Dr Lachlan Clohesy @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social ACT Division Secretary of the National Tertiary Education Union (@NTEUACT). Father, husband, teammate, comrade. Retweets are not endorsements. He/him.
Marija Taflaga @marijataflaga.bsky.social Political Scientist at The Australian National University.
Political Tragic, co-host of the Democracy Sausage podcast
Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social Staff campaigning against cuts and poor governance at the Australian National University.
IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
NTEU ACT @nteuact.bsky.social National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) in the ACT. The union for all higher education staff.
Authorised by Dr Lachlan Clohesy, NTEU ACT Division, Acton.
Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com Demographer | Demography, populations, social trends, surveys, data, methods, census. Educator, researcher. | Author ‘The Future of Us’.
The original Dr Demography!
@DrDemography on X and Insta
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Sarah Fisichella @rococo-reinette.bsky.social Aspiring decorative arts historian fond of material culture and monarchical histories. Hoping to soon move to the UK permanently! Also love British country houses and natural history. 👑🦔🌪️🌷🐇
Prof Sharon Crozier-De Rosa @scrozierderosa.bsky.social UOW Historian | Bks on Shame, Anti-Feminism & Empire, Remembering Women's Activism, & Emotions Sources | Irish Migrant | Dep Editor Women’s History Review | Views my own
Writers Victoria @writersvictoria.bsky.social Writers Victoria supports & connects writers at all stages.
https://linktr.ee/writersvictoria
Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections.
My main project at the moment is the #GLAMWorkbench, which […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://hcommons.social/@wragge, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social Professional historian, consulting archivist, museum researcher, occasional academic, reader, film fan, musician, occasional DJ, one-time photographer, dad, queer, goth, Naarm resident, and maker of lists. https://mikejonesonline.com
Vannessa Hearman @vhearman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Writes on Indonesia, East Timor, Cold War, decolonisation and related topics.
Emily O’Gorman @emilyogorman.bsky.social Environmental historian | Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Associate Professor | Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University
@anncurthoys.bsky.social @anncurthoys.bsky.social 
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
Scott McKinnon @sjmckinnon.bsky.social Historian and Librarian. Author of Gay Men at The Movies (Intellect, 2016) and Co-author of Australian Queer Screens (Bloomsbury, 2026) 🏳️🌈
Richard Scully @drrscully.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe (c.1789-2020s) and especially cartoons, caricature, and comic art. Dad (x3). Partner. BA (Hons), PhD (Monash), FRHistS.
Professor Megan Davis AC @profmdavis.bsky.social Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies, Harvard University and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School. Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law, UNSW Sydney.
Megan Cassidy-Welch @megancw.bsky.social Medievalist, historian, writer. Working on ideas of home and homelessness in premodern societies.
Dean of Research Strategy, University of Divinity
President of the Religious History Association
FAHA, FRHistS
Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social Director, International and Security Affairs at @australiainstitute.org.au. All things Australian foreign policy and US history & politics.
Alexia Moncrieff @historynerdess.bsky.social Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
Joshua Black @joshuablackjb.bsky.social Views are my own
Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. Recently joined Green Party.
Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c France—incarceration, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia) 📕Dangers of Youth www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php
Professional editor www.brionyneilson.com
Sydney, Australia
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social jewishness, diasporism, history, memory, solidarity, justice. she/her. Author of 'Cruel Care' (2023) and 'Anxious Histories' (2015).
Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
Thomas Lalevée @thomaslalevee.bsky.social Researcher at ANU, based in Melbourne. Working on a book on early French social science. Gustave Gimon Fellow in Political Economy at Stanford (2024-25)
https://anu-au.academia.edu/ThomasLalevee
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social Historians wanna talk like they got something to say | NZ and Australian history, politics, trains, music, sport, higher ed | he/him | "Australian-adjacent person": Melburnian Kiwi in Perth
Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
Megan Threlkeld @meganthrelkeld.bsky.social Historian of 20thC US; women/gender/law/US & world. Writing a book on legal battles over the draft during Vietnam. She/her; views my own. Books are my happy place.
Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social Oral historian researching war (Vietnam War & War on Terror), trauma, memory, gender, security. Postdoc fellow at Deakin. She/her. miamartinhobbs.com
Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social Currently: Exhausted by long COVID. Usually: Histories of migration, citizenship, family and the law. Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Senior Lecturer in Humanities at UTAS.
Always: Missing south China and wishing my Cantonese was better.
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.
Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Thomas Kehoe @thomasjkehoe.bsky.social Historian of public health specialising in cancer, tobacco, skin, and screening. PhD (History), MPH, Head of Heritage at Cancer Council Victoria. Fellow at the University of Melbourne History. Bereaved parent of permanently 2 year old daughter 
Anisa Puri @anisapuri.bsky.social Historian, Author, Research Manager. Oral history, public history, Australian history, migration history, digital history.
she/her
anisapuri.com
Kath Kenny @kathkenny.bsky.social Words reviews research. Author Staging a Revolution (2022) History Publication Award VCHA2023
Rep’d by @thebooksdesk.bsky.social
http://kathkenny.com/about
Gadigal land (Sydney)
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
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social Professor of Global Political History
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱
Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏
Photography | Visual Culture
War | Gender | Environment
www.susieprotschky.com
https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
Archie Thomas @archiethomas.bsky.social Chancellor’s Research Fellow UTS. researching race & Indigenous self-determination, education, queerness, inclusion/exclusion. historically inclined. also into hiking, pop culture & large bodies of water
queer/gay trans man, he/him 🩵 non-Indigenous
Dr Jatinder Mann 🏳️🌈 @drjatindermann.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at @uniofreading.bsky.social
https://reading.academia.edu/JatinderMann
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-8324
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Noah Riseman @noahriseman.bsky.social Australian-American historian who specialises in LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous histories. Author. Amateur ice hockey player. Hablo español. Views expressed are my own.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/nriseman/publications
Nick Ferns @nickferns.bsky.social DECRA fellow in history at Monash University. Working on histories of development and decolonisation in Australia and the Pacific.
Monique Rooney @moniquerooney.bsky.social teaching US literature, television and new media at the Australian National University. Writing contemporary ‘brow’ aesthetics and a biography of Ruth Park. https://anu-au.academia.edu/moniquerooney and https://substack.com/@moniquerooney
Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social Archives The Women's Library Hall-Carpenter Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social
Dr Eileen Luscombe @dreileenluscombe.bsky.social Hello Butterflies 🦋
Historian Biographer Researcher
Suffragette Snippetts
Feminist Histories
Adjunct Research Fellow Federation University
History and Legacy of the Suffragette Fellowship: Calling all Women!
Routledge
Nathan Hobby @nathanhobby.bsky.social Biographer, scholar & special collections librarian in Perth, Australia. Author of THE RED WITCH, 2023 WA Premier's Prize Book of the Year. Working on a biography of John Curtin. https://nathanhobby.com
Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social Australian biographer, writer, reader, gardener, muse, dirty lefty and terrible cook.
Working on Louisa Lawson biography.
SPIRIT OF THE CROCODILE (A&U, 2025), SO FAR, SO GOOD (Pantera 2022), ELIZABETH MACARTHUR (Text 2018).
www.MichelleScottTucker.com
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
Dr Meg Foster @mfoster-history.bsky.social Historian of Banditry, Settler Colonial and Public History | Chancellor's Research Fellow @UTS | Former JRF @camhistory.bsky.social | She/ her | FRHistS
Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social Emotional historian
Ruth Morgan @ruthamorgan.bsky.social #envhist | #envhum | #climhist | opinions my own | Raised on Noongar country 🏳️🌈 living & working on unceded Ngunnawal & Ngambri country | ANU - http://bit.ly/3ITky85
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
Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd.
Current projects: history of the marriage bar; women's work in Mass Observation archives
She/her
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/
Research/writing services:
https://helenglew.com
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social Award-winning academic. Lecturer in AusPol. Research examines the gendered media coverage of women in politics. Also loves craft. #feminist #disabilityactivist #unionist #craftivist TEDx speaker 🏳️🌈
Canberra
Michael McDonnell @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Historian. Gadigal country aka University of Sydney. Powerful Stories, purposeful history. Website michaelamcdonnell.org
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
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
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). he/him. Writing and researching to answer the timeless question: how do cooperatives and capitalism and trans theory and queer kinship fit together?
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 Historian, feminist, academic (UCD) - #EYA Ambassador 2024-25 / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
Einav Rabinovitch-Fox @einavrfox.bsky.social Historian. Editor. Writer. Looking at connections between culture and politics. Especially fashion. Author of Dressed for Freedom. Principal Editor of Dress. www.einavrabinovitchfox.com
Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social Lecturer in English: C19 US & Oz Lit, racial transformation, white supremacy, the speculative.
Melbourne. she/her
‘Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction’ out in pbk now!
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-liminal-whiteness-in-early-us-fiction.html
Shirleene Robinson @shirleene.bsky.social Historian, Author & Curator. Bridging academia & the GLAM sector. Oral history Always. Former @AMEquality Board Director & Co-Convenor, NSW. President Pride History Group NSW. Gadigal land. Opinions mine. She/her
Jarrod Hore @jarrodhore.bsky.social Settler historian on Dharug land. Gondwana/Land, geologies, photographs, colonialism. Co-Director & Postdoc Fellow in the New Earth Histories Research Program, UNSW | IG @jarrodhore
Nicole Townsend @townsend-nic.bsky.social Historian
Lecturer in War Studies, UNSW Canberra
Director, Second World War Research Group, Asia-Pacific
2026 David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellow, State Library of New South Wales
All views my own
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Matt Fitzpatrick @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social Aust aviation & captivity historian. 6th book Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III (alexanderfaxbooks.com.au or Amazon) winner 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards. Reading, cats & cake. #IAmWriting (at last!)
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Christopher Hilliard @chrhilli.bsky.social Challis Professor of History
@sydney_uni. Co-editor @TCBHjournal. Council @HumanitiesAU. Writes about history of censorship, popular intellectual life, racism.
Lauren Samuelsson @clemloz.bsky.social PhD in History.
Come for the food history... stay for the gifs.
Allison Lange @allisonklange.bsky.social Historian of gender, visual culture, and politics
Imogen Wegman @imoweg.bsky.social Tea drinker. Cartophile. Lecturer in History at University of Tasmania. Currently writing a book about colonial land granting in Van Diemen's Land (lutruwita Tasmania) & crawling around archival rabbit holes. plotsandacres.wordpress.com
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social Philadelphia feminist writer • FEMMEPHILIA • ENEMY FEMINISMS: TERFS, POLICEWOMEN & GIRLBOSSES AGAINST LIBERATION • patreon.com/reproutopia • Full Surrogacy Now • Abolish the Family • essays @ LRB, Harper's etc • octopus essay @ n+1 • "recovering academic"
Micaela Pattison @micaelapattison.bsky.social Historiadora. Feminista. Antifascista.
she/ her/ ella
Lecturer in Modern European History. Currently based in Kaurna Country. Researcher of 20th century Spain — gender, sexuality, medicine, mass culture, radical politics, youth and childhood. 
Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social Historian and Wu Tang affiliate, among other things | Usual disclaimers | My pronouns are ze/zir or they/them- A Alison Booth @alisonbooth.bsky.social Collective Biographies of Women: database project on how women's biographies were shaped in modern times. English professor since the dawn of time. Faculty Director, DH Center, UVA Library. Love @scholarslab@bsky.social and @iath@bsky.social
Megan Graham @meggraham9.bsky.social Histories of race, resistance and health activism in 20thC Australia • History PhD at the University of Leeds • prev. Visiting Researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine (US) & NCB at ANU (Aus)
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Kama Maclean @kamamaclean.bsky.social Historian of social and political communication in South Asia, currently working on a multisensory history of interwar anticolonial movements, with an emphasis on sound. South Asia Institute, Universität Heidelberg. She/Her.
Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in heritage studies; researcher of diaspora history, memory studies, oral history with migrant background communities, multiculturalism/s, public history, social history, labour history @ the ANU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-2419
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com