Geoff the helper @fakegeoffdellar.bsky.social Likes to help
Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social Toiling in the word mines for decades. Publishing/comms lecturer at Unimelb. Opinions, I got plenty. Join your union/s!
Kim Todzi @kim-todzi.de Historian interested in Colonialism, Postcolonial Memory, Economic History and Global Pharma.
https://www.kim-todzi.de/
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social Historian | Distinguished Professor Utrecht University | „Fighting terror after Napoleon (CUP)” | security, terrorism, radicalization, crisis | Adapt-Academy.nl | Tendit in ardua virtus.
Felicity Jensz @fjensz.bsky.social Historian based in Germany
| history of empires | memories of empires | critical mission history | colonial education | histories of collections | fishfingers | u. a.
Martin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social Historian, intersections of nature and empire in Southern Africa (esp. #Namibia); author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (open access);
Views my own;
Worried about planet;
#FckNZs
martinkalb.com
Xavi Ruiz @xruiztru.bsky.social International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
Itay Lotem @ilotem.bsky.social Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social Digital Historian of global Britishness, empire, gender, migration, labour. Keele University Senior Lecturer. Social History Society committee. Deviance strand convener. She/her.
Deirdre O’Connell @deirdremary.bsky.social Historian, writer, teacher, dog walker, gardener and politics tragic
Forthcoming: The World of Crickett Smith, OUP
Living on Dharug land
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Stephen Jackson @stomperjax.bsky.social Historian of education at the University of Kansas interested in the British Empire, world history, and settler colonialism. All views my own.
Christina Carroll @chcarroll.bsky.social Associate Professor of History @kcollege. Modern France, imperialism, politics, culture. Views my own.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france/
Faridah Zaman @faridahzaman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford | working on ideas, empires, and religion | Director of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social 
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East
Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS
Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social
https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542
Caroline Sequin @carolinesequin.bsky.social Historian of France—race, gender, sexuality, empire, migration. Author of Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press). https://tinyurl.com/ejs3udt2. Views expressed are my own.
Ali Bennett @alibennett.bsky.social Art Historian at University of Oxford. Interests = material culture, collecting, gift exchange & the ivory trade in East Africa and the British empire.
Andrea Major @andreamajor.bsky.social Historian of C18 and C19 Britain, India and empire, esp. East India Company colonialism, sati, slavery and social reform. Views my own etc. She/her.
Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social Lecturer & History Teacher
PhD (History) graduate
Assistant Editor @jich.bsky.social
Co-Editor @NCC journal
https://yiannicartledge.wordpress.com/
Closet horticulturalist: https://yiannischilli.blogspot.com/
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Ham House @OOCDTP | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
Syrus Solo Jin, PhD @syrussolojin.bsky.social Elihu Rose Scholar @ New York University. UChicago PhD.
I research transnational military networks, war, and America in the world, 20th and 21st centuries.
Book on US military-building in Asia forthcoming from University of Pennsylvania Press.
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Maria-Magdalena Pruss @parhaku.bsky.social Islam in South Asia, modern Islamic thought, history of Pakistan and its religious minorities. Princeton PhD. Huge fan of Star Trek and George Eliot. Book: https://www.mqup.ca/Books/R/Rethinking-Islamic-Modernism
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Steve Sarson @stevesarson.bsky.social Historian. Latest book--The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States--published by @uvapress.bsky.social. Cat gentleman. Occasional blogger: https://sonofsar.blogspot.com
Anjuli Webster @anjuliwebster.bsky.social Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism. Writing a book on the history of water in southern Africa.
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Zululand.
Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social This account is dedicated to the recently published book "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" by @mihatsch.bsky.social & Michael J. Mulligan. We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
Erica Marat 🇺🇦 @ericamarat.bsky.social Professor. Opinions are my personal. Posting as a private citizen. Do not represent any institution or group. 
Botakoz Kassymbekova @kassymbekova.bsky.social Professor of eastern European history, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Russian and Russo-Soviet colonialism, imperialism, stalinism, post-stalinism.
