Anna Kalinowska @akalinowska.bsky.social Historian of early modern period
Ola Teige @olateige.bsky.social Norwegian, Early Modern historian. Denmark-Norway c. 1660-1814, especially social networks and elites, but also crime, queer history and other cool stuff. And sometimes I escape to the Great Northern War or WW1.
Paul Seaward @pseaward.bsky.social History of Parliament, parliamentarism and politics in Britain and Europe from the middle ages to now; C17th English political thought and political history; Clarendon, Hobbes. A parliamentary miscellany at https://historyofparliamentblog.wordpress.com
Judith Pollmann @judithpollmann.bsky.social historian at Leiden University, interested in all things #earlymodern
The Atlantic @theatlantic.com Exploring the American idea through ambitious, essential reporting and storytelling. Of no party or clique since 1857. http://theatlantic.com
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Dr. Carrie Glenn @cglenn.bsky.social Historian of the Haitian Revolution, early United States, Atlantic World, & women. Social media editor at Age of Revolutions.
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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social Historian of France/Atlantic World, Assoc. Prof, Book on Huguenot refugees. Working on a book about the Great Pigeon Massacre of 1789. Co-founder www.AgeofRevolutions.com. Story-teller.
Heidi Keller-Lapp, Ph.D. @heidikl.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc France, colonies, nuns, religious texts, med recipes, gender/sex. I teach teachers, writers, voyagers, & other curious minds. I hang out with beagles, sons, sisters (blood and soul), & my first love. #earlymodernwomen #nuntastic
Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
Camille Cordier @camcord.bsky.social PhD Student in Early Modern History. Saint-Domingue, Le Cap-Français, Urban History of the Caribbean, Food and Consumption, Spatial Analysis.
Creator of the project : https://streetsoflecap.com/
The French History Podcast @fhp.bsky.social A podcast telling the history of France from 3 million years ago to present. https://www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/
Tim Murtagh @timvrti.bsky.social Research Fellow with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Based at Trinity College Dublin/PRONI
Historian of 18th/19th century Britain and Ireland.
Author of 'Irish Artisans and Radical Politics, 1776-1820' (Liverpool Uni Press, 2023)
Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social Official account of the JHI Blog. Zac Endter, Tomi Onabanjo, and Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa.
Listen to In Theory: http://soundcloud.com/jhi-blog
JHIBlog.org
Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social Professor of French Studies, working on the culture of French Revolution and Napoleonic period. Committed to supporting the learning of languages in schools & universities and to public engagement.
JL Stanley @historacle.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Cook. Professor. Historian of the French and Haitian Revolutions.
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
Corinne Gressang @corinnegressang.bsky.social Historian of the French Revolution. Dog mom. Auntie. Learner.
Any posts here do not reflect my employer.
roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social assoc prof-sfu history; rutgers phd; c20-21 france & empire; nuclear harm/fear/memory; fiction/film/art/music; thievery; founding/former host-new books in french studies; brown; settler; NOT my employer
roxannepanchasi.com
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Journal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH) @jwsfh.bsky.social JWSFH is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal featuring scholarship n France & the francophone world. The journal is published once annually in an open-access, online format.
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/
Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social Historian. Feminist. Boston. France. Hawai’i. Author of Storied Places (Cambridge UP 2019). Abolish ICE
H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social All things related to the study of French & Francophone History & Culture. The official BlueSky feed of the H-France website (www.h-france.net).
Dani Haarmann @daniruns.bsky.social Historian (18th 19th c Habsburg Empire, Hist of Knowledge & Identity Construction), passionate Runner (long distance), Entrepreneur (www.kalliope-academy.com)
Will C. Little @wlittle.bsky.social PhD, Mississippi. Lecturer, Historian, Writer, Dog Dad. I specialize in 18th century Transnational France and the Age of Revs. Perimeter College.
Brian DeLay @briandelay.bsky.social Berkeley Historian. Author of War of a Thousand Deserts. For Norton, finishing Aim at Empire: An international History of American Revolutions, through the Barrel of a Gun. Also 2nd Amendment cases. Birds, too. https://history.berkeley.edu/brian-delay
Cécile Archives @cecilearchives.bsky.social Senior Archivist at Military Archives of Ireland
Director @MSP-Archive.bsky.social
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- LLM University of Galway
- Blue Shield Ireland @blueshield-ireland.bsky.social
- Transitional Justice, CPP, Human Rights, Conflict and Archives
Dr. Joe Krulder @joekrulder.bsky.social Proud dad, lucky husband, an existentialist historian of the 18th-century Atlantic, laughing as I go. Author of “The Execution of Admiral John Byng as a Microhistory of Eighteenth-Century Britain” (2021)
Keith Grant @keithsgrant.bsky.social PhD in History | Historian of early North America, Emotions, and Book Culture | Assoc Prof at Crandall University | Writing a book about African Canadian leader Rev. Richard Preston (1791-1861) in Virginia, England, and Nova Scotia.
Grace Mallon @gracemallon.bsky.social British historian of the United States. Clive Holmes Fellow in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Obsessed with American federalism.
Sasha Mullally @sashamlly.bsky.social History Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of New Brunswick. Specializing in the social history of medicine, spatial humanities. Love to garden. 🪴🌸🌳 Striving to be a good scholar, mentor, friend out here under the blue skies.
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
James Connolly @drjamesconnolly.bsky.social Historian at UCL SELCS specialising in modern France and Europe, the First World War, and military occupation. Other interests include film, TV, gaming, and comedy (especially puns). Very occasional stand-up comedian (14 performances so far).
Études françaises @etudesfrancaises.bsky.social Revue de critique, d'histoire et de théorie fondée en 1965, hébergée par le département des Littératures de langue française de l'Université de Montréal.
Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Official account of the society and Sixteenth Century Journal. #SCSC2026 Conference will meet in Chicago.
Marlene Eilers Koenig @royalmusings.bsky.social Expert on British & European royalty. Academic Librarian (BA, MLS) Author of Queen Victoria's Descendants. Blogger (Royal Musings & RBN Royal Book News) NATS! royalmusingsblogspotcom.blogspot.com
Miguel Sanchez Morquecho @miguelsanchezm.bsky.social Ph.D Candidate of ancient Mediterranean History. I work on diplomatic messengers // UCSB 2020 // I like to post my current reads //
📍Berkeley
St Andrews Early Modern PG Workshop @staemworkshop.bsky.social A forum for PGs working on any aspect of the early modern world (1400-1800) - standrewsearlymodernworkshop@gmail.com - Skeets by @zbrookman.bsky.social
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
Institute of Reformation History @ihr-geneva.bsky.social Research institute for the history of the 16th century reformations, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Posts by @uelizahnd.bsky.social and Jéromine Roth; unige.ch/ihr
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies @sheffieldcems.bsky.social The official BlueSky page for the Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies, based at the University of Sheffield.
Website: https://scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/. Email: scems@sheffield.ac.uk
Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England.
Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social Postgraduate workshop for all studies into the early modern world (c. 1450-1800) at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge.
Marie-Louise Coolahan @mlcoolahan.bsky.social Tweets @recirc_
Kerry Sinanan @kerrysinanan.bsky.social Free Palestine, Sudan, DRC. End settler colonialism. Black Atlantic, Caribbean, slavery, white supremacy in the long 18thc. Holistic abolition. Wear a mask!!! Lib free zone.🇹🇹🇮🇪
Laura Ingallinella @lauraingalli.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse
Steve Pincus @scapincus.bsky.social Historian of revolutions and empires; early modern Britain etc. Uchicago
Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford.
E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies.
Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
Anna Groundwater @agroundwater.bsky.social Historian, early modern Scotland & Britain, borders, things, James VI, Union of the Crowns … & oh yes, Mary Queen of Scots
@bletherobooks 1st November: http://bit.ly/43mW82w
Thomas Withington @thomaswithington.bsky.social Writer and analyst specialising in electronic warfare, military communications and radar. Associate Fellow, Royal United Services Institute; Senior Non-Resident Fellow, NATO Defence College. All views are my own. Articles: www.armadainternational.com
OpenEdition @openedition.bsky.social Le compte qui présente une sélection de contenus issus des plateformes OpenEdition Journals, OpenEdition Books, Calenda, Hypothèses
#AccesOuvert #OpenAccess #SHS
Actualités professionnelles : @openeditionpro.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/openedition
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
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.
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Malcolm Gaskill @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social Historian of witches and other things, mostly war and memory. Literary agent @NatFairweather at @rcwlitagency. Film agent: Rebecca Watson @VH_Associates.
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social Historian, Author, Associate Prof, YouTuber, Broadcaster.
Author and editor of 6 books.
Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en&
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
Alex Craven @dralexcraven.bsky.social FRHistS. Freelance historian, working mainly for the VCH in Gloucestershire and Somerset. Interested in the English republic, radicalism, religion, and Reading FC.
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief and co-founder, @ArguablyMag.bsky.social
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Eloise Davies @eloisedavies.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Humanities, Hamilton School, University of Florida / religion & political thought in early modern England & Venice / distinctive hair
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social Year 6 teacher. Historian of emotions. Honorary Professor at QMUL. Author. Broadcaster.
Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate on 'Conserving Global Health' at @liverpooluni.bsky.social 🌿 || #plants, #empire, #nathist, #envhist, #collections, 🇬🇧-🇩🇪 || she/her || views my own ✨
Hannah Rose Woods @hannahrosewoods.bsky.social Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain; currently writing a history of university students. Unlikely cathedral verger
https://smarturl.it/rulenostalgia
Liam Ryan @liamryan2788.bsky.social Historian at University of Oxford. Political history, socialism, neoliberalism and the history of the Conservative Party. Finishing a book on the history of British anti-socialism
Cultural & Social History @cultsochistory.bsky.social Cultural & Social History is the journal of the Social History Society. We emphasize how the social and cultural are mutually constitutive and how studying one enables a deeper understanding of the other.
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 / gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
William Sheehan @willsheehan.bsky.social Historian of Empire, War, and Crime. Passing interest in public policy and politics. A few books! May possibly like Sci-Fi.
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at University College London. Views my own. Shligo woman. Sí / í. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/61791-hannah-k-smyth
Claire Ó Nualláin @claireon.bsky.social PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
Brian Gurrin @briangurrin.bsky.social Working on Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project (@virtualtreasury). I ❤️ censuses, Irish demographics, and enjoy running when not at the desk.
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Pedro Martínez @pedromartinezg.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History @URJC Madrid.
History of the Holy Roman Empire - Identity and Alterity - Travel Literature
Robert Fleming @flemingrob.bsky.social FRGS AMA | Principal Maps Research Specialist @ The National Archives. Historian of armies, empire, espionage, cartography & cricket.
London & lutruwita/Tasmania | Born on the traditional lands of the Palawa/Pakana people.
Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson @jastucaz.bsky.social Former U.S. Ambassador, retired career Foreign Service officer, still writing that long-delayed biography of Tudor humanist Mildred Cooke Cecil. Not as diplomatic as I once was.
Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
Sean Cunningham @seanc1509.bsky.social Medieval, Tudor & Legal at UK National Archives. Henry VII's reign. Europe in 1500. Cycling, guitars & piano. Northumbrian. Haudenosaunee history, Selden Society. IHR Late Medieval Seminar
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Borja Franco Llopis @bortxeta82.bsky.social Professor of Art History at UNED. I research early modern art in the Mediterranean, as well as issues of alterity and race. Member of the Young Academy of Spain and the Young Academy of Europe. https://uned.academia.edu/BorjaFranco
✨Catherine Williams✨ @catherinevwill.bsky.social MA Student at UCL, Fordham Alum
Researching the links between 16th c. poetry, sovereignty and colonialism
I’m your Modern Margaret Roper, find me somewhere in the Renaissance
Morgan Golf-French @zenothankyou.bsky.social History postdoc in Gotha (FZG) and Turin (THP), soon Halle (IZEA).
Working on race, politics, and education in the German Enlightenment (and beyond). Interested in all things early modern. Enjoys hiking, hummus, horror films, and heavy metal. Jewish.
ERC Project Atlantic Exiles @atlanticexiles.bsky.social ERC project based at @unituebingen.bsky.social | Refugees and Revolution in the Atlantic World (1770s-1820s) | https://uni-tuebingen.de/atlantic-exiles
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social • Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, since 1994
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Nicolai von Eggers @nicolaivoneggers.bsky.social Intellectual historian, Political theorist | Leader of research project ’The Republic of Newsletters’ | Republicanism, fascism, democracy - from the 18th century to our contemporary condition
Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.