Celeste McNamara @celestemcnamara.bsky.social Historian @ Dublin City University. Author of The Bishop’s Burden (Catholic UP). Currently working on the policing of illicit sexuality in 18th century Venice. For more see www.celestemcnamara.com.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Book review editor, Sixteenth Century Journal. Dance, movement, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600, especially in northern Europe . Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
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.
Becky Guest @beckyguest.bsky.social Executive Publisher for Humanities journals at Routledge, Taylor & Francis
Erik Inglis @allthebeset.bsky.social warning signs, bikes and buzzards. and train songs. no such thing as negative space.
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
London Renaissance Seminar (LRS) @londrenaissance.bsky.social A discussion forum examining all aspects of early modern history, literature and culture. Based at Birkbeck, University of London.
Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public history at C2DH at University of Luxembourg. International Federation for Public History. Co-production, citizen science. #publichistory #Citizenscience https://www.uni.lu/en/person/NTAwMzk5NTZfX1Rob21hcyBDQVVWSU4=/
GSS 2027 @gendercongress.bsky.social Looking for researchers, speakers & experts in Gender & Sexuality Studies
🎓 Join GSS 2027 – 12th Global Congress
📍 Barcelona, Spain | 📅 May 13–14, 2027
📩 DM us for speaking & collaboration opportunities
Website: https://genderstudycongress.com/
Benjamin Wendorf @benjaminwendorf.bsky.social Atlantic World historian and professor. Also known to hockey.
The Holberg Prize @holbergprize.bsky.social International prize awarded annually for outstanding research in the humanities, social sciences, law or theology. Administered by the University of Bergen, Norway. Funded by the Norwegian Government.
Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social Music theorist, early music specialist, mezzo soprano, feminist, yogi, hiker. Into equitable pedagogy. Author of Hearing Homophony (OUP 2020: http://bit.ly/341RhmB). She/her/hers.
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Dr Jo McCutcheon @jomac-613.bsky.social Historian | she/her| clothing| children & youth| material culture | identity| hair| methodology | pedagogy | archives | literature| fibre arts| podcasts| photography| UOttawa
Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social Professor of early modern European art @ University of San Francisco | Author of Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing | Newfoundland mom and lover of nature I Interested in all sorts of things
The Blackstudies Podcast @blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social Podcasted conversations on the past and future of Black Studies, hosted by our editorial collective - Ashley Newby, Brie Gorrell, Olivia Blucker, and John E. Drabinski. Follow via links at linktr.ee/blstpodcast. Contact us at blackstudiespodcast@gmail.com
Dr Kat Rawling @katrawling.bsky.social Historian of medical photography, medicine, modern British social and cultural history. Lecturer in nineteenth century British history (Uni of Leeds).
Elke Papelitzky @elkelitzky.bsky.social Associate professor of early modern Chinese history at the University of Oslo working on maps and maritime history
John Boeren, LLM, MSc, QG 🇳🇱 @antecedentia.com Professional genealogist. Research in Netherlands and Belgium. Interest in early modern history. Member of APG and RQG. Graduate of University of Strathclyde. Scholar for New Netherland Settlers Project.
Business: https://www.antecedentia.com
Iberian History at Oxford @iberiahistoryox.bsky.social Promoting the study of premodern Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian world at the University of Oxford. https://iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
Join our people-powered nonprofit newsroom: motherjones.com/subscribe
Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Henk-Jan Dekker @henk-jandekker.bsky.social Historian of mobility, energy, and technology; working on global histories of cycling and automobility. Postdoctoral researcher at Bielefeld University. Book review editor at Technology and Culture.
The Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science @mpips.bsky.social The Max Planck Institute for Political & Social Science examines urgent questions of conflict, inequality, democratic erosion & societal transformation – combining political science & sociology in an interdisciplinary framework. ips.mpg.de
Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social Early modernist researching migration controls in seventeenth-century England.
PhD in History from the University of Leeds.
Not a fan of borders.
Email: julietatkinson99@gmail.com
Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies @ucsbkalfou.bsky.social A journal centered on social movements and relations, linking educators, artists, & activists in the struggle for social justice.
Read: https://tupjournals.temple.edu/index.php/kalfou/
Podcast: "Kalfou: Community Centered" on Spotify, Apple, & iHeart.
