G M Thomas FRSA FRAS @japanauthor.bsky.social Fellow Royal Society of Arts. Fellow Royal Asiatic Society. Royal Society For Asia Affairs.
Roel Konijnendijk @roelkonijn.bsky.social Ancient historian (Greece, Persia, war, history-writing). Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford. Moderator at r/AskHistorians. Ditch guy on YouTube.
Mark M. Turner @markturner25.bsky.social Retired soldier, historical researcher, and college educator. All views and opinions here are my own. Democracy is never finished.
Marie-Madeleine de La Tousche 🍊 @mmdelatousche.bsky.social
M2 Lettres Médiévales béguines et Hildegarde de Bingen, co-habilitation ENC-PSL et ENS-Ulm
M1 Études Asiatiques EHESS co-accréditation EPHE-PSL
Nuns of Europe from the Middle Ages to the Spanish Golden Age, and nuns of pre-Qing China
#比丘尼 #禪 #Philosophy
Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social #Roman & conflict archaeologist; Lecturer in Ancient History at Manchester Met University; University Teacher at the University of Liverpool; Early Career Research Fellow at the Centre for Integrative Research in Conflict Archaeology.
Dr Matthew Hefler @matthefler.bsky.social Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social Dakota/Lakota (Ft. Peck) • Lingít (Sheet'ká Kwáan) 🌱 Just an auntie tryna make the world a better place for the nieces/nephews 🌱 Panzer’s madre
MAMO Conference 2027 @themamoconf.bsky.social The 6th Middle Ages in the Modern World conference (MAMO). Lincoln College Oxford, 22-24 June 2027.
themamo.org
Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social Ceræ: An Australasian Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies is an independent, peer-reviewed, digital-first, open-access journal. All volumes are available through our website.
https://ceraejournal.com
Avery Trufelman @trufelman.bsky.social articles of interest
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
siriusxm.com/podcasts-plus-subscription
Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
Lillian McIntyre @lillianmcintyre.com PhD student at Yale University. Studying Japanese video games in the EALL department. イェール大学博士課程、デジタルゲーム研究。🏳️🌈 lillianmcintyre.com
The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Jessica @jessharada.bsky.social Writer, historian, and post-doctoral fellow of Mexico, Japan and Asia Latin America 🌎 Writing a book on transpacific histories of war, race and mestizaje 🇲🇽🇯🇵 Interested in 1930s-1940s Mexico; WWII; archives, historical methods and family histories 📚
Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social Geographer/planner and Co-Director @igdc.bsky.social • energy transitions, urban climate responses, landscape interpretation, extraction frontiers • known to frequent the Uni of York
Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social Now published by the @asianaffairs.bsky.social Royal Society for Asian Affairs, the Asian Review of Books is a dedicated pan-Asia book review publication. Read us at asianreviewofbooks.com
Chris Slaby @cjslaby.bsky.social Scholar, teacher, writer, earth human person (he/him/his). Art + history: Native American and Indigenous Studies; the environmental humanities; media, culture, and representation. Food and music, too, though those are more passions than subjects of study.
Neil Barton @rogerneilbarton.bsky.social Myanmar Observer | Former carer, quant, researcher, etc. | PhD Urban Planning @TheBartlettUCL | Glasgow’s Green & White | 🏳️⚧️🇲🇲🏴
Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social Associate Prof & Head of History @YSJ. Early Soviet history and Stalinism. The Red Army and the Great Terror (2015); The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy (2023). Working on POWs and the Soviet Red Cross. Occasional drummer https://shorturl.at/LRaWz
Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social I write about kings and prophets. Vancouver, BC.
Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social Historian (identity, race, popular culture, cities, memory, politics) trying to survive the times. Writing a book about transatlantic hip-hop. Work at @yorknsc.bsky.social but views own.
Or Porath @orporath.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Japanese Religion, Tel Aviv University
Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social Washington Bureau chief at The Independent, MSNOW Columnist. Author: We’re Not Broken. Tar Heel. He/Him Eric.garcia@the-independent.com
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Pat Race @pat.alaskarobotics.com Hi! I'm an owner of the Alaska Robotics Gallery in Juneau where we sell comics, board games, art supplies, and local artwork.
