Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social Journalist and Historian | Royal Society of Literature award-winning writer and Orwell Prize finalist 2026
Ben Worthy @benworthy.bsky.social
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
@cfmeyskens.bsky.social @cfmeyskens.bsky.social
@history-lab.bsky.social @history-lab.bsky.social
POLIS @oupolitics.bsky.social Department of Politics and International Studies at The Open University
History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social We are the UKβs national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! π https://historylab.plus/
@bkerrychina.bsky.social @bkerrychina.bsky.social
Niao Collective @niaocollective.bsky.social we r birb/ δ»θ‘ι³₯
https://niaocollective.bearblog.dev/
European Hub for Contemporary China @eh4s.eu The European Union needs to get to know and understand China on its own terms.
eh4s.eu
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Andrea Ghiselli @andreaghiselli.bsky.social Lived 10+ years in China, now University of Exeter and ChinaMed Project.
Published a book on China, its military, and its interests overseas (OUP, 2021): https://shorturl.at/S2BjTo
More at https://andreaghiselli.com/
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UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association - working together to build a collaborative vision for the #DH field.
On Mastodon: @uk_ie_dh@hcommons.social
National Security Archive @nsarchive.bsky.social An independent research institution that advocates for open government and uses FOIA to collect and publish declassified documents - https://nsarchive.gwu.edu - instagram.com/natsecarchive - tiktok.com/@natsecarchive
Campaign for Freedom of Information in Scotland @cfoiscot.bsky.social CFolS campaigns for a robust legal right to access information so people can find out how they are governed and how 'public' services operate.
Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social Uni of York/WRoCAH PhD candidate: βSeventeenth-Century Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic.β
Reading, emotion, gender and queer histories. She/Her.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Jessica @jessharada.bsky.social Writer, historian, and post-doctoral fellow of Mexico, Japan and Asia Latin America π Writing a book on transpacific histories of war, race and mestizaje π²π½π―π΅ Interested in 1930s-1940s Mexico; WWII; archives, historical methods and family histories π
Jinghan (Michael) Zeng @jinghanzeng.bsky.social Professor at City University of Hong Kong
Author - Memoirs of a Confucius Institute Director (2025), AI with Chinese Characteristics (2022), Slogan Politics (2020) & Chinese Communist Party (2015)
Profile: https://scholars.cityu.edu.hk/en/persons/jingzeng
History Today @historytoday.com π»ππ πππππ
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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
Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social Senior Researcher @ Sciences Po, Paris | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
Joe Baubles @joeborges.bsky.social MA World Heritage student, interested in magical objects, museum collections and meaning-making. Formerly British Museum Loans and Exhibitions. (he/him)
SΓΈren TorbjΓΈrn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.eurosky.social Underviser i historie og samfundsfag.
Forperson for Historielærerforeningen for stx & hf -> @historielaerer.dk
Likes and reposts doesn't equal agreement.
#skolechat #dkhist #dkΓΈko #dkpol #uddpol #histmed #30DayChartChallenge
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Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queenβs University Belfast.
Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLEβS HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social Here to help you to publish and make an impact with your research.
Martin O'Donoghue @martinodonoghue.bsky.social Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India.
Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP
Views own
ECPR Digital Authoritarianism Research Network @digitalaut-ecpr.bsky.social The Research Network is dedicated to studying digital authoritarianism and counterpart concepts like computational propaganda, PsyOps, or InfoOps, across countries and platforms.
Stephanie Wanga @stephaniewanga.bsky.social :) happy human.
african politics, african philosophy, african history, african statehood and anarchy, aesthetics, african everything.
stephaniewanga.com
Erin Shearer @erinshearer.bsky.social Historian of slavery, resistance, and gender.
Fellow-in-Residence at the Rothermere American Institute; Associate Tutor at Oxford Lifelong Learning; Associate Tutor at the University of Warwick.
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | ππ»π₯
Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the Caribbean (She/Her).
Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick & RA, Trinity Hall.
ECR Rep History UK & Conference Coordinator Society for Caribbean Studies
Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social Researcher and environmental historian
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social Welcome to the official account of the University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Visit us at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk Newsletter via tinyurl.com/crasshnews
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
Gal Beckerman @galbeckerman.bsky.social Staff writer at The Atlantic, formerly NYTBR, and author of the forthcoming βHow to Be a Dissident.β
@mengjin-xue.bsky.social @mengjin-xue.bsky.social
Aston University Archives @astonunarchives.bsky.social Archives of Aston University in Birmingham, UK closely linked with the Aston University Archives Centre and the History programmes at Aston University.
Ilaria Scaglia @ilariascaglia.bsky.social History Senior Lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Author of The Emotions of Internationalism (OUP, 2020) and co-editor of Archives and Emotions (2024).
Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions.
Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
Aminda Smith @amindarella.bsky.social Modern China historian. Co-Director, PRC History Group. Tap dancer. Idahoan.
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Bloomsbury Politics & Area Studies @bloomsburypol.bsky.social Progressive publishing on Politics & IR, Economics, Middle East, Asia, Africa, International Development, Sociology & Gender. Sign-up for news: bit.ly/3pxyHjb
Cambridge Modern British History Workshop @cammbhw.bsky.social The Cambridge Modern British History Workshop is open to postgraduate students working on any topic related to the history of Britain, Ireland, the British Empire and the Commonwealth since 1750.
Convenors: Rob Kelsey, Lis Riveros and Adam Pountney
Kristy Bryant εΎζη«₯ @kristybryant.bsky.social Fellow at Oxford China Policy Lab | Head of Research @ The British Asian Collective | US-UK-China relations, AI/tech, governance, identity politics | https://hsukristy.substack.com/
Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies @melbournechinacntr.bsky.social
The Diplomat @thediplomat.com The premier international affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific, covering politics, defense and society from China and Kazakhstan to Myanmar and Australia. thediplomat.com
Helen Davidson @heldavidson.bsky.social Foreign corro previously for the Guardian in Taiwan. Via Guardian Australia covering immigration and the Pacific and three wild years as the Northern Territory corro.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/helen-davidson
helendavidsonreports@gmail.com
Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social Dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Likes/Reposts/Shared Articles are not necessarily endorsements.
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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Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
Dr. Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on π¬π§ intelligence.
Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. β Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence π πΊπ¦ Views my own.
π https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social ECPR is an independent, scholarly association with a mission to advance political science βͺ https://ecpr.eu/ βͺ https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ecpr/ βͺ @ecprtheloop.bsky.social
Nimendra Mawalagedara @nmawalagedara.bsky.social Political Science PhD | Visiting Lecturer, Sri Lanka | State Formation and Nationalism | Precolonial Politics in the Kandyan Kingdom, Sri Lanka | She/Her
Vincent Hiribarren @bixhiribarren.bsky.social Historian of West Africa based at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social #Nigeria #DigitalHumanities www.vincenthiribarren.com
Yianni Cartledge @yiannicart.bsky.social Lecturer & History Teacher
PhD (History) graduate
Assistant Editor @jich.bsky.social
Co-Editor @NCC journal
https://yiannicartledge.wordpress.com/
Closet horticulturalist: https://yiannischilli.blogspot.com/
Katherine Arnold @arnoldke.bsky.social lecturer in environmental history @liverpooluni.bsky.social πΏ || writing about #germans, #collecting, #plants & #empire in 19th c. southern #africa π΅ || #nathist, #envhist, #collections, π¬π§-π©πͺ || she/her || views my own β¨
Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper.
https://mauracunningham.org/
Lois King (MPH) π¬π§ π¬π @loisemilyking.com #GlobalHealth Scholar β’ Edinburgh Uni alumna β’ Runs the 'NotiPHied' podcast β’ ex-PhD student β’ Rare disease advocate @thesumairafdn.bsky.social β’ Found in Nature Medicine, BMJ, Think Global Health, Black Ballad, BBC Science Focus etc.
loisemilyking.com
British Online Archives (BOA) @boapublishing.bsky.social Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
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
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
Joel Chan @kjoules.org π¨π»βπ» Data, charts & graphs, news
πι¦ζΈ― Hong Kong, also πΉπΌπ¨π¦
β’οΈ @hksushireport.bsky.social
ποΈ The Numberwang: www.kjoules.org
I have Hong Kong-related Starter Packs, Feeds, and Lists for those getting started
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick δ½ζΎζΏ€ @ryanhk.blue Executive Editor, Hong Kong Free Press | Former Managing Editor of the China Media Project | Before that: TaiwanPlus, The Washington Post, TIME, dpa
π Hong Kong
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
Richard Batten @richardbatten.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Historian, Devon, WW1; Author; Farmerβs son; Views my own, reposts not endorsements;
Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker βBest Booksβ list. Financial Times βBest Books.β
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social Historian. Exeter/ZΓΌrich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain. Co-host of Churchill: The Finest Half Hour (on Spotify, Apple, & YouTube).
J. Connell Stryker @jconnellstryker.bsky.social PhD in History, UT Austin; Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Women's Work at Sea, Histories of Maritime, Gender, Labor, Empire, Technology, and the Digital Humanities, etc
Jonas Fossli GjersΓΈ @jonasgjerso.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Facet Publishing @facetpublishing.bsky.social The publisher of choice for the information professions worldwide.
