Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
British Records Association @britrecs.bsky.social The British Records Association is a UK charity, working for archives since 1932. Please become a member and support our work https://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/
Kelly Lepo @kellylepo.bsky.social Astronomer | Science communicator | Adult Lisa Simpson
Freelance writer and editor. Former Education and Outreach Scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute (@stsci.edu) supporting JWST.
Also on Mastodon: @KellyLepo@scicomm.xyz
Golden Age of Piracy @goldenageofpiracy.bsky.social Pirate historian and author. Historical facts and fictions concerning pirates and rebels in general.
Website: https://waynesavage.com/
Kathy Hart @khhart.bsky.social Map nerd, recovering librarian
Gareth @gjstockbridge.bsky.social Star Wars geek. History nerd. Book hoarder. Map fan. Lego builder. LFC supporter. Vivien Leigh worshipper. Nap devotee. Dog lover. Jaffa Cake enthusiast.
IC #559
GWG #426
Nebukad @nebukad.bsky.social Dad, Map maker, Library Troll, Project Imp,TTRPG nerd, forever DM, walking Chaos. He/him.
Loves to read and cook. ADHD
Check out my maps: https://inkarnate.com/p/PA0w6m-nebukad/
Sarah @essyem.bsky.social Librarian/research therapist, reposter, map nerd, chapstick femme, helicopter chihuahua mom, radicalized on 2011 Tumblr, nosy. ❤ #critical everything & #OpenEducation. Upper Midwest ➡️ Mid-Atlantic ✨🪩
Bren MacNeil 🏴🏴🏳️🌈 @brenmacneil.bsky.social ½ Welsh, ½ Scottish,
Tour Guide,
Film & TV nut, Cinema fan, Trekkie,
History nerd, Map nerd
Architecture nut, Graveyard fan,
Gay, Goth, Pagan
Record Collector (70s/80s)
Model Railways
...
Kenneth Wong @kennethkhw.bsky.social Urbanist, Map nerd, Hongkonger, GIS, #RStats
🔗 mappyurbanist.com
David Swanson @davidswanson.bsky.social New Yorker, Scotsman, editor, writer, map and archive nerd
Politics, culture, and sandwiches at https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich
cam rodriguez 🔎 @camrodriguez.bsky.social meddling kid / journalist. map nerd, midwest defender, chicago fanatic. 🇲🇽🇺🇲. data @wbez.org & requesting a lot of docs over @foiaday.bsky.social
tips? love letters? heycamrodriguez@gmail.com
Laura Millan @lauramillan.bsky.social Writing about 🔥💧and all things climate at Bloomberg
XNeonXO @xneonxo.bsky.social Professional Hoosier. Map maker, nerd and weirdo. Dark nights and Neon lights.
Daniel Firth @danielfirth.bsky.social Policy nerd - urban planner - map fan 🏳️🌈. Director of Climate Policy Research at C40 Cities. Ex Transport for London, City of Stockholm and Metro Vancouver TransLink. Opinions are my own or borrowed from someone smarter |
Stockholm, sometimes Vancouver
Zach @zacharyammerman.com 🌿🚲🌱🥕🏕🌈 🇫🇷📞 ⩜⃝ 🟢⚫️
Animal and nature lover, cyclist, & map nerd 🗺🤓. Graphic designer and mapmaker. Sometimes I take pictures of creatures. Montréal evangelist.
@Zzzzach89 on Twitter
www.zacharyammerman.com
Theo Landsman @ordinalandsman.bsky.social Senior Political Analyst at YouGov Blue, Political Science PhD candidate , Ranked Ballot Nerd, Map poster.
Geoffrey Singer @geoffreysinger.bsky.social Urban planner, climate action leader, transit enthusiast, map nerd. Check out my Toronto laneway and garden suites permits web map at https://arcg.is/1vTDSz
Eric @eric-98.bsky.social Aspiring wildlife and nature photographer, shooting on the Canon R8 with the RF 100-400 f5.6-8.
Also a music enthusiast and map nerd.
hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social I have created a website called The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com. I am a 67-year-old pensioner living in Japan; I have lived in the blue sky since 18 November 2024.
