Grapevine | Breeding & Selection
French Wine and Vine Institute, France π«π·
MΓ‘irΓ©ad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (βͺ@lawatloughborough.bsky.socialβ¬) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Dr Ashley Firth .bsky.social @drashleyfirth.bsky.social Medieval Historian and author. My research interests include the history of women, the Crusades and medieval kingship. My forthcoming book 'Trailblazing Medieval Women' is now available to preorder.
Dr Kathleen McIlvenna @kathleenmcil.bsky.social A lecturer and historian. I work on histories of work and welfare including occupational pensions, occupational heath and family, specialising on 19th century post office and civil service. Currently working on a book looking at retirement before 1930.
Helsinki University Press @helsinkiupress.bsky.social We are a fully #openaccess publishing house, publishing peer reviewed scholarly literature, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. We are open for submissions by academics globally. #ReadUP
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.
Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social Crafter, slow runner, UCU active, reader, art historian, DW nerd, theatre lover
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Energy Policy at the University of Exeter, UK. Researching change, inertia and public engagement in energy transitions.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/19656-iain-soutar
Debbie T Knits π§Ά @debbietknits.bsky.social Prolific knitter π§Ά Aran & cables are my passion.
Collector of much yarn / not a yarn snob
Disabled / northern UK based
Chronic spinal pain / fibromyalgia / essential tremor
WOKE π³οΈβπ / left / atheist
No uninvited DMs.
No profile = no follow
Be nice π
Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social Award-winning journalist and author. Latest edition of my book βShredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britainβ, about the pivotal role of whatβs now called NatWest in the global banking crash, was reissued in 2024.
www.ianfraser.org
Richard Hermer @richardhermer.bsky.social Former Attorney General for England and Wales | Before that, human rights lawyer | Always a Cardiff boy
Shauna Corr @shaunacorr.bsky.social Investigative reporter | UCD Earth Institute journalist-in-residence | SCI fellow | Former Mirror/Irish Star environment correspondent | π http://linktr.ee/ShaunaCorr
Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.
Amanda Edmiston, Botanica Fabula @botanicafabula.bsky.social Herbal storyteller, folklorist, creative practitioner, writer. The Time Travellerβs Herbal published by David and Charles. Botanica Fabula school of herbal storytelling ππ²π±π« #botanicafabula #timetravellersherbal
Coleen Murphy @ctmurphy1.bsky.social Scientist, citizen, mom, and occasionally athletic
The Library of Trinity College Dublin @tcdlibrary.bsky.social The Library of Trinity College Dublin is a major research library, supporting learning, teaching and research across the University. Follow us here for TCD Library updates, activities, events & a spotlight on our fabulous Research Collections.
Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
Niels Petersen @muntera.bsky.social Historian @uni-goettingen.de
The medieval maritime, pre-modern transport and urban history. ποΈ And Banthas. β€οΈproject: @viabundus.bsky.social
Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social Historiographer and practicing public historian that is fanatical about rugby union.
Josef Beery @josefbeery.bsky.social Printmaker, educator, creator of BookBeetle Press.
Quakers in Ireland @quakerireland.bsky.social Quakerism is rooted in Christianity. We are formally known as the Religious Society of Friends. Registered Charity Number CHY:8033 CRA:20019273.
Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social He/him. Settler. Geographer at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. Historical+social aspects of mining in Northern π¨π¦. Co-author, The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife https://www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-Price-of-Gold
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including NYT best selling biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
Marianne O'Doherty @marianneodoherty.bsky.social Medievalist. Likes maps, birds, nature, cycling, cider and primates. She/her.
Paul Cowdell @paulcowdell.bsky.social I research, write on, & talk about folklore. Happy to have been variously described as an 'expert in morbid eschatology' and a 'cannibalism celebrity'.
Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
Join my Civil War Memory newsletter: https://kevinmlevin.substack.com
Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social
PhD. from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Repost β Endorsement / All views my own.
Primary Research: History/Archaeology of Medicine, Disability, Disease, Trauma. Palæopathology. Religion. 'Theorist' & 'Massive Autodidact'
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
Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social Reader at the Classics dept at Royal Holloway; mater; deacon in the C of E; comms for RHUL UCU; feminist. Sharing my thoughts, not those of my employer. She/her. #TinyJoys curator.
Bethan Catherine Watts @bethanwatts.bsky.social MRHistS. PhD researcher at UWTSD focusing on Medieval English children and childhood.
Author of 3 books. Owner of 3 cats. Loves childrenβs history, domestic culture, and the history of medicine.
Works for @histchild.bsky.social
Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social Professor in Psychology of Learning, University of Leeds, UK. Imminently PVC learning and teaching, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA. Welsh learner, #psychology #HE #assessment. She/her/hi. SFHEA. NTF. Opinions my own, reposts are not endorsements
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/
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social Soc of Work + Platform Labor | Head of Sociology, University of Edinburgh | https://workersobservatory.org | @jcultecon + Platforms & Society
Dr Mary McGill @mary-mcgill.bsky.social Research Ireland fellow at the University of Galway, exploring women's experiences of gender-based online abuse in the Irish third level sector.
To share your experience email: gboastudy@universityofgalway.ie
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bdhxunsr
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East
Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS
Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social
https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542