Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens.
Dr Michelle Walker (/Moffat) @moffski.bsky.social Historian of war & society in WWII UK, veteran disability.
Proud NZer π³πΏ
Researcher @Manchester Met Uni
FRHistS
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Hurst Publishers @hurstpublishers.bsky.social We publish books on current affairs, history, conflict and religion in Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. And much else besides.
Tony Cross @lokster71.bsky.social A bear of very little brain who still likes to read a lot, especially non-fiction. Brentford supporter. Doctor Who fan. Old.
https://www.youtube.com/@Lokster71
Talbot Imlay @talbotimlay.bsky.social History prof at UniversitΓ© Laval in QuΓ©bec (Canada), father of two, husband of one and friend to a few.
All views are probably not my own.
https://www.flsh.ulaval.ca/notre-faculte/repertoire-du-personnel/talbot-charles-imlay
Derrick Wyatt's Law and Policy Blog @blogwyatt.bsky.social Derrick Wyatt KC, retired Oxford professor and lawyer
Law and Politics
Geopolitics and how to cope with Trump and Putin
Blog at http://derrickwyatt.substack.com
Dead Carl @deadcarl.bsky.social www.deadcarl.com
Writer on Clausewitz, international relations, and German history. Words in American Purpose and Liberal Currents.
Kiran Pfitzner- D David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Sofya Anisimova @sdanisimova.bsky.social Early career historian. Post-Doctoral Fellow at
University College Dublin. Working on First World War and Russian Civil War.
Matilda Greig @matildagreig.bsky.social Historian at the National Army Museum, London. Focus on 19th century war & conflict, esp the Napoleonic Wars.
www.matildagreig.com
William Fletcher @1815fletcher.bsky.social Military Historian and Lecturer at Kingβs College London
Jonathan Fennell @jonathanfennell.bsky.social Professor of the History of War and Society, Kingβs College London. Co-Director of the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War. President of the Second World War Research Group. FRHistS.
Megan Hamilton @meganahamilton.bsky.social Historian β’ PhD student at King's College London & Imperial War Museum (CDP) β’ Researching SWW army training across the British Empire β’ π¨π¦ living in π¬π§
Joe Maiolo @joemaiolo.bsky.social Professor of International History, Department of War Studies, Kingβs College London & co-editor The Journal of Strategic Studies
Sophy Higgins @sophyhiggins.bsky.social PhDing @ Freeman Air and Space Institute (KCL) & RAF Museum on gender, class & interwar aviation | she/her
Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War @smhcentre.bsky.social The official feed for news and information about the Sir Michael Howard Centre for the History of War, King's College London.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/sir-michael-howard-centre-for-the-history-of-war-3
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter βοΈ
πΈ Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Douglas Peers @dpeers.bsky.social historian, has-dean, and senior staff officer to an alpha-beagle.
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Saavan Chavda @sav-c.bsky.social Aspiring Historian and long-suffering Arsenal fan. Researching people's lived experience of British imperialism in Rotherhithe, London, from 1755-1914 @ King's College London
@davisqmw.bsky.social @davisqmw.bsky.social
JosΓ© Miguel Ferreira @joseferreira.bsky.social PhD in History | Editorial manager at IHC β NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST (@ihchistory.bsky.social) | Goa, Portuguese empire, colonialism and archival stories | chief editor PrΓ‘ticas da HistΓ³ria (@pdh-journal.bsky.social)
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
Charlie Thomas @cthomasjamh.bsky.social Professor, African Military Historian, Co-Editor of the Journal of African Military History. Opinions expressed are solely mine. My book, Ujamaaβs Army, is available now!! https://www.ohioswallow.com/9780821425596/ujamaas-army
Dr James A.S. Sunderland @jamesassunderland.bsky.social Research Fellow. PDRA at St Edmund's, University of Cambridge. Historian of British ruled Palestine and Jewish political violence. Dphil, Merton College, University of Oxford
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
Ann Tucker @annltucker.bsky.social Historian of the US South, Civil War, Reconstruction in transnational perspective. Assoc professor. Newest Born of Nations (UVa 2020). Opinions=mine.
Tayyiba Nasir @tayyibanasir.bsky.social Head of History in South London| History PGCE @IOE_London| History BA @qmhistory #edusky #historyeducation
Love teaching imperial and colonial history, forced to teach the National Curriculum
Jonathan R Parker @jonathanrparker.bsky.social Early career historian. Postdoc at Uni Basel. They/them.
Cultural history of nationalism, bureaucracy, & empire in Central and Eastern Europe.
Writing about democracy, policing, and imperial afterlives in interwar π¨πΏ-πΈπ°.
Circulating around πΊπΈ (MN) π¨π π¬π§ & π¨πΏ
AdanedhelπΉ @danielwaweru.bsky.social Woke Aristotelian
Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social History Professor
Comparative study of nationalism
Latest bookβOccupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023)
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
Michael J. Steudeman @msteudeman.bsky.social rhetoric, education, neurodiversity, dad humor. Author of Absence of National Feeling: Education Debates in the Reconstruction Congress (U. Press of Mississippi, 2025).
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Brain Simpson @misterbiscuitsbap.bsky.social MonsterΒ who lovesΒ biscuitsΒ more than anything!Β Not the account of the jazz pianist nor the Briitsh Labour Party politician
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | βdazzlingβ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academiaβs longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social Professor at EHESS & PSE
Co-Director, World Inequality Lab
inequalitylab.world | WID.world
http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when Iβm in Montreal
Dr AimΓ©e Fox @draefox.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social Professor of Global Political History
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam π³π±
Colonialism | Southeast Asia π
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War | Gender | Environment
www.susieprotschky.com
https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
Laprofmme π¦¬βοΈπ ππβ€οΈβπ©Ή @laprofmme.bsky.social Historian, πΆ π© mom, aspiring native plant gardener, knitter, vintage plumbing fixture enthusiast. Oxford commas and footnotes, always and forever. I block with abandon. All opinions my own not my employer. Go Bills!
Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social @ksvesq.bsky.socialβs husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com
Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck
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Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb
Justin F Jackson, Ph.D. @justinfdjackson.bsky.social justinfjackson.com
Historian, author of The Work of Empire: War, Occupation, and the Making of American Colonialism in Cuba and the Philippines (UNC Press, 2025)
David Bowman @dlbowman76.com Illustrator, coder, reader, bon-vivant. Please don't ask about HAL 9000...I don't like to talk about it.
Portfolio: https://www.dlbowman76.com (available for commissions)
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Professor Brooke Rogers OBE @profbrookerogers.bsky.social Professor of Behavioural Science & Security, Department of War Studies/School of Security Studies, Kingβs College London.
Deputy Executive Dean and Vice-Dean People & Planning in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy. Views expressed are my own.
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Jess Pearson @jesspearson.bsky.social Historian of Modern France and Decolonization | Author of The Colonial Politics of Global Health (Harvard, 2018) | Associate Prof. of History @ Macalester College
Jakob Wigand @jawi.bsky.social PhD candidate @ uhh || colonial provenance research x history of science x collection history || he/him
The wandering Sufi @thelovechain.bsky.social Every Muslim is obligated to pray five times a day.
Under no condition should an individual be forced to accept a religion or belief against his or her will according to the Quran/Al-Baqara 256
- Born and raised in the Netherlands
Martin Kalb @historianmkalb.bsky.social Historian, intersections of nature and empire in Southern Africa (esp. #Namibia); author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (open access);
Views my own;
Worried about planet;
#FckNZs
martinkalb.com
Dr. Anna Brinkman @annakbrinkman.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Strategy and International Law at the University of Lincoln. Director of the Maritime Studies Centre
Book: Balancing Strategy
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/balancing-strategy/305960D358172DBCF641320024BFF71D#
Philip Lewis @pslewis.bsky.social Head of Global Strategy, Policy & Engagement at The British Academy. Previously at the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords. Working on EU & global research and innovation policy | global (dis)order | humanity, climate & nature
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
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Sebastian James Rose @sebjrose.bsky.social Postdoc historian at Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen (KWI) researching the history of technology, empire, infrastructure and CryoCultures
Dr Christine Cheng @christinecheng.bsky.social War Studies, Kingβs College London. Researcher of war-to-peace transitions, civil wars, corruption, elite bargains, statebuilding, and UK foreign policy. Trustee at Conciliation Resources. Defender of democracy. Padel enthusiast.
Mathieu @sardaukar.bsky.social Quebec, Canada π¨π¦ from France π¨π΅
Compulsive lurker, mostly about History, Defense, Geopolitics, Technology/IT, Health & Science
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Jeni Mitchell @jenimitchell.bsky.social Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London. Director, Future Threats Lab https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/future-threats-lab / Dep Director, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War. Future war; π space; rebellion past and present; apocalypse(s)
Huw J. Davies @huwjdav.bsky.social Professor of British Military History @kcl.ac.uk | Associate Dean Professional & Online Education SSPP | Award-Winning Book: Wandering Army | Next one: Forging Armageddon @YaleBooks.bsky.social | FRHistS
War Crimes KCL @warcrimeskcl.bsky.social Research Group in the Department of War Studies, King's College London. A hub for researchers and practitioners working on war crimes issues.
brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social Not Laconic
Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social National & financial security. Former UK civil servant and financial intelligence professional. Senior Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social CFS. Loves ideas, cult fiction, anomalous stuff, landscapes and sanity.
Views own.
Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
William Sheehan @willsheehan.bsky.social Historian of Empire, War, and Crime. Passing interest in public policy and politics. A few books! May possibly like Sci-Fi.
Lauren Brown @laurencochrane.bsky.social π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ
(Formerly Lauren Cochrane)
PhDing at University of Exeter.
Teaching Associate.
Studying imagery & colonial violence during the Kenya Emergency.
laurencochrane.co.uk
Dr CiarΓ‘n 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/
Lia Brazil @liabrazil.bsky.social Leverhulme Fellow, Uni of Manchester, on sexual violence and humanitarian actors. Interested in histories of international law, humanitarianism and imperialism.
Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social Cold War Historian | Research Associate at the University of Oxford | views and cat pictures my own
James Le Sueur @jameslesueur.bsky.social π₯ Historian. Filmmaker. Professor.
@ https://www.foxhollowfilms.com
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10234302
Award-winning βThe Art of Dissentβ Streaming Everywhere.
https://www.theartofdissentfilm.com
SeΓ‘n William Gannon @swgannon.bsky.social Irish Historian.
Twentieth-Century Ireland: Ireland and Empire: Irish Revolution: Royal Irish Constabulary: Irish Jewish History.
https://independent.academia.edu/Se%C3%A1nWilliamGannon
https://irishhistorians.ie/members/seanwgannon/
Noam Maggor @maggor.bsky.social Historian of capitalism
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as high⦠#bydhttmwfi
Britainβs War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britainβs war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance- P Pamela Scully @pamelascully.bsky.social Historian of gender/biography/transnational history. And of sexual violence in conflict and after.
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
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Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe, incl. politics, ideas, (im)migration, empire. Editor, Contemporary European History. "Age of Hobsbawm" out 18 Aug: https://tinyurl.com/mwvt75fs
Noémie Villacèque @noemievillaceque.bsky.social Histoire grecque, luxe dans le monde grec, inégalités économiques et sociales dans la démocratie athénienne.
MCF Γ l'UniversitΓ© de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social Historian of race and class; Author: The March on Washington & The Tribe of Black Ulysses; Professor, University of Minnesota; President, @umn-tc-aaup.bsky.social; Editor, "Up For Debate" @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social
ORCHID: 0000-0001-9295-866X
Andre Keil @andrekeil.bsky.social #Historian, #football enthusiast and participating observer. Lecturer in Modern European History. Opinions here strictly my own!
Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social PhD, Historian at Linnaeus University and University of Helsinki. Global, settler colonialism, American West, Nordic colonialism, German colonialism, borderlands
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at The Open University. Art Historian interested in 19thC to 20thC British art and visual culture, disease, climate, empire, and air pollution, as well as museum studies and the legacies of empire in collections.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
VidyaKumar π΅οΈπͺππ«βοΈπ΅πΈ @vidyakumar.bsky.social Critic, Lawyer, Senior Lecturer in Law, DPhil (Oxon) @SOASLaw School, London UK, βπΎ 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)
Oksana Dudko @oksanadudko.bsky.social historian and theatre curator | violence, body, the first world war, and the 1917 revolutions | Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union | also write about contemporary Ukrainian theatre | in theatre when not in the archives
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer at Shakespeareβs Globe. βYes I am the metals personβ βοΈ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making βοΈ
Dr Stephen Curtis @earlymodernhorror.bsky.social Part time lecturer, full time anxious wreck. Writing a/the book on Early Modern Horror. Also research videogames and contemporary Horror. Reviewer for TheSixthAxis.com
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
sundeep @historysunny.bsky.social Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).