Ed Owens @edowens.bsky.social Royal historian, broadcaster & author of books on the British monarchy incl: "After Elizabeth" & "The Family Firm". TV/film incl: BBC, Ch4, CNN, Netflix
https://edowens.com/
https://www.northbanktalent.com/
Currently: education, IBDP & critical thinking
Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU @empiressdu.bsky.social Welcome to Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU - a research group at the University of Southern Denmark
#empiressdu
Tim Chamberlain 🧭 @waymarks.bsky.social Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
Marc Hudson @marchudson.bsky.social Failing/ed academic (socio-technical transitions), climate historian, writer, video maker. Most days I think we're toast. #envhist See also allouryesterdays.info
@allouryesterdays.bsky.social
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council.
Class - Culture - Environment
https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone
Dr Jatinder Mann 🏳️🌈 @drjatindermann.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at @uniofreading.bsky.social
https://reading.academia.edu/JatinderMann
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-8324
Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social Author of "Securing Borders, Securing Power" (Columbia UP, 2022) http://tinyurl.com/yeywvdaa Doing migration politics/policy research, currently @colmigproject.bsky.social. Political speechwriter of yore. Obscure academic in provincial England, AZ guy 🌵
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
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.
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social Historian of race, blackness, and complexion in modern Britain | Teaching & Research Fellow in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh | Convenor at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
https://oliviawyatt1999.wordpress.com/
Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social Researching histories of anti-imperialism and Black radicalism.
Author of: *Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation*: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4073-making-the-revolution-global
Ralph Darlington @ralphdarlington.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of the legendary labour leader Tom Mann https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ralph-darlington
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
Dr Lachlan Clohesy @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social ACT Division Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union (@NTEUACT). Father, husband, teammate, comrade. Retweets are not endorsements. He/him.
Annie Gottfried Cohen @annsplaining.bsky.social Historian researching communism and anti-fascism in the 30s and 40s, Spanish Civil War and (l'havdil) professional Jewish women who spoke to the dead. www.pullingatthreads.com. Yiddish teacher and translator.
LH🥑 @lucho-herran.bsky.social Teacher and researcher of Latin American History
Dr. William A. Booth @williamabooth.bsky.social Historian of Latin America, especially Mexico. Armchair for cats, short-order chef for children.
Renata Keller @renatakeller.bsky.social https://www.renata-keller.com/
Assoc Prof of Latin American History, UNR. Author of *The Fate of the Americas: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Hemispheric Cold War* and *Mexico’s Cold War*. Co-editor of InterConnections book series at UNC.
Shaun Richman @shaunrichman.org Labor guy in higher ed. Author, "Tell The Bosses We're Coming" (Monthly Review, 2020) & "We Always Had a Union" (U. of Illinois, 2025). Contributing writer: In These Times, Jacobin, American Prospect.
Priska Komaromi @priskakomaromi.bsky.social Historian of gender, sexuality and sex work in Central Eastern Europe. PhD in progress on transnational sex tourism/ masculinity/ transactional intimacy in state-socialist Hungary. HU Berlin.
Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social Research Fellow (and former Director) of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. Emeritus professor in Global Labour and Migration History at Leiden University. My main interest is social and migration history.
Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki | Working on Caribbean Marxism, utopia, temporality, and political imagination
Lisa Materson @lmaterson.bsky.social Historian of US women's & gender history 🎉RADICAL SOLIDARITY🎉 Newly published @uncpress.bsky.social | https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679921/radical-solidarity/
Author website: https://www.lisamaterson.com
George Gilbert @georgegilbert.bsky.social Associate professor (modern Russia) @historyatsoton.bsky.social BASEES Research and Development, co-editor at The SEER journal, co-director of CEEES at Southampton. Dept profile: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xfq6m/doctor-george-gilbert#research
Masha Cerovic @mcerovic.bsky.social Associate Professor, History, CERCEC - EHESS (Paris) / Russian empire, Soviet Union, war history, borderlands, military occupations, partisan warfare, Soviet-Nazi war
Maike Lehmann @maikelehmann.bsky.social Historian of Eastern Europe with a focus on the multiethnic Soviet Union and transnational encounters during the Late Cold War. Formerly
@JahrbuecherJGO and a few universities
Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social Historian interested in foreign fighters, transnational solidarities, emotion, anti-fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Currently based at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Author 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' (EUP, 2020). He/him.
Jimmy @jimmywintermute.bsky.social history doc | flight attendant | another world is possible (?)
Writings: https://linktr.ee/jimmywintermute
DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social Lawyer, historian, disease-ridden leftist. Books include The Story of Jenny Greenteeth, Revolutionary Forgiveness and The Anti-Fascist Novel in Britain 1923–2023. Write for LRB, Guardian, rs21.
Gavin Brown @lestageog.bsky.social CEO of LGBTQ+ health charity, former academic geographer. Still a theory slut who likes to think around.
Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social anticolonialism / antifascism / anarchism / author of 'The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire' (2026) https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781807810153
Alfie Steer @alfiesteer.bsky.social Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History.
Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Transnational & global history, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory & urban history. Cape Town - NYC - Chicago - London – Berlin | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe, incl. politics, ideas, (im)migration, empire. Editor, Contemporary European History. "Age of Hobsbawm" out 18 Aug: https://tinyurl.com/mwvt75fs
Heather M. Haley @heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social historian of Cold War social movements and the U.S. military | plant & cat mom | views expressed are mine alone
Sam Caslin @moderndecorum.bsky.social Historian at the Uni of Liverpool. They/she.
🏳️⚧️📚
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
Australian Research Council @arc-gov-au.bsky.social We support the research sector to produce excellent and impactful outcomes for Australia’s economic, social, environmental and cultural benefit.
Liam Gammon @liamgammon.bsky.social Research Fellow, Australian National University. Mainly Indonesian politics. Editor at @newmandala.bsky.social
Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Artist 📷 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲
Also: languages
PhD: gothic literature, family history
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social Former Senator NSW. Life member AMWU.
Australian Migration History Network @amigrationhn.bsky.social https://amigrationhn.wordpress.com/
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
WIRED @wired.com For Future Reference.
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Andrew Sparling @awsparling.bsky.social Ph.D., history. Hist. of sci. & med.; Paracelsus; c16 Germany. Husband & father. 𝕏-pat. Hobby: learning about & not catching brain-eating bat viruses. In public indoor spaces, wear a high-quality mask (N95 or better). Clean the air!
📍Melbourne, VIC
Tim Aistrope @timaistrope.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent. Political culture and IR through cases on conspiracy and misinformation, international finance, social media, and populist movements, exploring narrative power and insider perspectives.
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
πατέρας raver @paterasraver.bsky.social 
Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social The Journal of Global History is an open access journal published by Cambridge University Press. It aims to be the leading scholarly outlet for innovative analyses of global historical phenomena.
Bernhard Gissibl @bgissibl.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and the environment @IEG Mainz. Author of "Nature of German Imperialism" (2016)
Melanie Bavaria @mbavaria.bsky.social Lecturer at AUP, Phd candidate NYU History and IFS (France, Fr Caribbean, race, colonialism, citizenship) and journalist (k-12 edu). Philly/Brooklyn/Paris. Columbia Journalism alum
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
www.benwritesthings.com
Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social historian, PhD @BirkbeckUoL on sex work, public health and HIV/AIDS in late 20thc Britain 🍞🌹 she/her 🍉
Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social Professor | Law, Humanities, Human Rights ✨
Professional Gay🦩
Books:
📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
📕 Queer Judgments
📕 The Queer Outside in Law
📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun
(He/Him)
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social Associate Prof & Head of History @YSJ. Early Soviet history and Stalinism. The Red Army and the Great Terror (2015); The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy (2023). Working on POWs and the Soviet Red Cross. Occasional drummer https://shorturl.at/LRaWz
peopleshistorytim.bsky.social @peopleshistorytim.bsky.social Radical historian. Co-host of People’s History of Australia podcast. Substacks at History in the Streets. Cat enthusiast, antifascist and reader.
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. NTEU member.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him | can't access DMs sorry
Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social Tech journo and managing editor at Communications Day. I write about telecommunications, critical infrastructure and such things so you don't have to. Also I like cats. In the Blue Mountains (Dharug and Gundungurra country). Recovering Tasmanian.
John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social I write for food and shelter.
Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social ALP member. Social Democrat. Posts are mainly news, plus some history and general interest.