Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social Research Associate at The John Carter Brown Library; GMU History PhD researching early American disability and religion; Formerly doing DH at RRCHMN; GWU Fencing coach; Ask Me Anything coordinator at r/AskHistorians
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dhowlett1692.com
We Are Makers of History Podcast @makersofhistory.bsky.social Two friends navigating history with the aid of a lot of beer
https://rss.com/podcasts/wearemakersofhistory/
What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social Mariner, Historian, Firefighter, Host of What's Going on With Shipping
@armouredcarriers.bsky.social @armouredcarriers.bsky.social 
Wolf 359 Project @wolf359project.bsky.social The oral history of the first Borg invasion and Battle of Wolf 359 - A Star Trek Fan Project.
Read it for Free, here: https://linktr.ee/Wolf359project
Lord Cochrane @thoscochrane.bsky.social The incredible life of Lord Cochrane | Age of Sail | Napoleonic Wars | Tallships | Seamanship
- hobby historian, main topic: the life and achievements of Lord Cochrane
- deckhand
- occasional posts about the Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian
Imperial Japanese Navy History @ijnhistory.bsky.social Documenting the history of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1868-1945.
Veritas et Caritas @veritasetcaritas.bsky.social Christian anarcho-mutualist | Socinian | AGW is real | ecology stewardship | aboriginal Taiwanese sovereignty | https://www.youtube.com/@veritasetcaritas
Task Force Admiral - WW2 Carrier 3D Wargame on PC! @taskforceadmiral.bsky.social 1 solo dev + 2 chaps making Task Force Admiral 🇺🇸🇯🇵
Garage-made, published by Microprose
Wishlist us on Steam❤️
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1281220?utm_source=BSKY
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Dr Alex Clarke @dralexclarke.bsky.social Historian of Navys, Naval Diplomacy, Maritime & Engineering http://patreon.com/ACNavalHistory & http://alexanderclarke.academia.edu Agent @Pastpreservers #academicsky #navalhistory
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
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
Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈
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.
J. Connell Stryker @jconnellstryker.bsky.social PhD in History, UT Austin; Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Women's Work at Sea, Histories of Maritime, Gender, Labor, Empire, Technology, and the Digital Humanities, etc
Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social 17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. interested in all things early modern and boaty - currently writing about women and the navy
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
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 🌊
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
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
Irene Vicente-Martín @irenevicentem.bsky.social MSCA Res. Fellow at Salamanca | Before at MIAS & Ph.D by @eui-history.bsky.social | 16-17c. Bahia, Brazil, Portugal & Spain | Currently... book in progress!
Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic, and Piracy 🏴☠️
Guillaume Calafat @gcalafat.bsky.social Historian, early modern period, Mediterranean shipwrecks
Associate Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IHMC)
Institut Universitaire de France (Junior Member)
Editor of Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (@annales.ehess.fr)
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
Benjamin Redding @benjaminredding.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at UEA. Researching the Gloucester shipwreck 1654-82. Early modern maritime and naval historian.
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/benjamin-redding
https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
Maxime Morel @maximemorel.bsky.social French PhD Researcher in history at the EUI (Florence)
Early Modern Mediterranean | Naval Ceremony | Diplomatic History
Coordinator of the Diplomatic and International History WG
Alumnus Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne/ENS Paris-Saclay
"Intolerant woke warrior"
Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast 
MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social Lives touched by the marine, 1574-1688. A volunteer led collaboration publishing to the Commons. See also: https://generativelives.substack.com/
Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
Sailing with the French @sailingwthefrench.bsky.social Tracing lives, linking oceans ⛵ 🌊 🗃️
Gabrielle Robilliard @gabyrobilliard.bsky.social Historian of early modern food (especially tea and coffee), intoxicants, medicine, material culture, religion (German Pietism), maritime and global history. Also currently researching sailors‘ stuff.
Postdoc, Prize Papers Project, Oldenburg University
Cheryl Fury @tudorwench.bsky.social Historical Gangsta. Aspiring meme queen. Hangs with salty dead English guys from the Tudor-Stuart era & tries to avoid scurvy. 🇨🇦⚓️ early East India co voyages. Holocaust educator. Teaches whatever needs teaching.
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
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.
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.
Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social World War 1 & 2 Naval historian, also likes RAF bombers & the Luftwaffe between 1935-45. Working on Bristol Beauforts & WW1 U-boats.
https://linktr.ee/jerijerod14
Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg @maritimesmuseum.bsky.social The Maritime History of Humanity told through the worldwide largest maritime private collection of Prof. Peter Tamm at the heart of the Port of Hamburg.
https://www.imm-hamburg.de
U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org An independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of seapower.
Jessica Minieri @jessicaminieri.bsky.social PhD candidate Binghamton University • Editor @hsicilyonhnet.bsky.social • News Editor, @memorients.bsky.social • Historian of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean world.
https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
Dave Long @axe99.bsky.social Personal account, all opinions my own and not representative of anyone/thing else. Interested in critical thinking, naval history and raising ME/CFS awareness. Also, random nice photos :)
Semper Gumby @dbfenthusiast.bsky.social DBF but in a preservation sort of way. Maritime historian and museum ship professional. Views my own.
Emma-Louise Hill @hillemmalouise.bsky.social Recently quit my PhD but have created a census of John Flamsteed’s two star catalogues (AMA).
Niels Petersen @muntera.bsky.social Historian @uni-goettingen.de
The medieval maritime, pre-modern transport and urban history. 🗃️ And Banthas. ❤️project: @viabundus.bsky.social
Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
- Maritime Warfare (1513-1713)
- Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
- Law & the Conduct of War
"Late onset academic"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Murdoch
Caroline Marris (she/her) @cazmarris.bsky.social Research Program Administrator at Drexel University. PhD in early modern European maritime history, Columbia University. Co-Editor of the H-Maritime network. Mum of twins, occasional musician (gamba, violin), baker, aspiring fiction writer. Views my own.
Lillian Taylor @lilliantaylor.bsky.social History PhD student at William & Mary. Working on shipwrecks, environmental history, and history of knowledge in the Atlantic World. She/her
Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social Historian of subsistence labour and the rural environment (+ fish). Unlicensed poster on higher ed, elections, devolution, religion, sport and transport.
Advocate for second cities. Antifascist. Christian. Baggie by birth, Jag by the grace of God. He/him.
Tim Benbow @timbenbow.bsky.social Professor of Strategic Studies, King's College London
My research focusses on UK naval strategy and naval history in the Second World War and Cold War.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/benbow-dr-tim
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
Dr Zack White @zwhitehistory.bsky.social Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide
Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society
Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity
Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast
Views my own
Beck ⚓ @dockyardtalk.bsky.social My name is Beck
⚓Amateur naval historian mainly looking at the Royal Navy from 1790 to 1815.
📖Dyslexic MA Naval/Maritime history Student in the most landlocked part of the UK. - deferred until Sept 2025
#NavalHistory #SignalHistory
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.
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social Prof & DH Coordinator @CPP. Early Americans abroad, merchants, smugglers, capitalists, family history = labor history. In it for the gossip. Views my own.
Charles Wexler @cjwexler.bsky.social Civil War Naval historian examining Confederate ironclad construction and the Federal Blockade off Charleston Harbor. Philly sports fan, PhD, Associate Professor at a community college. Also: metal, foodways. Views are my own, not my employers, etc.
Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social Early-modern history of science |
Commerce and Science
-Practical Maths
-Natural History
@sis-instrument-soc.bsky.social
Uni. of Tennessee |
PhD Cambridge HPS
Adrian Finucane @adrianfinucane.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World. Views my own.- P Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, & medicine, especially tech of ocean science. Associate professor of history. Book review editor for H-Sci-Med-Tech & H-Oceans. She/her/hers.
Jared Samuelson @jwsc03.bsky.social RT/Like =/= endorsement; ship =/= boat.
MA Naval History student at Uni Portsmouth. He/Him. Formerly CIMSEC Sea Control: https://sea-control.simplecast.com/
Roz R, PhD @rozsro.bsky.social Historian of premodern South Asia, European empires, and material culture
Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/
PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music.
she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
Grace Easterly @graceeasterly.bsky.social PhDing @uconnhistory | writing a diss on freedom of navigation, US foreign relations, and sovereignty at sea | organizing with GEU-UAW Local 6950 | she/her
Heather M. Haley @heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social historian of Cold War social movements and the U.S. military | plant & cat mom | views expressed are mine alone
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
Trent Hone @honer.bsky.social MCUF Chair of Strategic Studies at MCU and Management Consultant. Author of Learning War, Battle Line, & Mastering the Art of Command. Opinions my own.
CaptainWonkoTheSane @captainles.bsky.social Avid sailor. Pirate by ancestry.
Also... USAF Vet, Big Tech guy, yacht design & maritime history enthusiast. Have been known to play a little blues guitar.
Hysterics blocked.
Lemme know if you sail.
Helen Rozwadowski @oceanhistories.bsky.social History of science, technology, and especially the oceans. Co-editor of Oceans In Depth U Chicago Press book series. 
Chelsea M. Cohen @chelmcohenarch.bsky.social Archaeologist of ports, seas, and the ships that plied between them. Occasional archaeobotanist. Museum educator. Penn PhD candidate. Queer bog monster. Big damn nerd.
Isaac Land @coastalhistory.bsky.social _The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish_ (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Professor Emeritus, Indiana State University. Former co-editor, Coastal Studies & Society journal.
Henry Snow @henrys.now Labor + economic historian | they/them
political economy, ships, and shipbuilders
CONTROL SCIENCE out with Verso May 12!
currently an adjunct at UConn
website: http://henrys.now/
newsletter/blog: buttondown.com/anotherway
Annabelle Lafuente @annabellelaf.bsky.social Ingénieure CNRS BasqEgo project.
