Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social Historian, hack, presenter, runner.
Sometimes wears dodgy trousers.
guy@guywalters.com
HOWL @howl2025.bsky.social HOWL aims to create a welcoming online home for all oral, written and photographic memories of the Women's Liberation Movement 1969-1990s.
We invite all older feminists to contribute!
Visit our website to find out more >> https://howl-uk.org/about <<
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
James Coverley @jamescoverley.bsky.social Roman history with the potential to be quite interesting. Subscribe for updates 👇
Substack - https://jamescoverley.substack.com
Tip Jar - https://ko-fi.com/jamescoverley
Kate Louise Mathis @drmaudbailey.bsky.social Scottish European | #GreenYes | Academic | Lace knitter | Concrete enthusiast | Gaelic women's poetry | Celtic/Gaelic Revivals | Still acknowledging ongoing pandemic (She/her)
Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com- J Jon Wilson @jonewilson.bsky.social Historian of South Asia and other places, write about politics, in university management, optimist. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/jon-wilson
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writer about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
About lore and culture at The Busy Town.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
(Account sometimes deactivated when not in use.)
Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social Former editor of White Dwarf, current editor of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. Life writing PhD from UEA. Mostly writing about Romans. REX JUBA, out 2026 from Penguin.
https://linktr.ee/andrewkenrick
The Centre for Robert Burns Studies @glasgowburns.bsky.social Est. 2007 at the University of Glasgow for the development of research, scholarship and teaching in the area of Robert Burns (1759-96).
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, 2023.
Melissa Nadia Viviana @thebeatphilosopher.com Author. Activist. Existentialist. Humanist. Beat Philosopher. Philosophy Of Mind. Dog Mom.
Writing About Philosophy Here: https://melissanadiaviviana.com/
James Plunkett @jamestplunkett.bsky.social Interested in more human ways to govern our lives together, and how technology can help. Blog: https://medium.com/@jamestplunkett 🏳️⚧️
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE.
History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA
Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine
Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement
jasminekgani.wordpress.com
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social Historian of Science, Knowledge, Intellectual Culture | Occasional Orientalist
Martin Bayly @mjbayly.bsky.social Associate Professor, @LSEIRDept. Views my own. Interested in history, theory, empire, anti-imperialism, and South Asia. www.martinbayly.com
Neha Vermani @nehavermani.bsky.social Historian of Mughal material culture,food practices,senses,emotions & objects. Former @Britishacademy_ Fellow @unishefhistory. I frequently share snippets from my research on the Instagram handle consuming_history.
Sonali Dhanpal @sonalidhanpal.bsky.social Historian of modern architecture and urbanism and a fellow at the Buell/ SOF Heyman at Columbia
Diya Gupta @diyagupta.bsky.social Literary scholar, cultural historian. Senior Lecturer in Public History, City St George's, University of London. First book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' (2023) #happyeveryday
sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social historian, walker.
Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed.bsky.social Historian at Union college. In an avoidant attachment style relationship with writing.
Rana Safvi @ranasafvi.bsky.social historian, translator, author deeply committed to India's rich cultural heritage and diverse civilizational legacy. Author of the Delhi trilogy and In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India, A Firestorm in Paradise
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Anna Fineman @annafineman.bsky.social Arts, nature, wordplay, social justice. Outreach Programme Manager for UCL Special Collections. She/her.- F Freya Gowrley @freyagowrley.bsky.social Art Historian, makeup aficionado, antiques hoarder, snappy dresser.
Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright 
Claire Eldridge @eldrclaire.bsky.social Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social Historian: South Asia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor: University of Reading. Author: 'Malarial Subjects' (Cambridge,2017);Editor: Locating the Medical (Oxford, 2018). Words: ConversationUK; The Independent 
Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social historian
colonialism | media | Orangina
One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
James Fisher @jamdanfish.bsky.social Historian of work, knowledge and capitalism (C16-18th) | Lecturer at Uni of Exeter | Author of THE ENCLOSURE OF KNOWLEDGE (CUP, 2022)
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social Digital History, Radical History, Social History.
