Eric Storm @ericstorm.bsky.social Historian, Leiden University.
History of nationalism, regionalism, Spain, tourism, world fairs, comparative history.
Book: Nationalism: A World History (Princeton UP; Dutch translation Alfabet Uitgevers; Spanish translation Crítica).
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Jenny Pickerill @jennypickerill.bsky.social Professor at Sheffield University UK, geographer, feminist, photographer, + into all things environmental, esp. eco-housing + eco-communities. She/ her
www.jennypickerill.info 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social Dad, Husband, Germanist
jonathanblakefine.com
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social Professor of Law at a regional midwest public law school. Political theory, corps & admin. 🧶👽👾🧙🏽♀️🦅🎮 My views are my own and reposts are not endorsements.
SSRN author page
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3568227
Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social Author of DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE, amzn.to/45LFzNg, PRACTICAL EQUALITY, AMERICA’S FORGOTTEN CONSTITUTIONS, ELOQUENCE & REASON | Next: BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF COAL COUNTRY | Prof @ BostonU | constitutionalism, legal history | https://linktr.ee/roberttsai
Randal Hendrickson @hendrickson.bsky.social Political Theory PhD, history of ideas sort, MS in Library and Info Science. Working out some stuff at "The Vapors.” Would love you to have a look.
https://thevapors.substack.com/
Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social Philosopher, writer, podcaster. Co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Author of A Little History of Philosophy and many other books. Weekly column Everyday Philosophy in The New World magazine. Consultant editor Aeon.co and Five Books.
Gabe Gottlieb @gabegottlieb.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. Been self-positing since the '70s. All opinions belong to my 'I think.'- N Digressionsimpressions @nescio13.bsky.social Philosopher who got a gig as political theorist at University of Amsterdam; also known as Ghent Zeppelin. I have a daily substack:
https://digressionsimpressions.substack.com/publish
Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social Political philosophy and theory, migration, refugees, Rousseau, photography, French literature, Crooked Timber, books, Bristol ... Wrote "Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants" (Wiley/Polity, 2018). Pensioner.
Anne Norton @annenortonnow.bsky.social Political theory, the wild, the anarchic, also cats, corgis (the wild, the anarchic).
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Devyn Gwynne @devyngwynne.bsky.social PhD candidate
Interested in the history of: ideas, intellectualism, nat. phil, sci., med., eco., econ., tech., and salts in the “long seventeenth century” (he/they)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. MSCA post-doc at Trinity College Dublin. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MPIL Heidelberg, and KU Leuven.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
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
Alison McQueen @aejm.bsky.social Associate Professor | Department of Political Science | Stanford University.
Working on religion in early modern political thought, treason and political betrayal, and digital humanities. Associate Editor, APSR.
www.alisonmcqueen.info
Kye @kyebarker.bsky.social assistant professor of political theory | wonder in modern political thought | nature stuff | kansan | views my own | often confused | he/him
Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social Digital historian of early modern Europe in Virginia. Posts on historical travel, mail, diplomats, spies 🕵️ Author of Postal Intelligence: The Tassis Family and Communications Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cornell, 2025). Now on #17thC conspiracy.
Mark Fisher @markfisher.bsky.social Asst Prof at Georgetown // Ancient Greek Political Thought // History of Democratic Theory // Humanistic Perspectives on AI
Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social Working class, Glaswegian 🏴, Historian of late 17th century specialising in Scotland, warfare, martial culture, identity and migration. Former HE lecturer.
Publishing on Jacobites, the Highland War (1689-1691) & Scots-Dutch Brigade 🇳🇱
All views my own.
Colin Rose @crosehistorian.bsky.social early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Málaga
Editor-in-Chief, Global Intellectual History (Taylor & Francis) @global-ih.bsky.social @standrewsiih.bsky.social
Publications: https://concepta-net.academia.edu/RosarioLopez
(she/her)
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Anne Petterson @annepetterson.bsky.social historicus | verhalenliefhebber | handwerkster
doet @historicivertellen.bsky.social
Henk Looijesteijn @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social Historian and essayist. Writes about almshouses, philanthropy, the Dutch 17th century, Tulip Fever, tricksters. Posts in Dutch and English. All views are my own. Most recent book: https://verloren.nl/Webshop/Detail/eid/94136
Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social Political theorist. Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. https://niklasplaetzer.com/
Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social Ancient politics and political thought, modern art, Plato and Xenophon. Fellow of Newnham College, FRHistS. Cambridge and elsewhere. Recent books: Plato: a civic life (Reaktion) and Xenophon (Greece & Rome New Surveys in the Classics, Cambridge).
Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social CRITICAL REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (CRISPP) Eds Richard Bellamy (UCL), Annabelle Lever (Sci Po), Yann Allard-Tremblay (McGill), Patti Lenard (Ottawa), Alexandru Volacu (Bucharest) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/current
Avshalom Schwartz @avshalom.bsky.social Assistant Professor @SMU polisci | Political theory; Ancient and early modern political thought; The political imagination | Ph.D. @Stanford
www.avshalomschwartz.com
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Hjalmar Falk @hjfalk.bsky.social History of ideas and science, University of Gothenburg. Sometime critic, constant hylic.
Irene Vicente-Martín @irenevicentem.bsky.social MSCA Res. Fellow at Salamanca | Before at MIAS & Ph.D by @eui-history.bsky.social | 16-17c. Bahia, Brazil, Portugal & Spain | Currently... book in progress!
Helmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social Senior researcher in Early Modern Dutch History and Culture at @KNAWHuC.
History of media and international relations in early modern Europe.
George Giannakopoulos @giannako.bsky.social Teaching Modern History @ City St George’s, among other things. Interested in empire, internationalism, southeastern European history & politics. www.geogian.com
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.
Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding, Polish roots. President of Demsoc.org
Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
Edward Jones Corredera @edjonesc.bsky.social Historian - UNED | New book out: Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (OUP) | FRHistS & FRSA | Past: Max Planck Institute, Cambridge & LSE
David Avrom Bell @davidavrombell.bsky.social Historian, writer, New Yorker
David Lay Williams @laywilliams.bsky.social Political theorist at DePaul and author of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx (Princeton, 2024). Essays in NY Times, Washington Post, Time, Bloomberg, etc. Jazz Guitar, New York Mets.
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
Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social Philosopher, Oxford | Post-Kantian European Philosophy, Feminism, and Religion | katekirkpatrick.co.uk
Also enjoy photography 📸
Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century, emeritus History prof SUNY-New Paltz: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Andrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social Political theorist (Univ. of Toronto). Toronto/NYC. Realism, liberalism, toleration, privilege and opportunity, Hume, political ethics—and politics, humo(u)r, puns. Also husband, dad, stepdad.
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Maaike @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social non-practicing intellectual on war & tech
NL/EN
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
Magnus Møller Ziegler @magnusz.bsky.social Communist etc. Intellectual history, philosophy, Young Hegelianism, Marx, Vormärz studies. Academic mercenary ⟶ magnusz.dk
Kamil Karczewski @queerkamil.bsky.social Telling a different story about (eastern) Europe ⋆ Historian of Queer & Nationalism
Jan Eijking @janeijking.com Assistant Professor, Leiden University. International Relations Theory & History.
Out now:
"The Technocratic International" (OUP)
"Experts in a Turbulent World" (ed) (OUP)
www.janeijking.com
Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social Born in Naples 🇮🇹, roots in 🇵🇹, lived and worked in🇩🇪🇨🇭and now in 🇬🇧 Associate Prof in History and Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Author of “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: the Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900”(CUP, 2024)
LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social A blog that explores the co-constitution of law and political economy. Part of the @lpeproject.bsky.social. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://lpeproject.org/subscribe/
Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social Historian of imprisonment, abolition, debt, and radicalism in early modern England. He/him.
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Jonas Knatz @jonasknatz.bsky.social PhD Candidate NYU | Contributing Editor @jhideas.bsky.social
Modern European History | Conceptual History | History of Science and Technology | History of Automation and Work
Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social Law Prof QUB| Tyranny & Global Legal Order | Utopia | International Law | Feminism | Feminist Constitutionalism | Brexit & Northern Ireland | History | Law & Humanities | Cork & Belfast & Ireland | She/Her Sí/í
VidyaKumar 🕵️🪐🚀💫⚖️🇵🇸 @vidyakumar.bsky.social Critic, Lawyer, Senior Lecturer in Law, DPhil (Oxon) @SOASLaw School, London UK, ✍🏾 on Revolution, Int'l & Consti' Law, Space Law, Legal Theory & History, Human/Labour Rights, Law+Lit , Feminist, Founder: Race & the UK Constitution Ass'n (RUKCA) (She/Her)
Donovan Miyasaki @dmiyasaki.bsky.social Philosophy professor. ‘Nietzsche's Immoralism’ & ‘Politics After Morality: Toward a Nietzschean Left.' Continental, political, ethics, Marxism, existentialism. www.donovanmiyasaki.com
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
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
Maria Vittoria Comacchi @vitticomacchi.bsky.social Intellectual historian | Postdoc UniPerugia | Former Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow Ca’ Foscari-IU Bloomington-Autónoma Barcelona, Postdoc EUI, Universität Hamburg | early modern antiquarianism, Ottoman/European relations, Jewish history, manuscript studies
Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; hosts podcast about the History of Philosophy... without any gaps. www.historyofphilosophy.net
Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social RTT/Ass.Prof. Roma3- early modern natural philo - #DescartesLab - sciences, medicine, and plant philo🌱💭/plant studies🌿🔬MSCA Ca' Foscari/Indiana U - Warburg/I Tatti fellow / #ConEnvHIst - Seminar EM Plant Knowledge #VegSciLif #plantstudies
Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social Historian of colonialism and modern SE Asia @ University of Eastern Finland|🌲 transimperial histories of forestry 🌲|previously: colonial cities 🏛️ and travel 🚢|📚 occasionally writes about books and films 🎞️
Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social JProf at @UniMannheim, prev @ox.ac.uk, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social,
@eui-eu.bsky.social, Conflict Dynamics, Humanitarian Affairs, UN Peacekeeping, #firstgen 🇨🇭
melaniesauter.eu
Alfonso de Zamora @perurealfonso.bsky.social Al lasso, fuerça: https://ephe.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsdePradoPlumed
In the Other Place: @perurealfonso
ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.
