Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Cécile Fromont @cecilefromont.bsky.social Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Monisha Rajesh @monisharajesh.bsky.social Author of Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train, Around the World in 80 Trains and Around India in 80 Trains
Chimene Suleyman @chimenesuleyman.bsky.social Writer. The Chain (W&N 2024). One of the Good Immigrants. Quotes Fleetwood. Something about Tracey Emin saying I have big tits etc etc.
Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
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James Cox @ciaojames.sdg4.net Now: Founder of Public Goods, building SDG4.net & the Society for Hopeful Technologists.
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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
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Holly Masturzo @hollym.bsky.social Professor of Humanities (Florida State College system) | Humanities, Ethics, Women’s Studies | 💜s: art, dance, writing, walking, calcio/fútbol -- @drz0 elsewhere
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social Studying, researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian. Overly helpful
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Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social Professor of French Studies, working on the culture of French Revolution and Napoleonic period. Committed to supporting the learning of languages in schools & universities and to public engagement.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Material Culture Studios @mcshistory.bsky.social Indie dev. studio specializing historically accurate RTS city builders, artifact/site digitization and reconstruction, historic consultation/research, and educational materials. Blending digital and physical media to put in history into the hands of all.
A Material World @amaterialworld.bsky.social A series of free #materialculture events at @warburginstitute.bsky.social | Theme for 2024-25: Work v. Play | Posts by convenor @louisamckenzie.bsky.social
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/material-world
A Guide To Regency Dress @austendress.bsky.social A glossary of fashions inc. men, women, hair, beauty, jewellery, textiles and trimmings.
Books-
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion, 2019
Jane Austen's Wardrobe, 2023
By Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social, published by @YaleBooks London
Leonie Hannan @leoniehannan.bsky.social Teaches History/Public History at Queen's University Belfast. 18thC, gender and material culture.
Author of open access: A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the eighteenth-century home https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526153050/9781526153050.xml
Hannah Greig @hannahgreig.bsky.social Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London.
Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
Alexis Wolf @dralexiswolf.bsky.social Reading, writing, researching, editing.
She/her.
Pacific NW person living in Sussex.
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Veronica Isaac @vtisaac.bsky.social Material Culture Historian | Past Curator | Specialist in 19thC theatre costume & dress | Writing a biography of actress Ellen Terry | @concoshistories
Lucie Whitmore @luciewhitmore.bsky.social Fashion Curator Museum of London | Fashion City exhibition and book coming October 2023 | PhD on WW1 fashion 2018 | She/Her | Views my own
The Met: Costume Institute @metcostume.bsky.social Public domain works from The Met's Costume Institute dept.
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Catherine Richardson @profcatheriner.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social Dress & textile curator. Occasional quilter & appallingly bad knitter. She/her. Views my own.
Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Raphaëlle Goyeau @biblioraphic.bsky.social Assistant Librarian in Cambridge, AHRC-funded PhD student at UEA and the British Library, book hoarder at home
Paris Spies-Gans @pspiesgans.bsky.social Writer, historian, & art historian, #womenartists, A Revolution on Canvas (YUP), writing A New Story of Art (Doubleday)
parisaspiesgans.com
Patricia Goldsworthy @pgoldsworthy.bsky.social Historian of visual culture, North Africa, and French imperialism
My book, Colonial Negatives: Picturing History & Identity in Morocco, is available now! https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501785320/colonial-negatives/#bookTabs=1
Dr. Carrie Glenn @cglenn.bsky.social Historian of the Haitian Revolution, early United States, Atlantic World, & women. Social media editor at Age of Revolutions.
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Melissa K Byrnes @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social Historian @SouthwesternU. France, empire, migration, race, rights, activism. Author of Making Space (UNP). Mama. She/her.
Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net
Jennifer Heuer @jenniferheuer.bsky.social Historian, especially of France, gender, revolution, colonialism, and much else. Co-editor of French Historical Studies (send good articles our way!)
Low-key hiker and biker, mystery novel reader, traveler. 
Christine Adams @profchrisadams.bsky.social Historian of early modern and eighteenth-century France who sees historical parallels everywhere. Interested in fashion, gender, politics, food. And cat photos.
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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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
HaitiJustice @haitijustice.bsky.social Father, husband, human rights lawyer, anti-racist, feminist, democracy fan, gardener. Not capitulating. ED of Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti www.ijdh.org @ijdh.bsky.social . Posting about human rights, anti-imperialism and Haiti
Sue Peabody @profpeabs.bsky.social historian, mom, wyf, nerd, admirer of finely wrought crafts, collage artist, and cheerleader of students and friends
The Haitian Times 🇭🇹 @thehaitiantimes.bsky.social Culture | Connection | Community
Haitiantimes.com
Matt Robertshaw @mattjrobertshaw.bsky.social > Historian of Haiti and the second French colonial empire
> Newspaper republisher @ Black Republic of Letters
> Video essayist @ Sleeper Hit History
> Guitar player @ The Relative Minors
> Elbows-up Canadian
> JJ & Wes's dad
Dr. Steph Chancy @chancyms.bsky.social I’m a Historian and Art Historian. Research focus: the Atlantic world (Haiti, the U.S. and Europe). After years of teaching I’m now a librarian. I ❤️ good books, good movies, good conversation, and good food.
