Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social 'Self-hating white fool.' Sociologist or thereabouts. Not the Light: The Image in the White Racial Frame (Bloomsbury Philosophy, 2027)
Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social Medievalist & wanderer. 🏳️🌈 Travel, literature, history, cats.
📖’A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’ - ‘stunning’ (The Times)
University of Cambridge; Girton College Cambridge; London. Views mine
https://linktr.ee/realmandeville
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
Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz.bsky.social I like stuff!
LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. A small but lively modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for writing on the legacies of slavery “with extraordinary moral clarity.” The New York Times Editorial Board, 1990-2025. 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿History is the only education; everything else is just training.
Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS).
No General But Ludd, No Ipswich #10 but Chaplin
Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
Cambridge Histories of Marronage (CHoM) Workshop @cammarronage.bsky.social #HistoriesOfMarronage Workshop at @CamHistory.bsky.social, exploring all things #maroon and #marronage from @Cam.ac.uk: https://bit.ly/48TPWSu
#CHoM #Maroons #History #Cambridge
Gwion Wyn Jones @gwionwynjones.bsky.social Historian of American religion in the c19 and Leverhulme Research Fellow at Oxford University.
Author of 'Christ, Church, and Country: Home Missions and the Religious Reconstruction of the United States After the Civil War' (UVA; out December 2026)
Rachel Blaifeder @rblaifeder.bsky.social Publisher at Cambridge University Press, acquiring in political science and sociology.
Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live "als Gelehrter, der durch Schriften zum eigentlichen Publikum, nämlich der Welt, spricht."
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
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Chelsea Stieber @chelseastieber.bsky.social Author, Haiti's Paper War, NYU Press 2020
Co-Editor, Haiti for the Haitians, LUP 2023
NOLA <—> DC
Cambridge World History @camworldhistory.bsky.social #WorldHistory at @Cam.ac.uk’s @CamHistory.bsky.social. All about our diverse subject group, our renowned MPhil, and all things global 🌎🌍🌏 #CamWorldHistory
Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast @camericanist.bsky.social Welcome to the Cambridge seminar experience, where leading historians and graduate students exchange ideas about new lines of inquiry shaping the future of the field. Produced by @daisysemmler.bsky.social (img: Kent Monkman 2019)
Yasmina Martin @yasmartin.bsky.social Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, SUNY Brockport | | transnational anti-apartheid movements and decolonization |
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social Historian of American consumer culture. Hiker. Knitter. Redhead. Aunt.
Elizabeth Borgwardt @elizabethborgwardt.bsky.social Historian. New to Bluesky. THE NUREMBERG IDEA: THINKING HUMANITY IN HISTORY, LAW & POLITICS forthcoming 2027.
Human rights, legal history, U.S. diplomacy; A NEW DEAL FOR THE WORLD (HUP). Contact: borgwardtelizabeth@gmail.com
Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social Research Associate, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
Public Policy | Economics and History | Knowledge and Engagement
Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social The land it is the landlord's, the trader's is the sea, the ore the usurer's coffer fills, but what remains for me? 
Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social Executive Director / Hub City Writers Project
Publisher / @hubcitypress.bsky.social
Habs fan / Canadian in the South 🍁
www.megireid.com
Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Columbia. New Book: The Insiders' Game: How Elites Make War and Peace https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691215808/the-insiders-game
Richard Saich @richardsaich.bsky.social Fellow @lsehistory | History of Globalization, Neoliberalism, Social Movements | 🌱 🏳️🌈 he/him | http://richardsaich.com- A Ali Boyle @aliboyle.bsky.social Philosopher of science. Thinking about nonhuman minds, memory, living things. Cat person.
Drop Site @dropsitenews.com Independent news on politics and war. No paywall - subscribe for free.
dropsitenews.com
johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social Historian, curator, walker, player of antique French horns. Photography, music, South Africa. UVA Professor Emeritus.
HK @hkesvani.bsky.social Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
Sherrill Stroschein @sherrillstroschein.bsky.social Political Science and other things.
Reposts are for information and do not mean agreement.
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.
Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social Oxford, U.K. Prof of Modern Literature and Culture. Literature & Science, Modernism, Book History, Virginia Woolf, 1920s & 30s poetry. Also found on IG under the same name. All posts in a personal capacity.