Jonathan (Jaytee) Tang @jayteetang.bsky.social Researcher, Music Therapist, Educator
Postdoctoral Scholar, UCSF. Researching the intersections of music, culture, and health & well-being
Dawn Hadley @danelawdawn.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Archaeology. President of the Medieval Settlement Research Group. Research on Vikings, gender, childhood, digital heritage- S Dr Safiya Kamaria Whitaker @safiyawhitaker.bsky.social Choreopoet. Scholar
Prosper @prosperpostdoc.bsky.social Unlocking postdoc career potential. Funded by @ukri.org
Sonya ποΈ @sonya.eurosky.social πΊ She/her
βοΈ Tejana
π Houston, TX
Professional interests: immigration, public international law, & natsec
Personal interests: pop culture, tech, & cats
museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction work about the BM's many ghosts. Currently completing a film. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Literary rep: Zoe Ross at United Agents. https://linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum
Damian M @damiandamiani.bsky.social Postdoc at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social in #ChinaComx working on politics in/of Chinese comics | researching intersections of state socialism, visual culture, and everyday life | book project: collective reading practices after 1949 | damianmandzunowski.com
Jeremy Salkeld @enclavedmicrostate.bsky.social ππ°π¬π§ Historian-in-training, wargaming hobbyist, VTuber enthusiast. DPhil student studying the transnational afterlife of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (Oxford 2026β, previously GWU 2024β6); moderator for @askhistorians.bsky.social.
Dr. Annemieke van den Dool @pubpolicychina.bsky.social I teach & research public policy, health, environment, and crisis management in China. http://annemiekevandendool.com.
@robnewall.bsky.social @robnewall.bsky.social
Dechun Zhang @dechunzhang.bsky.social Postdoc at the Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. Managing Editor @jceajournal.bsky.social, Editor of Asia Pacific Viewpoint, @gpccomm.bsky.social, Sage Open & Social Media Editor @jvpcjournal.bsky.social. Web: http://dechunzhang.com
ActiveHistory.ca @activehist.bsky.social What is Active History? ActiveHistory.ca connects the work of historians with the wider public and the importance of the past to current events. #ActiveHist
Iulia Ivana @iuliaivana.bsky.social Acquisitions Editor, Modern East Asian Studies at De Gruyter Brill
Cheng-Yu Yang @cheng-yu.bsky.social Livelihood/Future/Borderland Infrastructures/Kinmen
PhD Student funded by @bristolantharch.bsky.social
Via SOAS & UNNC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chengyu-yang-027948182/
British Association for Chinese Studies θ±ε½ζ±ε¦εδΌ @chinesestudies.bsky.social The British Association for Chinese Studies θ±ε½ζ±ε¦εδΌ θ±εζΌ’εΈεζ is a non-political organization which aims to encourage and promote Chinese studies in the United Kingdom. For more information about us, please visit https://bacsuk.org.uk/
Andrea Janku @zamarginalities.bsky.social βsinologistβ at soas.ac.uk/about/andrea-janku. me. things I care about. blurry photos now mostly on instagram.com/zamarginalities #ActuallyAutistic
PSA International Relations Specialist Group @psainter-relations.bsky.social We are the International Relations Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association
(@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/international-relations
Fei Huang @fei-huang.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF researching stay-at-home fathers and their wives in China at UCL Social Research Institute | BSA Early Career Forum Convenor | https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/107474-fei-huang
JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Part of the ITHAKA nonprofit family.
More about us: https://about.jstor.org/
Coraline Jortay ε¬ζ΅·ι @qiaoj.bsky.social History of language politics in China & Sinophone Asia -- literary feminism and translation history -- Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) (& ππ»ββοΈπ΄πΌββοΈππΌββοΈ) -- She/her
Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social Professor at Hong Kong PolyU and Lancaster University. Advisory Chair Shanghai ISU. Adjunct chair Xiβan JTU. All views are my own.
Owen Boswarva @owenboswarva.bsky.social A mix of stuff: mainly #opendata, #FOI, #dataprotection, #geospatial, #openweb, #genAI, #techpolicy. Half-formed thoughts posted for my own amusement. Still on X/Twitter at @owenboswarva. Sites www.owenboswarva.com (with blog) + www.datadaptive.com. He/him
Alan Tang @alantang1212.bsky.social HKBU BA Historyππ° (2021-2025)
LSE MSc International Relationsπ¬π§ (2025-2026)
Aimed to Work at IO πΊπ³ / Any foreign delegation in Taiwan / Hong Kong
HK / UK / US Experience ππ° π¬π§ πΊπΈ
Co-Founder of GeoShock ππ°
Chatham House Asia-Pacific Programme @chasiapacific.bsky.social We conduct policy-relevant research on key political, economic, social & security issues affecting the Asia-Pacific region.
George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social "Ever active" investigations reporter at The Times.
george.greenwood@thetimes.co.uk or DM for Signal.
My musings on transparency are at https://relightmyfoia.blog
Immigrants & Minorities @imm-min-journal.bsky.social Journal: Immigrants & Minorities. Historical Studies in Ethnicity, Migration and Diaspora.