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
Joschka Meier @josserme.bsky.social Historian at the University of Bern: Human-animal relations, environmental adaptation & resource management of alpine communities in the Middle Ages.
Repository of articles, presentations & videos: https://hcommons.org/members/joschkameier/
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
ESEH – European Society for Environmental History @eseh.bsky.social News from the European Society for Environmental History. http://www.eseh.org
Next conference in Uppsala, 18–22 August 2025.
Also check out https://bsky.app/profile/esehnextgate.bsky.social
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
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/
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
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.
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.
Luc-André Biarnais @labiarnais.bsky.social #archives #data #Dakar #Guyane #Lorraine #Vendée
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/
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
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
ka92 @ka92.bsky.social 絵や漫画を描きます
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
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
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).
🇫🇷🇬🇧🇩🇪🇪🇺🏁🏰🗺️
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Owls in Towels @owls-in-towels.bsky.social Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls so they can be weighed and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
https://owlsintowels.org
Roman Krznaric @romankrznaric.bsky.social Social philosopher, founder @empathymuseum New book HISTORY FOR TOMORROW https://romankrznaric.com TED talk on THE GOOD ANCESTOR http://tinyurl.com/y6779czd 
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
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.
Dr Katie Carpenter @ktrcarpenter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public History at University of Leeds. Research Interests: history of women and science. Teaching Interests: creative teaching and assessment. Views my own.
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
Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
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.
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
Subscribe for exclusive content in the Byline Times monthly print edition: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social historian
colonialism | media | Orangina
One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
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.
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
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
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/
Ellipsus @ellipsus.com Write like a human. Ellipsus is an easy-to-use collaborative writing tool made by writers, for writers.
Us 👉 ellipsus.com
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Journal of Early Modern History @earlymodhistory.bsky.social This is the official account of the Journal of Early Modern History, published by Brill and based at the University of Minnesota.
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social A University of Bristol initiative encouraging and facilitating the study of Hong Kong history & international exchange and collaboration in the field. For more details check out our website: hkhistory.net
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
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
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
Subscribe to my Substack ⬇️
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc 
MEMS @memsunikent.bsky.social The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social Durham University's Department of History is nestled right at the heart of this historic city, sitting alongside the World Heritage Cathedral and Castle.
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
The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social The Prize Papers Project is dedicated to the study and digitization of the Prize Papers collection stored at The National Archives, UK. It is based at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the National Archives, UK.
Learn more: www.prizepapers.de
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK
Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage.
Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
Nathan Michalewicz @nkmwicz.bsky.social Historian of early modern Europe, France, the Ottoman Empire, and diplomacy. Do a lot of work in digital history. I follow in no particular order football, soccer, history, programming, and politics.
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
Sophie Nicholls @sophiehistory.bsky.social Historian of ideas. Currently working on a history of the French Wars of Religion and an English edition of two works by Étienne de La Boétie. My cat’s name is Jonesy. I believe in L-Space.
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/
Wyatt Wiggins @wyattwiggins.bsky.social History PhD student - 18th c France/Saint-Domingue (tattoos and history of punishment) - UC Irvine
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.
Tom Wynn @tomofwynnland.bsky.social Professor of French, Durham University. 18c French. Writing book about “Madame Lescombat, the first femme fatale”.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
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
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social Prof of English*Africana Prof at a college that’s a fascist bellwether.Blk Feminist. Quilter. Uses more tech than is good for her. Views my own.
FT Alphaville @alphaville.ft.com A markets and finance blog that's outside the FT paywall. All we ask is that you register to read: https://www.ft.com/content/b6cdf8d1-7435-460b-9a68-df456a143ce5
Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
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/
George Rudé Society @georgerudesociety.bsky.social The leading society for the study of French history and culture in Australia and New Zealand. Check out our website: https://h-france.net/rude/
Ben Bernard @drbernard.bsky.social Historian of early modern France; postdoctoral associate at Yale. benjaminsbernard.com
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
French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the French Colonial Historical Society. 
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
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/
Lea Ypi @leaypi.bsky.social Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the London School of Economics. Flas shqip.
INDIGNITY pre-orders: https://linktr.ee/leaypi
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently 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
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
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.
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 | 🍉🌻🟥
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)
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
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
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.
Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Jens Amborg @jamborg.bsky.social History of science PhD candidate at Uppsala Uni working on animal breeding and natural history in 18th-century France
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
School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social Official tweets from the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
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