Dadaists, Anti-Artists, Cultural Deserters.
Coin clippers, Debtors escaping and imprisoned, Londoners.
Critics and Critiques of Political Economy.
Open Access, Public Domain, Hacking Around.
And Cats.
Vivien Chan @inoutofpractice.bsky.social Sowing seeds 🌱 Making sensations 💫 (Dr, she/they)
Design historian, educator, image maker.
Hong Kong, design history, material/visual/spatial culture, everyday.
@iias.bsky.social Asia in the World Fellow.
https://vivienchan.co.uk/
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Historian of extinction, race & empire. Vanished shortlisted for Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize, & 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History Extra, Smithsonian and more.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Dr Claudia Tomlinson @claudiawrites.bsky.social I wear many hats; author, researcher on history of British Empire, African and Caribbean history and literatures. Now working on new black British eighteenth century documentary novel. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social Community archive of black grassroots activist and cultural movements associated with John La Rose and Sarah White, co-founders of New Beacon Books, and many others. Testimony to the creativity and resilience of black resistance.
https://linktr.ee/thegpi
Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Tufts University; chief editor, Journal of Global History; decolonization, borders, South Asian internationalism; www.elisabethmarikoleake.com
Kieran Hazzard @kieranhazzard.bsky.social Historian of C18th-19th Britain and India. No longer institutionally attached. Previous research into Robert Clive's loot at Powis Castle and Regency Radicals who hated the East India Company. Increasingly interested in the Great War.
David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
Charlotte Cull @charlottecull.bsky.social History PhD at KCL on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS. Views my own.
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Emma Bond @efbond.bsky.social Professor of Italian & Comparative Studies, University of Oxford. Interested in migration, museums and empire. New book CURATING WORLDS out Dec 2024.
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Victorian Poetry @victorianpoetry.bsky.social Victorian Poetry is a peer-reviewed quarterly dedicated to Victorian poets and poetries (broadly & experimentally construed). Edited by Devin Garofalo, UC San Diego (victorianpoetryjournal@gmail.com). Learn more: https://victorian-poetry.scholasticahq.com
Disco Stuart Hall aka Foucauldian Funk (ABD). @kurosarakokuou.bsky.social History PhD candidate researching the appropriation of urban subcultures. HNIC of Rotating Souls Records. Afrofuturist DJ. Kurosarakokuou on socials. Founder of Krog Codex Graffiti Digital Archive. @krogcodexofficial.bsky.social
Krogcodex.org
sundeep @historysunny.bsky.social Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy 
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.
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
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.
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Graham Taylor @pottedhistory.bsky.social Potted History: Ancient maker of replica ancient pottery, shaper of clay, builder of kilns, maker of tools, Experimental archaeology: Ceramic Technology. Prehistory Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Iron-Age, Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Mediaeval.
Sandra Lipner @sandralipner.bsky.social Historian (UCL) interested in 20th-c. German subjectivities, ‘doing’ difference, family / race / class / gender / emotions. European 🇩🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 in search of ☕️.
Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social The Society for Applied Anthropology - A Worldwide Organization for the Applied Social Sciences
https://linktr.ee/appliedanthro
Aniket Alam @aniketalam.bsky.social Historian dabbling in Anthropology & Pol Sc.
Worked earlier as a journalist, editor, in social sector.
Areas of interest/ competence: Mountain Societies, State, Family, Colonialism, Marxism.
More here: https://hsrc.iiit.ac.in/people/faculty/aniket.html
Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social Mama. Partner. Writer. Professor of Victorian literature at Dartmouth. Former dean and provost, enjoying another run at faculty life. Co-founder of Dever Justice LLC. 
Vicky Mills @drvickymills.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London.
