Gunnar Roland Tjomlid @tjomlid.com Blogger, author, programmer, podcaster, YouTuber, photographer, skeptic, neuro-spicy and general nerd. Check out shop.qualia.no for my books, www.qualia.no for my photos, tjomlid.com for my blog, and civix.me for anything else.
Marit I @hattiec1.bsky.social Gi meg mer brød så kanskje jeg klarer en time til med sirkus.
Emosjonelt porøs.
Trønder
Folkets stemme
Hun/Henne
Mainly norwegian content, but I answer in english when you need me to.
She/her
@historianontherock @historianontherock.bsky.social Emanuel Buttigieg is a historian and associate professor at the University of Malta, with a keen interest in the history of the Knights of Malta (the Hospitallers).
Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social Story writer. Memory curator. #EarlyModern women's history. Lucy Hutchinson got me started.
#17thC #HistoricalFiction. Once ventured into the #15thC looking for the missing princes.
https://elizabethstjohn.substack.com/
www.elizabethjstjohn.com
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
Prof. Tess Wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages. Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Rochester (she/her)
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social Recording ship losses of the Royal Navies of Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand day by day, remembering the fallen and honouring all who served. Corrections and additions welcome. No official affiliations. No AI used here! Also at Twitter/X.
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social Historian of Renaissance Italian trees, critters, medical practitioners, and assorted other stuff. Californian in exile. Veteran. Semi-pro Curmudgeon.
Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Playwright, novelist, arts journalist, grantwriter. Archbishop of Bluesky. Schism enthusiast. Never not thinking about Star Trek. Long threads, all caps, can’t lose.
Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social Americanist Military Historian & Genocide Scholar.
Kean University History Adjunct.
Expat Twitterstorian. Skystorian.
Cancer Survivor. He/Him.
https://linktr.ee/deckofcarterhistory
The Society for the History of War @sochistorywar.bsky.social SHoW is an academic society aimed at understanding the history of war across time, spaces & cultures.
https://www.show.org.uk
Morten Øveraas @moveraas.bsky.social Førstekonservator NMF, PhD.
Romsdalsmuseet
Kristin @kthftw.bsky.social 🕳️🐇
bærer ved til bålet vi kaller Internett
diskuterer ingenting
blokkerer kjipe folk
Jérémie Foa @anakroniks.bsky.social Historien, AMU CNRS/TELEMMe, spécialiste des guerres civiles, violences de masse et petits meurtres entre amis (civil wars & mass violence/early modern Europe).
Kronisk nynorsk 🏳️⚧️ @kronisknynorsk.bsky.social Journalist med fokus på rus, helse og skeive saker. Skriv tidvis for Blikk
Tips? emilas.53 på Signal
Hen/dei
Anine Hartmann @aninehartmann.bsky.social Architect and urban planner working on mobility, road safety and street design. Walking, cycling and new mobility.🚶🏻♀️🚲🛴
Board member -> https://bsky.app/profile/pkinorge.bsky.social
Oslo, Norway - Trans 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ - She/her
linkedin.com/in/aninehartmann
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 1350–1750, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social International research group on Early Modern Religious Dissents & Radicalism. Find us at http://emodir.net! Posts by @gmhamelin.bsky.social, media manager.
Christopher Pahle @tophepahle.bsky.social Norwegian film critic, screenwriter and sci-fi author. Skribent. Quizmaster. Medioker blskeeter, alltid på egne vegne. Nørd, åpenbart.
☛ Dummedag (NRK)
☛ Kompani Lauritzen
☛ Søndagsquiz (pod)
☛ Milos univers 4: Pepperkakenes forbannelse i bokhandel NÅ!
Egon Holstad @egonholstad.bsky.social Er fra Fauske. Bor i Tromsø. Jobber for Avisa iTromsø. Ekspert (på alt).
Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social physician-historian at the Institute of History and Ethics of Medicine, Charité Berlin | history of psychiatry, health activism, HIV/AIDS, trans medicine
Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine (UCP, 2025)
https://www.ketilslagstad.com
ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société internationale d'étude du dix-huitième siècle.
http://www.isecs.org
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/
Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social Trained journalist, Editor, documentary maker and sports commentator.
Ukraine expert. Numbers nerd.
Almost famous on Xitter!
Coffee donations accepted!
https://ko-fi.com/twmcltd
Amir Cahane @amircahane.bsky.social PhD candidate @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social | Academic Coordinator @ilintelligence.bsky.social | Surveillance law, Privacy, AI regulation and intelligence studies
❌ https://x.com/amircahane
🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cahane/
The Society for Intelligence History @socintelhist.bsky.social
King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) @kcsi.uk KCSI is a diverse group of leading intelligence scholars & practitioners working together to better understand the evolving global security landscape. https://kcsi.uk/
UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Early Modern Low Countries (EMLC) @emlcjournal.bsky.social EMLC is a leading open access journal dedicated to the study of the early modern Low Countries. We publish multidisciplinary and state-of-the-art scholarship on any aspect of the turbulent history of this region from 1500-1850
Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England.
