Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Alex Shepard @shepardalex.bsky.social Feminist historian
Widowed parent
Figuring out how to live well
Lover of good coffee and chocolate
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Kate Loveman @kateloveman.bsky.social Mostly posting about Samuel Pepys’s diary, and other strange 17th-century stuff
CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social CEMS KCL: https://kingsearlymodern.co.uk/
Centre Director: @hsmurphy.bsky.social
Posts by Assistant Director: @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Mailing List: http://eepurl.com/docIGD
Adam Bridgen @adambridgen.bsky.social Studies working-class poetry and letters from 1650-1850, in context of empire and slavery, land politics, ecology, and the non-human world.
-- Now https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/adam-j-bridgen/
-- Next: international fellow @lias1.bsky.social
Library of Anglo-American Culture & History @libraryaac.bsky.social Library of Anglo-American Culture & History #FIDAAC
Resources for British, Irish, Australian, New Zealand, American & Canadian Studies
https://libaac.de/
https://libaac.de/legal-notice/
Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social The Library of London History.
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/libraries/guildhall-library
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Manon C Williams @manoncwilliams.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine in the 18th and 19th c. maritime world || Pearsall Early Career Fellow in Naval and Maritime History @ the Institute for Historical Research, London
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social PhD researcher, writer, auntie. Clumsy but resilient. Currently looking at the links between health and travel in Anne Lister’s diaries and letters. they/she
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social a research group based at the University of Warsaw | literature and culture of the 18th &19th centuries and contemporary rewritings of those periods |
open to collaborations
🌐 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl
Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social Emotional historian
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Sadie Mansfield @sadiemansfield.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History at the University of Birmingham researching Indigenous diplomacy in c18th North America
Emily Deal @historywithem.bsky.social PhD candidate focusing on early modern women’s material culture and libraries.
Molly Lepell’s biggest fan.
Future country house ghost.
Emma Mason @emmalrmason.bsky.social 18th centuryist, AHRC funded PhD 'Collecting the Counter-Revolution' with Courtauld Institute of Art + the Fitzwilliam Museum. Interested in all things French Rev + social and political histories. KE Manager at UoSheffield.
| MCR | Sheff | LDN | Cambridge
alisha 马 @alisha-ma.bsky.social she/her | phd historian at @lsehy.bsky.social | researching mary ii’s collections spaces at hampton court & kensington | interested in global material cultures, aesthetics of otherness, and colonial objectscapes c.1600-1800
Celia Atherton @celiaatherton1.bsky.social 18th century enthusiast. Northern Bridge funded CDA with Newcastle University and Coram, researching Childhood Disability at Ackworth Branch Hospital
Felicia Gottmann 📚🌻🇪🇺 @fgottmann.bsky.social Global Historian of early modern Europe. PI UKRI FLF “Migration, Adaptation, Innovation, 1500-1800”. East India Companies, Capitalism, Global Trade, Enlightenment, Political Economy. Trying to be a half decent human being. Sometimes. Starting tomorrow.
Adam Matvya @adammatvya.bsky.social History PhD student at Notre Dame. 18th and 19th cen. Britain and its empire, Muslims, South Asia, EIC, history of emotions. London-Chandigarh
Transcribe Bentham @transcribe-bentham.bsky.social An award-winning crowdsourcing initiative led by the Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws, University College London, engaging people in the transcription of the manuscripts of Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) for a new edition of his Collected Works.
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Brigitta Schvéd @brigittaschved.bsky.social Historian exploring early modern politics & ideas ▪︎ PhD (University of Pécs) ▪︎ Based in Budapest, researcher @lupspolitics.bsky.social ▪︎ Editor @esprit-jeps.bsky.social & @ceraejournal.bsky.social
Francesca @fbls.bsky.social Lecturer. c18 women's writing and older age. PhD on Anna Seward. Should be working on her book (Palgrave, soon)
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/ 
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
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/
Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World at the University of Exeter 📜🗡️ 1-3 September 2026
Email us your abstracts and any questions to earlymodernwar@gmail.com⚓
Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social Archivist and manuscripts curator. Research on Anglo-German cultural relations and literary networks
Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social Time-lag accumulator. Professor of History at NC State University. I write about church & state in the long eighteenth century Atlantic world.
ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société internationale d'étude du dix-huitième siècle.
http://www.isecs.org
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
Becca Palmer @beccapalmer99.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UCL | History of ideas, print culture, & the American Revolution | Seminar convenor at the IHR
Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social University of Cambridge’s workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century | Providing opportunities for postgraduate students to present papers at the University of Cambridge's History Faculty
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-long-eighteenth-century
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.
Is Lauterjung @islauter.bsky.social Archivist. Interested in history of smell, natural history, and medicine + multisensory approaches to heritage and engagement.
Views are my own.
Pronouns: she/her
Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on cancer and the senses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
sarah-lloyd.bsky.social @sarah-lloyd.bsky.social 
Beth Gisbey @bethgisbey.bsky.social Sussex by the sea 🌊 // Researcher and cultural historian 📚 // Rustington Museum 🏛️
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Dr Carrie Long @carrielong.bsky.social Historian | PDRA: Inclusive Histories Project 25-26| RMG Caird Fellow: Greenwich Hospital School 26 | IHR Pearsall Fellow 23-24 | Research interests: c.18-19th naval and military families, marginalised histories, lone women, petitioning, welfare and care
Dr Catherine Bateson @catbateson.bsky.social American History Lecturer/Ithaca College London/ British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / FRHistS/“Irish American Civil War Songs” https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Liberty Paterson @libertypaterson.bsky.social AHRC PhD, Birkbeck & the National Portrait Gallery, London
Cultural Legacies of Slavery
Exhibition Curator 'Slavery & the Bank' (2022-24), Bank of England Museum
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
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social Historian ∙ JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social via @britishacademy.bsky.social ∙ Reviews Editor @global-ih.bsky.social ∙ Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social ∙ the English republic, England and Edo Japan, historiography ∙ priorly Firenze, London, Oxford
Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social PhDing @BirkbeckUoL on Georgian/Regency courtesan-writers. First article now OA https://doi.org/10.14712/2571452X.2025.69.4
Book blogging https://ellethinks.wordpress.com/. Escaped bookseller, soprano, T1D, she/her 🇺🇸/🇬🇧
Amber Flood (Ní Mhaoltuile) @amberflood.bsky.social History PhD student. Interested in associational culture and knowledge exchange. Funded by the SWWDTP / AHRC. Based at the University of Exeter & Devon and Exeter Institution.
I won't bore you with my other interests.
She/her
🇮🇪
Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social Professor of History, Uppsala University. Eighteenth century/Age of Revolutions | Royal image making & political culture | Sartorial practices & social order | Court society & social interaction | Digitising Gustav III's private archive | Milanista 🔴⚫️
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition @hannahmore.bsky.social Bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Based at University of Bristol
https://www.hannahmoreletters.org/
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social Bringing together interdisciplinary research on the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts on 7 April 2026 at Christ's College, Cambridge
Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS).
Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals.
Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social I teach and research the history of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (@lseechist.bsky.social) ⋅ member @rehpere.bsky.social ⋅ research associate @historyecon.bsky.social ⋅ personal website: https://cleocz.com/
Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com Fashion/material culture scholar. Curator at GCVM (opinions my own). Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast 
Global Intellectual History @global-ih.bsky.social Publishing on the history of ideas in global contexts, based @standrewsiih.bsky.social, printed @routledgehistory.bsky.social. Chief Editor, @rosariolopez.bsky.social; Reviews Editor, @tomaashby.bsky.social.
@oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social 
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Damiano Bardelli @damianobardelli.bsky.social historian, visiting fellow @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · intellectual history of the Enlightenment and beyond · work & poverty · sociability & cosmopolitanism · Switzerland<>Europe
Centre de recherches historiques @crh.ehess.fr CRH (EHESS-CNRS, UMR 8558)
13 équipes de recherches/De l’Antiquité à nos jours
Sur des aires culturelles très variées
EHESS - 54, bld Raspail 75006 Paris
http://crh.ehess.fr/
newslettercrh@ehess.fr
https://www.youtube.com/@Vid%C3%A9os_CRH_EHESS_CNRS
English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research, London, focusing on earlier medieval history, c.300-1200. (Usually) Wednesdays at 5.30pm. Est. 1974. https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages
Isabel Holowaty @iholowaty.bsky.social Interim Head of Humanities Libraries, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. All views my own.
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate racism. Servant to a Patterdale,
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Polly Lowe @polly-lowe.bsky.social Historian of the social and cultural history of the body, labour, unfreedom, and the market in eighteenth-century Britain.
Eilidh Finlayson @eilidhfinlayson.bsky.social ay-lee. PhD student @uofglasgow.bsky.social Scottish female beneficiaries of transatlantic slavery. Scottish, gender & global historian. SGSAH funded.
Claire Ó Nualláin @claireon.bsky.social PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
How-to History @howtohistory.bsky.social Instruction and information for historians. Into your inbox every month | https://how-to-history.com/ | Edited by Joe Saunders & Anna Cusack
History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social History and Heritage @SwanseaUniversity. Hanes a Treftadaeth @PrifysgolAbertawe
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/history/ -- Researching & Teaching the Past for the 21st Century
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Alina Botezatu @alinanbotezatu.bsky.social AHRC PhD University of Stirling and Historic Environment Scotland
Uncovering hidden stories of Trinity House, Leith and its portable objects collection 
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Camilla de Koning @camilladekoning.bsky.social PhD candidate | historian | early-modern, slavery, royalty, kinship, Suriname | passion for depicting individual colonial lifeways | all views yours
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social Pratt Fellow in History, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Author of Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars (McGill-Queen's, 2027).
Previously a Research Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge.
https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Jennifer Davey @jhdavey.bsky.social Historian and Director of The History of Parliament (@histparl.bsky.social). On substack https://historyofparliament.substack.com/. Views are my own.
Daniel Beaumont @danielbeaumont.bsky.social Phd @aucklanduni.bsky.social. Medical, gender, emotions history in 18th c. England. My thesis examined melancholy in women's writing across 5 genres.