German Historical Institute Washington @ghiwashington.bsky.social The German Historical Institute Washington (GHI) is an internationally recognized center for advanced study with offices in Washington, DC, and Berkeley, California. 🌐: https://www.ghi-dc.org
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Georgios Varouxakis @georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social Author of "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton University Press, 2025). Professor of the History of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London.
German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social For all those interested in German history!
The GHS is a registered charity. Follow for updates on GHS related grants, events & prizes!
Further details available on our website https://www.germanhistorysociety.org/ - R @rhammersley99.bsky.social @rhammersley99.bsky.social Intellectual historian, teacher, writer, Digger. Views my own.
Joseph Cronin @j-cronin.bsky.social Director of the Leo Baeck Institute London. Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London.
German and Jewish history. Much else besides.
www.lbilondon.ac.uk
Kerry Wallach @kerrywallach.bsky.social German & Jewish Studies. Literature, history, film, art. Author of Traces of a Jewish Artist (2024) & Passing Illusions (2017). kerrywallach.com
Akil N Awan @akilnawan.bsky.social Academic at Royal Holloway, University of London. Director of the Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) @cvtrc.bsky.social. Words in New Statesman, BBC History, National Interest, History Today, Jacobin, BylineTimes, Independent
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social Historian of Modern History, mainly researching and teaching things ~ transnational, colonial, animal ~ also coffee coffee coffee and biking
University of Tübingen, Germany
she/her
Rory Hanna @roryhanna.bsky.social Research Associate on the project 'Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts: Work in East Africa and Western Europe'. Based at the University of Sheffield. Recently completed a PhD on student protest and activism in early West Germany, 1949-1965.
Carolin Amlinger @camlinger.bsky.social Sociologist and literary scholar unibas.ch
Books: Schreiben (2021), Gekränkte Freiheit/Offended Freedom (2022/2024), Zerstörungslust (2025)
Suhrkamp.de l Politybooks.com
https://linktr.ee/zerstoerungslust
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Jana Weiss @janaweiss.bsky.social DAAD Professor UT Austin / historian / US & Germany, transatlantic, ethnicity, racism, memory, religion & politics, history of lager beer / co-editor HIC Yearbook
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/germanic/faculty/jw57999
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social History, IR, Oxford, Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 Mum of two. First Gen academic. Arsenal Women. She/her. Author of award-winning Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691266442/erased
M. Burak Atalay @mbatalay.bsky.social PhD in PolSci. İstanbul Univ. • Asst. Prof. at Kafkas Univ. (Türkiye) • Interested in intellectuel history, critical theory and Marxism • Passionate about mountains • Enjoys when trail running and ice climbing
David Lawton @davidlawton.bsky.social
Daniel Badenhorst @dbadenhorst.bsky.social Intellectual History | Historiography | Hegel | Soviet Intellectual Life | Fanon & Anti-Colonialism
MA Fanon & Hegel, MPhil Young Hegel, PhDing on...
Other half: @marxologist.bsky.social
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements.
Tim Flanagan @timflanagan.bsky.social Lecturer in Humanities (διεντέρευμα)
Murdoch University
📖 "Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances"
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-66398-8
https://philpeople.org/profiles/tim-flanagan
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
ISIH @isih-blueskye.bsky.social BlueSky profile of the International Society for Intellectual History. https://is-ih.com/
Caroline Ashcroft @carolineashcroft.bsky.social 20th century political thought at Harris Manchester College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Author of Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought (EUP, 2024)
Caroline Mezger @carolinemezger.bsky.social Historian & Associate Professor @EHESS in Paris | Group Leader of INFOCOM Project | World War II, National Socialism, Migration, Informal Communication | Currently writing a book on rumors 📚 🖋
D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. Currently researching and writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI (& beyond).
Rachel Hewitt @rachelhewitt.bsky.social Author. Feminist life lessons, informed by history and experience. Advice about grief and recovery, and the feminist joys of outdoor adventure. Writing retreats. Substack: https://rachelhewitt.substack.com
Beyond Camps and Forced Labour Conference @bcflconference.bsky.social Official account of the Beyond Camps and Forced Labour International Conference, highlighting new interdisciplinary research on survivors of Nazi persecution.
https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/research/beyond-camps/
Martin Clemens Winter @martincwinter.bsky.social Historiker
derzeit: KZ-Gedenkstätte Langenstein-Zwieberge
zuvor: http://hasagpuzzle.hypotheses.org
Rezensionsredaktion der WerkstattGeschichte
hier: privat
Petronella Foultier @petronella.bsky.social Associate professor in philosophy, lecturer in philosophical aesthetics, literary translator, feminist (she/her), mother.
