Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social Historian of early modern French law & society at Reed College. Prattles on about history, dogs, politics, soccer, & hoops. H-France Editor-in-Chief (www.h-france.net)
Kali Silvers @carlyasilvers.bsky.social She/her. 50-something trans woman in the UK 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Recently finished MA History focused on the Early Modern, now writing a PhD proposal. Also likes old Land Rovers and motorcycles. Keeper of bees. Professional cynicist.
Dr Carrie Long @carrielong.bsky.social Historian | PDRA: Inclusive Histories Project 25-26| RMG Caird Fellow: Greenwich Hospital School 26 | IHR Pearsall Fellow 23-24 | Research interests: c.18-19th naval and military families, marginalised histories, lone women, petitioning, welfare and care
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
Sanne Muurling @smuurling.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Social History @ Radboud Uni | History of gender, social inequalities, crime, death & disease | Editor TSEG & HISFAM | 📚🎮 🗺 🐈
Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social PhD in History, postdoctoral researcher @durhamhistory.bsky.social on 'Modelling the Black Death' project. Former Postan @EcHistSoc fellow and researcher for @womensworkexe.
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)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
HEL (History of the English Language) on the Web @helontheweb.bsky.social Shares the latest news about HEL. Posts by Dr Ayumi Miura (Associate Professor @utokyoofficial.bsky.social; she/her), who runs the website 'HEL on the Web' (2009-): https://sites.google.com/view/helontheweb/
Janne Kivivuori @jkivivuori.bsky.social Professor of criminology, University of Helsinki, Finland. Criminologist, sociologist. Research themes: history of criminology, homicide, International Self-Report Delinquency Study.
Leona Mydlowski @drleonamydlowski.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice and Policing. Interested in Criminal Law, international Criminal Law, sexual offences, management of sexual offenders, public Protection and safeguarding 😊😊✌️✌️
Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social Blogging on the history of law, crime, and justice at www.legalhistorymiscellany.com.
Dr Cerian Griffiths @oldbaileyfraud.bsky.social Associate Professor, Northumbria Law School 
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social Locker no. 50 at the British Library.
Dr Helen Yates @helenyates.bsky.social Thesis title - Staying Alive: Crime, Trauma, and Agency during the Irish Famine of 1845-52. Research is my happy place!
Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social
#bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
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/
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Beth Fuller @bee79.bsky.social Historian (19th century gender & crime) teacher (HOD History NPQSL) food & wine. CCF Royal Navy. Reader. Italy is life. Support teams with bird mascots 🏉🦆 ⚽️🦉🏏🦅. Made in Sheffield. Married a Californian. Now an Essex girl. Wednesday til I die. She/Her
Andrew Prescott @ajprescott.bsky.social Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
Jill Evans @jillrevans.bsky.social I research and write about the history of crime and punishment in Gloucestershire, England. Author of 5 local history books. Website: www.gloscrimehistory.uk. E-mail jevans.gloscrime@btinternet.com
Our Criminal Past @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
Gerben Zaagsma @gerbenzaagsma.eurosky.social Historian working on the history, politics and censorship of #digitalhistory and #heritage; background in Jewish/Yiddish history, teaching genocide studies, digital public & music history.
More info: https://gerbenzaagsma.org/
Kit Baston @kgbaston.bsky.social Historian of the Long Eighteenth Century | Research Fellow, Books and Borrowing (2020-2023) | www.linkedin.com/in/karen-kit-baston-36998540
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
ultima thule @thethousandthpart.com C18-19 British/Irish history | RN/polar exploration | Photographer; librarian; independent researcher of life and career of Capt. Francis Crozier. www.thethousandthpart.com
Erika Hanna @erikahanna.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social Independent scholar of popular romance fiction https://www.vivanco.me.uk/ On the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies https://www.jprstudies.org/
My database of scholarship about romances: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
Can't access chat
Jennifer Wellington @jenniferwellington.bsky.social Modern History, University College Dublin. My book: Exhibiting War. Researching war trophies and trophy-taking. 
Paul F Scott @paulfscott.bsky.social Constitutional law and national security law etc at the University of Glasgow
Ann Roberts @annroberts.bsky.social Local history and research. Women’s history. Also architecture, art and heritage.
Devon based. 
Maartje Janse @maartjejanse.bsky.social Historian at Leiden University, working on histories of political participation and protest
Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social C18-19 Historian, EH&DHGeoHum, Cambridge & CAMPOP- comparative 🇪🇺 econ development, Ind Rev, econ norms, lighthouses, gamification, data extraction and AI applied to Hist. 
Heather Nowlan @ftsgenealogy.bsky.social Heather Nowlan - Professional Genealogist at Family Tree Searchers; Former Vice Chair - Board of Trustees for Society of Genealogists; AGRA Associate
Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social UK-based retired software developer.
Art, Photography, Science, Music, Economics, Politics, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Architecture, Archaeology
I can't send/receive DMs here.
Signal: alan.285
Lillian Taylor @lilliantaylor.bsky.social History PhD student at William & Mary. Working on shipwrecks, environmental history, and history of knowledge in the Atlantic World. She/her
rosastevens @rosastevens.bsky.social Medieval, gender and digital humanities, also libraries and social media. U.K.
Elly Robson Dezateux @ellydezateux.bsky.social Historian of environmental politics and Atlantic colonialism | early modernist | Research Fellow in Legacies of Colonialism at Christ Church, Oxford | editor at History Workshop & History Workshop Journal (she/her)
Emma Kalb @emmakale.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia. 
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Jadon Nisly-Goretzki @jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social Postdoc Agrarian History Uni Kassel. Interested in early modern Germany, cattle breeding, race, gender and rural inequality & the Oeconomic Enlightenment. Also Brown Swiss cows, Baroque choirs & prairies. He/him. 
Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
📚 Author of Laurence Sterne & the C18 Book (CUP, 2021)
📚 Co-editor of John Cleland’s Letters (CUP, 2024)
📚 Working on a global history of women in book production 
Jeremy Neill @jeremyneill.bsky.social Historian, casual photographer, hockey fan, transplanted Mainer 🗃️
💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
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
Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
Liz Papp Kamali @lizpappkamali.bsky.social Professor at Harvard Law. Author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England. English Legal History. Criminal Law. Greenhorn gardener.
Courtney (Dr. Version) @cakrolik.bsky.social • medieval historian • history of medicine • unapologetic cat gal • quick with a gif • “she probably deserves a raise” - student eval • Tar Heel • feels WAY too much • thoughts are mine and mine alone •
Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York @crems-york.bsky.social 📜 The largest centre for Renaissance & Early Modern studies in the UK
👩💻 Director: @emilieKMmurphy.bsky.social
🧑🏫 Over 100 staff & students across 8 depts
📖 Home to our pioneering interdisciplinary MA
🤓 Research seminars hybrid & open to all
york.ac.uk/crems
Karol Mullaney-Dignam @historiankarol.bsky.social ▪︎ Cultural, Social, Public Historian
▪︎ Associate Professor @ulhistory.bsky.social
▪︎ Ireland 🇮🇪
Mike Townsend @miketownsend.bsky.social Collections and Metadata librarian at the IHR @ihr.bsky.social (https://www.history.ac.uk/library-digital) | History | Photography | Curious rather than competent language learner
Alexandra Ortolja @alexandraortolja.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital Humanities & History, University of Sheffield
Research: translation of Enlightenment rights discourses; colonial history/ legacies of early modern European collections.
Approaches: book history; DH; critical digital heritage studies.
Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social Chartism and other #C19th stuff, chartistancestors.co.uk. Author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors and Chartist Lives, EC member @sslh.bsky.social. Science fiction reader.
Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and author of 'Technology and the Historian' (Illinois, 2021).
Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social Caricaturist for Spitting Image & other TV. Co-creator of award-winning kids' non-fic. Open for caricature commissions. I will never listen to your podcast. www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TealCartoons 🚫GenAI
Enquiries: Teal.Cartoons@yahoo.com
www.adrianteal.com
Jade Shepherd @jadevshepherd.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain; PhD; writing a book about mentally ill offenders & their families in the c19th; former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
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
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
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-
Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
History Clippings @historyclippings.bsky.social Clippings found during my historical research. Showcasing the awesome primary material from around the web.
DM me for submissions.
Run by @joedragovich.bsky.social
Check out my 📖 on tea-smuggling gangsters: https://lnk.to/Hawkhurst
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Susie Steinbach @susielaurie.bsky.social Jewish, Minnesotan (via the Bronx), widow, historian (c19 Britain). Understanding the Victorians 3e now out!!
https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-the-Victorians-Politics-Culture-and-Society-in-Nineteenth-Century/Steinbach/p/book/9780367421021 
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social Cycling. Public Historian.
On the border.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
A piece of archive film for every occasion.
https://bsky.app/profile/digitalfilmarchive.eurosky.social
And NornIronGirl1981
https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.eurosky.social
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.
Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.
Thomas McSweeney @mcsweeney1693.bsky.social Professor of Law @wmlawschool. Legal historian, medievalist, W&M alum. Writing about English law in the 13th century. Author of Priests of the Law (Oxford 2019), on the Bracton treatise and its authors. All views my own, not W&M's.
Peter L Larson @medievalhistorian.bsky.social Historian of England c. 1400-17??; law, society, economy, trade; Associate Dean & Prof. Fan of ice hockey, scotch, Warhammer, Battletech, & naps. He/him/his/ipse/eius/eum.
Views are my own, retweets are not endorsements, beware of sarcasm
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary.bsky.social Historian of early modern & long c18th Britain. Bodies, sex, gender, medicine, motherhood & domestic knowledge. Lecturer, Uni of Herts. IHR Fellow. Lead Convenor of IHR seminars: Life-Cycles & British History in the Long c18th. Book forthcoming with MUP.
Margaret Frood @dyfh.bsky.social Qualified Genealogist, Family & Local Historian, One Place Studier, #Wiehahn #ONS; also a heavily committed War Memorials Researcher. #WokeMigrant
On Insta as @peopleintheirplaces.
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
Sportinglesbian @sportinglesbian.com A drunk, a tramp and an unfit mother
Rose H. Schmollek @rose-h-schmollek.bsky.social Writer - True Crime History / GET EDALJI - The case in which Conan Doyle was wrong: www.georgeedalji.com / forensic linguistic analysis
Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social Historian of Modern France at QMUL
Maartje van Gelder @maartjevg.bsky.social Historian | contentious politics | archives and power | early modern period | Italy and Mediterranean | Associate prof at University of Amsterdam | 🗃️
Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
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
Leanne Smith @leanneks.bsky.social PhD Newcastle University. Intellectual historian interested in millenarianism & republicanism.
Lucy Barnes @alittleroad.bsky.social Open Book Publishers • Copim • Open Access Books Network • ScholarLed • All things open access books • Also on Mastodon (@alittleroad@hcommons.social) & LinkedIn (lucy-barnes-01670473) • She/her
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Mark Vent @markvent.bsky.social Problem-solver. Tech-nerd. Comedy-geek. Magic-fan. Book-lover. Rationalist & Atheist. Swansea Jack. You cannot live as I have lived & not end up like this.