I make short films, comics, picture books, host a comics camp and post a lot about Alaska policy.
https://patrace.com
Jason Petrulis @petrulis.bsky.social History prof in Hong Kong. My award-winning articles:
“A Country of Hair”: ROK Wigs, Kor Am Entrepreneurs, Af Am Hairstyles, & Cold War Industrialization
http://bit.ly/3PENmX0
The jawbone/quijada as global Black musical instrument
https://bit.ly/4nAl7ba
BungakuReportEN（文学通信 海外版） @bungakureporten.bsky.social Publisher. Mainly tweets about news, books, events related to Japanese studies. Japanese account→
https://bsky.app/profile/bungakureport.bsky.social
国内外の日本研究・文化関連の情報を収集・発信。出版社です。担当は渡辺。
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Dr Xinyi Wen @drxinyiwen.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Frances Yates Long-Term Fellow @warburginstitute.bsky.social
🎓 PhD @CambridgeHPS @WellcomeTrust
🖋️ Writing a reversed history of the doctrine of signatures, 1885-1584
warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/xinyi-wen
She/her
Cover image aislingjelinski.com
The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp News, features and commentary from the oldest (est. 1897) and most widely read English-language media outlet in Japan.
JT staff on Bluesky: https://jtim.es/bskysp
Our newsletters: https://jtime.es/newsletters
Elsewhere: jtim.es/m/social
Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social Historian of Japan | Associate Professor @ucf.bsky.social | author of Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan @universitypress.cambridge.org | 日文研「外国人」研究員 (2027) | Ph.D. @UChicago
Personal website: tadashiishikawa.com
Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation @daiwafoundation.bsky.social Supporting people and projects to connect the UK & Japan since 1988. Grants • Scholarships • Events.
Website🔗: dajf.org.uk
Facebook🔵: https://www.facebook.com/DaiwaFoundation/
Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto and People without History Are Dust
Tom Shillam @shillamt25.bsky.social UK-based historian
https://lup.nl/publications/political-science/international-relations/socialist-internationalism-in-south-and-southeast-asia-c1947-1960/
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Int History @UniUtrecht / Visiting Research Fellow @WarStudies King's College London / Into history of international law, courts and dogs. Lives in and loves Den Haag <3
University of York @york.ac.uk We’re a leading UK university and part of the Russell Group 🦆
See news, events and find out more about York at: york.ac.uk
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I have friends everywhere | And I do enjoy my work |
linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social Writer, speaker, poet, scholar, booklover. Posts here on anime, manga, poetry, costume, writing, Japan. Also posts @glider.bsky.social for politics, history, rants, random records etc.
Website helenmccarthy.net
https://ko-fi.com/helenmccarthy51
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. Kimberly Hassel @kimberly-hassel.bsky.social Dominican New Yorker. Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University.
Anthropologist specializing in digital culture, youth culture, Japan, & Afro-Asia.
Princeton PhD | Dartmouth, MMUF, & IRT alum
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures @sainsbury-institute.org Promoting top research on Japanese visual culture | Affiliated with UEA | 🎖️ Japan Foundation Award 2024 | Art, history & culture
https://linktr.ee/Sainsbury_Institute
Wendy Rouse @wendylrouse.bsky.social Professor, Historian, Author of A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement; Her Own Hero: Origins of the Women's Self-Defense Movement; Children of Chinatown, 1850-1920, History Teacher Prep, (she/her) #WomensHistory #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈 🗃️
WendyLRouse.com
Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, & Society @hagleycenter.bsky.social Center for advanced studies in the history of business, technology, and society at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware. Grants and Fellowships. Public programs. Scholarly community. Tune in to the Hagley History Hangout podcast!
Vera Wolff @verawolff.bsky.social art historian, at times historian of science, technology, the humanities and other things
Bo Jacobs @bojacobs.bsky.social Nuclear historian, Emeritus @ Hiroshima Peace Inst, visiting @ #UNSW. I research the global #hibakuksha, #nuclear testing, production and waste. #PDX #STS
Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha (Yale 2022)
https://nuclearbodies.com
https://bojacobs.net
Dr. Martin Joh. Meyer @martin-meyer.bsky.social Kampfsportwissenschaftler // martial arts researcher
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7184-6367
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS. Freelance editor of works about China and Korea.
Andrew Peaple @andypeaps.bsky.social News editor at The Wire China @thewirechina.bsky.social. Host and founder of Asia Matters podcast. Views expressed here are my own.
Tryntje Helfferich @tryntje.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Ohio State Lima; Early Modern Europe; Thirty Years War; Reformation; Religion & War; Gardening; Travel. Alaskan at heart.
Žiga Oman @omandrziga.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern Central Europe: plebeian enmities, interpersonal violence, social relations, emotions and disputes.
MSCA Fellow at @york.ac.uk with @socresta.bsky.social, Assist Prof @UniMaribor, editor @ZDJP, Jorkštajerc (Views are my own.)