The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com という艦艇の名前のサイトをやってます。
Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com Writer naval/aviation history. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Stephen Fisher @seaspitfires.com Author, historian & archaeologist, Lindblad Expeditions guide, National Geographic expert. Has a soft spot for WW2 Coastal Forces, landing craft, LCT 7074 & D-Day. Servant to Flynn. Writes books for Penguin.
www.seaspitfires.com
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators were at https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/
We're not age verified (!) so we can't see DMs.
Relayed from Mastodon by Skymoth
Naval News @navalnews.com navalnews.com is updated daily with in-depth features, industry and naval forces news round-ups, event coverage, video reports and more.
History Hack @historyhack.bsky.social Fun history podcast recommended by the BBC.
British Journal for Military History @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social The British Journal for Military History is the scholarly journal of the British Commission for Military History.
Website: https://journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/
Owen Richards @crennisditic.bsky.social Boring Boat Nerd
Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social Military historian. Great War Group Trustee. Written a couple of Great War books plus articles. Francophile, but also lived 30+ years in Germany so pretty European in outlook.
Jim Toms @jim09ea63.bsky.social A normal bloke, happy family guy. With a few interests (planes, trains, tanks etc), oh, & an MBA from
@uniofleicester. I was a soldier once. @09EA63 on the bird app if it's still going, and on Insta
Timothy Choi @timdocchoi.bsky.social Ship modeler, all-around Canadian boat guy (and gov't goon, so usual caveats apply). PhD'd in Norwegian, Danish, and Canadian naval forces: book version coming Soon™️.
Kanuck34 🇨🇦 @thatsmcintosh.bsky.social Proud Canadian. Over 25 years in IT. Proud Father of an Autistic Person. Amateur historian. Mediocre middle aged cyclist. Go Flames Go!
Jessica S. @rednavy70.bsky.social Full time museum tech, part time history adjunct. Midwestern/EastCoaster. Struggling to find my purpose on this god forsaken planet. ✌🏻
Jamie McTrusty @jamiemctrusty.bsky.social Posts on (mostly) Second World War aviation and naval history. See ALT text for picture credits and additional information!
Richard Hammond @rjhammond215.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. Vice-President and Founder Member of the Second World War Research Group: https://www.swwresearch.com/. Co-Editor of War in History journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/WIH
King Ludd @kingludd.bsky.social Historian, wargamer, miniatures painter.
Lego, classic menswear, scale models, vinylcollecting, heavy metal, music, history, art, boardgames, movies, books.
Hans Tino Hansen @hanstino.bsky.social Realistic optimist, Founder & CEO Risk Intelligence, IR & economics, defence, security, military and naval history - especially during the Napoleonic period - the Cold War and some football.
On Bluesky since 11 Nov 2024
The Napoleonic Wars Podcast @napwarspod.bsky.social World class podcast covering everything and anything related to the period 1775-1815.
Hosted by award-winning historians Zack White, Luke Reynolds, Liam Telfer & Josh Redden
Institute for Military History (IMH) @mhafhs.bsky.social We research Military History at the Swedish Defence University (Försvarshögskolan) - We were founded 1873 by Generalmajor Hugo Raab.
Find us here: https://www.fhs.se/en/swedish-defence-university/about-sedu/organisation/department-of-military-history.html
William D. James @wdjames.bsky.social Asst. Professor in Strategic Studies at NTU Singapore. Author of British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony (OUP, 2024). Research: Alliances, grand strategy, UK defence policy, European security & transatlantic relations.
www.williamdjames.com
The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career.
#Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Simon P @tallsimon.bsky.social IT Contractor, wargamer, ex-RN tiff and submariner, volunteer guide at RN Submarine Museum. Can cook. Partial to a single malt or a good red wine
Destinations Journey @destinationsjou.bsky.social Retired mining engineer. Proud father and husband. Living the dream in Australia's Hunter Valley. Collector of historical military photos. See the collection at https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/
Wrecky Beccy @wreckybeccy.bsky.social ⚓️ Shipwrecks 🏊🏻♀️ Outdoor swimming 🛶 Maritime History 🦔 Wildlife 🌊 Thalassophile 🪼 Beach finds 🐚
Dr. Mollie Carlyle @molliecarlyle.bsky.social Maritime musicologist and author of 'The Shantyman's Compendium'. Completed a PhD on ‘the last shantyman’, Stan Hugill, at the University of Aberdeen.