London and Cambridge
drvickymills.com
Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social Peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal on C19 literature & culture
Send submissions to submissionsvr@gmail.com
Website https://victorianreview.org/
Issues https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/508
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Huw J. Davies @huwjdav.bsky.social Professor of British Military History @kcl.ac.uk | Associate Dean Professional & Online Education SSPP | Award-Winning Book: Wandering Army | Next one: Forging Armageddon @YaleBooks.bsky.social | FRHistS
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Nina Lager Vestberg @lagernina.bsky.social Professor of visual culture @ NTNU Trondheim | Media, Data, Museums | Author of Picture Research: The Work of Intermediation from Pre-Photography to Post-Digitization @ MIT Press 2023 | Campuslivet (akademisk nyhetsbrev på norsk): campuslivet.substack.com
Dr Adam Prime @primeadam.bsky.social Civil servant by day, historian by night. Researching the military in British India. Accidental First World War historian. WFA Universities Trustee. Husband & Dad. Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/adamprime
Arne Langleite @arnet.bsky.social Photo-historian, curator and archivist, occasionaly even photographer. Keen on early northern light photography, mid 20th century picture agencies and architectural photography.
anja schürmann @schalkewins.bsky.social researching the photobook & history/theory of photography as an art historian & permanent researcher at @kwi-essen.bsky.social. whistling at the gap between reading & writing.
https://linktr.ee/schalkewins
Mira Anneli Naß @miraanneli.bsky.social art historian | photography theorist | art critic Research on Images of Surveillance in Contemporary Art (PhD) @fotofolkwang.bsky.social; Culture of Remembrance; Antisemitism in Art & Art History (PostDoc) @unistuttgart.bsky.social
Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
Dr Francesca Strobino @francescastrobino.bsky.social Photographic Historian, Lecturer at LABA, Florence (she/her)
Robert Fergusson (1750-74) @rfergussonpoet.bsky.social 'The Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies', Leverhulme Trust-funded project at University of Glasgow
PI Prof Rhona Brown.
Dr Ellen Smith @ellencssmith.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain and colonial South Asia, postdoc, University of Bristol. Interested in all things letters, India, family history, memory https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/ellen-smith
Dr Sean Cham @seancham.bsky.social Art, Museums, and the British Empire
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Robert Ivermee @robertivermee.bsky.social Associate Professor (MCF) @sciencespo-grenoble.fr. British and French colonialism. South Asia. Global and environmental history. Author of Hooghly and Glorious Failure 📚
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Dr Priya Atwal @priyaatwal.bsky.social Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own.
Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Long Victorian @longvictorian.bsky.social Books, art and Victoriana, 1789-1914. Blog at: https://longvictorian.com
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity fighting to save our Victorian & Edwardian heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
Susan Brown @susanbrown.bsky.social DH and literary studies of the intersectional feminist, semantic technologies and critical infrastructure flavours. English | Culture and Technology Studies, U of Guelph.
Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Be rude and you’ll be blocked.
Professor Clare Anderson FBA FAcSS @sysgak.bsky.social 
Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social historian, mother, settler, feminist, lousy speller. Based in Treaty One and Manitoba Act lands.
Robert Bickers @bickers.bsky.social Writer & historian. European. Professor of History, University of Bristol. Rewriting British and other history is my job. Find out more via my staff profile: http://tinyurl.com/rbickers, & blog: http://robertbickers.net I also run http://hpcbristol.net
Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics at Uni Lausanne in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Dr Emma Probett @emmaprobett.bsky.social PhD in Victorian Studies. Currently writing a book about Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the novel of manners. They/Them
linktr.ee/emmaprobett
Amitav Ghosh @amitav.bsky.social Novelist and non-fiction writer; author of 'The Ibis Trilogy', 'The Great Derangement', 'Gun Island', 'The Nutmeg's Curse' and 'Smoke and Ashes'. 
Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social Year 6 teacher. Historian of emotions. Honorary Professor at QMUL. Author. Broadcaster.
100 Histories in 100 Worlds in 1 Object @100histories.bsky.social The Global South revisits the BBC/British Museum's A History of the World in 100 Objects. A dynamic decolonial grassroots project.
1 Object tells 100 Histories of 100 Worlds.
https://100histories100worlds.org/
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