Ben Rogers @brogers1721.bsky.social Research Fellow at The History Of Parliament Trust | House of Lords (1660-1832)
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Fred Smith @fredesmith.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern History @ Lincoln College, Oxford | Interested in early modern religious history; exile; transnational history; Catholicism
The Oxford Marlowe Project @marloweproject.bsky.social The Oxford Marlowe: Collected Works
http://research.kent.ac.uk/marlowe-works/
Image credit: Lorna May Wadsworth
Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social Historical sociologist working on beer, food, cities, waterways, textiles. My book on hops in 19th century Wisconsin out in Fall 2026, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo271049878.html aka @sociologyofplants aka @historicalhops
Tom Shiels @itstomshiels.bsky.social Writer of reflective essays on memory, music, and place. Attempting to live slower in the middle of the chaos. Irish living in West Yorkshire.
https://storiessongsseasons.substack.com
Chris @missingintheslips.bsky.social Trying to watch more cricket than I write about. 🏏 The next book is about Nancy Sharp [https://tinyurl.com/2736jaw4].
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social Author, very professional.
Buy my debut novel PRESTIGE DRAMA at https://geni.us/Prestige_Drama.
Get my extremely good memoir at www.mammybook.com
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Dublin Inquirer @dublininquirer.com Dublin's independent local newspaper, since 2015. Reader-funded through subscriptions. Wednesdays and Fridays online, monthly in print.
Laura O'Brien @lrbobrien.bsky.social Cultural historian of France, Meathwoman, crafter, multifaceted fangirl. Thinks a lot about Napoleon in cinema/theatre; Paris; caricature. She/her.
Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social Historian & teacher | PostDoc at the University of Lucerne, early modern hair | PhD'ing in Bremen, slavery and people of color in Hamburg | banner: Tariq Safieh
Tony Craig @tonycraig.bsky.social Associate Professor Modern History, Intelligence and Security, Diplomacy, Northern Ireland and Britain's End of Empire.
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
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Dr Karen Sonnelitter @drsonnelitter.bsky.social Professor of History at Siena College. Specialist in 18th century Ireland
Ben Bankhurst @benbankhurst.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Appalachian Studies, Early America, 18th/ C. Irish and British History.
Rebekah Mitsein @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social Teacher and scholar of 18th-century literature and culture at Boston College. Britain, Africa, New England, Caribbean.
African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (UVaP 2022).
N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ https://www.irishlondonhistory.com/
Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter
Ramazan Hakkı Öztan @roztan.bsky.social Historian at Trinity College Dublin | Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Middle East
Jude Webber @judewebber.bsky.social Ireland correspondent Financial Times - all things N&S. Transplanted from Latam. All views own etc
Peter Crooks @petercrooks.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Trinity College Dublin (@historytcd.bsky.social) | Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland (@virtualtreasury.bsky.social) | Member IMC (@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social) |Lapsed violist 𝄡 |
Digging sentences, in archives, in gardens.
Amy Prendergast @amyprendergast.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century Studies, School of English, Trinity College Dublin | Author of Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
ultima thule @thethousandthpart.com C18-19 British/Irish history | RN/polar exploration | Photographer; librarian; independent researcher of life and career of Capt. Francis Crozier. www.thethousandthpart.com
Sonya Maclean Cronin @sonyalcronin.bsky.social IRC post doc fellow @UCD networking early modern women writers across the archipelago | formerly IRC @TCD | FRHistS | theory | book: Women, Royalisms and Exiles 1640-1669
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-89609-6
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Clíona Ó Gallchoir @clionaog.bsky.social Lecturer in UCC. Interested in literature and culture, especially Irish and C18th. Labhair Gaeilge liom!
Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century Britain at University of Birmingham. Walker, swimmer, dog-lover, reader. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/smith-kate
Brian Gurrin @briangurrin.bsky.social Working on Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project (@virtualtreasury). I ❤️ censuses, Irish demographics, and enjoy running when not at the desk.
@janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Liz Bourke @hawkwinglb.bsky.social Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine.
Ireland.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hawkwing_lb
Wordpress: https://lizbourke.wordpress.com
Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hawkwing_lb
Tomás Irish @tomasirish.bsky.social Professor at Swansea University. Interested in internationalism, humanitarianism, reparations, war and peace. Currently writing book about creation of UNESCO.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/feeding-the-mind/54928931819294582DE0357C61AEBD7F
Renaud Morieux @renaudmorieux.bsky.social Historian at University of Cambridge.
Oceanic history, migrations, social history of war, history of international law, incarceration, history of the family, statelessness.
Lucy Cogan @lucycogan.bsky.social UCD English. PI of Wellcome Trust “Drinking Cultures” project. Medical Humanist. Blakean. Romanticist. New here
Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social Economic Historian of early modern world and labour markets and built stuff. Director of LRI. Prof at Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction UCL. Hon Sec of Economic History Society. FRHS
Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social
Elly Robson Dezateux @ellydezateux.bsky.social Historian of environmental politics and Atlantic colonialism | early modernist | Research Fellow in Legacies of Colonialism at Christ Church, Oxford | editor at History Workshop & History Workshop Journal (she/her)
Trinity Long Room Hub @tlrhub.bsky.social 📣 Activating Public Humanities
📚 Advancing Research Excellence
💥 Driving Innovative Research
📩 Signup for events: http://tinyurl.com/TLRHnews
💬 #hubmatters
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Dr Nina Cnockaert-Guillou @ninacnock.bsky.social sí/her • Post-Doctoral Researcher, @disappearingtext.bsky.social UCC • Medieval + Early Modern Irish language ⁊ literature, fiannaíocht ⁊ Acallam na Senórach, manuscripts, DH, narratology • https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7007-5935
Larissa Schulte Nordholt @lascno.bsky.social Postdoc Leiden/VENI: Plagues, Pests and Plantations: a species-specific analysis of creolized tropical agricultural knowledge in the Dutch Empire (1880s-1970s)/Writing a book on the colonial history of WUR / Secretly three raccoons in a trenchcoat/ she/her
Alan Ford @alanford56.bsky.social Historian of religion, interested in Irish history, religious hatred (studying it, that is...), how you write Irish history, and St Patrick and how he has been used (and abused) by Irish historians. Oh, and also classical music.
Ciara Daly @dalykeeks.bsky.social Your friendly neighbourhood Archivist at Trinity College Dublin ✨ Street art enthusiast 🖍️ 📍Galway Girl in Dublin (she/her) 🖤🌻
Conor Brockbank @conorbrockbank.bsky.social PhD History researcher @QUB | Irish migration in England, Wales and Zimbabwe | Migration within transnational networks | Previously at Aberystwyth University
Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social;
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social ehs.org.uk
Dr Patrick McDonagh @patrickmcdonagh98.bsky.social Historian of Late Medieval Ireland, Wales, and England | Irish Traveller | https://shorturl.at/u4JSw
Nigel Monaghan @nigelmonaghan-nh.bsky.social Geologist / palaeontologist in Dublin, retired museum curator National Museum of Ireland, still digging... mostly in 18-19th centuries
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
Karst de Jong @karstdejong.bsky.social Historian of the Irish in the Caribbean. Volunteer bookseller.
Anastasios Vavalis @avavalis.bsky.social PhD student in early modern Irish history. Dublin-based. Researching 17th century Irish petitions.
James Dillon @noonofday.bsky.social Pursuer of the past, peruser of the present.
📍Meath, Ireland
Dictionary of Irish Biography @dib.ie An authoritative reference work of nearly 11,000 lives for scholars of Irish history, society and culture from the Royal Irish Academy.
