Routledge History Research @routledgehistory.bsky.social We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social Professor of History, Uppsala University. Eighteenth century/Age of Revolutions | Royal image making & political culture | Sartorial practices & social order | Court society & social interaction | Digitising Gustav III's private archive | Milanista 🔴⚫️
Zentrum für rechtsgeschichtliche Forschung @uzh-zrf.bsky.social Centre for Legal History Research - Als Forschungsstelle der RWF, bündelt das ZrF die Aktivitäten der Rechtsgeschichte an der Universität Zürich #legalhistory #UniversityOfZurich
Giacomo Benati @giacomobenati.bsky.social Ramon y Cajal Researcher @economiaempresaub.bsky.social, teaching at @ubmipe.bsky.social, archaeologist | economic historian | social scientist
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/giacomobenati/home
Julie @julestheteacher.bsky.social I teach history and politics. Permanently curious. I love learning and that’s why I’m here. 😊
UK Teaching / #UKEd
Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social PGR Northumbria ⭐ Leftist / histories of gender, visual and periodical culture, emotion, femininity and identity / museum and heritage enthusiast ⭐ BSL learner 👍
Views and grammatical errors my own.
Ebba Strutzenbladh @ebbastrutzenbladh.bsky.social Medievalist & Writer & Improviser
SGSAH PhD in History at University of Aberdeen
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social The official journal of @lawcha.bsky.social. Published by @dukepress.bsky.social
To access all issues of LABOR visit https://read.dukeupress.edu/labor
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
Dr Maddy Pelling @maddypelling.bsky.social Writer, historian and broadcaster
WRITING ON THE WALL (Profile, 2024)
AFTER DARK podcast (History Hit)
Currently writing about historical hoaxes, fake news and conspiracy theories
Mónica Bolufer Peruga @mboluferp.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History at @eui-eu.bsky.social
Former PI of CIRGEN (ERC 787015) https://cirgen.eu/
Now researching emotions, correspondence, gender and empire at @eui-history.bsky.social
The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotland’s oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
Eilidh Finlayson @eilidhfinlayson.bsky.social ay-lee. PhD student @uofglasgow.bsky.social Scottish female beneficiaries of transatlantic slavery. Scottish, gender & global historian. SGSAH funded.
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Jasmine Elmer @jasmineelmer.bsky.social 📖 Author | Goddess with a Thousand Faces & Slay (2026)
🌙 Myth, history, magic & the feminine reimagined
🔥 Feminist rants likely
Dr Matthew Lee @matthewlee88.bsky.social Did a PhD on Scotland and Atlantic slavery. Working in the third sector. Attempting to escape from the Twitter hellscape
Hen Lockhart @archivewhg.bsky.social Curator at Winterbourne House and Garden, Birmingham, posting about collections, archives, The Winterbourne Press, University of Birmingham Herbarium www.winterbourne.org.uk
Craig Spence @cspence.bsky.social Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
TannerRitchie Publishing 🍁 @tannerritchie.bsky.social Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers.
www.tannerritchie.com
VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social ERC Advanced Grant Project at Trinity College Dublin
PI Jane Ohlmeyer. Harnessing #knowledgegraph, #semanticweb and #AI technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland voicesproject.ie
Clare Paterson @clarepaterson.bsky.social Author and former documentary producer.
The Nine Lives of Annie Besant, Victorian rebel, out 2025. https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-nine-lives-of-annie-besant/
Volunteer with Care4Calais. Cold water swimmer and painter.
Gudrun Andersson @gudrunandersson.bsky.social Professor in history.
