Irina Roldugina 🦔 @mozzgi.bsky.social Queer history (imperial and soviet).
DPhil, Oxon.
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
@ionela.bsky.social @ionela.bsky.social
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Independent scholarly publisher of distinguished books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Message to join our Berghahn author & editor starter pack!
Gilberto Mazzoli @gilberto-mazzoli.bsky.social Postdoc @uni-konstanz.de on the Off the Road ERC project.
PhD in History @eui-history.bsky.social
Research on Environmental History / Urban History / Italian Migration gilbertomazzoli1984.wordpress.com
Graphic+Exhibition Designer
gilbertone.com
Barbara Rosenwein @barbararosenwein.bsky.social Historian of emotions, still much attached to all things medieval--art, literature, feelings, charters... Recent books on anger, love, and old age. Now writing a novel about my family, from the Pale of Settlement to now.
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.
@melissaellenblack.bsky.social @melissaellenblack.bsky.social
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Javier Zamora Bonilla @javizamorabonilla.bsky.social Profesor de Historia del pensamiento político. Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Director del Máster en Teoría política y cultura democrática.
https://www.ucm.es/histegepo/javier-zamora-bonilla
https://elpensatoriodelasideas.blogspot.com/?m=1
Chair in European Values (UCLouvain) @values4eu.bsky.social Dedicated to promoting debate on European values in their diversity & complexity | Focus: refugees, values & emotions, history of "European values", ... | Former chair-holder: @wimweymans.bsky.social |En|Fr|Nl|De www.uclouvain.be/europeanvalues
Dr Carrie Long @carrielong.bsky.social Historian | PDRA: Inclusive Histories Project 25-26| RMG Caird Fellow: Greenwich Hospital School 26 | IHR Pearsall Fellow 23-24 | Research interests: c.18-19th naval and military families, marginalised histories, lone women, petitioning, welfare and care
Warwick EMECC @emeccwarwick.bsky.social The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
Brendan Tam @brendantam.bsky.social PhD candidate (History) University of Warwick (2022-2026) || Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| 🇦🇺 || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
Linda Zampol D'Ortia @lindazampol.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher (Ca' Foscari Venice).
History of Europe-Asia relations, religions in Asia, history of emotions.
https://lzdo.carrd.co
https://unive.academia.edu/LindaZampolDOrtia
Mari Välimäki @marivalimaki.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodernity, #gender, #youth & #academiclife. Writing in Finnish, Swedish & English. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2947-4675.
Also interested in knitting, reading and guinea pigs
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Mary Flannery @15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social Explorer of books, lover of words. Developmental editor and grant-writer by day, humorist by night. Substacking at Page by Page.
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
Melanie A. Kiechle @melaniekiechle.bsky.social Historian of #C19 United States: health, science, cities, environments, and smells. Lots of smells. Author of Smell Detectives. Now musing alternatively about buried creeks, sensitivity, and an ill woman.
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
Jeremy Trevelyan Burman 🎓 @burmanphd.bsky.social Theory & History of Psychology at the University of Groningen (@rug-gmw.bsky.social). Elected fellow of the APA in History 26 and Developmental 7. Elected president of the APA division for History, 2024-2026. Advisor to NWO SSH Roundtable for Humanities.
Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social Historian of childhood, experience, emotions, education and nationalism of Britain, Empire, Global. Senior Researcher, NARS (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
She/her
Anna Pravdica @annajpravdica.bsky.social AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨
https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
Brian Cowan @briancowan.bsky.social Historian etc
Ilaria Scaglia @ilariascaglia.bsky.social History Senior Lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Author of The Emotions of Internationalism (OUP, 2020) and co-editor of Archives and Emotions (2024).
Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions.
Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social
Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
Jenni Kuuliala @jennikuu.bsky.social Historian of medieval and early modern lived religion, sainthood, witchcraft, and disability. Currently working as a senior lecturer at the Uni. of Turku. May also talk about dogs and agility. Writing in Finnish and English. She/her.
Heini Hakosalo @hhakosalo.bsky.social Historian of medicine and health. Senior Research Fellow / Associate Professor at the University of Oulu, Finland.
DGTarbuck @dgtarbuck.bsky.social History of Science, Intellectual History, Eighteenth Century, History of Sociability.- A Ana Antic @anaantic.bsky.social Social and cultural historian of psychiatry/Centre for Culture and the Mind
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 🫧
Meghan Woolley, Ph.D. @meghanhwoolley.bsky.social Historian and writing instructor studying emotions and law in 12th and 13th-century England.
Juan Manuel Zaragoza @jmzaragoza.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Science. Father of two. I teach "Technoscience, Nature and Society" at @FacFilosoMurcia.
Raisa Toivo @raisatoivo.bsky.social Professor of the history of early modern society. I work on history of experience, faith and religion, family and gender and withchcraft on particular. I am a person.
Tuomas Tepora @ttepora.bsky.social Historian, Professor at the University of Helsinki. The history of Finnish nationalism, collective remembrance, emotions & experience.
Andrés Gattinoni @andresgattinoni.com.ar Historiador de melancolías ajenas. Amante de las etimologías, cuanto más truchas mejor. Influencer de notas al pie. / Historian of alien melancholies. Lover of (specially false) etymologies. Footnote influencer. #18thc #EarlyModern 🗃️
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Dr. Elisabeth M. Yang @emyang.bsky.social Philosophically-bent, historian/childhood studies PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, history of medicine, material culture/moral babies & children/amateur thespian/tea snob
Based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at University of Leeds
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social Art historian of medicine
Asst Prof, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ Uni of Rochester
plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor
Book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host
she / her
clive henry @clivehenry.bsky.social phd student researching post-war fascism/history of emotions at uni of Northampton; proud enjoyer of all the musics; diy or die; new puritan est domini; shivering winner/moody brooder.
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.
Elwin Hofman @elwinhofman.bsky.social Historian | Crime, emotions, sexuality & self 18-20C | Assistant Professor & MSCA fellow Cultural History Utrecht University | Latest books: The Business of Pleasure | Trials of the Self
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed.bsky.social Historian at Union college. In an avoidant attachment style relationship with writing.
Sarah Dixon Smith @sarahds.bsky.social Researcher, Imperial College London • Historian #HistMed • PhD in Military Medicine • Blast Injury • Chronic Pain • Applied History • Cats, Podcasts, Spooky Things. And Pastry.
Ge(Gigi)Tang @gigitang.bsky.social Postdoc on Research Ireland-funded project ‘Minerals’, UC Dublin School of English. PhD in English. Research global 19c, extraction, infrastructure, petition, periodicals, travel writing, Trollope, emotion history. Adore dogs. she/ her.
Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Alex Oberländer @alexoberlaender.bsky.social Historian of Russia/Soviet Union; Cultural History of Work; History of Sexual Violence; History of Emotions
research associate (wiss. MA) @OEI/FU Berlin; associate @FSO Bremen
editor @Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History
#skystorians
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
Satu Sorvali @satusorvali.bsky.social PhD, cultural historian at the University of Turku / Senior Research Officer in the National Archives of Finland / Late 19th-century, press history, the history of emotions, digital methods and tools
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland @asimonekeland.bsky.social Academic librarian at the University of Oslo and historian of exploration in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly interested in the polar regions, the history of celebrity and the history of emotions
Exergy enjoyer @sedziwoj.bsky.social Interested in the history and philosophy of {physics, climate science, earth science}, medieval-early modern science and the history of emotions | He/they
Larisse Elías @mlarisseelias.bsky.social Historian | PhD candidate in Contemporary History @uff_br | Research interests: Elections in the Nineteenth-century; History of Emotions.
Anne Régent-Susini @ar-s.bsky.social Earlymodernist, Literature Professor @Sorbonne nouvelle. French studies, Rhetoric, argumentation, eloquence, history of emotions, religious studies, travel narratives, historiography, preaching, (auto)biography, non-fiction
Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social Art Historian looking for dirt on Britain’s imperial past in museums & archives. Author of “The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector". Wife, mother, pug owner.
www.jenniferhowes.com
Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee
Douglas Kahn @douglaskahn.bsky.social Writer, historian and theorist of the arts, focus on sound and energies, with STS-ish background. Books: Energies in the Arts (2019), Earth Sound Earth Signal (2013), Noise Water Meat (1999).
Micah M. Carlson 🗃️ @micahcarlson.bsky.social Historian.
Ghost stories as historical method.
Public history theorist in the streets, archive critic in the sheets.
Expert at petting cats and responding to bruh.
Sometimes funny.
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
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.
HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social Digital Handbook of the History of Experience, published under the auspices of the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience, Tampere University.
https://sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/
Marie van Haaster @marievhaaster.bsky.social PhD researcher @eui-eu | History of Consolation, Health, Welfare, Religion, Experience
Yücel Yanıkdağ @yanikdag.bsky.social Professor of History and Global Studies | Studies the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic | Emotions and Masculinities | The Ottoman First World War | First generation college grad.
Claudia Arozqueta @carozqueta.bsky.social Historian, curator, and writer.
Author of 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩 (MIT Press, 2025)
Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social Year 6 teacher. Historian of emotions. Honorary Professor at QMUL. Author. Broadcaster.
Ya Zuo 左娅 @zuoya.bsky.social Historian, middle and late imperial China, cultural history, history of emotions, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara
Antoine Rousseau @tonitorousseau.bsky.social Docteur et prof agrégé en histoire-géographie / Je co-anime un podcast : @lapanamericaine.bsky.social
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Keith Bresnahan @designhist.bsky.social Historian of design, emotions, 19C France, destruction, ruins and the like. writing a book about the aftermath of the Paris Commune.
@manakia.bsky.social @manakia.bsky.social
Ofer Idels @oferidels.bsky.social Historian | Zionism and Experience | Postdoc @ucalgary.bsky.social | Former Humboldt Fellow | Author: Zionism: Emotions, Language & Experience (CUP) & Embodying the Revolution (RUP) | @newcastleunited.com Fan.
https://ucalgary.academia.edu/OferIdels
Jamie Bronstein @tomduncombe.bsky.social History professor specializing in Britain and U.S., currently working on mental health in Progressive-era New Mexico. I don't speak for my employer.
Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
Prof. Rich Firth-Godbehere FRHistS @profrichfg.bsky.social #Writer of Many Things from books to YouTube Scripts viewed by tens of millions.
Writing and Emo Intelligence #Consultant #History Of #Emotion Thinker, #Musician.
Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Humanities @Woxsen Uni.
Dr. Sophie Turbutt @sophie-turbutt.bsky.social Historian of Spanish anarchism: gender, comradeship, intimacy, emotions 📚
☆AHRC Curiosity Award Specialist
☆LAHRI Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
☆History Workshop Editorial Fellow
(she/her)
Dr Alice Crossley @alicecrossley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln).
Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA.
- Own views -
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Katrina M Tap 🌻 @katrinak1.bsky.social Here for the joy. Not the journalist.😎
Stephanie Trigg @stephanietrigg.bsky.social Medievalist trying to live a good life on Wurundjeri land and sometimes on Gulidjan/Gadubanud land.
Charlotte-Rose Millar @charlotte-millar.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, works on supernatural belief, the history of emotions and print culture. Book in progress: Ghostly Emotions: Space, Satan, and the Supernatural in post-Reformation England
De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
Philippa Nicole Barr @philippabarr.bsky.social Author @cambridgeup.bsky.social
http://www.cambridge.org/uncertainty-emotion
Visiting Fellow ANU CAP
Popping off! New projects out soon
History of Emotions (NACHE) @nachemotion.bsky.social The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) 🌎 Promoting and organizing publications, colloquia, conferences, & more! https://nachemotion.wordpress.com
Catherine-Rose Hailstone @caterose.bsky.social Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Early Medieval History at the Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen. Currently writing up her Leverhulme Trust monograph on Emotional Architectures: Atmospheres of Power in the Churches of Late Antique Gaul.
Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket.
Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social Emotional historian