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Sharon Greene @shazarch.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian, writer, mother etc. Interested in early medieval Ireland and beyond, the Atlantic coast, south Kildare, Shackleton’s sisters and more. She/her
Economic & Social History Society of Ireland @eshsi.bsky.social Promoting the study of economic and social history in Ireland since 1970.
www.eshsi.org
Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Catherine Healy @catherine-healy.bsky.social Historian-in-Residence, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Emily Jeffers Johnson @emilyjjohnson.bsky.social Interested in culture, nature, books, architecture, music | works at Trinity College Dublin | PhD in Digital Humanities and Literature
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian @ Queen’s Uni Belfast
Author of “Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation” (Cornell, 2026) & “After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship” (Boydell, 2019)
🏳️🌈
naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
Collector of fictional mid-twentieth-century dykes - send tips
www.naoisemurphy.com
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queering-twentieth-century-irish-women-s-writing.html
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=/
Cian O’Callaghan @ciantocallaghan.bsky.social Urban geographer at Trinity College Dublin
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society @ecisociety.bsky.social The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society serves to promote original, multidisciplinary research into Ireland in the long eighteenth century. Founded in 1985, it has members across Ireland and internationally. ECIS is open to all.
https://www.ecis.ie/
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
nancysharplife.bsky.social @nancysharplife.bsky.social 'I can truthfully say there was never a dull moment. The special thing about Art is that it is so exciting — one never can tell who is suddenly going to produce something quite marvelous, or hilariously funny'.
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
Dr Barry Whelan @barrywhelan.bsky.social Historian, mainly 20th century Irish and European history. Im especially interested in legal or diplomatic history. Author of Ireland's Revolutionary Diplomat. A Biography of Leopold Kerney.
Dr Kate Farrant Shaw @katefarrantshaw.bsky.social Legal academic, PhD - researching EU Rule of law, the CJEU, EAW and judicial independence deficiencies, medieval, legal and Celtic history. Latest book https://brill.com/display/title/61820.
Paula Giliker @pgiliker.bsky.social Academic lawyer specialising in comparative law, private law, vicarious liability and private law responses to institutional child abuse. Dog-lover especially mad golden retrievers.
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神,自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com
Rob Bignell, Editor/Author @inventingreality.bsky.social I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social SSRN’s mission is to rapidly share early-stage research and empower global scholarship to help shape a better future. You can submit your research to SSRN online at www.ssrn.com.
Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social Author of Witchland (coming 2026) and Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. History, folklore, books, archives.
David Foster @david-foster.bsky.social Associate Professor, UCL Laws. Legal History, Trusts & Property Law
Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
Christian Burset @cburset.bsky.social Law professor and legal historian at the University of Pennsylvania
Siobhan "Shiv" Mukerji Barco @siobhanbarco.bsky.social Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Legal Historian. Host of the Talking Legal History podcast.
https://aslh.net/talking-legal-history/
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Jennifer Black @blackjen1.bsky.social Historian of visual & material culture, business history, fraud, trademarks, advertising. https://jennifermblack.org/
Author of Branding Trust (https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825008/branding-trust/).
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
#lawsky 🗃
Kate Redburn @kredburn.bsky.social Associate Prof. and Director, Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, Columbia Law School.
Tanner Allread @tannerallread.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law | Indian Law Scholar and Legal Historian | Okie | Chahta | Queer | he/him/his
https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/tanner-allread/
Dan Ernst @dbqur.bsky.social Legal historian. Recovering ironist.
Robin Miller Radner @historyrobin.bsky.social JD, PhD. History of separation of religion and state in America. Law, religion, and science.
Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
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.
Katy Hayward @katyhayward.bsky.social As it turns out, a Professor of Political Sociology at Queen's University Belfast working in & on the island of Ireland.
Own my own views.
http://go.qub.ac.uk/hayward
Etain Tannam @etaintannam.bsky.social Associate Professor International
Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin.British-Irish relations,
GFA, Northern Ireland politics
Sharon Slater @limerickslife.com 🌍 Historian | ✍️ Author | 🎤 Public Speaker | 🏆 National Heritage Hero Award | 🏳️🌈 Grand Marshal Limerick Pride | 🇵🇸 Free Palestine.
https://linktr.ee/limerickslife
University of Galway - History @historyatgalway.bsky.social Official page of the Department of History, University of Galway. https://www.universityofgalway.ie/history/
Judy Bolger @judybolger.bsky.social Historian. 19th century Irish social history: poverty, motherhood, breastfeeding 🤱
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social Promoting Irish History in Ulster since 1936.
https://usihs36.com/
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30