Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Animal History @animalhistory.bsky.social The scholarly journal of historical animals and human-animal relationships.
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
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Lydia Shaw @lydiashaw.bsky.social Teaching & Research Fellow @ University of Tübingen. | Specialising in the Romantics & environmental humanities. 🌿🌊 | My recent article on Byron's arboreal imagery & exilic identity: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/966053 🌳🌲
Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network @e-cen.bsky.social The Eighteenth-Century Ecologies Network is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
Find out more: https://hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-century-e
Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social One of the largest university-owned botanic gardens in the world, CUBG's diverse collection of 8,000+ plant species supports leading scientific research. Welcoming 350,000+ visitors annually, it also inspires a love of plants, learning & horticulture.
Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues
Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Prof Rachel Lichtenstein
https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social PhD @york.ac.uk on the influence of Hong Kong people upon the handover • Studentship from WRoCAH • Alumnus of @ox.ac.uk @manchester.ac.uk
Stephanie Wanga @stephaniewanga.bsky.social :) happy human.
african politics, african philosophy, african history, african statehood and anarchy, aesthetics, african everything.
stephaniewanga.com
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social Welcome to the official account of the University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Visit us at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk Newsletter via tinyurl.com/crasshnews
EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social EHN showcases the environment-related work + expertise of grad students and ECRs who identify as women, trans and/or nonbinary people in #EnvHist #EnvHum 🌱🌍
A Middlemiss @themiddlemiss.bsky.social Archive gremlin/MA History Grad
Probably thinking about museums and/or pirates
she/they
Sarah Evans @fridaylast.bsky.social Historical geographer, events whiz, mother to a tiny croissant-obsessed tyrant. Posting in a personal capacity
Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social Sometimes pirate, othertimes historian.
Records Specialist (Early Modern Parliament) at The National Archives UK. Views own &c
Curator of REVOLUTION 250 exhibition - now OPEN at The National Archives!
Sam Le Butt @samlebutt.bsky.social Researcher with PhD in English Literature from University of Bristol, specialising in Environmental Humanities, EcoGothic, monstrosity, creative methods and basically anything a bit weird. Teacher, fiction writer, collage maker, fungi botherer 🍄
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social Botany (and botanicals) loving archivist, and occasional forest school assistant 🌿 All views are own.
Fiona Ainsworth @fionaainsworth.bsky.social Head of Library and Archives at Kew Gardens. Interested in libraries, archives, botanical illustration, gardens, plants, fungi, botany, and mycology.
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Alyssa Myers @alyssamyers.bsky.social 3rd year PhD student - CDA with MMU & English Heritage - 18th c. Suburban London Villa - #social history, #material culture, #ceramics- P Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, & medicine, especially tech of ocean science. Associate professor of history. Book review editor for H-Sci-Med-Tech & H-Oceans. She/her/hers.
Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social Lecturer in Caribbean History, Politics & Humanities Training @sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social | Assistant Ed: Citizenship Studies Book: https://shorturl.at/JPH0j | Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa | #digitalidentity #IDsystems Proud single mamma.
Geography at Durham @geogdurham.bsky.social Founded in 1928, the Department of Geography at Durham University is one of the leading centres of geographical research and education in the world.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Germinate @g-ehr.bsky.social Germinate: Environmental History Review (GEHR) is an open-access, digital publication of the American Society for Environmental History (ASEH). www.g-ehr.com
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Mary L. Shannon @drmarylshannon.bsky.social Writer, speaker, teacher
@RoehamptonUni
19thC cultural historian (Regency & Victorian eras).
author: Billy Waters Is Dancing @yalebooks.bsky.social.
https://linktr.ee/marylshannon
Views my own.
Ben Miller @extinctmonsters.bsky.social Thinking about the art and history of paleontology in museums. Exhibit developer at the Field Museum, opinions my own. he/him
Website: extinctmonsters.net
Peter R. Martin @peterrmartin.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cultural and Historical Geography at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Interested in critical histories of Arctic exploration and knowledge production.
linktr.ee/peter_r_martin
Historical Geography @historicalgeog.bsky.social An annual open access journal of research, commentary, and reviews in historical geography managed by the Historical Geography Specialty Group of @geographers.bsky.social.
Cristian Croitoru @cristiana2.bsky.social PhD Geography student, hist-pol geographer, Carnegie’s public libraries, philanthropy, internationalism 📚💰🇬🇧🇺🇸
University of Nottingham
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Beth Kidd @bkidd.bsky.social PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology 
Julia Fine @juliafine.bsky.social 
Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Professional Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Working on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland too
Anita Lateano @anitalateano.bsky.social Corals, conservation and multispecies worlds 🪸 IG: @coral.ecologies 🪸
PhD Candidate at University of Westminster | ACCESS Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fellow
Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social Anthropologist; animal advocate; science writer, next book coming on cats; caretaker of aging cats. Books include How Animals Grieve; Animals' Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals; see www.barbarajking.com for more. 
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Iva Pesa @ivapesa.bsky.social environmental historian of mining & oil (www.rug.nl/let/AFREXTRACT/) University of Groningen
Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social Environmental Historian, Science/Knowledge Scholar, tenured @maastrichtu.bsky.social 👩🏫
Regional Representative BeNeLux @eseh.bsky.social 🌍
Editor-in-Chief @jhokjournal.bsky.social 💻
Twin mom of three 🦸♀️
Lena Schlegel @lenamschlegel.bsky.social Environmental Sociologist @uni-freiburg.de working on multispecies care, forests, fire and biodiversity loss | alumna @carsoncenter.bsky.social | photography | she/her
Chanelle Adams @chanelle.bsky.social researcher and artist
postdoctoral scholar, max planck institute for the history of science
chanelleadams.info
Simon Naylor @simonnaylor.bsky.social Professor of Historical Geography, University of Glasgow, Scotland. My book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, is out now with Cambridge University Press.
Framer Framed @framerframed.nl Community-based project and exhibition space in #Amsterdam. Free entry, pay what you can.
Exhibitions | Events | Bookshop | Magazine | Podcast | Publications
Messages in English en Nederlands.
https://framerframed.nl/
Shannon Stunden Bower @stundenbower.bsky.social Environmental historian with a focus on the northern Great Plains/Canadian Prairies. Employed at the University of Alberta. Executive member and editor at @nichecanada.bsky.social. Settler living in Treaty Six Territory and Métis homelands. She/Her
King's CHoSTM @kingschostm.bsky.social Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at King's History.
More about research and what’s on ➡️ www.kingschostm.com
About the Hans Rausing Scholarship ➡️ www.kingschostm.com/funding-opportunities
#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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
Elle Larsson @ellelarsson.bsky.social Historian of animals and science with a particular interest in natural history collections and zoos. Dabbles in public history. A co-founder of Animal History Group & Meetings Secretary @sochistnathist.bsky.social
Louis James Henry @louisjameshenry.bsky.social He/him
PhD Candidate at Greenhouse Research Center for Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger
Researching waste, sanitation, and authority in late medieval England
Dr. des. Jonatan Palmblad @palmblad.bsky.social Project Coordinator & Lecturer, Rachel Carson Center
Environmental humanist interested in human–environment interaction and the role that cognition, ideas, and technology play therein.
Researcher, lecturer, editor.
Website: https://palmbl.ad
Dr. Dominik Huenniger @dominikhhh.bsky.social curator & #EnvHist @ German Port Museum, Hamburg & @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7095-4403
#C18 #C19
#HistSTM #EntHist
#HistOcean #AnimalHistory #QueerHistory #museums
Founder @collecol.bsky.social
Treasurer @dgej.bsky.social
Sophia Nicolov @sophianicolov.bsky.social Environmental historian. Mainly whales, whaling, ocean and empire. Mostly 20th century and contemporary history.
AHRC ECR Fellow at the Natural History Museum, London. Leading the project ‘Cetacean (Re)Sources’
*Views my own.
Is Lauterjung @islauter.bsky.social Archivist. Interested in history of smell, natural history, and medicine + multisensory approaches to heritage and engagement.
Views are my own.
Pronouns: she/her
Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social Volcanologist at the University of Oxford: volcanic histories, imaginaries, resources and futures. https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/ https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/rethinking-natural-resources/ https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/vesuvius-22
ECCB 2026 @eccb26leiden.bsky.social 🌱Join the conversation about effective biodiversity conservation!
📍When? July 6th-10th, in Leiden, the Netherlands
Find out more: https://eccb26leiden.eu/
ESEH NEXTGATe @esehnextgate.bsky.social ESEH's Next Generation Action Team (NEXTGATe). Representing the Early Career Researchers branch of the European Society for Environmental History. We do events, workshops, etc. aimed at helping scholars navigate murky academic life
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Birmingham.
MBS2026 conference, June 3-5 2026. Registration now open!
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/mbs
Chris Manias @chrismanias.bsky.social Historian of science based at King's College London, working on history of evolutionary & deep-time sciences and environmental history. Runs #PopPalaeo ( www.poppalaeo.com ) and co-leads the King's Environmental Humanities network
Environmental Humanities Research Hub @ehrh.bsky.social Environmental Humanities Research Hub (EHRH) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us-6/institutes-and-centres/environmental-humanities-research-hub
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland.
Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on deborah.mason@archives.org.uk (quicker than a DM).
Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
ARA Environmental Sustainability Group @araen.bsky.social The Environmental Sustainability Group of the Archives and Records Association (UK & Ireland) @araukie.bsky.social
Case studies: https://www.archives.org.uk/environment-case-studies
Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social 🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter. Expcet typos.
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Andrew Janes @cartivist.bsky.social archives | maps | stammering | cake | he/him
Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social Energy Infrastructures & C19 Periodical Press at Uni Bremen | Scottish Literature, EnvHums | she/her
Isabel Kranz @isabelkranz.bsky.social Blumistin, Floriographin, Literaturwissenschaftlerin. She/her
Towards a National Collection (TaNC) @nationalcollection.bsky.social TaNC is an AHRC/UKRI-funded research and development programme to bring together disparate collections across the UK through collaborative research.
Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com
Digital Humanities Research Hub @dh-researchhub.bsky.social The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London works to promote DH approaches, support the national DH community, and connect with DH practitioners around the world.
Wisse van Engelen @wissevanengelen.bsky.social Environmental geographer/anthropologist with interest in political ecology and STS.
Work on nature conservation, disease control, pastoralism & ecotourism, mainly in Southern Africa.
Dr Gary Willis @garywenvhist.bsky.social Focus: environmental impact of warfare. Academic/Environmental Rep, National Archives' User Advisory Group; writing book on the military-industrial enclosure of Britain's countryside in the 2nd World War for Bloomsbury. Accepts commissions. Views my own.
Nature @nature.com Research, news, and commentary from Nature, the international science journal. For daily science news, get Nature Briefing: https://go.nature.com/get-Nature-Briefing
Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social Professor of environmental history at Georgetown University. Creator, "The Climate Chronicles." Author of the new book, "Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean." Interested in all things climate change, outer space, existential risk, and past for present.
Angela Marques Filipe @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social A/Prof #Sociology, durham.ac.uk/staff/angela-m-filipe. Global #ethnography + social #history of contested conditions, concepts & climates of mental #health, theorizing #ADHD, #vulnerability, #ecoanxiety.
My own views (reg del skeets)
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Green 2.0 @green2-0.bsky.social Green 2.0 drives best practices in the environmental sector so that all communities can thrive.
Luiza Teixeira-Costa @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social Interested in plant-plant and plant-human relationships; monster studies; museum, garden, and library collections; climate change and cities.
Brazilian. She/Ela
https://www.luizateixeira-costa.com/
📚 🌱 🌈
Solvejg Nitzke (sie/she) @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social Plant-Book-Person, academic with a tree-twist, fern-obsessed
Books: Farne. Ein Portrait @ Matthes und Seitz,
Fremde Verwandtschaft. Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume @ Wallstein Verlag, Making Kin with Trees @ Palgrave
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting 
Digital Humanities Lab, Exeter @dhlabexeter.bsky.social We support digital approaches in research, teaching and outreach at the University of Exeter and beyond.
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/digitalhumanities/
Sarah Johnson @sarahwhpress.bsky.social Partner in @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, otherwise to be found obsessing about food, gardening, hiking, sailing, undertaking grandiose acts of DIY, hoping for the best
Nathan Cornish @njcornish.bsky.social Environmental History and Digital Humanities PhD student. Working on early 19th century plant exchange in the British empire in the archives at Kew Gardens.
University of Southampton, Kew Gardens, Exeter University, SWWDTP
🦋🌻🪴
Monica Vasile 🐾 @monicavasile.bsky.social Environmental historian working on wildlife conservation, extinction & political ecology of forests. Recent interest: history of peatland restoration. University of Oulu, Finland, since June 2025.
Former @MaastrichtUni & RCC fellow
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Bethan Davies @bethandavies.bsky.social Associate Lecturer and teacher | PhD from the University of Roehampton in sugar and femininity in early modern drama and culture | she/her.
Vanessa Bateman @vbateman.bsky.social Visual Culture & Human-Animal History - SSHRC Postdoc Fellow at Trent U 🇨🇦 Co-editor of GLOBALIZING WILDLIFE https://uncpress.org/9781469694757/globalizing-wildlife/
Previously: https://moving-animals.nl
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social PDRA in Early Modern History
Land, Environment, Economics & Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter.
Environmental & Climate Historian. Little Ice Age. Past biodiversity.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/46350-alexander-hibberts/about