Koen Stapelbroek @stplbrk.bsky.social Professor & Dean @jcucase.bsky.social (Early) Modern Political Thought & Intellectual History. Institutions of trade, free ports, commercial treaties and other. Working and living on Bindal and Wulgurukaba Country. He/him.
Dirk Alkemade @dirkalkemade.bsky.social PhD candidate in History @ Leiden University
| Democratic Radicalism: bio of Pieter Vreede (1750-1837) | history, literature & art
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social
Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Mary G @libmaryan.bsky.social Mother, lover, librarian ♥️ Una canadese in Italia. ♥️ Our love is all we have. ♥️ I’m: a PhD student at @RMIT, and the coordinator & an EAP teacher at the CALL @eui-eu.bsky.social. ♥️ A critical librarian in my heart.♥️
Joris van de Riet @jorisvanderiet.bsky.social PhD candidate in jurisprudence @leidenlaw.bsky.social | Kant, moral, political & legal philosophy, IR, int'l law | previously @CMLRev @EULeiden | LLM (x2) @unileiden.bsky.social | 🇪🇺 | 🌹 | He/him
https://jorisvanderiet.com/
Margarete Tiessen @mxtiessen.bsky.social historian of ideas, thought and knowledge/ research strategist/ educated at the universities of Cologne and Cambridge/ mum
🕊🕊🕊
Christophe Schellekens @christopheschfir.bsky.social Historian, at Liège University. Primarily interested in (historical) political economy in a wide sense.
Florence. Antwerp. Merchants. Markets. Networks. Labour. Skills
Formerly Tilburg and Utrecht University.
Bio https://me.eui.eu/christophe-schellekens/
Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, Arts & Humanities Research Council; International Champion and Creative Industries Sector Champion UK Research and Innovation
All views my own, but none of the poetry.
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Tomasz Drabowicz @tomdrabowicz.bsky.social PhD from @eui-eu.bsky.social (Digital) inequality, social class, economic sociology, aging, quality of life, sustainable development, quantitative methods, history, LGBTQ issues. Personal account & private opinions
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
Emma Forsberg @emmaforsberg.bsky.social PhD at Lund University writing on the Swedish diplomatic corps 1680 to 1765
Kajo Kubala @kajokubala.bsky.social history of political thought. mostly just vibing. j pronounced like a y (rhymes with ohio)
Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social Political theorist at Dublin City University. Author of Edmund Burke (Polity, 2024) and Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Princeton UP, 2021). Increasingly interested in abolition/emancipation and multigenerational democracy.
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Abbie LeBlanc @abbsleblanc.bsky.social
SKL🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @sklafon1.eurosky.social Pr. of 18th-century studies at Université Paris Nanterre: literature and the sciences; translation and history thereof.
Biographe officielle du Traducteur Fou™.
Translator myself.
Opinions my own.
Influenceuse ☔️
Tourkay Gasim @turkay.bsky.social Historian of the intellectual history of the nineteenth century, democracy, and oil industry in the Caucasus region and the broader Middle East • Visiting Fellow, EUI, Florence
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
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Oliver Weber @oliverbweber.bsky.social F.A.Z. | Feuilleton | Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte
Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press is an independent nonprofit publisher. Our books spark engaging discussions and present bold ideas from leading experts worldwide.
Anna Pravdica @annajpravdica.bsky.social AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨
https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
Leanne Smith @leanneks.bsky.social PhD Newcastle University. Intellectual historian interested in millenarianism & republicanism.
Elisa Chazal @elisa-chazal.bsky.social Historian Postdoc UNIGE | PhD @EUI_EU
Material Culture | Immersive historical reconstructions of 'Old cities' | Temporalities | Consumption in fin-de-siècle Central and Western Europe
📧 elisa.chazal@eui.eu | CV : https://cv.hal.science/elisa-chazal