Works on dance philosophy, aesthetics, phenomenology, feminist philosophy.
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Ben Van Zee @benvanzee.bsky.social Max Weber Fellow @EUI | History PhD @UChicago | Modern Germany, Poland, East Central Europe | Migration and Empire
Jürgen Dinkel @juergendinkel.bsky.social Historian, Leipzig University.
Books: Alles bleibt in der Familie (2023). The Non-Aligned Movement (2019).
Interested in the history of colonialism, decolonization, family&kinship, property, inheritance and inequality. Review editor @hsozkult.bsky.social
Michelle Moyd @michmo.bsky.social Historian of Africa, soldiers, war. Mom, spouse, daughter. Author of *Violent Intermediaries*. Vet. Wish I had a dog. Wish I could just write what I want.
Jonas Knatz @jonasknatz.bsky.social PhD Candidate NYU | Contributing Editor @jhideas.bsky.social
Modern European History | Conceptual History | History of Science and Technology | History of Automation and Work
Robert Bentley @robertbentley.bsky.social German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation living in Berlin and researching punks and right-wing extremism | Host: Archiv der Jugendkulturen
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Transnational & global history, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory & urban history. Cape Town - NYC - Chicago - London – Berlin | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
Philipp Lenhard @philipplenhard.bsky.social Professor of Jewish History at the University of Vienna and Academic Director of the Institute of Jewish History in Austria | Private account | DE/EN
http://www.injoest.ac.at/en/institute/staff/philipp-lenhard
M.E. Menninger 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭🇱🇮🇱🇺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @memenninger.bsky.social Historian of Germany, violinist, and Oxford comma purist. More fun than Max Weber.
Drew Flanagan Ph.D @drewflanaganphd.bsky.social Historian of western European borderlands, European unity, and civilizational thinking. Assistant Prof. at Pitt-Bradford. Author of From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany 1945-55 (LSU Press, 2026)
Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social British-Austrian Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author, occasional artist, linguist, food, wine and cooking.
William Glenn Gray @willgray.bsky.social Professor of history at Purdue: 20th-Century international history & the global economy. Author of TRADING POWER and GERMANY'S COLD WAR. Current book project follows German economic engagement in Brazil.
Franziska Kuschel @franziskakuschel.bsky.social Historikerin. Arbeitet @Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung, Berlin. Hier privat.
Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
https://www.uu.nl/staff/JBHung
Jeff Rutherford @jeffcrutherford.bsky.social Historian of Modern Germany, the Second World War, and the German Army. Research focus on the German army's ideological, operational, and economic war against the Soviet Union. Teaches at Xavier University.
Hook'em.
Valérie Dubslaff @vdubslaff.bsky.social MCF à l'université Rennes 2 - Germaniste civilisationniste et historienne - femmes/genre et extrême droite - Allemagne contemporaine
Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social Research: Micro archive of Werner Weissenberg.
Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/kitchener-camp-sandwich-kent-german-jews-haven
Www.fromnumberstonames.com
Adrian Lehne @adrianlehne.bsky.social Historian | History Education | History of HIV/AIDS and Sexualities in the FGR and GDR | at FU Berlin
Katharina Fischer-Troppenz @yoyolanthi.bsky.social Vikarin in der EKBO. Ev. Theologin mit Fokus auf jüdisch-christliche Beziehungen, promoviert in Kirchengeschichte zur NS-Bewältigung. Mama von 2. Berlin based. HU Berlin 🇩🇪, Tel Aviv U.🇮🇱, UVa🇺🇸, Fulbright, Konrad Adenauer und Aktion Sühnezeichen Alumna
Chad Gibbs @chadgibbs101.bsky.social Holocaust historian, professor, and retired soldier. Author of Survival at Treblinka https://uwpress.wisc.edu/Books/S/Survival-at-Treblinka.
Views own.
Martin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social Historian, intersections of nature and empire in Southern Africa (esp. #Namibia); author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (open access);
Views my own;
Worried about planet;
#FckNZs
martinkalb.com
Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social Historian of the Holocaust, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Father and Husband. Coffee. Books. Golden retrievers.
History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism 🗃️
Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History at USW. Deputy Editor of Reformation & Renaissance Review. Interested in 16C apocalypticism, religion, and emotions. Mum to 2 rascals and 1 excitable spaniel.
Julia Hauser @juliahauser.bsky.social PD,U Kassel.Entangled history of Europe,India&the Middle East."German Religious Women in Late Ottoman Beirut"(Leiden:Brill,2015)."A Taste for Purity."(NY:Columbia University Press,2024).
https://www.julia-hauser.de
Lukas Mengelkamp @lukasmengelkamp.bsky.social Finishing a PhD in nuclear history @ University of Marburg / Working on arms control and military strategy @ifshhamburg.bsky.social.
Private account.
https://www.hamburg-armscontrol.de/en/staff/lukas-mengelkamp-2/
Elizabeth Ward @elizabethward.bsky.social Film historian in German cinema. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Universität Leipzig researching German cultural diplomacy at film festivals during the Cold War. Lecturer at the Europa-Universität Viadrina.
www.elizabeth-ward.com
Sara Pugach @carnelianlives.bsky.social Professor of African and European History @calstatela. Author of African Students in East Germany, 1949-1975, and Africa in Translation, both @uofmpress. Working on too many new projects. Love Wings of Fire, My Hero Academia, etc., courtesy of my kids
Jonathon Catlin @joncatlin.bsky.social Intellectual history, German & Jewish studies, climate catastrophe | Visiting Assistant Professor of History @urochester.bsky.social | PhD from Princeton | Edit @jhideas.bsky.social | Rochester • NYC • Berlin 🏳️🌈
https://rochester.academia.edu/JonathonCatlin
Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social Wollte immer Historiker werden, ich arbeite dran:"Seltsam,im Nebel zu wandern!/Leben ist Einsamsein."
Marcus Böick @marcboc83.bsky.social Historian of Modern Germany & Europe |
King's College, University of Cambridge |
#postsocialism #security #organization |
🏳️🌈🇪🇺🇭🇰
Laura Bondía @laurabondia.bsky.social Film scholar, journalist, comic-liebhaber
https://encadenados.org/
https://photo-play.net
Christhard Hoffmann @christhard.bsky.social Historian (retired) of modern European history, University of Bergen/Norway: #antisemitism, #German-Jewish history, #European migration 19th and 20th centuries, #historiography | DE/EN/NOR
Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social Envirotech historian #infrastructure #maintenance #creosote Postdoc @ TU Berlin #envhist #histtech #histsci; Die Geburt des Geoengineerings (Wallstein 2021); Beyond the Lab and the Field (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022) martinmeiske.com
Tatjana Tönsmeyer @toensmeyer.bsky.social Nationalsozialismus/Zweiter Weltkrieg/Besatzung - Erinnerungskulturen/Geschichtspolitik
Autorin von "Unter deutscher Besatzung. Europa 1939-1945"
@chbeckliteratur.bsky.social
@Universität Wuppertal
Christina Petterson @crankychris.bsky.social Anti-imperialist archive rat. Self-supporting researcher.
German Studies at the University of Oxford @oxfordgerman.bsky.social Willkommen! Follow us for news from the largest German department in the UK at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, with the Taylor Institution Library. Posts by Henrike Lähnemann
Dr Michael Heinz @michaheinz.bsky.social Historian, DDR, Agriculture, MfS - private opinions
Josefine Wähler @josefinewaehler.bsky.social 📚 Historian of Education
🏫 BBF | Research Library for the History of Education, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
💻 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
📍 Berlin
Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents.
Kiran Pfitzner
Paul Grant @rennig73.bsky.social Writer, Berlin, Germany, Cold War, History, WW2, New Wave, Ska, cricket, LUFC
https://m.facebook.com/people/Paul-Grant/100032893586036/
Michael De Groot @mdegroot51.bsky.social Assoc Prof of International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington; Cold War international history and geoeconomics; Book--Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2024); Stanford baseball alum
Felicity Jensz @fjensz.bsky.social Historian based in Germany
| history of empires | memories of empires | critical mission history | colonial education | histories of collections | fishfingers | u. a.
Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social Historian. I post a selection of facts on history that happened on this day at 9AM (BST) on Bluesky and X. It’s a daily journey to inform, educate and entertain.
Bec Cordony @beccordony.bsky.social Phd & Casual Academic @ UNSW | Female Perpetrators | Holocaust | Nazi Germany | Representation | Gender and Atrocity
Dokumentationszentrum NS-Zwangsarbeit @dznsza.eurosky.social Memorial to the long-hidden fate of the more than 26 million men, women and children who were exploited as forced labourers by the Nazi regime during the Second World War.
Foundation Topography of Terror
www.ns-zwangsarbeit.de
NS-Dokumentationszentrum München @nsdoku.bsky.social Munich Documentation Center for the History of National Socialism | #HistoryIsNotThePast | www.nsdoku.de
Nicole Eaton @nicoleeaton.bsky.social Historian at Boston College
communism, fascism, nationalism
USSR, Germany, Balkans to Baltics
book: GERMAN BLOOD, SLAVIC SOIL
http://bit.ly/3wdaGkk
Deeply skeptical of social media - just here to watch you all fight it out
Alki @alki.bsky.social Black. Anarchist. Wobbly. Historian of Labor and German history. Alcoholic.
I make labor history videos: http://tinyurl.com/ezfgrs
He/Him. English/Deutsch. Prost!
Anne van Mourik @annevanmourik.bsky.social PhD candidate @ NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Amsterdam. Interested in: German hunger (WWI and WWII) in memory culture // German colonialism // Dutch colonialism // creator of NIOD Rewind Podcast on War and Violence
Jay Geller @jaygeller.bsky.social Professor of History, scholar of the German-Jewish experience, biographer of Gershom Scholem and family, and devotee of modernist architecture and design.
Hans-Christian Petersen @hcpetersen.bsky.social Geschichte & Östliches Europa, Migration & Solidarität. Co-Autor "Antiosteuropäischer Rassismus in Deutschland". #standwithukraine #antislawismus #keinmenschistillegal
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)
Dr Matt Barnard @matthewbarnard.phd Cat-owning philosophy academic | existentialism | phenomenology | new project: philosophy of AI
- Web: https://matthewbarnard.phd/
- Mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@mattbarnardsays
UCU NEC/HEC UK Elected Representative
Julia Reus @juliare.bsky.social Historikerin @ Institut für westfälische Regionalgeschichte · forscht zu Familien, Sexualität, Kindheit und Landwirtschaft ·
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Christine Schmidt @ceschmidt.bsky.social Yankee Londoner, feminist, Holocaust historian, all-purpose nerd
Interests: archives, gender, public history, research ethics, coffee, books, music, etc.
Co-Director @wienerlibrary.bsky.social
https://christineeschmidt.com
Matt Rogerson @mattrogerson.bsky.social Work at the FT as director of global public policy and platform strategy. Before that I was at the Guardian doing public policy for over a decade. I'm from Yorkshire, via Hull, London, and now in the middle of England (Lichfield)
Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social Historian at Freie Universität Berlin | 📕 Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi (U of Chicago Press, 2025) | Global historian of Africa, Europe, gender, knowledge, the UN, and institutional processes of erasure
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
Timon de Groot 🟥 @timondegroot.com Historian of the Netherlands, Germany, and everything in between @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social.
Fascinated by all things labour, crime, and energy policy.
Substack: werkgeheugen.timondegroot.com
Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social German prof, writer about the material things that metaphors hide 📚The Icon Curtain; Linguistic Disobedience • Pre-order: On a Wire above the Abyss: Walking the Tightrope thru the Rise & Fall of Nazism • next: bio of Curious George • ❤️ in E. Europe • 🍄,🪡
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Aron Ouwerkerk @aronouwerkerk.bsky.social Working on Early Modern Women's Writing, Classical Reception Studies, Neo-Latin Literature, Intellectual History. PhD Candidate @ Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/ALOuwerkerk.
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Sacred Heart University @womenstudiesshu.bsky.social The study of WGSS from an interdisciplinary and intersectional perspective! 🌈🍎 https://www.sacredheart.edu/majors--programs/womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies---minor/
Isidora Grubački @szidora.bsky.social Historian based in Ljubljana. I research women's interwar feminist and antifascist activism and intellectual history in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and transnationally. I love 📖 🏊♀️ 🎥 & traveling.
Almuth Ebke @almuthebke.bsky.social historian at the University of Mannheim. Wrote a book on the intellectual history of #Britishness. Now: the bible, #secularism, and #modernity in the 19th/early 20th cent.
Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social British Academy International Fellow• SOAS University of London• Senior Lecturer•University of the Witwatersrand•Intellectual History• Comparative Political Theory•Africa/ South Africa• M&G 200 YSA• Gardening• Calligraphy
Emma Brennan @emmaeditorial.bsky.social Editorial Director, Manchester University Press. Commissioning art and design history, British Pop Archive and creative writing guides. Big fan of cats.