https://www.molliecarlyle.com
Navy Records Society @navyrecords.bsky.social Publishing British naval documents and history since 1893. Discover more:
https://linktr.ee/navyrecords
Dr Cat Beck @catsbeck.bsky.social Historian of madness and disability among seafarers in the long 18th Century
David Manley @profdm.bsky.social Academic(ish), naval architect, naval wargames designer, cat dad and alpaca wrangler
Drachinifel @drachinifel.bsky.social
Andrew Livsey @andrewlivsey.bsky.social PhD candidate at KCL: Cold War sea power theory. Sails and cycles slowly.
Dr Phil Weir @navalhistorian.bsky.social Historian, author and (occasional) broadcaster.
19th/20th Century naval history, particularly naval aviation.
"Dunkirk & the Little Ships" Shire Library https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dunkirk-and-the-little-ships-9781784423766/
Andy Young @noduffdispatches.bsky.social Pseudo-academic, amphibious warfare geek and house husband.
Not necessarily in that order!
Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social Award-nominated Historian & Author FRHistS
WW1/WW2/20thC Royalty
Runs @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
@15minutebook.club 🎧
www.istoriatravel.org ✈️
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷
https://achurchill.substack.com
John T Kuehn @trost1864.bsky.social Christian
Retired US naval flight officer, husband,father, grandfather, military & naval historian.
Søren Nørby @navalnoerby.bsky.social Naval historian. Mainly Danish. And submarines. #topgunisanavyfilm Www.noerby.net
Jakob Seerup @jakobseerup.bsky.social
Richard M. Jones @wreckmasterjay.bsky.social Historian and author, writer of 24 published books on disasters, shipwrecks and history.
Dr. Frank Blazich, Jr. @milhistcurator.bsky.social Curator @ National Museum of American History; National Historian Emeritus @ Civil Air Patrol; Secretary @ Air Force Historical Foundation; curator/historian, father/husband, lover of birds (pigeons especially).
Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
Marc-André Bernier @mabernier-uwarch.bsky.social Underwater/maritime archaeologist, formerly Parks Canada, ICUCH, ACUA, Slave Wrecks Project, Opinions are my own
Dr Emma Salisbury @salisbot.bsky.social Naval Iconoclast, Military-Industrial Expert
Senior Fellow, National Security Program, Foreign Policy Research Institute
@jabell27.bsky.social @jabell27.bsky.social
Dr Jenny Lee @jennyrlee.bsky.social Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication.
Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life.
AuDHD.
Views my own.
MA Naval, Maritime and Coastal History Portsmouth @navalhistory.bsky.social Study watery history at the home of the Royal Navy through distance learning. Bringing together students from all over the world. #NavalHistory #CoastalHistory #MaritimeHistory
BasqEgo 📜🌊 @basqego.bsky.social 📜 Projet BASQEGO - Ego-documents basques (XVIIe-XVIIIe) issus des Prize papers 🌊
Exploring Basque ego-documents (17th–18th c.). Letters, journals & memories from the past.
📍Bayonne, Fr
👇🏾+ d’infos
Jamie L. Jones @jamieljones.bsky.social Environmental Humanities, Energy, Oceans | Assoc Prof, English, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | RENDERED OBSOLETE: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, UNC Press https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674827/rendered-obsolete
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on #rivers & growth in the Po Valley of Italy. All things #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society @carsoncenter.bsky.social International center for environmental humanities research in Munich, Germany.
Website: https://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
Portal: https://www.environmentandsociety.org/
Seeing the Woods: https://seeingthewoods.org/
Springs: https://springs-rcc.org/
Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social Climate, biodiversity, heritage & archaeology.
Co-chair Climate Change Specialist Group of IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. UHI PhD student researching Viking/Norse birds. Trustee ICOMOS-USA. #HeritageAdapts #archaeobirds #zooarchaeology
Christiane Kroebel @whitbyhistory.bsky.social Historian, mostly medieval Whitby, St Hilda churches; fellowship @ihr.bsky.social ; archaeology recorder @whitbynats.bsky.social ; abbey collection curator at Whitby Museum @whitbymuseum.bsky.social
Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social karenaverby.co.uk
Buildings Historian/Consultant
Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights
Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk
FRHistS ACIfA
Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist
Rep PastPreservers
Brum/London
Sara Spike @saraspike.bsky.social Cultural historian of rural communities and coastal environments in Atlantic Canada. The ocean and the woods. Visual cultures. Senses. Fog. Flora.
Adjunct Prof, Dalhousie University.
Executive Committee, NiCHE.
PhD, settler, she/her
https://saraspike.ca
Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Steve Mentz @stevementz.bsky.social #bluehumanities, Shakespeare, swimming, eco-poetry. English prof at St. John's (NYC).
Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social ‘signs and characters from the type-case of forgotten things‘ Sebald
Late Heaney (https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Charlotte Mathieson @cemathieson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19th Century English Literature, University of Surrey.
Victorian lit, mobilities, & skin studies.
Co-ed. Palgrave Studies in Mobilities, Literature & Culture. She/her
https://charlottemathieson.wordpress.com
Ruairí de Barra @paperneverrefusedink.com Procaffinator. Veteran. Artificer. Bodger. #Author. #Poet. Lost #Mayo Man.
www.paperneverrefusedink.com
NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social The Network in Canadian History & Environment.
NiCHE is a confederation of researchers & educators who work at the intersection of nature & history.
niche-canada.org
Dr Robert James @robtjames.bsky.social Social and cultural historian focusing on twentieth-century British society's leisure activities #CinemaHistory #CoastalHistory #CoastalStudies
Charlotte @chaciav.bsky.social working on the history of Japan and Korea, seaweeds, nomads, peasants, and merchant capitalism.
Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social Archaeological geophysicist, heritage nerd, Running Punk, musician and ex-dancer.
Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social Historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England. Researching the trade and their goods. Visiting Research Fellow at CDAS, University of Bath.
Associate Fellow of Royal Historical Society
Russell Ó Ríagáin @rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews
Own lefty views
Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books
sé/he/il/er/han
Brian Mackie @brianmackie.bsky.social WW2 Clyde history. HMCS Niobe / Royal Canadian Navy. Greenock Morton / In the Community. Slava Ukraini!
Prof. Kerrylee Rogers @kerryleerogers.bsky.social Coastal scientist, @UOW, Director Environmental Futures, cancer survivor. Passionate about family, science, nature 🌏 🌳 🌊 🧪
Dr Paul Huddie @paulhuddie.bsky.social ERC Project Manager @absolute_erc @ansoc_erc @civilwars_erc | Historian | Coordinator of @milwelfhist.bsky.social and @crimeanwar.bsky.social | also studies royal raval reserves 🇪🇺🇺🇦
For more about me see: http://irishhistorians.ie/members/phuddie/
Scott Erich @scotterich.bsky.social yeoman professor, anthropologist of the sublime | https://www.scotterich.com/
Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social Historian trying to help build better worlds 🇵🇸🌈✊🏳️⚧️
Blog here https://samgrinsell.hcommons.org/writing/
Buy me a brew https://ko-fi.com/samgrinsell
Professor Brad Beaven @bradbeaven.bsky.social Professor of History; author of C19 books on Leisure, Citizenship & Working Class Men; Visions of Empire; The Devil's Highway: London's Sailortown,1850-1900. Co-Director of Port Cities & Maritime Cultures Research Centre: port.ac.uk/portcities.
Mathias Seiter @drmseiter.bsky.social Historian of C19th Germany with an interest in port town cultures, national identities, spaces, borderlands, and Jewish Germans. Also VfB Stuttgart supporter & member (long-suffering)
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Dr Claire Harris @drclaireharris.bsky.social #Palaeolithic and #Intertidal Archaeologist 🦣🏺⚓
Public Engagement and Impact | MOLA/QM/BBK | she/her
#Thames #TalkingBallast #LegacyWaste
Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social Woman of Kent | recovering Curator | Wessex Archaeology| Neanderthal-botherer | Akela | submerged landscapes, paths and tracks | #IceAgeIsland #archaeology #palaeolithic
Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social Archaeologist & Associate Professor in Palaeolithic Archaeology at UCL, where we run the PaPa MSc programme.
Researching Neanderthal archaeology in La Mancheland & Western Doggerland, from Boxgrove to La Cotte.
Provide Geoarch expertise to ASE.
He/Him 🏺