History about transatlantic letters in the 17th-18th century, from Basque country. Maritime & colonial history.
CORBAN project & Prize Papers Project.
Rugbywoman, fan of photography, videogame, Tifosi and ocean lover 🌊🏉📸🏎️🎮
Stephen DeCasien, Ph.D. @sdecasien.bsky.social Nautical Archaeologist & Ancient Historian • Greek & Roman Maritime History & Archaeology • Naval Warfare, Warships, & Naval Rams
http://stephendecasien.com
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.
Jonathan Caverley @jcaverley.bsky.social Political scientist who studies defence (with a “c”) strategy and industrial policy.
www.jonathancaverley.com
Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism. Writing a book on the history of water in southern Africa.
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Zululand.
A. Lynn Evenson @wanderingyeti.bsky.social Historian, Archivist, Photographer. Will happily chat about most things but especially about pirates, folklore, D&D, and weird things you find in boxes full of old stuff. Also find me sharing art & minis on Instagram @wanderingyetistudio. She/Her 🏳️🌈
Michael Romero @mromero.bsky.social Science-Fiction fan, World History teacher, Naval Historian, always something more I need to be writing or reading...
Nick Hewitt @nickhewitt4.bsky.social #naval #historian #Orkney Culture Team Lead @OrkneyCouncil. Author: Firing on Fortress Europe, Coastal Convoys, Kaiser’s Pirates. New book #Normandy: The Sailors’ Story with Yale Books. On TV a bit. Views all mine. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
Dr Lee-Jane Giles @lee-jane.bsky.social Historian studying 18th century Marine Corps. Also interested in duelling, mutiny & piracy - there may be a theme!
Louis Halewood @lmhalewood.bsky.social 
Andy Hall @maritimetexas.bsky.social Maritime, naval, and military history guy, occasional author. Texas Marine Archaeological Steward. Iconoclastic tendencies. Opinions mine, not my employer's.
Ancient Maritime History @ancientsea.bsky.social - Covering mostly Prehistoric and Ancient Maritime History, though I will post examples of both river and sea vessels
- Cross-section enthusiast 
Marcus Faulkner @marcusfaulkner.bsky.social Naval and intelligence historian. Familiar with the Second World War, knows about War Studies and has an amateur understanding of Space. PhD, MA etc. Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies @ King's College London
Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social Historian | Head of Collections Research at The National Archives (UK) | Maritime & colonial history | History of science & medicine | Currently researching Royal African Company/Company of Merchants.
Paul O’Donnell @paodonnell.bsky.social History, Ships, Manufacturing and Trade Policy. Attempting a PhD (the left and the navy in early C20/interwar Britain) twenty years later than is traditional.
Samuel Helfont @samuelhelfont.bsky.social Middle East/International history. Three books on Iraq w/ Oxford UP. One forthcoming w/ Stanford UP. Naval War College@Naval Postgraduate School. PhD@Princeton. Views my own.
https://www.samuelhelfont.com
Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social Author, Historian, Presenter, Broadcaster, Lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London
Website: https://www.sarah-louisemiller.com/
Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social History of Science, Astronomy, Cartography, Transport, Software, AI
Translating 17th century Astronomy texts
Author:
-The Perfect Transport: and the science of why you can't have it
-Almagestum Novum: History of Astronomy
Bram van den Hout @bramvdhout.bsky.social Historian interested in the Darkest Side of the VOC (slavery, piracy, violence), Linked Open Data/datasets, video games as tool for presentation of/and research
Jacqueline Reiter @latelordchatham.bsky.social Congregational Librarian. Historian researching Napoleonic military/political history. Biographer of the 2nd Lord Chatham. "Quicksilver Captain: The Improbable Life of Sir Home Popham" is out now with Helion. I also have two guinea pigs, Merry and Pippin.
Dr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social History PhD. Pirate expert. ☠🏴☠️⚓️ Author/Editor. Educator.
As seen on TV (History Channel). 📺
Elder Millennial. Forever emo kid. ♉ Tattoo lover. AuDHD. A makeup obsessed LEGO enthusiast & vinyl hoarder.
📸: L_Historienne
Jake Dyble @jakedyble.bsky.social Post-doctoral researcher in Padua 🇬🇧🇮🇹🇪🇺 Early modern commercial law, capitalism, slavery
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.
Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at University of Kentucky. Early modern Atlantic world. Also here to follow climate, urbanist, and baseball stuff.
My book: https://go.shr.lc/3AKP9Fw
Lee Kluck, Public Historan @leekluckhistorian.bsky.social Public Historian who focuses on sports topics and interesting local stories with international implications. Author of Leave While the Party's Good: The Life and Legacy of Baseball Executive Harry Dalton.
https://history4publicconsumption.substack.com/