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Karen L. Carter @kcingr.bsky.social Art Historian / Professor / late 19th century France
Dog lover
Opinions posted here are my own
Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
Mattia Corso @mcorso7.bsky.social Early modern historian | Material culture & religious studies enthusiast | Member of ERC HolyLab (https://holylab-erc.uniroma3.it/)
https://uniromatre.academia.edu/MattiaCorso
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords.
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
Dr Aleisha Ward @nzjazzhistory.bsky.social NZ Jazz Historian; Lilburn Fellow 2017; Professional Teaching Fellow Music at Auckland Uni. Come for the music, stay for everything else. Opinions definitely my own! She/her
Dr Rachel Murphy @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Irish History @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Landed estates, history of family, local history, digital humanities | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
Robert Piggott @rpiggott.bsky.social Historian. Researching a disparate mix of voluntary action, medical, religious, and media histories in modern Britain.
Ben Bankhurst @benbankhurst.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Appalachian Studies, Early America, 18th/ C. Irish and British History.
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Martin O'Donoghue @martinodonoghue.bsky.social Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India.
Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP
Views own
Kristine Toft Rosland @kristinerosland.bsky.social Associate Professor University of South-Eastern Norway. Reader of weird texts, from Nag Hammadi to fanfiction
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social Full Professor @ FLACSO Mexico. I study comparative public policy, water governance, waste management, public administration, environmental politics, homelessness, eldercare and care work, mixed/experimental methods.
Miranda L Elston @miraelston.bsky.social Tudor Art & Architecture in Global Contexts - Travel Narratives, Maps, & Colonial Encounters / Sometimes Dabbling in Modernism & Design
#EarlyModern #Tudor #ArtHistory
Assistant Professor Coastal Carolina University @ccuarthistory | PhD @UNC
Ciaran McDonough @metamedievalist.bsky.social Postdoc on ‘Classical Influences and Irish Culture’ ERC project @clic-erc.bsky.social, Aarhus University
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social
Performance historian, disability historian.
Disability Works: Performance After Rehabilitation (NYU, 2024)
30% off with code NYUP30
https://nyupress.org/9781479824878/disability-works/
https://linktr.ee/patricktmckelvey
Franco Rodríguez Massó @frodriguezmasso.bsky.social Latin Americanist (Lit. Hist. Pol.) Escritor, Profe. Lector. DPIP 💚 ✍🏼 Descomposiciones; Bolaño: Investigador Desvelado; Las instrucciones (2026); Terror (2026)🇵🇷 ☕ 🥑🦀🌎
The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social A podcast for all with a common interest in history. Run and hosted by Mark Martin, the pod is his hobby. He’s an Arsenal fan and Wargamer.
Listen on any podcast app: https://bit.ly/4huFXEJ
Briana Garrett ✨ Love Be Damned Out Now! @brianawrites.bsky.social LOVE BE DAMNED Available Now!
https://linktr.ee/BGgirl123
Eden Appiah-Kubi @edenawrites.bsky.social Author specializing in Blerdy heroines & HEAs.
Here to do good and make friends. My therapist thinks I'm funny.
My books make great gifts!
THE BENNET WOMEN
HER OWN HAPPINESS
https://linktr.ee/EdenAppiahKubi
#booksky #blackbooksky #author #romancelandia
Eden S. @edenwrites.bsky.social ✨️Writer, feminist, geek, coffee lover✨️
🌈♾️
Peace Zodanou @peacezodanou.bsky.social 🤎✊🏾#MG #YA #Adult Writer❤️🔥🇹🇬📚❤️🔥#KDrama #KPop #Anime watcher.❤️🔥Here for #BVM in #sff books and movies.❤️🔥 Mentored #WTMP❤️🔥🩵🩷🤍💜🤍💚 #PeaceZWrites
Rep: TBD
Host: https://open.spotify.com/show/0bEJ8tAWgwUNO38268tmSQ?si=L7c1S4_kSB278rJbMPCqkQ
Lawrence Everett Forbes @bohemiandork.com Black queer writer, painter, caregiver, and Lambda Literary Fellow. As seen in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and WIRED. Currently working on a memoir. | Clips, paintings, and miscellany can be found at bohemiandork.com. 🇺🇸🇻🇨🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🩼♿️
@themidlifewriter.bsky.social @themidlifewriter.bsky.social
Author Rome Perry @rome-perry-writing.bsky.social Khyrie’s Dad 👶🏾: 1 year old
Aspiring Author 📚: YA Sci-Fi 🪐
Anime 👀: Currently: Demon Slayer
Gamer 🎮 PS5: Thaddeus_Thunder
Artist ✍🏾: Drawing
Retired Rapper 🎤: Punchliner
Fallout Lore enthusiasts:
DL White @booksbydlwhite.blacksky.app Same soup, just reheated. Find me in the A.
