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
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
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. 🍉🍉🍉
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.
ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social Part human, part bot, 100% UNOFFICIAL. I track Australian Research Council grant outcomes. Bot checks outcomes announcements each min. DMs open. FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/ARC-Tracker-FAQ
Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social Historian. Author, The Seventies (2019), co-author Personal Politics (2024). Writing a biography of Anne Deveson. President, Australian Historical Association. Whitlam Institute Fellow. FASSA. She/her. Views my own. http://newsouthbooks.com.au/books.
jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social jewishness, diasporism, history, memory, solidarity, justice. she/her. Author of 'Cruel Care' (2023) and 'Anxious Histories' (2015).
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!)
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 
Richard Scully @drrscully.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe (c.1789-2020s) and especially cartoons, caricature, and comic art. Dad (x3). Partner. BA (Hons), PhD (Monash), FRHistS.
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social Oral historian researching war (Vietnam War & War on Terror), trauma, memory, gender, security. Postdoc fellow at Deakin. She/her. miamartinhobbs.com
Benjamin T. Jones @drbenjaminjones.bsky.social Associate Professor in History at Central Queensland University. Australia on the World Stage (Routledge, 2022).
Tristan Moss @tristanmoss.bsky.social Historian at UNSW Canberra | DECRA | Researching Australian space history and military history
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
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)
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 ♫♬♫ | 😷
Ana Rosa Marginson @historiana.bsky.social Filipino-Aussie historian of public health, medicine, decolonisation in the Philippines • PhD candidate at Deakin • The Mayday Podcast co-host • Horror fan, ex-bookseller, writing things! • it's 'Ana Rosa' ✨ https://linktr.ee/historianarosa
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.
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
History Council of SA @historycouncilsa.bsky.social HCSA is the peak body providing a representative voice on historical issues, celebrating and raising the profile of history in South Australia.
History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social HistoryAustralia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association. Pub. by T&F. Innovative scholarship in any field (not just Oz!)
Australian Policy and History @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social What can the lessons of history teach us about the present? Australian Policy and History links historians with policy makers in pursuit of a better society.
Eureka Henrich @eurekahenrich.bsky.social Historian interested in all things 'm' (migration, museums, memory, material culture, medicine) and a few others too. Currently writing a history of migration and health in postwar Australia. https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-eureka-henrich
Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social ~ https://www.auswhn.com.au/ ~ the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) promotes research, writing + advocacy in feminist, gender + women's history + publishes the peer-reviewed Lilith: A Feminist History Journal + #VIDAblog ~
Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social Professional historian, consulting archivist, museum researcher, occasional academic, reader, film fan, musician, occasional DJ, one-time photographer, dad, queer, goth, Naarm resident, and maker of lists. https://mikejonesonline.com- M Meggie Hutchison @meggiehutchison.bsky.social
Agnieszka Sobocinska @asobocinska.bsky.social Professor of Global History at King’s College London.
Histories of development, non-elite politics, Australia & Asia. Books: ‘Saving the World?’ (CUP, 2021) & ‘Visiting the Neighbours’ (UNSW, 2014). Next: ‘The World vs the World Bank’
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
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.
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
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
@anncurthoys.bsky.social @anncurthoys.bsky.social 
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)
Cassie Byrnes @cassiebyrnes.bsky.social Historian of reproductive rights, abortion, consent | lecturer at UQ | living and working on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands | she/her 📚
Ruth Morgan @ruthamorgan.bsky.social #envhist | #envhum | #climhist | opinions my own | Raised on Noongar country 🏳️🌈 living & working on unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri country | ANU - http://bit.ly/3ITky85
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.
Amanda Laugesen @alaugesen.bsky.social Historian, lexicographer, and chief editor of the Australian National Dictionary. Latest book 'Australia in 100 Words' out now with NewSouth Publishing.
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.
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
Nick Ferns @nickferns.bsky.social DECRA fellow in history at Monash University. Working on histories of development and decolonisation in Australia and the Pacific.
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.
Centre for the Study of Violence @studyofviolence.bsky.social The Centre for the Study of Violence, University of Newcastle is a group of active scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences whose work focuses on the origins, causes and experience of violence, historically and in the present.
Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social Canberra, South Coast, London.
Prof at Uni of Canberra.
Know the past, do the future better.
https://researchprofiles.canberra.edu.au/en/persons/chris-wallace
SSSHARC at Sydney @sssharc.bsky.social Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre: Seeding and accelerating collaborative research.
@ArtSS_Sydney
@sydneyuni.bsky.social
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
Journal of War and Culture Studies @jwcsjournal.bsky.social Interdisciplinary and international in scope, the Journal of War and Culture Studies emphasises cultural histories and cultural production as significant forces that have shaped experiences, representations and memories of war.
ANZSHM @anzshm.bsky.social Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine
https://www.anzshm.org.au/
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
https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb
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.
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