Mira ‘Assaf @miramiraculous.bsky.social Book: Royal Marriage, Foreign Queens,& Constructions of Race in Early Modern England, under contract @ACMRSPress | 23-24 Long-term Fellow, @FolgerLibrary | Arab | dilettante
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social The only journal devoted solely to the interdisciplinary and global study of women and gender spanning the late medieval through early modern periods. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/current
Anna Kalinowska @akalinowska.bsky.social Historian of early modern period
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social Journalist investigating Central Europe 🇭🇺🇵🇱🇸🇰🇨🇿 at VSquare.org. Corruption, illiberalism, 🇷🇺 and 🇨🇳 meddling.
🙏 buymeacoffee.com/szabolcspanyi
📝 panyiszabolcs.substack.com
🗞️ vsquare.org/newsletter
✉️ szabolcs.panyi@vsquare.org
HAPI @hapi-conference.bsky.social
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⚓
Jonas Bals @jonasbals.bsky.social Fagleder i LO. Antifascist. Maler, historiker og forfatter. Sesongkort på Østblokka. Siste bok: Sammen bekjemper vi fascismen. Strategier for antifascister i dag.
Gaute B. Skjervø @gautebs.bsky.social Leder i AUF.
Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social Shy Bairns Get Nowt!
Chronology Of the Norse TransAtlantic Colonies and Territories @contactproject.bsky.social a 5‑year ERC‑funded project @rug.nl
📜 Re‑examining the earliest Europe ↔ North America connections
🔬 Radiocarbon spike dating | Isotope & DNA analysis | Bayesian modelling | Historical & saga research
🌍 Mapping Norse expansion across the North Atlantic
Prussian-Stepping Goose @pauldlockhart.bsky.social History prof. War & religion in early mod Europe; Denmark/Norway/Iceland. DENMARK, 1513-1660 (OUP 2007); FIREPOWER (Basic 2021). Current project: Days of Wrath: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of Søren Jensen Quist.
Dad and cat dad.
Doer of several things.
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Natalia Woszczyk @natalia-woszczyk.bsky.social PhD researcher at the @eui-eu.bsky.social, exploring the history of emotions and migration in early modern Central-Eastern Europe.
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 | my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow, coming 2027
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University https://lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/tutors/13676. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… TV & Podcast producer / writer / host. Director of HistFest.
Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social She/her | Historian of colonial Mexico: Sor Juana; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion | Hosts the Challenging Histories podcast (out soon!)
Trans inclusive feminist | Free Palestine 🍉
Called William H Prescott a dirty old man on the BBC
Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social Things I like, make, or grow; assorted wokery; C16-17th religion, literature, and history. UK prof of English. 🏳️🌈
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. PhD from Stanford. Natural history and medicine in the early modern Mediterranean. Forthcoming book: A History of Uncertainty.
Dr Katie McKeogh @drklmckeogh.bsky.social Historian of religion, culture, books, music | Postdoc KCL @DORMEME16 on music books | Early Modern Catholics | Sir Thomas Tresham | Antiquarianism | Soprano | Anglican | Anti-semitism not tolerated
Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Northumbria University @northumbriauni.bsky.social A research-intensive university that unlocks potential for all, changing lives regionally, nationally and internationally. #TakeOnTomorrow
Emil Gunnlaugsson @emilgunnlaugsson.bsky.social PhD | Economic & Social History in the North Atlantic & Arctic | Research on chartered companies and Iceland, Greenland, Faroes & Finnmark
Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social History, especially 17th & 18th c. Quakers and other dissenters. Local history. Churches. Folklore. Archaeology. Art. Museums. Walking. Books. Cats. Coffee. Supporting @wiltshistory.bsky.social. President of Friends Historical Society 2025.
Anna Pravdica @annajpravdica.bsky.social AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨
https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson @earlymodernaf.bsky.social #EarlyModern England, gender, religion, and childbirth @ U Alberta and MacEwan U, Founder Alberta Abortion Access Network, Cofounder of Bodies and Being
Current: a chapter for A Hist of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North Conference @pmpnconf.bsky.social Welcome to Performing Magic in the pre-Modern North! We are a group of academics who have an interest in active academic research on the complex topic of “magic” in pre-Modern Northern regions.
Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social World military historian at UNC. Veteran. Archaeologist. Blacksmith. Traveler. Archer. I try to limit my posts to military history/security policy. Mostly. Current President of the Soc. for Military History. Officially here: https://waynelee.web.unc.edu/
Dr Zack White @zwhitehistory.bsky.social Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide
Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society
Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity
Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast
Views my own
Dr. Jonathan Abel @historianabel.bsky.social Husband and father. Associate Professor of Military History US Army CGSC. Historian and author of 18th-c France. Podcaster. UNT History PhD. Opinions own/no endorsements.
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
Ada Arendt @adaarendt.bsky.social cultural, environmental historian | co-head of KLIMER research group, UiO | Swiss Excellence Grant alumna | based in Oslo & Zurich 🇳🇴🇨🇭 | here for culture of digitality in HEIs, care ethics & environmental history
Dr Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social Historian. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780.
Also likes baking cakes
Amber Burbidge @amberburbidge.bsky.social Early Modern PhD researcher | EUI History | premodern race-making in material culture | Erasmus at EHESS | decolonisation | race | gender | intersectional | global history | 17c | 18c |heritage | Uni of York alumni 🏳️🌈
Ann Laura Hughes @annlaurahughes.bsky.social Historian of the English Revolution; Labour Councillor Lichfield City and Lichfield District Councils. Deputy leader of Lichfield City Council 2025-. Professor Emerita Keele University, UK.
Lorraine @wolfq4.bsky.social Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland |
Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts
https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
Johann Petitjean @johannpetitjean.bsky.social Historian with a severe addiction to the news. Passionately interested in all forms of writing. Media | Communication | Intelligence | Diplomacy | Public Health. Italy and the Mediterranean, but in Poitiers. Proud father, football fan and graffiti lover
Benjamin Asmussen @benjamin-asmussen.bsky.social Maritime historian & Senior Researcher @National Museum of Denmark interested in global connections - especially early modern Danish-Norwegian trading companies and their encounters. Experimenting with LLMs to gain historian superpowers!
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Anna-Luna Post @annalunapost.bsky.social Researcher @ Universiteit Leiden • Early Modern History of Science, the Environment, Capitalism • Book: Galileo's Fame https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948599/ • My dog’s name is Freddy
Vincent Denis @vjdenis.bsky.social professeur d’histoire moderne, Université de Rouen, chercheur au GRHIS. Histoire, ordre public, police. Early modern history, 18th century France, Révolution and Empire.
Erin Rowe @erinkathleenrowe.bsky.social Professor of EM Spain at Johns Hopkins; Author, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism, all saints all the time, vice dean, climber, hiker, baker, militantly frivolous
Steven M. Foster @drstevenmfoster.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern Religion & Politics. Husband to Dr Lynnette, Father to Isaac & Joseph. Human to Gino the Beagle. Associate Lecturer at OpenUniversity. My views, not my employers. #KirkElla #Hull
Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social Cultural historian (early modern); musicologist; early music; catch-singing; handbell-ringing; cats; GirlguidingUK
Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social Historian of early modern England at University at Buffalo and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergraduate Education. Happy to talk DH, 1890s bicycling, and the history of Buffalo. Skiing and biking. Opinions my own. She/her.
Carolyn Eastman @carolyneastman.bsky.social
Historian, professor, book review editor, and reader, currently writing a book about Black and white New Yorkers' experiences with yellow fever during the 1790s.
Timothy Twining @tntwining.bsky.social Early modern religion/censorship/cultural and intellectual history. MSCA post-doc at Trinity College Dublin. Previously Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, MPIL Heidelberg, and KU Leuven.
Eliot Benbow @ebenbow.bsky.social Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Research working on the Late Medieval London Customs Accounts. Formerly at MoLA. Researching Medieval and Early Modern material culture, trade, devotion etc.
First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social Official account of First World War Studies, scholarly journal of the International Society for First World War Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfww20
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Ben Bernard @drbernard.bsky.social Historian of early modern France; postdoctoral associate at Yale
https://history.yale.edu/people/benjamin-bernard
De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social Academic books, journals and news from the Medieval and Early Modern Studies department at De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. Posts by our editors.
Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social Honorary Fellow in History Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯
Website and blog: https://drtayloraucoin.com
History Sister @annashi.bsky.social Music maker, historian of 17th century popular culture, print, astrology, magic and politics. Sometime modern politics and culture too. I’m an eclectic person. Australia.Living outside my timeline and ancestry.
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Boardda Mihkkal @mbergnordlie.bsky.social Fyr fra nord i sør. Forsker, NIBR-OsloMet.//
Historihkkar, sosiálista, speallu-entusiásta.//
Sámi, researcher, activist. Mainly writes about Indigenous politics, but suddenly something completely different.
Instagram & Mastodon/Samenet: mbergnordlie
ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
Mario Graña Taborelli @mgrana.bsky.social PhD. Research Fellow. Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. Frankfurt. Germany.
He/Him
Political and legal cultures. Frontiers. Globality, locality, and their tensions. Early Modern Iberian Worlds.
Husband to @andrewgrana.bsky.social