Author. Powered by Skittles & spite. Big gan of beaches, brunch, *NSYNC, Kids in the Hall. Aggressively Black. #92percent
Have you tried dying mad about it?
https://www.booksbydlwhite.com/linkinbio
Jens R Hentschke @jrhentschke.bsky.social X: @jrhentschke. Chair of Latin American History and Politics, Newcastle Univ. UK; Specialisms: History of Brazil, Southern Cone and Colombia, late 18th-mid 20th cc.; SLAS President 2015-17; Chair of UK Standing Conference of LA Centres 2017-19. Own views.
Alexa Rodríguez @alexarodriguezphd.bsky.social Assist Professor @UVA ✍🏽 Crafting Dominicanidad (forth. UNC Press) about education and citizenship during the 1916 US occupation of the Dominican Republic & director @dominicanvoices.bsky.social bilingual digital archive documenting education and childhood
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social International assignment editor, Washington Post // Journalism instructor, Harvard // New Englander. Potential Ukrainian. Literally Irish. Now more Canadian!™
Yesenia Barragan, she/they @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social historian of Latin America & African diaspora @Rutgers. Latinx surrealist & mama. proud poor/working-class first-gen daughter of immigrants.
✍🏽 IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (Basic Books, 2026); FREEDOM’S CAPTIVES (2021)
George Clay @g-g-clay.bsky.social I’m a historian of the seventeenth-century Caribbean. I write about religion and slavery, and occasionally about emotions.
Dr Helen Morley @drhelenmorley.bsky.social Facilitator, Coach, Consultant. Academic Development Consultant at the University of Leeds. Fascinated by human development at all scales (individuals, organisations, systems etc).
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Histories of racialised communities in Britain @historyracebritain.bsky.social Showcasing new historical research on racialised communities in Britain by emerging scholars from racially minoritised backgrounds. Send work for us to share via dm!
Warren Milteer @wemilteer.bsky.social Historian; Author of Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom (2026); Freedom in the Age of Slavery (2026); Beyond Slavery's Shadow (2021); and more at warrenmilteer.com
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
@endeeekay.bsky.social @endeeekay.bsky.social
Grace Mallon @gracemallon.bsky.social British historian of the United States. Clive Holmes Fellow in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Obsessed with American federalism.
Nichelle Henderson @nshlh.bsky.social LA Community College Trustee | Teacher | LA County Quality & Productivity Commissioner | Cal State faculty & union organizer | Wife, mom & grandma
https://www.efundraisingconnections.com/c/nichellehenderson
Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social Writer. Librarian. Rep'd by the extraordinary @johnmcusick at
@foliojr Latest title: #THERISEOFISSAIGWE
she/her
https://linktr.ee/srmilesauthor
Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social Connecting history to the present—articles, teaching materials, & advice for the contemporary historian | Accepting submissions | Eds @malszy.bsky.social & @sarahking.bsky.social | #bskystorians | clioandthecontemporary.com
Dr Sarah Feinstein @1000plateaus.bsky.social used to work in museums, now works at School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds (she/her)
Rachel Grace Newman @rachelgracenewman.bsky.social Book out now! Free download
The Future in Their Hands: Making Mexico's Foreign-Educated Elite
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-future-in-their-hands/paper
Asst. Prof of History at Colgate
Hosting convos on new books @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social born and raised and flourishing in California’s Great Central Valley
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
Dr. Michelle Lynn Kahn @michellelkahn.bsky.social Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Josh Kluever @joshkluever.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ Marshall University | Studies Socialist State Legislators | Managing Editor @cliocontemporary.bsky.social | Social Media Director for @midwesternhistory.bsky.social | Host of @heartlandhistory.bsky.social | Solidarity Forever🌹
Omari @oaverettephillips.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History & African American Studies at UC Davis | Educator | Labor Organizer | Leftist | he, they
Eddie Valentin @evalentin25.bsky.social Public historian, personal research interests: Reconstruction, borderlands history, and the military experiences of Black Americans. Views expressed here are my own.
Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. @thegingerprof.bsky.social Historian of US foreign relations, Iran, & women’s human rights. Writing a book on early 20th c. US-Iran relations. Philly sports fan. Visiting Scholar @ GWU IMES and HRC Oral History Fellow @ Georgetown 🗃️