Alon Pinkas @alonpinkas.bsky.social Fmr. Ambassador, Consul General of Israel in NY.
Chief of Staff/Foreign Policy Advisor to 2 PMs & 4 of Israel's best Foreign Ministers since 70CE.
Played for The Arsenal, 1979 FA Cup Final.
Writes, but not enough.
Does TV, but too much.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Sven Altenburger @svenaltenburger.bsky.social Political Theorist. Postdoc, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford. Military Institutions, Conscription, Citizenship. svenaltenburger.com
Matthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social Icelander in Ireland. PhD Candidate @historytcd.bsky.social and Fellow @tlrhub.bsky.social. Social and political history of global Scandinavia and the Nordic region. Researching governance and policymaking in the Danish Oldenburg Empire in the long 18th c.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Alex Noyes @alexhnoyes.bsky.social Fellow, Brookings Institution. Visiting Scholar, Penn Washington. Past OSD/Policy, RAND, White House SGI/State Dept. Books! https://shorturl.at/w7nwm, https://shorturl.at/DaV8O
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
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
Clare Mulley @claremulley.bsky.social Author of The #SpyWhoLoved (freedom), #WomenWhoFlewForHitler (but ended their lives on opposite sides of history), #WomanWhoSavedTheChildren (but didn’t like them much). #AgentZo (what a hero).
Morten Høi Jensen @mortenhoijensen.bsky.social Author of The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of The Magic Mountain, forthcoming from Yale University Press.
European Liaison @ Liberties
Gabriel Glickman @gabrielglickman.bsky.social PhD: Middle East Studies, @KingsCollegeLon. Research/Writing: history of international relations. Book: US-Egypt Diplomacy under Johnson (@IBTauris).
Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social Director of Education at No More Marking, an ed tech start-up. Author of 3 books about education & 1 about football. West Ham & cricket fan.
Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://substack.nomoremarking.com
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social i work for persuasion uk and i edit the journal "renewal"
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
Buy my book👇
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Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Politics UK @politicsuk.com The Home of UK Political News. Follow for Impartial Coverage.
Jade McGlynn @drjademcglynn.bsky.social Researches and writes on Russia, Ukraine, memory, propaganda 
Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia came out in June from Columbia Global Reports https://globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-milk-tea-alliance
Dimitar Bechev @dimitarbechev.bsky.social Director of the Dahrendorf Programme
St Antony's College, Oxford and Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe
Author: Rival Power: Russia in Southeast Europe and Turkey under Erdoğan (Yale)
Samuel Jones @samueljones.bsky.social (accidental) destroyer of paperbacks.
Elvira Tamus @elviratamus.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge
Gordon Corera @gordoncorera.bsky.social Co-host of “The Rest is Classified” podcast
https://linktr.ee/gordoncorera
David Bather Woods @davidbatherwoods.bsky.social friendly neighbourhood Schopenhauerian
• part time Proustian • associate professor @philoswarwick.bsky.social
Quantum Strategy @quantumstrategy.bsky.social The leading researcher in macro that matters to markets 
Derek Turner @derekturner.bsky.social Responsible for three novels, a well-regarded cultural history of Lincolnshire ('Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire'), and a large corpus of hack-work (some at www.derek-turner.com). Recently completed a book about English local identities
Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social Senior Fellow at Carnegie China. For speaking engagements, please write to chinfinpettis@yahoo.com
Barnabás Szabó @barnabas-szabo.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Geopolitics & Peterhouse, University of Cambridge 🇬🇧
Previously: Faculty Associate, Melikian Center, Arizona State University 🏜️ | PhD in Comparative History, Central European University 👨🏻🎓
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
William D. James @wdjames.bsky.social Asst. Professor in Strategic Studies at NTU Singapore. Author of British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony (OUP, 2024). Research: Alliances, grand strategy, UK defence policy, European security & transatlantic relations.
www.williamdjames.com
Gesine Weber @gesineweber.bsky.social European security & defence, global order, EU in US-China competition.
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich. PhD Defence Studies, King’s College London. Into running, matcha, 中文. Views my own.
geopoliticaleurope.substack.com
Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social Once upon a time worked at a 3 letter alphabet soup govt agency. TBI/PTS Survivor. MSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod. Leadership speaker. Obsessive RedSox fan. Heavy Metal aficionado. 🇺🇸🇬🇷
Alec Marsh @alecmarsh.bsky.social Author and journalist
Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker • Writer • Reviewer • Editor ✝️
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
Liam Hoare 🇺🇦 @liamhoare.com Europe Correspondent for Haaretz and author of The Vienna Briefing: viennabriefing.substack.com. Website: liamhoare.com. You can reach me at: contact@liamhoare.com
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
Jeff Rogg @jrogg.bsky.social Historian, academic, fisherman. “Better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.” —Georges Danton
Afshon Ostovar @osto.bsky.social Historian of the recent past | Naval Postgraduate School | FPRI | Opinions are mine & don't reflect any org. New Book: Wars of Ambition https://www.amazon.com/Wars-Ambition-United-States-Struggle/dp/0190940980/ 
Iain MacGregor @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social Pub Director NF, @HoZ_Books | FRHistS | Author | Rep: @APowerAgent & @pastpreservers | Words: Guardian, Spectator, BBC History, The Critic, The Washing Post | Views my own
Mara Balasa @marabalasa.bsky.social PhD Fellow at Stockholm School of Economics researching the clean energy transition
Focus: industrial policy, green steel, electricity market
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Henry Jeffreys @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social Booze enthusiast
GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark.
Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017.
(Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
Christoph Irmscher @chrisirmscher.bsky.social Literary critic & book reviewer. http://christophirmscher.com.
Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social 
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social Strategist, Leader & Author | Retd Army Major General | Senior Fellow in Military Studies @LowyInstitute | @CSIS | Modern & Future war studies | Futura Doctrina substack | #BannedInRussia
Elisabeth Kendall @elisabethkendall.bsky.social "The Mistress" / President of Girton College, Cambridge University. Arabist, Middle East specialist (militant jihad; Yemen; Arabic poetry). No ivory towers here...
Caroline of Kalamazoo @thrawnjanet.bsky.social Scholaria et anachorita aspirans in civitate Londoniensi
Iskander Rehman @irehman.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UT Austin's Clement Center. Author of "Planning for Protraction" and "Iron Imperator." Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Applied history, defense strategy & Asian security.
Stéphane Prud’homme Msc, MBA, PhDc, C.Adm @stepru.com Adjunct Professor in YUL, YOW 🇨🇦 & HKG 🇭🇰 • PhD Candidate 🇲🇴 Influential narrative, Propaganda & Slopaganda, Reputation, Credibility, Legitimacy, Trustworthiness; MBA Marketing, Economics 🇨🇳🇺🇸; MA Credibility, Crisis Mgmt 🇨🇦 • Founder @CredibilityInstitute.com
Michael Brill @michaelpbrill.bsky.social PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies @princeton.edu | Faculty Specialist @umdpublicpolicy.bsky.social | Analyst for Red Sea Futures | Former Non-Resident Fellow at Institute for Future Conflict & @wilsoncenter.org
Dr Dilan_Okcuoglu @dilanokcuoglu.bsky.social Kurdish. UKRI/Marie-Curie Postdoc. Fellow in IR, Sussex University, School of Global Studies; Affiliated w the Center for Global (In)Security Research; https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p648193-dilan-okcuoglu
Ryan A. Musto @ryanamusto.bsky.social Director of Forums and Research Initiatives at William & Mary's Global Research Institute | Stanford CISAC Affiliate | Diplomatic historian | Cold War and nuclear international history | Writing on nuclear weapon free zones
Patrick O. Cohrs @pocohrs.bsky.social Historian of war & peace and world order, Berlin & Florence. Fm. professor at Yale. Fellow at Harvard & Oxford. Author of THE NEW ATLANTIC ORDER and THE UNFINISHED PEACE
https://patrickocohrs.wordpress.com/
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
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/
History @historyzone.bsky.social Bringing the past to life. Daily posts about world history, American milestones, wars, revolutions, and forgotten events.
The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social A podcast for all with a common interest in history. Run and hosted by Mark Martin, the pod is his hobby. He’s an Arsenal fan and Wargamer.
Listen on any podcast app: https://bit.ly/4huFXEJ
Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social Journalist, travel writer, author
📖 Small Earthquakes (BGTW Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025), Crossed Off the Map
✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Geographical
🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño
https://linktr.ee/ShafikMeghji
Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Editor @insidereng, host @foreignoffpod, https://substack.com/@macspaunday, ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror: http://goo.gl/Jb6uEA. Next book on the GRU for @vikingbooks. macspaunday@protonmail.com
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social Human rights expert. Global authoritarianism, transnational repression, Turkey and Eurasia, academic freedom. Entirely personal account.
Colin Wrafter @wraftercolin.bsky.social Retired Irish diplomat. Interests include foreign policy, Northern Ireland, human rights, development, philosophy, history.
James Ketterer @jpketterer.bsky.social Director of Extension Programs & Professor of Practice, American University of Armenia | Diplomacy & Foreign Policy | International Development | Continuing Education | International Education | Middle East & North Africa | Jazz | Drummer | Baseball
Dr David Cowan @cowanda.bsky.social Political historian | long 18th century | political economy, party systems, and geopolitics
StephengfHall @stephengfhall.bsky.social Assistant professor at the University of Bath.
* authoritarian learning.
*Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Central Asian politics.
Bill Emmott @billemmott.bsky.social Writer, former ed-in-chief of The Economist, author “Deterrence, Diplomacy and the Risk of Conflict over Taiwan” (IISS 2024), addict of all things Japanese, Italian and geopolitical
Patrick Galbraith @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social Author of Uncommon Ground, 2025, William Collins
Columnist for The Critic & Country Life
Environment Correspondent for The Telegraph
Moritz S. Graefrath @moritz-graefrath.com AP International Security @ou.edu | NRF @defpriorities.bsky.social
Great Power Politics, Grand Strategy
https://moritz-graefrath.com/
Pratinav Anil @pratinavanil.bsky.social historian, feuilletonist, clubland habitué, judgemental judge 
Louise McLaughlin author she / her @louisemclaughlin.bsky.social 📚💙 Scottish fantasy author of D-Notice series- Cassie discovers saving the world with Glaswegian retired gods is a tough gig.
FREE BOOK links
Deviation: Wandering gods https://BookHip.com/HBMLCLS
Darkness https://BookHip.com/XNZJLNF
Medha Singh @medhawrites.bsky.social Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust). www.medhawrites.com
Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Buckingham Centre for Security & Intelligence Studies. @bucsisintel.bsky.social BUCSIS offers a range of security and intelligence programmes - taught & online including research degrees. #HUMINT #CovertAction. https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/research/bucsis
Hugh Pemberton @hugh-pemberton.bsky.social Recent British history is my thing (political, governmental, economic); armchair strategic studies my secret vice. Emeritus Prof at Bristol. Sometime historian of the UK civil service, more recently of Thatcherism. But often on my allotment these days
Jon Parry @jonparryhis.bsky.social Retired university History teacher. Modern British politics. Short history of British Liberalism published by Agenda April 2025. Occasional LRB reviewer. Part-time resident and unofficial chronicler of Sark.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Bradley Hoover @drbradleyhoover.bsky.social Aesthetics, Theology, Philosophy, and Music History. Author of ‘The Aesthetic System of François Delsarte and Richard Wagner: Catholicism, Romanticism, and Ancient Music,’ Cambridge UP. April 2025. 🇨🇦
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
The Draft @thedraftwriters.bsky.social A writing company founded by former No 10 chief speechwriter
Philip Collins. Thoughts on public language here and in our newsletter, First Draft.
info@thedraftwriters.com
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Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
Ronan Mainprize @ronanmainprize.bsky.social Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication
Research on intelligence, statecraft, and strategy • Writing a book on Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Global Cold War • University of Warwick PhD
Rick Herrera @herreramilhist.bsky.social Sr. Historian, George Washington Leadership Institute, GW Presidential Library | Prof., ret., US Army War College | Military historian | 18c & 19c America | Author | Angeleno in PA | My views mine alone | https://www.amazon.com/author/raherrera
Cameron John Harris @cameronjohnharris.bsky.social writer at The Draft
https://www.thedraftwriters.com/
https://thedraft.substack.com/
James Mcloughlin @jamesamcloughlin.bsky.social Film and fiction writing. ✍️ in New Critique, Engelsberg Ideas, DMovies, Penumbra Magazine, Valley Press, 10:10 Press, and more.
https://thelinesman.substack.com
Katherine Harvey @katherineharvey.bsky.social Historian and writer.
https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/
Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social Author: “STRANGERS & INTIMATES: the rise and fall of private life” Out Now! @picadorbooks. (Also: “Keeping Their Marbles” @ouphistory) Trustee,
@britishmuseum https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com/
James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social Professor of History. Writer of books.
Host of "History's Devils" ⬇️
https://historysdevils.buzzsprout.com/
https://youtube.com/@historysdevils
#history #spies, #extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️ 📚
Sonia Purnell FRHistS @soniapurnell.bsky.social Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s astonishing life of power, seduction & intrigue. New York Times bestselling author. A Woman of No Importance. Fellow of Royal Historical Society. Warned you about Johnson. Plutarch Prize winner www.soniapurnell.com
Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own.
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
Joshua Rovner @jrovner.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, American University
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
James Graham Wilson @jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social My book is here: https://amzn.to/4noUdTy
George Magnus @george17.bsky.social China watcher, ex Chief Economist UBS, now at China Centre, Oxford and at SOAS, London. Rock&Indie music lover. Also golden retriever owner and fan. 
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social Historian of ideas and culture, hovering between the 18th century and the 21st - and between Oxford, Berlin and London. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/associate-professor-avi-lifschitz