Cassondra Hanna @cossandro.bsky.social historian / black studies phd student
working on histories of race, space & education
currently @ harvard aaas / formerly @ uva history
fisk alum / #hbcugrad | she/her
@adamxmcneil.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social 2025-2027 Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia. Ph.D. in Early African American Women's History from Rutgers University.
Sean Gallagher @seangallagher.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the American Revolution. Writing a book on people enslaved to the state.
Olivia Sayah @oliviasayah.bsky.social Public Programs Coordinator at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Historian. Activist. Local ghoul. Passionate about connecting history to current issues!
Grace Livingstone @graceliv.bsky.social Journalist and affiliated lecturer at Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge. US/UK policy in Latin America.
Now researching: Environmental social movements, corporations, greenwash, water. https://www.grace-livingstone.com/
Chris Meckstroth @chrismeckstroth.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of History, University of Cambridge. Writer on the history of democracy. Hailing from Normal, Illinois
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
Dana Cairns Watson @danacairnswatson.bsky.social I love to read but not sit still. I grow vegetables, support native ecosystems, swim, gaze at birds, and walk with dogs. I teach writing at UCLA to scientists, engineers, and future professional writers. I care about community and doing the right thing. 
Lily Crowther @lilcrowther.bsky.social Historian, curator, museum trustee, Yiddishe mama.
Museums, craft, design, architecture, making, teaching with objects.
Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social Almost literally the man who once knew too much 🤯 with In Our Time now adjusting to knowing less in my own time 🙂
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
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Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
@bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show
T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social American historian and biographer.
Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America"
Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Andrew Bowie @andrewbowie.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and German, Royal Holloway University of London, jazz saxophonist. Aesthetic Dimensions of Modern Philosophy Oxford UP. https://m.soundcloud.com/andy-bowie
Jennifer Schell @jenniferschell16.bsky.social English Professor, Cetacean Enthusiast, Canine Therapy Human. I write about anthropogenic species extinction, Arctic ecosystems, more-than-human organisms, and blue humanities. Ocean obsessed! Fairbanks, AK. Views my own.
Yesenia Barragan, she/they @yeseniabarragan.bsky.social historian of Latin America & African diaspora @Rutgers. Latinx surrealist. proud poor/working-class first-gen daughter of immigrants.
✍🏽 IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY (Basic Books, 2026); FREEDOM’S CAPTIVES (2021)
Paul Renfro @renfro.bsky.social History prof at a public university in Florida. Wrote STRANGER DANGER and THE LIFE AND DEATH OF RYAN WHITE. Writing a book about the Atlanta child murders for Liveright/Norton. He/him. Views my own. 🏳️🌈
Stephen Walt @stephenwalt.bsky.social Harvard professor, realist, FP columnist. Tennis enthusiast, amateur musician, proud dad, & grateful husband. Troubled by the state of the world & looking for solutions. For speaking engagements contact John Bute at john@chartwellspeakers.com
Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social Epidemiologist. AIDS Activist. Dog lover. New Haven.
Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social Professor of multiethnic US lit; au of Dedication (2011), Anti-Imperialist Modernism (2016), Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism & the Cultures of the US Jewish Left (2025). He/him. 🕎🌹😷🇵🇸Chicago 🐢
https://iusb.academia.edu/BenjaminBalthaser
Dr David Cowan @cowanda.bsky.social Political historian | long 18th century | political economy, party systems, and geopolitics
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
Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social teaching children's and YA literature at the University of Münster
london.ac.uk/seized-books | #QueerBibliography
close reading forever
helped make this: https://www.pagemasters.co/shop/seized-books-lgbtq-books-and-censorship-in-1980s-britain-a-catalogue
Samuel J. Redman @samueljredman.bsky.social Historian and author of Bone Rooms (Harvard, 2016), Prophets and Ghosts (Harvard, 2021), The Museum (NYU, 2022), and Tarnished Promises (Colorado, 2026)
Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.- J Jennifer Spear @jms17013.bsky.social
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
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.
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
Rebecca Goldsmith @beccagold.bsky.social Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
PhD on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her
Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester
http://andrew-seaton.com
Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social Historian of imprisonment, abolition, debt, and radicalism in early modern England. He/him.
Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress
Dr Eva Namusoke @enamusoke.bsky.social 
Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social • Novelist: The Great Eastern, Destiny Express
• Screenwriter: Joe Gould's Secret, Savage Grace
• VP, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
• Past President WGAW
• Professor Emeritus, USC School of Cinematic Arts
• Postpunk guitarist; home barista
JG Conley @jconley.bsky.social Law and history. Author of Environmentalism Contained: The Origins of Corporate Anti-Environmentalism, https://a.co/d/hva78CJ | past: PhD, hist. of science, Princeton; JD, U Texas School of Law; law clerk to J. KN Moore, Sixth Circuit; Susman Godfrey alum
Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social U of Toronto Associate Prof. | early modern lit-sci-phil | women writers, esp. Margaret Cavendish | editing, esp. M. Cavendish | (premodern) asexuality and aromanticism | She/her. Views my own.
Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social US cities & schools, historically.
Works: Making the Unequal Metropolis; Educating Harlem; nyccivilrightshistory.org.
Voted most likely to assign too much reading.
Also I♥️NYC and 🌱 🪴 and 🏊♀️ 🏊♀️.
Everything here is me, not my employer.
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Cory James Young @coryjamesyoung.bsky.social assistant professor of history at UIowa | personal account | northern slavery, legal history, Black America | i ♥️ WNY
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)
Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social Associate Professor of History & African American Studies, Wayne State University. Brazilian historian in the US. Interested in LLMs for research and wary of its impacts on learning and society. Opinions are my own and do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
Philippa Carter @extispex.bsky.social Assistant Prof in History of Health and Medicine before 1800 at Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Interested in brains, minds, bodies, souls, all that stuff.
James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social Professor of History. Writer of books.
Host of "History's Devils" ⬇️
https://historysdevils.buzzsprout.com/
https://youtube.com/@historysdevils
#history #spies, #extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️ 📚
Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
Join my Civil War Memory newsletter: https://kevinmlevin.substack.com
Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social Writing about law and democracy at The Atlantic, previously Lawfare. Not a lawyer. It's KWIN-ta.
Signal: qjurecic.32
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
H.D. Gregg @hdgregg.bsky.social Queer Catholic anarcho-syndicalist. Undocumented settler on Hoocąk/ Kaskaskia/Bodwéwadmi land. Registered nurse. Immigration and labor activist. Fulfilling my role in the International Communist Conspiracy™. Also like puppies. Make Israel Palestine Again.
Lydia Kiesling @lydiakiesling.bsky.social Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). www.lydiakiesling.com
Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social Writer. Reader. Traveller. Tea connoisseur.
profmarkwilson.bsky.social @profmarkwilson.bsky.social History professor; author of American War Machine: The US Military-Industrial Complex from Eisenhower to Trump (Princeton University Press, 2027), as well as Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II (2016).
Ada Ferrer @aditaferrer.bsky.social Writer of books, professor of History (once NYU, now Princeton), orphan & always daughter, winner of Pulitzer, descended from Encarnación Carabalí who crossed the Atlantic in chains, mother of daughters, here to resist urge to bury my head in the sand.
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
UKJAN @ukjan.bsky.social A group of Jewish academics, educators, & intellectuals opposing both antisemitism & its weaponisation against freedom of speech & protest.
This account is not regularly monitored.
IG @ukjan_org
X @ukjan_
ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social Feminist scholar who coined the term: know-your-place aggression. Author of LIVING WITH LYNCHING + FROM SLAVE CABINS TO THE WHITE HOUSE. Editor of IOLA LEROY + INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL. Literary & Cultural Critic. Runner.
KorithaMitchell.com
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Dr Nick Thomas @drnickthomas.bsky.social Historian. Associate Professor at The University of Nottingham. Cat servant, photographer, model builder, cyclist, hat wearer, book hoarder. Fountain pens, calligraphy, watches. Views my own.
emma short @emmashort.bsky.social thinking about hotels, modernism, and the environment. not necessarily at the same time.
assistant professor of modern & contemporary literature at durham university.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22129-4
Nienke Groskamp @nienkegroskamp.bsky.social PhD student in history & philosophy of science, studying esotericism and reproduction in 19th-century America @ Cambridge. All views are spirit-dictated.
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
Cambridge Philosophy @cambridgephilos.bsky.social News from in and around the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge.