Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social 18th-century cultural history, French literature, art etc. Currently Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford/All Souls College
Maxime Kaci @maximekaci.bsky.social Histoires d ici et d ailleurs, de frontières et de révolutions
Hugo Orain @hobbitbreton.bsky.social Docteur en histoire 📺🎮📽️
Historien des images
Représentations, imaginaires et mythologies du passé
Membre du Laboratoire des Imaginaires
Peter McPhee @petermcphee.bsky.social Historian of France
Chair of the History Council of Victoria, Australia
Emeritus Professor, University of Melbourne
Latest book: An Environmental History of France, 1770-2020
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/environmental-history-of-france-9781350523852/
Emilien Arnaud @arnaudemilien.bsky.social PhD student, History, Princeton | 18th c/Revolutions, digital humanities | alumn Ecole des Chartes & Paris 1 | agrégé d'Histoire
Anne Verjus @anneverjus.bsky.social Histoire politique féminisme études de genre révolution française patriarcat radicalité anglaise James Henry Lawrence, Anna Wheeler maternité politique Lyon Villefontaine écologie transition bouquets véganisme Ecosse Angleterre
Laurent Cuvelier @laurentcuvelier.bsky.social MCF en histoire moderne @Université de Tours
Études urbaines, histoire matérielle et luttes sociales
Annie Duprat @annieduprat.bsky.social
Claire Gauthier @clairegthr.bsky.social Professeure d'histoire-géographie / Secrétaire de l'@aphglille.bsky.social 🌍⏳
Histoire des révoltes, du genre, rurale, 18e/RF 📖
Section européenne anglophone 🇪🇺
Photographe à mes heures perdues 📷
Jurassienne qui se promène 🌲
Côme Simien @comesimien.bsky.social Avant, pendant, après la Révolution.
Maître de conférences en histoire moderne, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne.
IHMC
Olivier Ritz @olivier-ritz.bsky.social Professeur de littérature française à l’Université de Poitiers.
UFR Lettres et Langues.
Laboratoire @forellis.bsky.social
Histoire littéraire de la Révolution française
Imaginaires de la Révolution de 1789 à nos jours
Zoé Grumberg @zgrumberg.cpesr.fr Historienne.
Enseignante, post-doc Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
Guerres et génocides - politisation enfance et jeunesse - migrations - transmissions intergénérationnelles
Cats on a Couch @catsonacouch.bsky.social Cats on a Couch 🐈🛋️
Petty Paw-litical DemoCATs Here to Make You Smile. 💅Honorary Cats (🐩) on Fridays
The whole point of our IG is to troll JD Vance 🛋️
Connect everywhere!📱
https://linktr.ee/catsonacouch
Marybeth Hamilton @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social Writer, historian, podcaster.
history & coffee @historycoffee.bsky.social in baltimore's historic fells point, history & coffee combines a history focused bookstore, coffee shop, and interactive exhibit experience while building an online history community across the united states
Fondation pour la Mémoire de l'Esclavage @fondationme.bsky.social Reconnue d'utilité publique, la Fondation vise à transmettre l’histoire, par la culture, pour la citoyenneté.
https://linktr.ee/fondationpourlamemoiredelescla?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b102b073-3cb8-48b8-9a2e-5756f0148eaf
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.
Susan Bergner @bergnersusan.bsky.social doctoral researcher @ SCRIPTS FU Berlin
research on African diasporas in International Relations
all views personal | she/her
Alex Needham @alexneedham.bsky.social Arts editor of The Guardian.
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca 🚑 Providing medical care where & when it’s needed.
🥼 Fournir des soins médicaux humanitaires là où les besoins sont les plus grands.
Independent. Neutral. Impartial. | Indépendant. Neutre. Impartial.
doctorswithoutborders.ca | medecinssansfrontieres.ca
Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France. Based in Pittsburgh these days.
Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/
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- J @jcoffin.bsky.social @jcoffin.bsky.social
Caroline D. Laurent @carolinedlaurent.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the American University of Paris; 20th & 21st-C 🇨🇵/Francophone Literatures & Cultures; Comparative Genocide Studies; Graphic Narratives/Novels; PhD @Harvard
Pernille Røge @pernilleblues.bsky.social Historian of the French and Danish colonial empires, political economy, slavery, and abolition. Mom of two little vikings. Author of "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire".
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
Moshik Temkin @mtemkin.bsky.social Artist, cat-lover, and avid reader. Eg.
https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/moshik-temkin/warriors-rebels-and-saints/9781541758476/
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
Miriam Franchina @barlafuess.bsky.social Ex historian ( #SaintDomingue/ #HaitianRevolution / early #Haiti) at @unitrier.bsky.social / Uni Halle / Uni Milan.
Now PR, Press & science comm @mpici.bsky.social
From 🇮🇹, living in 🇩🇪
https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/MiriamFranchina
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
FrenchHistTO @frenchhistto.bsky.social French History Seminar / Séminaire d'Histoire de France, Toronto, Canada (profile images: http://Europeana.eu) Posts by @SchotteMargaret
Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of Leeds. Islamophobia & cultural production in France. Retired ex-Thai boxer. Co-convener @psafrenchpol.bsky.social He/him.
Brent Rosenstein @bmrosenstein.bsky.social PhD from University at Buffalo | Early Modern/Modern French views of North Africa | Education, translators, and community/belonging | They/He
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.
Jean Beaman @jean23bean.bsky.social Sociologist @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social @NorthwesternU alum. Author #CitizenOutsider @ucpress.bsky.social. AE @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Research on race/racism/France & US. Yoga lover & sarcasm expert
Carl Cornell @carlcornell.bsky.social Lecturer of French Studies and Landscape Studies at Smith College. Researching the role of culture amid deindustrialization and sustainable development in French cities. He/him/his
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Starting fall 2026 Asst Prof at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
RRCHNM @rrchnm.bsky.social The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media leverages technology to democratize history.
https://rrchnm.org/
Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social Historian of Modern France at QMUL
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.
Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social Teaches US History at Willamette Univ. Working on a book about the long history of the US Right. https://rightlandia.ghost.io/
Karen Racine @klracine.bsky.social Historian. Age of Revolution. Spanish America and Great Britain. Atlantic World. Co-editor of Atlantic Crossings book series (University of Alabama Press). Canadian.
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com (also available in German: https://steady.page/de/demokratie-americana/posts) - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Ada Reichhart @adarht.bsky.social Jun.-Prof. in Sociology, PI ERC WE-COOP @unistra | Gender, Labour, Democracy, Critical Theory, Feminist Critiques of Work | Fulbright Alumni
book: https://www.editionsbdl.com/produit/la-forme-de-vie-cooperative
ERC website: https://we-coop.eu/en/we-coop-2
Mathias Valverde @vlvde.bsky.social PhD, @Unistra & @EHESS | Early modern history | researching gender: esp. science and masculinities in 18c. France | IEG Mainz Fellow 2023 | Music enthusiast
Mathilde von Bülow @muvonbulow.bsky.social Mom. Historian. Lecturer in School of IR @ University of St Andrews: decolonization & Cold War, colonial conflict, intel & security, Algeria, Franco-German relations, civil society actors & IR
Claire Bond Potter @clairepotter.com Opinion writer, reviewer & essayist | Emeritus History prof | podcaster | http://clairepotter.substack.com | antifascist | NYC & Northampton, MA | Repped by Roz Foster, Francis Goldin Literary Agency
Prof. B. (Tracey Billado-Lotson) @billadot.bsky.social Historian of 🇫🇷: C10th-12th Anjou; violence, customs, law, monks/nuns, lordship, unfreedom, charters. She/her.
Dr. Rebecca Simon FRHistS @piratebeckalex.bsky.social Historian: pirates/public executions 🏴☠️☠️
Author: Pirates’ Code, Pirate Queens, Why We Love Pirates 📚
Written for History Today, BBC History Extra, Routledge
See me on: History Channel, NatGeo, Discovery, BBC
https://rebecca-simon.com
Dr. Miranda Sachs @mirandasachs.bsky.social Historian at TXST. Studying Modern Europe, youth culture. Author of An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris.
Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ she/her 🌈
Modern & Contemporary France @francemodern.bsky.social The internationally esteemed peer-reviewed journal offering a scholarly view of all aspects of France from 1789 to the present.
French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the French Colonial Historical Society.
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/
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)
Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social Historian of France and Algeria, editor, translator at Les plumes rouges. Author of “Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria” and “Modern France and the World.”
www.lesplumesrouges.com
www.darciefontaine.com
Jennifer Heuer @jenniferheuer.bsky.social Historian, especially of France, gender, revolution, colonialism, and much else. Co-editor of French Historical Studies (send good articles our way!)
Low-key hiker and biker, mystery novel reader, traveler.
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
Emmanuela Wroth @emmanuelawroth.bsky.social Rhymes with ‘both’. Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University of Cambridge working on ‘Diasporic Divas’ and ‘Courting Celebrity’ in 18th/19th C Western Europe and the Atlantic. she/her/elle
Emmanuel Mehr @emmanuelmehr.bsky.social Public Historian of/in Baltimore City | President @historycoffee.bsky.social Georgetown History MA '21 | NCPH Membership Committee | SABR Historian/Editor | Opinions Mine | He/Him
Chelsea Stieber @chelseastieber.bsky.social Author, Haiti's Paper War, NYU Press 2020
Co-Editor, Haiti for the Haitians, LUP 2023
NOLA <—> DC
Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social Historian; Rutgers Ph.D.; thinking about radio, listening, & sound; empire; tech, medicine, & disability; now writing about #polio in France. Baker & dog parent. Often exasperated. Tired of sitting still.
Malick Ghachem @malickghachem.bsky.social History prof @MIT. Attorney.
#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @slaveryarchive.bsky.social #Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative. slaveryarchive.com
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social Historian of slavery, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Africa. Curates #slaveryarchive. Visit my website analuciaaraujo.org
Dr. Carrie Glenn @cglenn.bsky.social Historian of the Haitian Revolution, early United States, Atlantic World, & women. Social media editor at Age of Revolutions.
☕️ 🍷🐈🦮
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
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).
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Davia Downey @downeydavia.bsky.social I study federalism, local politics & policy in cities post-disaster. I also helped end gerrymandering in MI. I do a lot of yoga. 1st gen Ph.D. RT≠ endorsements. Read my work (gratuitous plug): https://tinyurl.com/ms7b9r6a. Send ur best memes. ✊🏿✊🏽✊🏼
Julia Gaffield, PhD @juliagaffield.bsky.social Historian (she/her)
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 4yo & 7yo. Views my own.
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/
Sue Peabody @profpeabs.bsky.social historian, mom, wyf, nerd, admirer of finely wrought crafts, collage artist, and cheerleader of students and friends
Rowan @rowanj.bsky.social I write about nature and landscape.
Lecturer in Human Environmental Geography at The University of Sheffield.
One quarter of the Nature’s Calendar writing team published with Granta.
Melissa K Byrnes @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social Historian @SouthwesternU. France, empire, migration, race, rights, activism. Author of Making Space (UNP). Mama. She/her.
Claire Eldridge @eldrclaire.bsky.social Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
Monterey Bay Aquarium @montereybayaquarium.org How do you do, fellow squids? 🌊 We're your frondly Aquarium with a mission to inspire conservation of the ocean. https://www.montereybayaquarium.org
zeynep tufekci @zey.bsky.social It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social The Abusable Past is the digital companion to the Radical History Review, presenting unique and original content related to the praxis of radical history.
https://abusablepast.org/ and more at linktr.ee/theabusablepast
Elise Franklin @elisefranklin.bsky.social Historian of France, decolonization, gender at UofL. Still working out my relationship to social media.
Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social Writer. Prof. Archive Stan. Lover of Music and Film. 🇭🇹🇫🇷🎮🎬🗃️ Current project: Antiracist writers & the House Un-American Activities Committee. Views expressed through this account represent my own opinions and not my employer's.
Sarah Horowitz @sarahehorowitz.bsky.social Historian and dog enthusiast
Carolyn Eichner @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social Historian 19th c. France & empire; gender, race, & sexuality; social movements; Paris Commune;
names.
- M @maxkm.bsky.social @maxkm.bsky.social
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies