Dr Emily Ireland @dremilyireland.bsky.social Making legal history relevant since ‘92 (and by that I mean 1692)
Senior Lecturer in Law @ University of Liverpool | Co-director of Selden’s Sister | Runner | Singer |
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Law and Humanities @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law. Editor: David Gurnham (Soton); Book reviews: Matteo Nicolini (Verona); Arts: Elena Cooper (CREATe).
Dr Elena Cooper @drelenacooper.bsky.social Arts Editor, Law & Humanities (UK academic journal published by Taylor & Francis). Senior Lecturer, CREATe, University of Glasgow, UK. Author of 'Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image' (CUP, 2018).
Jennifer Davey @jhdavey.bsky.social Historian and Director of The History of Parliament (@histparl.bsky.social). On substack https://historyofparliament.substack.com/. Views are my own.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Jaina Hunt @jainahunt.bsky.social PhD candidate, researching single women and beauty in Tudor England 
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
Dr Will Butler @wbutlerhistory.bsky.social Head of Modern Collections @UkNatArchives writing on amateur military tradition and Irish recruiting in #WW1
Felix Granadia @felixgranadia.bsky.social History & Digital Humanities @univie.ac.at | History of trade, labour, and migration in the Atlantic World
Andrew Janes @cartivist.bsky.social archives | maps | stammering | cake | he/him
Sadie Mansfield @sadiemansfield.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History at the University of Birmingham researching Indigenous diplomacy in c18th North America
History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
You can find us at other places, here: https://linktr.ee/historyofparliament
ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.
Tilly Blyth @tillyblyth.bsky.social Executive Director, Collections and Curatorial at Imperial War Museums, Trustee @bletchleypark and Blue Plaques Panel for @englishheritage previously Director of Weald and Downland Living Museum, and ex @sciencemuseum
Dr Ian Friel @drianfriel.bsky.social Independent historian, FSA and FRHistS, specialising in maritime, local and house history, based in UK. Author of five books on maritime history, multiple research papers and house histories. www.ianfriel.co.uk Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 1200–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society @ecisociety.bsky.social The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society serves to promote original, multidisciplinary research into Ireland in the long eighteenth century. Founded in 1985, it has members across Ireland and internationally. ECIS is open to all.
https://www.ecis.ie/
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
Sign-up for our newsletters: https://www.lrb.co.uk/account/newsletter-signup
dr. e. katherine @actualkatherine.bsky.social tired goth historian, tour guide, folk artist, baseball fan, on Conestoga-Susquehannock land (ask me about it!).
Tours, contact info, resources, art @ https://emmakatherinebilski.place/link-tree/
[any pronouns. non-Native. still queer.]
Adam B. Forsyth @adambforsyth.bsky.social PhD student at Cambridge / rotulet reader. I study the legal, political, ecclesiastical, & intellectual history of England in the 16th & 17th centuries, & history of the book! Views strictly my own.
独立之精神，自由之思想
www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/adam-b-forsyth
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Dr Lisa Berry-Waite @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social Historian of women & politics, Modern Parliament Records Specialist at The National Archives, and Blog Editor for the Women’s History Network. Views my own
lisaberrywaite.com
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Matthew Blake @matthew-blake.bsky.social This week: Commonplace book of James Whitehall, Poaching, Orkney, Churchwardens, Early Medieval stuff, Cider, Mercia, Orchards, little people
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social Research fellow, policy analyst, grant writer, & editor from Tsilhqot’in Nen, working in Cataraqui (Kingston, Ontario); PhD in Indigenous & global history from Queen’s University; Italo-Canadian, Irish (il/he/him)
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
William M. Cavert @williamcavert.bsky.social Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
Terror Camp @terrorcamp.bsky.social Polar Exploration Lectures & Learning • February 6th & 7th, 2027 • Contact: command@terror.camp
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social Researcher and environmental historian
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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Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social Historian of class and capital in the American Revolution. *Empire Ablaze* out in summer 2026 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3442-empire-ablaze. Previously, *Gentlemen Revolutionaries* (Princeton, 2017).
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social Postdoc on ERC 'Europe in the World: A Literary History 1529-1683' at QMUL (2024-27) - skin and the senses in early modern drama - women's writing - material culture - history of the book
Charmian Mansell @charmianmansell.bsky.social Historian of work, gender, mobility and court records, 1500-1700.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History | University of Warwick
Jean-Marc Hill @jeanmarchill.bsky.social Dr Jean-Marc Hill 👨🏻🎓 Oceanic & Maritime Historian ⛵️ The Noise of Piracy, under contract with Boydell & Brewer 🏴☠️
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 🧑💻
Stromness Museum @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social Orkney's museum of Natural and Maritime History, founded in 1837. "A treasure trove of objects from across the centuries..."
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Leventhal Map & Education Center @bplmaps.bsky.social We use maps, geography, and history to understand the connection between people and places in Boston, New England, and beyond.
linktr.ee/bplmaps
Dylan Neill Andres @dylanneill.bsky.social Early modernist researching violence, masculinity and identity in seventeenth-century Britain 🗡️
History PhD | University of Bristol & University of Exeter | SWWDTP-funded 🎓
he/him
HAPI @hapi-conference.bsky.social https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tension-fragmentation-conference-university-of-bristol-17-19-august-tickets-1987831431322?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true
Tim Soens @tsoens.bsky.social Environmental History UAntwerp Belgium. Looks at Climate Extremes in the past. Inequality matters.
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
Joe Cozens @joecozens.bsky.social Historian of protest, smuggling, and the British state, 1700-1850.
Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social Classics & Ancient History at Exeter (at risk of redundancy), Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats, bats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Dr Gul Sen @guel-sen.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. early modern & maritime history & unfree labor & Ottoman history & German local history & connected history || hiking 🌄
Gabriëlle La Croix @lacroixgabrielle.bsky.social Historian / PhD fellow at IN THE SAME SEA, University of Copenhagen / Family & Inter-island connections / Dutch & Danish in the 18th c. Caribbean
Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
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
Annaliese Money @amm-maritime.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher at the University of Exeter. Passionate researcher on the study of women in maritime communities of early modern Devon. Funded by the ESRC 2024-29
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social Historian of France and the Early Modern World, Indian Ocean Colonialism, Notaries, and Urban Social History in Texas.
Often professional, sometimes a silly goose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dr Jacob H. Deacon ⚔️ @deaconjh.bsky.social PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Leeds. Academic Errant. Researching martial culture in late medieval and early modern England. He/him
Teoni M Passereau @teonipassereau.bsky.social Early modern Franco-English diplomatic relations historian 📚 current SWWDTP funded PhD candidate at University of Bristol and the University of Exeter 🎓 Charles II & Louis XIV ⚜️ Research assistant on The Singh Princesses summer '24
Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Professional Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Working on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland too
Helen Parish @helenlparish.bsky.social Worcester College Oxford / Uni Reading History Professor. Research & teaching European Reformations, history of belief, celibacy, superstition, witchcraft & magic, animals, religion and the natural world.
@WorcCollegeOx @UniRdg_History
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World at the University of Exeter 📜🗡️ 1-3 September 2026
Email us your abstracts and any questions to earlymodernwar@gmail.com⚓
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social Historian of law, society, and politics in medieval and Tudor England at The Ohio State University | Alumna of the universities of York and Cambridge | Research and publications -> https://history.osu.edu/people/flannigan.15
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
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Robert Fleming @flemingrob.bsky.social FRGS AMA | Principal Maps Research Specialist @ The National Archives. Historian of armies, empire, espionage, cartography & cricket.
London & lutruwita/Tasmania | Born on the traditional lands of the Palawa/Pakana people.
Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social Historian of prisoners across the British maritime world, and boaty things.
Lecturer in Public History @keeleuniversity.bsky.social. Formerly Leverhulme Trust ECF at Liverpool.
PhD on Prison Hulks- contact via website: http://www.anna-mckay.com/
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
Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki @nikzam.bsky.social eco🍀and posthuman 🤖
be, live and act like a volcano 🌋
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#environmentalhum #posthum #comparative literature #digitalhum
Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain & its North Sea neighbours | Historical linguist turned writer & editor
Writing: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.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#
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
@sarah-abbott.bsky.social @sarah-abbott.bsky.social Librarian at The National Archives (UK) | E-Resources | Rare Books | Views my own.
Lisa Cowan @cowan-lisacowan.bsky.social Legal historian @UofELawSchool; attorney; Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, Roman law.
Melissa Glass @melissa-glass.bsky.social PhD candidate studying early modern English history at the University of Calgary. Working on the intersection of property law and social status in the 17th century.
melissaglasshistory.com
Evan Wilson @evanwilson.bsky.social Naval historian. Professor at US Naval War College. Views own. Latest book with Paul Kennedy: Planning for War at Sea: 400 Years of Great Power Competition.
Dr. Rebecca Simon FRHistS @piratebeckalex.bsky.social Historian: pirates/public executions 🏴☠️☠️
Author: Pirates’ Code, Pirate Queens, Why We Love Pirates 📚
Written for History Today, BBC History Extra, Routledge
See me on: History Channel, NatGeo, Discovery, BBC
https://rebecca-simon.com
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/
https://histecon.fr/en/
Liz Harper @archivistliz.bsky.social Archives Sector Development Manager (NE & Yorkshire | Religion & Belief) @uknatarcsector.bsky.social | Formerly @royalalberthall.bsky.social
David Morris @davidjohnmorris.bsky.social Head of Regions and Networks at The National Archives. Lover of Vimto and Tunnocks! All views are my own.
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.virtualtreasury.ie
An All-Island & International Legacy from Decade of Centenaries
Core partners: National Archives Ireland, The National Archives UK, Public Record Office Northern Ireland, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Library Trinity College Dublin
Erik Geleijns @erikgeleijns.bsky.social Curator of material collections @kb.nl. Was cataloguer @allardpierson.bsky.social and Curator of Early Collections @huisvanhetboek.bsky.social. Double espresso. Archives. Long distance walking. Proud keeper of the STCN cheese slicer.
Alistair Brown @alistairbrown.bsky.social Head of Museums, Libraries and Archives Policy at the National Lottery Heritage Fund
David Underdown @davidunderdown.bsky.social Data Engineer at The National Archives. Digital Preservation/Digital Archiving. Also cycling, bellringing, photography, choral singing, promming and much more
Elizabeth E @elizabethe.bsky.social Doing digital preservation at a national archive 💿💾 I have mostly run out of things to say on the internet