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Tracy Wise @frauwise.bsky.social Writer. Focused on the present moment in the US & around the world. Supporter of liberal democracy. Personal account. *opinions my own* re-posts=look at this (vs approval)
She/her/ella
Joe Drury @joedrury.bsky.social scholar and teacher of 18th/19th British literature, science & technology, material culture, and whimsy
@profamkilday.bsky.social @profamkilday.bsky.social 
Olga Gonzalez-Silen @gonzalezsilen.bsky.social Historian of Venezuela, Spain, Latin America, and the Atlantic World :|: Editor of the Diary of Philip DePeyster :|: Digital archivist
https://harvard.academia.edu/OlgaGonzalezSilen
Louise Falcini @louisefalcini.bsky.social Interested in co-production, archives and public histories. Historian of 18thC poverty, marginal communities and cleanliness. Currently researching 19thC prisons. I did a thing here www.thomasturner.org.uk #18C
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
Marina Dossena @marinadossena.bsky.social wants Scotland back in Europe asap, preferably as an independent republic; in love with history and its impact on language change. Music and cats always very welcome. 🏴
Henriette Partzsch @hpartzsch.bsky.social Hispanist based in Glasgow (Spain in the nineteenth century, women writers, fashion periodicals, circulation of literature across borders, Comparative Literature). And trees. 
Hannu Salmi @hansalmi.bsky.social Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku, interests in digital history, 19th century, media and music history / hobby photographer (salmiphotos.galleria.fi), film fan (hannusalmi.blogspot.com).
Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
Shona MacLean @shonamaclean.bsky.social Scottish writer. Not sure about this at all.
Dr. Stephanie Seul @stephanieseul.bsky.social Historian of media and communication 1900-1945 - Mum of 4 - Fellow, Royal Historical Society - Co-editor, Media History - Part-time lecturer, University of Bremen
Website: https://stephanieseul.com/
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2616-1366
OnThisDate @onethisdate.bsky.social Historical Events On this Date. (Need help applying for grants? Visit www.onegrant.co)
Lance Racey (aka CranesfootLance) @cranesfootlance.bsky.social Family historian & genealogist. Wrestles with history. IHGS Student. Background in HR, Wellbeing, Disability, Mentoring & FE. Europhile. Father, son & cousin. Researching New, Cammish, Atkinson, Martin, Gale, Higginbotham and Unknown. Racey by name....
Peter Orr @orrtknpp.bsky.social Former environmental professional (retired) living in Cumbria
@hexhistory.bsky.social @hexhistory.bsky.social Research Centre for the History of Experience (HEX) is hosted by the Faculty of Social Sciences (SOC), Tampere University, Finland.
@alannahtomkins.bsky.social @alannahtomkins.bsky.social 
Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint 
ASECS TaPS Caucus @asecstaps.bsky.social This is the account for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies’ Theatre and Performance Studies Caucus. Interested in dramatic literature, history, and theory across traditions in the 18th century and its afterlives. Posts by @adelbalzo. 🎭📚
Nicole Maceira Cumming @nicolemaceira.bsky.social Historian of early mod animals /environment / Reformation 🐏🪻⛪️ Postdoctoral Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Lecturer in Global Environmental History @glasgow.ac.uk
PhD hunting in James VI's court 🦌 👑
Timothy Slonosky @timothyslonosky.bsky.social Humanities, Dawson College. Reformation and Sixteenth Century history, Scotland and elsewhere. Occasional poster, views my own of course.
Infinite Women @infinite-women.com Allison Tyra: Creator of a database of 10,000+ women's biographies, author of Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work and The View from the Hill (infinite-women.com/books), cat lady, AuDHD. She/her
www.infinite-women.com
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my life’s in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Hertford College Oxford @hertfordcollege.bsky.social 'The one with the bridge' (and the cat)
Lorissa Rinehart @lorissa.bsky.social Women’s historian, Author of First to the Front & Winning the Earthquake.
Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social PD,U Kassel.Entangled history of Europe,India&the Middle East."German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut"(Leiden:Brill,2015)."A Taste for Purity."(NY:Columbia University Press,2024).
https://www.julia-hauser.de
Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at University at Buffalo and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergraduate Education. Happy to talk DH, 1890s bicycling, and the history of Buffalo. Skiing and biking. Opinions my own. She/her.
Dr. Amy Matthewson @amymatthewson.bsky.social Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social Heritage watchdog. Interests in architecture, Edinburgh, inter-war social housing and obscure late Jacobite and nonjuring history. All views my own.
Jennifer Cowell @jencowell.bsky.social Lecturer @ IESEG School of Management - EFL, intercultural communication, history | specialism and interest in co-created experiential learning, JEDI, wellbeing, and quality assurance | SFHEA | from Scotland, living in France
Talbot Imlay @talbotimlay.bsky.social History prof at Université Laval in Québec (Canada), father of two, husband of one and friend to a few.
All views are probably not my own.
https://www.flsh.ulaval.ca/notre-faculte/repertoire-du-personnel/talbot-charles-imlay
Ruth McManus @rmcmnow.bsky.social Geographer
Sonya Bonczek @sonyabonczek.bsky.social Director of Publicity and Communications at UNC Press 📚📣
Currently reading: Fed Up: A History of Why You're So Stressed About What to Feed the Kids by Carla Cevasco (Spring 27, a W. Hodding Carter III book) and Maria, Maria by Jennifer Galvão (2/27, RHPG)
Paris Spies-Gans @pspiesgans.bsky.social Writer, historian, & art historian, #womenartists, A Revolution on Canvas (YUP), writing A New Story of Art (Doubleday)
parisaspiesgans.com
Susan McGuirk @susanmcguirk.bsky.social For fans of epistolary novels like "The Correspondent", try Amazon Best Selling author Susan McGuirk's historical fiction "Dear Missing Friend." Follow your favorite Hist Fict heroines on her free Substack “The Storied Sisters Society" on Wednesdays.
Marissa @allenme213.bsky.social LA Urban Farming🌱Genealogist🌳 Appalachian History & Craft ⛰️
IG:@midwestintothewest
Corinne Wieben @medievalpast.bsky.social Professor of medieval history, podcaster, writer, & bibliophile. MA/PhD from UCSB. Working on masculinity, marriage, & law in late medieval Italy. D&D & TTRPG enthusiast. Dabbler in history of magic & witchcraft.
@enchantedpodcast.net
enchantedpodcast.net
JulesH @didcotdaschund.bsky.social Oxfordshire, UK. Guy with a dog. Likes history, travelling, sport (OUFC). Used to be good until I got old! Like wine and nice food! Pro EU. One of those in the Cricket Picture is me!
Alexander Courtney @dralexcourtney.bsky.social #Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
📚James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
Department of History - Western University @westernuhistory.bsky.social Department of History, Western University, Lawson Hall 2201, London, Ontario, Canada #westernu #purpleandproud #ldnont
@westernupubhist #Masters #PhD 🐎 history.uwo.ca
history-inquiries@uwo.ca
Voetnoot -Mark Ponte @voetnoot.bsky.social Historian - Amsterdam - Suriname - migration history - 17th century - typos - was 17,5 jaar op Twitter http://voetnoot.org
Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social Paralegal with masters in international maritime law, interested in languages, ethics, governance, environmental protection and human rights. Mythology-loving humanist.
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
Jason Thomas @jasont66.bsky.social Part time student, full time dad, an armour ‘once was.’ Into interesting stuff and manners. Oxford comma believer. Occasionally write on strategy and military affairs.
Louisa Niesen @lottelouisa.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History @eui-eu.bsky.social : Women Tourists, 1880-1914
History of Infrastructure, Technology, Consumption | Digital Humanities
Convenor of Public History Working Group @EUI
Teacher @UniversityPadua
https://me.eui.eu/louisa-niesen/
Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Elizabeth McDonald @drpastonsrus.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Boydell & Brewer with particular interests in the period c.1450-c.1850. Primarily here to support the good fight via publishing enterprises. Will also be found "nerding out" over medieval churches and book history.
Eighteenth Century Worlds Liverpool @ecwliv.bsky.social Research centre for all things Eighteenth Century Worlds at the University of Liverpool. 
Gráinne O'Hare @spacedolphin93.bsky.social I write things. PhD in 18th-century women's life writing, debut novel THIRST TRAP is out now with Picador (UK) and Crown (US) ✨️
Dr Ruby Rutter @rubyrutter.bsky.social Historian of women, emotions, mental health + the lived experience in the long C18. Social Media Editor for the European Review of History. 2024 Uni of Leeds Bedford Fellow for ‘Buying Happiness: Emotion and Advertising Ephemera’.
Views are my own 🫧
Dr Katie Aske @katieaske.bsky.social Lecturer in English at Edinburgh Napier University, specialising in 18th-century beauty and skincare. Instagram: @drkatieaske
David Francis Taylor @davidftaylor.bsky.social Professor of English, Oxford
The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003
BOOK AUCTIONS END EVERY SUNDAY 8pm (UK Time)
#rarebooks #books #antiquarian #earlymodern
#bibliophile #bookhistory #bookauctions
stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
Damien Harrison @slaymo.bsky.social B Arts (History). Musician, socialist, recovering software dev. Linux advocate. Gamer. Historian of a bunch of things (WWII Aus, UK, USSR, and US | 20th C Politics | Ancient Rome for fun). D&D, Star Trek. ADHD/Autistic. Aussie.
IngerMarieShe @fjellet.bsky.social
Byråkrat. Historiker. Luditt. Har forlatt x. Rører ikke KI av etiske grunner.
Erik Braeden Lewis, PhD @braedenfrev.bsky.social Instructor, History (Doña Ana Community College). PhD, History (Florida State). French Revolution. Émigrés. Family. Migration. Franco-Spanish Borderlands. Catalan Identity. Social Networks. Madame du Barry. Domestic Servants. Human Trafficking. Asylum.
Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies.
https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
no one of consequence @sarahcycles.bsky.social Armchair historian, crocheter, and door opener for the dog. She/her
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Karly Kehoe @karlykehoe.bsky.social Professor of History & Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities. Working on issues & legacies of migration, religion, & empire. Committed to science diplomacy & freedom and responsibility in science.
https://www.smu.ca/history/karly-kehoe.html
@starshinedragon.bsky.social @starshinedragon.bsky.social Former academic librarian, current Ruby on Rails developer, mom, voracious reader and lover of RPGs. Passionate about information, empathy, curiosity, and solving problems.
Randomly teaching myself watercolor.
Dr Caroline Lewis @carolinelewis1997.bsky.social English teacher and historian of nineteenth-century India and Britain. PhD from Edinburgh University on Scottish and English women missionaries in North India and Bengal. London Welsh via Hong Kong. Now Edinburgh.
Dawson Barrett @dawsonbarrett.bsky.social Historian // author of THE DEFIANT (post ‘60s US politics/protest) and TEENAGE REBELS (teen activism history, for teens) & co-author of PUNKS IN PEORIA (DIY in a small town) // "Picking up where Zinn left off..." (trying anyway!) // dawsonbarrett.com
Emily Whitted @knitwhitted.bsky.social she/her | History PhD candidate at UMass Amherst | let's talk textiles
Dr Michelle Walker (/Moffat) @moffski.bsky.social Historian of war & society in WWII UK, veteran disability.
Proud NZer 🇳🇿
Researcher @Manchester Met Uni
FRHistS
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2025.2573607
Maureen Shaw @maureenshaw.bsky.social Artist and researcher C18th Highlands / Badenoch / Gaelic / Gàidhlig. Troimh chèile, aobhairean teignigeach.
She/her I/ise
Nancy Baker @drnbaker.bsky.social Historian, feminist, UU. My book on the long conservative women's movement in 20th-c. America is due out in 2027 from the University of Georgia Press. My other book project is on feminist legal reformers in 20th-c. Texas, particularly at mid-century.
Kate Wakely-Mulroney @kateblyn.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ NTU Singapore | Interested in the history of children’s literature and poetry’s sounds 📚🗣️
Avicia @avicia.bsky.social California native, history lover, bi, T1D, left-wing American. Pro-vaxx, covid cautious, pro-science. She/her.