Dr. Erica Johnson @drericajohnson.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History at Francis Marion University, Editor for @AgeofRevs, Codirector of AAAS, USS faculty coordinator, LACS-SHA treasurer, she/her
British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
University of Lancashire @unilancashire.bsky.social We have proudly changed our name to the University of Lancashire🌹
We are an international, multi-campus University tracing our roots back to 1828
Account monitored: Mon-Fri, 9am-5pm
lancashire.ac.uk
Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social Historian of the American Revolution | Bostonian |🎙️ Ben Franklin’s World | 🐾 Mother of schnauzers | I help adults see how early America shapes today.
https://linktr.ee/lizcovart
Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social The Digital Library of the Caribbean is a cooperative digital library and network for resources from & about the Caribbean & circum-Caribbean. | Est. 2004 | http://dloc.com | Subscribe to receive our email updates: https://go.fiu.edu/DLOCPUBLIC
Haitian Bridge 1804 @haitianbridge1804.bsky.social Haitian American creating a dedicated space to highlight Haiti's culture, heritage and history.
Haitian Genealogy | AGH @haitiangenealogy.bsky.social Created to help Haitians, Haitians in the diaspora and individuals of Haitian descent around the world connect with their family history.
https://linktr.ee/haitiangenealogy
VintageHaiti @vintagehaiti.bsky.social Discover vintage photos and videos of Haitian culture and history. HAITI 🇭🇹
Haitian History @haitianhistory.bsky.social Exploring the history of Haiti, year by year, from 1492 to the present.
#Haiti #HaitianHistory
Taylor Borowetz @taylorborowetz.bsky.social Editor of Millennium vol 54, PhD-ing @ SOAS. Theorist, writing a history of the concept of liberation from the Haitian Revolution to contemporary abolitionist thought.
Myriam Mompoint, Ph. D. @mmompointphd.bsky.social Humanities; African diaspora; Haitian Studies; Francophonie; pan-Caribbean; Brazil; fashion & textile arts; media/film, culture & memory
Televising Transnational Trauma (LUP 2025)
https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836242666
Haitian Studies Association @haitianstudies.bsky.social The Haitian Studies Association supports scholarship on Haiti and provides a forum for the exchange and dissemination of ideas and knowledge in order to inform pedagogy, practice, and policy about Haiti in an international community.
Kate Ramsey @ramseykate.bsky.social Historian and anthropologist. Haitian studies, Caribbean studies, African diaspora religious studies. Writes on law, medicine, museums, material culture, performance. Miami gardener. 
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 
Lisa Schiff @lschiff.bsky.social Co-founder, #DefendResearch (https://defendresearch.org); librarian (ret). Some things I care about: social justice; defending libraries, education, & research; information equity. All posts/thoughts my own. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-2981
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Society for the History of Women in the Americas @shaw-society.bsky.social The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) is a diverse scholarly association dedicated to the historical investigation related to the history of women and gender non-conforming individuals in the Americas.
Hadassah St. Hubert @hsaint.bsky.social Historian of Haiti and the World’s Fairs | Digital Humanist | Fundraiser | Supporter of Arts, Culture & Humanities
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
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Ellen Hampton @ellenhampton.bsky.social Historian and author, France, WWII, 2èDB and moving into medieval.
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New Voices in Postcolonial Literature Network @nvpoco.bsky.social New Voices is a PGR-led network co-directed by Soph Harris-Nijmeijer and Juni Kvarving. Watch this space for news about our upcoming events and publications. Feel free to get in touch if you want to get involved!
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social 🖤 Ghetto Carrie Bradshaw 💅🏽 | PoliSci BA
📚 Politics, power, accountability & stories erased on purpose
👇 Follow to learn what the textbooks left out
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Histories of racialised communities in Britain @historyracebritain.bsky.social Showcasing new historical research on racialised communities in Britain by emerging scholars from racially minoritised backgrounds. Send work for us to share via dm!
Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Research in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at UEA. Co-editor “‘The People‘ and British Literature” (CUP) out now. Writing “The Collective Voice” for Stanford UP. Literature & Politics.
Daniel Francis MP @danfrancis02.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Bexleyheath & Crayford🌹
For casework email daniel.francis.mp@parliament.uk
https://linktr.ee/danielfrancismp
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
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badly drawn bee 🐝 @soapachu.bsky.social Swish swish motherfucker.
AuDHD | alphabet mafia 🏳️🌈 | rugby player 🏉 | scuba diver 🤿 | cis | she/her until something better comes along.
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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social English professor in Miami. British-American. London > Bishop's Stortford > Brighton > Brooklyn > Miami. Subtropical gardener. Florida Mangos: A Cultural History, forthcoming from U of Florida Press. Posts are my own and do not represent my employer.
Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social Professor of Digital Humanities,
School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.
Darcie Fontaine @dfontaine.bsky.social Historian of France and Algeria, editor, translator at Les plumes rouges. Author of “Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria” and “Modern France and the World.”
www.lesplumesrouges.com
www.darciefontaine.com
Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social Historian of Modern France at QMUL
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
Dr Emma Pearce @emma-pearce98.bsky.social Art historian | Lecturer in Design History at Glasgow School of Art | PhD on tartan and colonial identity in the 18th c Atlantic 🌎 | currently working on: colonial masculinity + animal-material culture 🐋 | BSECS ECR rep | she/her
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize, & 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History, Smithsonian, and more.
Views own/No DMs
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
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SOAS Library @soaslibrary.bsky.social Library at the heart of SOAS University of London
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Bungatuffie "where ignorant armies clash by night" #lemmingland @bungatuffie.bsky.social Paul Gilroy, a metaphysician in the dark, twanging. Soul rebel, IC7, dilettante, tele-ologist, Londoner, utopian, Dreamer Tribe affiliate, citizen of Golgonooza.
Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com
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