Isabel Lindin @isabellindin.bsky.social I love Feminist History and Cetaceans.
Future Highschool History and English Teacher.
Anthony Zougras @anthonyzougras.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History from South Australia | Host of the A History of Australia podcast (@ahistoryofaus.bsky.social) available on all platforms | General lover of Australian history & politics | My Links: https://linktr.ee/AnthonyZougras
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Geoff Barker @spritebark.bsky.social Add in equal parts - History, Photography, Music, Wikis - digitise - then serve chilled. Library/Museum Curator. Works @ State Library NSW. Shared views mine own. https://geoffbarker.wordpress.com/ & Q64778919
Professional Historians Association (Vic & Tas) @phavictas.bsky.social PHA (Vic & Tas) is a thriving, dynamic community of professional historians who communicate history in diverse ways.
Phillip Jaworski @phillipjaworski.bsky.social Digital Media, RAHS. Associate Member, PHA (NSW & ACT). BA (Hon), History, ACU. Interests: Settler Colonialism, Australian History, British Imperialism.
Alice Kelly @dralicekelly.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Literature & History @ University of Warwick | Commemorative Modernisms (2020) | Ed. Wharton, Fighting France (2015) | Currently working on NYC in the 1920s
Thomas Rogers @drtom-historian.bsky.social Interested in history:
colonial Australian, Australian Indigenous, British Imperial, violence, military, genocide. Views my own.
Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social No longer actively using this account. Find me here: https://tinyurl.com/5y7htysf
Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
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
Joshua Black @joshuablackjb.bsky.social Views are my own
ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social ANU Press publishes scholarship across the disciplinary spectrum, with particular strengths in Australian Studies, Indigenous Studies and Knowledge, Asia and Pacific Studies, International Relations and Law.
Srishti Guha @srishti-g.bsky.social Historian of visual culture | Aus-Ind colonial relations | Associate Lecturer @ University of Newcastle, Australia. she/her.
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/srishti-guha#career
Karl James @karljames1945.bsky.social Head, Military History, Australian War Memorial. Australia & the Second World War. Chinooks in Afghanistan. ADB editor board
Dr Anne Hanley @drannehanley.bsky.social #Historian of Medicine & Modern Britain, University of Birmingham | Medical Humanities | UKRI FLF & PI on Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980 | Series Editor @sshmedicine Book Series | https://healthhistorian.wordpress.com | #histSTM #MedHums
Emily O’Gorman @emilyogorman.bsky.social Environmental historian | Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor | Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University
Matthew Smith @healthhistory.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.
Charmaine Robson @charmr.bsky.social Historian of Australian missions and colonisation, nursing and health history. Hon lecturer, UNSW. Writing a biography of a woman activist/musician/author.
Hans Pols @hanspols.bsky.social Interested in community mental health all over the world, but in particular in Indonesia and Australia. Also chickens. History of medicine.
Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social Environmental Historian of Modern Britain | Heatwaves, Overheating & Environmental Change | Cities, Urban Childhoods & Play | Heritage, Public Engagement & Policy
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social Researcher of objects & spaces of healthcare (the psychosocial, material culture, co-production; PhD on Winnicott). Postdoc at the Visual and Material Lab at @durhamimh.bsky.social 2025-29, researching materialities of donor conception treatment in the UK.
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Michelle Staff @michellestaff.bsky.social Feminist historian | Online + outreach manager @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social | Hazel Rowley Literary Fellow 2025 @writersvictoria.bsky.social | Co-convenor @auswhn.bsky.social | on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land | she/her
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Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social 📖 Est. 1959
🖋 Based in the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
📍 On Ngunnawal/Ngambri land
https://adb.anu.edu.au
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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social Historian and Wu Tang affiliate, among other things | Usual disclaimers | My pronouns are ze/zir or they/them
Cheryl Ware @cherylware.bsky.social
Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
Noah Riseman @noahriseman.bsky.social Australian-American historian who specialises in LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous histories. Author. Amateur ice hockey player. Hablo español. Views expressed are my own.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/nriseman/publications
Jane Lydon @janelydon.bsky.social Australian historian of colonialism, legacies of slavery, & visual culture. Perth, West Australia. Author: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? (Routledge) & Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire (CUP)
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.
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Margaret Cook @mcookhistory.bsky.social Historian of environment, climate-related disasters & waterways. ARC Industry Fellow, Griffith University
Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social Historian & Editor | Playtime (La Trobe, 2025) | Australian Dictionary of Biography | Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social Author, researcher and policy advisor. Adjunct Associate Professor Monash Uni, Senior Advisor Smart Energy Council, ‘A Better Australia’ 📕 ‘Sold Down The River’ 📕 #RenewableEnergy #ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social Historian.
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social Historian of migration, media, radicalism, oral history & memory in AU/NZ/US/Pacific. Based in Naarm/Melbourne.
@frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social
Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c France—incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia) 📕Dangers of Youth www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Professional editor www.brionyneilson.com
Sydney, Australia
Alexia Moncrieff @historynerdess.bsky.social Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
Naomi Parry Duncan @drnaomi.bsky.social Historian, writer, editor, whippet custodian, living and working on Dharug and Gundungurra Country and Palawa/Pakana Country. She/her. We cannot have peace without academic and artistic freedom. Free Palestine.
Thomas Kehoe @thomasjkehoe.bsky.social Historian of public health specialising in cancer, tobacco, skin, and screening. PhD (History), MPH, Head of Heritage at Cancer Council Victoria. Fellow at the University of Melbourne History. Bereaved parent of permanently 2 year old daughter
Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social Aust aviation & captivity historian. 6th book Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III (alexanderfaxbooks.com.au or Amazon) winner 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards. Reading, cats & cake. #IAmWriting (at last!)
James Keating @jameskeating.bsky.social 📖 Historian of suffrage, feminism and internationalism | 🖊️ Distant Sisters (MUP, 2020) | @ahsjournal.bsky.social Book Review Editor | he/him
Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
Anisa Puri @anisapuri.bsky.social Historian, Author, Research Manager. Oral history, public history, Australian history, migration history, digital history.
she/her
anisapuri.com
Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social Currently: Exhausted by long COVID. Usually: Histories of migration, citizenship, family and the law. Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Senior Lecturer in Humanities at UTAS.
Always: Missing south China and wishing my Cantonese was better.
Nicholas Scott Baker @renhistorian.bsky.social Historian of Renaissance Italy and other things; latest book: In Fortune's Theater: Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy; Australian football tragic.
Alicia Cerreto @aliciacerreto.bsky.social Historian, Educator, Speaker. Melbourne.
www.aliciacerreto.com
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Shirleene Robinson @shirleene.bsky.social Historian, Author & Curator. Bridging academia & the GLAM sector. Oral history Always. Former @AMEquality Board Director & Co-Convenor, NSW. President Pride History Group NSW. Gadigal land. Opinions mine. She/her
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social Australian academic (media production & journalism), historian of gendered labour & technology in media industries, factual content producer. Lover of radio & GLAM. She/her. Dharawal country, Wollongong & Awabakal country, Newcastle, Australia.
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social Historians wanna talk like they got something to say | NZ and Australian history, politics, trains, music, sport, higher ed | he/him | "Australian-adjacent person": Melburnian Kiwi in Perth
Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social Historian. Assoc Prof. Author of jimcrowintheasylum.com with @UNCPress. Knitter, baker, dog lover. Dharawal - Muscogee - Meanjin.
Nicole Townsend @townsend-nic.bsky.social Historian
Lecturer in War Studies, UNSW Canberra
Director, Second World War Research Group, Asia-Pacific
2026 David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellow, State Library of New South Wales
All views my own
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social History, justice, education | postdoc UniMelb | queer sports fan | he/they 🏳️⚧️ https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/880052-matthew-keynes
Dr Meg Foster @mfoster-history.bsky.social Historian of Banditry, Settler Colonial and Public History | Chancellor's Research Fellow @UTS | Former JRF @camhistory.bsky.social | She/ her | FRHistS
Scott McKinnon @sjmckinnon.bsky.social Historian and Librarian. Author of Gay Men at The Movies (Intellect, 2016) and Co-author of Australian Queer Screens (Bloomsbury, 2026) 🏳️🌈
Jen Rose @jenmrose.bsky.social Historian with a focus on Melbourne’s cultural, migrant and urban history. Currently both a PhD candidate at ACU and practicing public historian. Finds calm in stitching. jenrosehistorian.au
Michael McDonnell @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Historian. Gadigal country aka University of Sydney. Powerful Stories, purposeful history. Website michaelamcdonnell.org
Jarrod Hore @jarrodhore.bsky.social Settler historian on Dharug land. Gondwana/Land, geologies, photographs, colonialism. Co-Director & Postdoc Fellow in the New Earth Histories Research Program, UNSW | IG @jarrodhore
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Amy Way @amywayness.bsky.social Historian of human antiquity in Australia writing critical histories of archaeology and settler intellectual logics.
Lecturer @GriffithUniversity
Collaborating Scholar @ANUDeepHistory
Lover of Austen and AFL.
Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social UTS Political Economist & labour historian. Editor Social Movement Studies & Associate at The Centre Future Work. Cats. Electroclash. Carlton AFL tragic 🌈
@aholland14.bsky.social @aholland14.bsky.social Historian of Indigenous-settler relations in Australia | Histories of Indigenous governance | Histories of race and antiracism | Writing a history of ATSIC.
Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social War, protest, psychiatry & trauma. Historian @Uni_Newcastle. Author: Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (UNSW Press, 2026). Deputy co-director, Centre for Society, Health and Care Research. Editor, Health & History. She/her.
Dr Kate Manlik @katemanlik.bsky.social Lecturer in Social Sciences at JCU in Cairns. Writing a book on lesbian AIDS activism in Australia. They/She.
Annemarie McLaren @amclarenhistory.bsky.social historian of imperial, cross-cult, & Aus history • book out w/ OUP• lecturer @notredameaus • Reviews Ed @AboriginalHist
Katie Holmes @katieholmes.bsky.social Historian of environment, gender & culture; gardener; mum. La Trobe University. Co-author of Mallee Country: land, people, history (Monash Uni Press 2020)
Tanya Evans @tanyaevans.bsky.social Public historian. Historian of Australia and Britain from the 18th century to the present. Professor of History Macquarie Uni. She/her.
@carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social
Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) @aadh.bsky.social The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Inc (aaDH): A community strengthening digital humanities research in Australia & Aotearoa (New Zealand) | https://aa-dh.org/ | Our 2025 conference: dha25.org
Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
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Ann McGrath @amcgrath.bsky.social Historian, Kathleen Fitzpatrick laureate fellow, Australian National University, writer, artist. Deep histories, colonialism, indigenous justice. Inspired by friends, music, birds, beaches, oysters, wine, growing edible stuff.
Alexandra McKinnon ✨ @alxmck.bsky.social historian & jd grad, working on casualty identification from the world wars.
interested in transnational histories and the impact of conflict, specifically memory, commemoration, and material culture.
📍 somewhere between melbourne and ottawa. 🌻 🇦🇺 🇨🇦
hpstorian @hpstorian.bsky.social cognitive history - methylphenidate prose - news from nowhere
AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social The Australian Historical Association was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians working in all fields of history.
https://theaha.org.au
Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social Historian of reproduction, sexuality & medicine | she/they | Based on Wurundjeri country, in Naarm | Postdoc Fellow, University of Melbourne | views my own 🌻🏳️🌈🍉
paigedonaghy.com
Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social Lurking for now, but getting ready to roll
Lynette Russell @lynetterussell.bsky.social Always was, always will be. ARC Laureate Professor. Posts are my own views. Reposts are often ironic. Historian and political junkie. Always tired,
@MonashUni
I prefer dogs to most people.
Tristan Moss @tristanmoss.bsky.social Historian at UNSW Canberra | DECRA | Researching Australian space history and military history
Tracy Ireland @tracyireland.bsky.social Professor of cultural heritage/archaeologist/everyday heritage/ University of Canberra, Australia
Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social Historian at the Australian National University
Christian missions, Indigenous history, deep history, gender, religion
Editor History Australia & Aboriginal History Monographs- M Meggie Hutchison @meggiehutchison.bsky.social
Julie McIntyre @julie-mcintyre.bsky.social Historian of commodities (e.g, winegrapes, coal) in Australian environments, economy and Indigenous-settler colonial relations. She/her. Working on unceded Awabakal Country: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/julie-mcintyre. Suburban organic gardener.
Nikolas Orr @nikolasorr.bsky.social Independent (Art) Historian & Senior Heritage Officer for NSW Government | researching colonial monuments, anticolonial protest | former sculptor, editor | settler Australian on unceded Awabakal land | madrileño adoptado | he/him/él | all views my own