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.
Deb bee🐝💙💙💙💙 @deborahs82.bsky.social Author of children’s ebook on Barnes & Noble called Debbie adopts a Dog. Singer and songwriter. Published Poet. My sister, Dorothy married Barbie creator’s nephew. I am an advocate to get children reading. Married with kids and living in USA.💙☮️😊🐾🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🎶
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Christopher W. Skinner @skindawg73.bsky.social Professor of NT-EC at Loyola Chicago. Writing on Mark's Christology & Fourth Gospel reception, and slowly producing the Anchor Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas.
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Linda K Sienkiewicz @lindaksienkiewicz.com Poet & author of the novel LOVE & OTHER INCURABLE AILMENTS, coming 10-2026. I write for anyone who’s ever felt like too much & not enough in the same breath. https://linktr.ee/Lindaksienkiewicz
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Robert Harris @robertharrishome.bsky.social Author of 16 novels — Conclave, Fatherland, Enigma, Act of Oblivion, The Ghost, Pompeii. Precipice, An Officer and a Spy, The Cicero Trilogy, Archangel, Munich, V2, The Second Sleep, The Fear Index.
Rosemary Griggs @ragriggsauthor.bsky.social Author and speaker who spends a lot of time in the sixteenth century. I make and wear historical clothing. Love old buildings , churches, needlework and Devon. Ever hopeful gardener #history #tudor #HistoricalFiction #devon #Books #needlework 🪡✍️🌱📚
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Ryan T. Pozzi @ryantpozzi.bsky.social Nonfiction writer. Author of The Mess That Made Them (Bloomsbury, 2026) geni.us/TMtMT. Two-time Best of the Net nominee. | 🏠 Council Bluffs, IA (Omaha Metro Area) | Rep: Anderson Literary Agency
Rob Gotobed @robgotobed.bsky.social Stand-up philosopher, scribe, bongo drummer and professional time-traveller. (Once dated Anne Boleyn)
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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
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Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @karimwafa.bsky.social indigenous writer. historian. lecturer & poet.
phd in african american history.
i write about culture, identity, empire and books.
author of: child of a stolen homeland
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Ian Phillips @ian-phillips0324.bsky.social Formerly history teacher and then history teacher educator. Now paid by govt to walk a dog.
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jenn m. jackson @jennmjacksonphd.bsky.social Researcher and author. Expertise: Black politics, gender & sexuality, policing, and threat. They/them.
BOOKS: Black Women Taught Us (2024), Policing Blackness (2027), To Be a Radical (2029)
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Dr. Travis Langley @drtravislangley.bsky.social Batman & Psychology author, Popular Culture Psychology editor, psych professor/chair, social psychologist, Wheel of Fortune champ. Teach on media, crime, mental health.
16 books, most recently on Stranger Things, Spider-Man, The Handmaid's Tale.
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Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller) @armchairclassicist.bsky.social Ancient history and lit, photos of my cats. Writer, reader, fantasy, sci-fi, 🏳️🌈Ally, No🚫GenAI content. Lawyer by day.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
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Melisa Quigley @mquigley1963.bsky.social No Direct Messages. Happily married. My award-winning debut novel, The Complexities of Love, poetry novel, Bereft, and Let's Write a Six-Word Story or a Poem are out now. linktr.ee/MQuigley1963
Hakan Sandal-Wilson @hsw.bsky.social Assistant Professor at LSE | Licensed Lay Minister in the Diocese of London | Reflecting on faith, politics & belonging | Cats • books • baking | https://www.linkedin.com/in/hakansandalwilson/
William D. Prystauk @prystauk.bsky.social Author of dark psychological fiction.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
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Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
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Thomas Paine Historical Association @thomaspaine.org The TPHA was established in 1884. We are the authority on Paine's life and have been assisting scholars for decades. Located in New Rochelle, NY. Visit us at thomaspaine.org. "My country is the world, and my religion is to do good."
Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social Sr. Legal Affairs Reporter, @POLITICO
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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social Media consultant concerned about all aspects of human life living on this planet Earth. Interested in science, technology, people's lives and careers, environment, politics & ancestry of people.
Melanie Jackson @mjjaxn.bsky.social Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free... and look at cats. Author of Chloe Boston, Butterscotch Jones and Miss Henry mysteries, artist and animal lover. Not a fan of DM. No Crypto.
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Spencer Gray @spencerdgray.bsky.social Filmmaker. Philosopher. Political activist. Professional troublemaker. Hot sauce daredevil.
JK Scot @jakey-scot.bsky.social I still owe strangers now long dead for food they’ve shared & words they’ve said.
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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social English technologist, founder and product designer living in San Francisco. Prev: BBC, Yahoo, Time Out, Nokia, Jawbone, Wired & Eero. Founded things too. Currently trying to find something to get excited rather than angry about. http://www.plasticbag.org
Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social Senior politics reporter for HuffPost.
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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social Ph.D. Candidate | History of Early Modern Science & Technology, Art & Material Culture | Columbia University, NYC |📍Munich
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Screws 🔩 & the assemblage of objects of art & science in the early modern German-speaking lands
Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social European | Edinburgh-born | Historian of the Middle Ages | Northern Renaissance | Romanesque sculpture | Peasants’ Revolt | victory to Ukraine
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof.bsky.social Chief Foreign-Affairs Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. 📕Author of No Country for Love, Our Enemies Will Vanish, Siege of Mecca and Faith at War 📕 Yarotrof.com
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Weyodi OldBear- The Root and The Seed is available. @weyodi.bsky.social BuffaloPunk!, Indigenous Futurist, poet, and comic book writer, writer for Coyote & Crow, Comanche Citizen, public speaker. LandBack. Performs femininity and knows it's a performance. Disabled in a seizures, vision impaired way. Anti-AI weyodi.com
Secular Coalition for America @secularcoalition.bsky.social The Secular Coalition for America is a dedicated lobbying whose mission is to advocate for the equal rights of nonreligious Americans and defend the separation of religion and government.
Kinder World @kinder-world.bsky.social "Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.
And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” -Milan Kundera
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Les-Boogie @lesboogie.blacksky.app DJ, Bronx native, hip-hop scholar, information technologist, aspiring vegetarian.
Reading Is Sexy @readingissexy.bsky.social 
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
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Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com
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Dawn Vogel @historyneverwas.bsky.social (㇏(•̀ᵥᵥ•́)ノ) Writer, editor, crafter, historian, cat mom, gamer, nerd, K-pop multi-stan. Codex Writers. LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, she/her. Terminally exhausted penguin. https://historythatneverwas.com
Andrew Wehrman @profwehrman.bsky.social History professor at CMU and author of "The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution" Vaccination is patriotic.
New book project(!) tentatively titled: Afterlife and Liberty: New York City’s Doctors’ Riot of 1788
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org Economist and professor at School of Government & Policy, Johns Hopkins University. Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics, IZA, CReAM, CGD. Assoc. Editor JEP. Personal views only.
Web: http://mclem.org
ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
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.
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Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social Author of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (an FT Best Book of 2025). Resident economic historian on BBC Radio 4 #UnderstandTheEconomy. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & RSA.
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com https://trustfnd.com/isabelle.roughol
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