Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Luc-André Biarnais @labiarnais.bsky.social #archives #data #Dakar #Guyane #Lorraine #Vendée
Alka Raman @alkaraman.bsky.social Economic and social historian of the early modern world, innovation, industrialisation and all things cotton. Assistant Prof @UCL History. Chair of the Women’s Committee @Economic History Society, Associate Editor @Industrial History Review.
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
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
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 700–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social Seminar for the history of Europe and the world 1500-1800 the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Mondays at 17:30
See our programme: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/european-history-1500-1800
Pritam Singh @babasahebssikh.bsky.social PhD Candidate at LSE International History (2022-2026). MPhil Cambridge (2019-2020). Histories of Caste, South Asia, Indian Ocean, and British Empire.
L'Étranger Podcast @letrangerpodcast.bsky.social French history from a foreign perspective 🇫🇷
https://www.letrangerpodcast.com/
Katie Urquhart @katie-urquhart.bsky.social Commissioning Editor at Yale University Press London. Commissioning medieval and early modern history. (views my own)
Carro 🇸🇪🌊 @carolinesweden.bsky.social Swedish. AuDHD. PTSD. Middle-aged, early retired. Atheist .Lifelong radical left scum. Democratic socialist.💙🇨🇦🇩🇰
John Condren @jcondren86.bsky.social 🇮🇪 midlander living in 🇬🇧. Asst prof (U. of Nottingham)
Book: north Italian states & Louis XIV's France (Routledge '24).
Writing another on military finance & Genevan & Swiss bankers in 18th-c. (w/ Palgrave)
Likes running, reading, cooking, horses, and jazz
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Peder Clark @pederclark.bsky.social history keeps me awake at night
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Austin Collins @acollins16c.bsky.social Teach@Tübingen postdoc, 2024-25.
PhD Durham Uni & Erfurt Uni.
Historian of early modern France & Europe - cities, space, religion, monarchy, ceremonies, religious wars. (Angoulême, Charlesfort, Fort Caroline, France Antarctique, Lyon, Sens).
🇫🇷🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺🏁🏰🗺️
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark.
Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017.
(Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social Art Historian looking for dirt on Britain’s imperial past in museums & archives. Author of “The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector". Wife, mother, pug owner.
www.jenniferhowes.com
Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social Acq Editor for Lund Humphries; Brill; CEU Press. Founder, Art Herstory. Etsy shop, http://artherstorynotes.etsy.com
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.
Ann-Str-Dav @annettestrdavey.bsky.social Siarad Cymraeg ...
... Science runs on good Data.
Germany runs on Excuses.
2026.
& tief im Westen 😊😍🎧🎶🎶
https://www.uni-wh.de/forschung/uwh-forschungsdatenmanagement
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.- S @subaltern.bsky.social @subaltern.bsky.social
Department of History, Saint Mary’s University @historysmu.bsky.social Department of History at Saint Mary's University in Halifax / K'jipuktuk. Offering BA & MA degrees as well as minors in Applied History and British Studies. For info: history@smu.ca
Florian Wieser @florianwieser95.bsky.social history PhD grad and Honorary Fellow University of Edinburgh, c16&17 colonial, queer, global history - opinionated, gay, and nerdy --- 🇪🇺🏳️🌈📖
https://edinburgh.academia.edu/FlorianWieser
https://empirespastdotblog.wordpress.com/
Angela H. @angelah.bsky.social Comparativist who fell into the long 18th-c and decided to stick around. I’m Bartleby-the-scrivner-ing LLMs and their inevitability. Louise Dupin’s Work on Women: Selections (New Histories of Philosophy @OUP). Views expressed are mine alone.
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Inkybrain.bsky.social @inkybrain.bsky.social Historian of financial capitalism in France. Enthusiast of movies, music, and cooking. Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at @tufts.edu
Mattias De Backer @mattiasdebacker.bsky.social Research professor and researcher VUB Spatial and Urban Criminology. Editor @crimencounters
Father of two.
And musician in the Belgian postpunk band KORINTHIANS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3434-4800
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/
Michelle Hogan @michellehogan.bsky.social 🇨🇦Not buying or selling but hope to help Seniors where I can. 🚫No DMs.🚫
Professional Retiree, Musician, 33rd Degree Cat Herder, one Mensa candidate that knows better.🇨🇦
Dr Ciarán McDonnell @drciaranmcdonnell.bsky.social Historian: 18thC war & society (Jacobites, French Revolution & Napoleonic Wars), Irish in foreign armies (Wild Geese), Medieval history (Crusades).
Also interested in archaeology & heritage management.
https://ciaranmcdonnell.weebly.com/
Lubartworld @lubartworld.bsky.social This project proposes to study the relations between migration and Holocaust from the 1920's to the 1950's, from Lubartów to the world.
About the project: https://lubartworld.cnrs.fr/
@alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social BANNED by threads, had 290.000 followers and 180 mil views per month
Supporting Uk rejoining EU
You can donate to my work here: https://buymeacoffee.com/alexjungle
Nat Cutter @natcutter.bsky.social Postdoc at UniMelb, Ottoman Tunisia and the Mediterranean World. Teaching early modern history. I wrote a book, libraries order here: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/yr62. Proud member of @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social and @memorients.bsky.social. Posts my own.
Nicola Camilleri @camilleriana.bsky.social historian of modern europe global / citizenship, colonies, militarism / postdoc in the ERC project COLVET @maynoothuniversity.ie / former fellow @italianacademy.bsky.social / PhD @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social Historian and journalist. Writing a book on the history of prison. Mancunian in Berlin. www.harrystopes.com for work, and www.harrystopes.substack.com for somewhat work-related musings.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social Honorary Fellow in History Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯
Website and blog: https://drtayloraucoin.com
Noëmie Duhaut @duhaut.bsky.social Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton.
Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
Silicology @silicology.bsky.social #Blockchain #Rustlang
#ClimateJustice #DirectDemocracy #VotingReform #ApprovalVoting #Rust
#GIS #Bioinformatics #Economics #ConvictionVoting
The manifesto book:
https://iambrainstorming.github.io
https://iambrainstorming.vercel.app
Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
Tom Wynn @tomofwynnland.bsky.social Professor of French, Durham University. 18c French. Writing book about “Madame Lescombat, the first femme fatale”.
Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
The Medieval and Early Modern Research Network (MEMRN) @memrn.bsky.social We’re MEMRN 🏰⚔️ We provide accessible training opportunities and host events online & in-person. Creating a supportive and vibrant community of passionate people, we promote lifelong learning for everyone.
Find out more 👇
https://linktr.ee/chasememrn
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social AHRC project: premodern contact btwn England & Islamic Worlds. Led by Lubaaba Al-Azami & Samera Hassan. Book: https://bit.ly/3ZEIy6L OA Journal: https://rb.gy/wlrcie. Website: https://memorients.com/
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Dr Manuel Muñoz García @manuelmunoz.bsky.social Palaeographer. Lecturer in Latin Palaeography of the European Middle Ages at IMEMS (Durham University). Gran Canaria-Sevilla-London-East Midlands.
SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social Social History of Capitalism
Research group @VUB Brussels 🇧🇪
https://shoc.research.vub.be/
Marissa Perez @structuralcolors.bsky.social graduate student @ university of washington
art and science in the ancient world & 18th century
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.
Research Group on Manuscript Evidence @rgmemss.bsky.social Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire & Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Writing a book about multilingual London. Learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Jared Hardesty @drhardesty.bsky.social Professor of History at Western Washington University. Historian of colonial America, labor, and slavery.
Most recent book:
https://hackettpublishing.com/the-suriname-writings-of-john-gabriel-stedman
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.
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
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
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 | 🍉🌻🟥
Gardener🪴 @lat611.bsky.social Nature loving, tree hugging, cat mom.
Vendy Hoppe @vendyhoppe.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD candidate at The University of Manchester, previously University of Warwick. Researching early modern velvets, visual & material cultures.
Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social Historian of religion, culture, books, music | Postdoc KCL @DORMEME16 on music books | Early Modern Catholics | Sir Thomas Tresham | Antiquarianism | Soprano | Anglican | Anti-semitism not tolerated
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
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
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.
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social History of science PhD candidate at Uppsala Uni working on animal breeding and natural history in 18th-century France
Christophe Gillain @cmfgillain.bsky.social Historian working on the project Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 at the University of St Andrews. Interested in mobility, communication, and wayward clergymen.
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/people/cmfg1/
Melissa K Byrnes @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social Historian @SouthwesternU. France, empire, migration, race, rights, activism. Author of Making Space (UNP). Mama. She/her.
Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social Postdoc at the KITLV | Editorial Assistant of the NWIG | Editorial Board Member of the EMLC | Historian of Empire, Maritime History, Slavery
https://ramonanegron.nl
Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
My book, Colonial Negatives: Picturing History & Identity in Morocco, is available now! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785320/colonial-negatives/#bookTabs=1
Francesco Buscemi @francescobuscemi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Groningen. Here for all things history and occasionally venting about EU and Italian politics.
The Age of Revolutions and the History of Emotions are a few of my favourite things.
Deaf Heritage @deafheritage.bsky.social Deaf historian and filmmaker
Fergal Leonard @fergalleonard.bsky.social Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham University (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.