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Hannah Shepherd @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social https://www.hannah-shepherd.com/
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Chelsea Szendi Schieder @chelseaszendi.bsky.social Historian of postwar social movements in Japan. Sometimes curator. Author, Coed Revolution (Duke UP 2021). Ambivalent about being online. chelseaszendischieder.com
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 🙂
Christopher Scholz @kurisutofa.bsky.social literature, Japanese lit, silent films, R&D consulting, journalism, interwebs, and some other things (he/him)
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
UBC Asian Studies @asia.ubc.ca UBC’s Asian Studies Department is the flagship Asian Studies department in Canada and is widely acknowledged as one of the finest in North America.
https://asia.ubc.ca/
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Eoin Ó gCluain Tarbh（アイルランドのイアン） @satorukun0530.bsky.social I post about Japanese literature and the like. And I guess that includes folklore😅
大阪在住の日本文学愛好家、異文化交流（アイルランド文化）イベント企画者。国立ダブリンシティ大学で日本語・翻訳学を専攻して学士。岩手親善大使（元岩手県国際交流員）、松江親善大使（ラフカディオ・ハーンのエッセイコンテスト受賞者）。現在、日愛愛日文芸翻訳家を目指して先祖の言葉アイルランド語を十数年ぶりに学び直そうとしているところの日英翻訳者。
tyrell haberkorn @turtelista.bsky.social Plaenert-Bascom Prof of SEAsian Studies at UW-Madison | Coordinates @jsealab.bsky.social | translation, dissent, political prisoners and carcerality in Thailand | recent book: Dictatorship on Trial: Coups and the Future of Justice in Thailand (Stanford UP)
Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus @daneuhaus.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow @dijtokyo.org
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
Michael Kerns @makerns.bsky.social I’m an editor, and some other stuff too. Senior Publisher at Bloomsbury.
Jon Dell Isola @medievaljon.bsky.social PhD Medieval Historian. I think about the meaning and purpose of history a lot in my newsletter Among the Ruins (http://among-the-ruins.ghost.io). Special Projects Assistant @medievalacademy.bsky.social. All opinions my own.
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Ashley Salazar @ashleysalazar.bsky.social President Veterans For Peace St. Louis @vfpc61.bsky.social USAF Veteran
Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social Professor of music and sound in Asia. Editor of @avcx.bsky.social crosswords. Posts about pop music, sound, Thailand, NYC, anthropology, puzzles, TNG.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Enrico Reuter @enricoreuter.bsky.social Co-Head of Social Policy, School for Business and Society, Uni York @uoysbs.bsky.social | Work on self-employment, labour market policy | Editor of Social Policy & Society | Opinions my own
The Japan Society @thejapansociety.bsky.social The Japan Society is the leading independent body in the United Kingdom dedicated to the enhancement of the British-Japanese relationship.
www.japansociety.org.uk
Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
Kate Masur @katemasur.bsky.social Historian and whatnot. Recently published FREEDOM WAS IN SIGHT! A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF RECONSTRUCTION IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. REGION, with illustrations by the remarkable Liz Clarke. See also katemasur.com. 
Tim Gill @timgill924.bsky.social Sociologist / New Book - Unraveling the American Mafia: Angelo Lonardo, Carmen Zagaria, and the Beginning of the End in Cleveland (Bloomsbury, 2027)
Michael Greig @michaelgreig.bsky.social Professor of Political Science @ the University of Utah. Frequent dog walker. Florida Gator. Not always in that order.
Research interests: conflict management, civil & interstate wars
Scott Ackerman @scottackerman11.bsky.social Associate Director, Organizational Culture, Learning, and Outreach at UVA Library. PhD in history from CUNY Graduate Center. New York expat, cat enthusiast.
Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com Book design danielgray.com
Blogging mwhile.com
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress.
Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
JT Welsch @jtwelsch.bsky.social Writer, academic, worrier. Literature, creative industries & liberal arts, University of York.
New book: The Poetry of Suicide (MUP, 2026).
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D. @jlphistory.bsky.social Disability-based historian who is excited to be teaching some amazing students about dead people. Ask me about my dogs!
Shatrunjay Mall @shatrunjaymall.bsky.social Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College (Hartford, Connecticut). PhD, UW-Madison. Former visiting research fellow, Waseda University. Specializations include Modern Japan, Modern South Asia, and transnational Asian history. 🏳️🌈
Chris Harding @drchrisharding.bsky.social Historian & broadcaster based at the University of Edinburgh
Mainly now here 👉 http://www.japan-and-the-world.com/
Writings/podcast/video 👉 https://linkin.bio/chrisharding
Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
regina mühlhäuser @remueh.bsky.social | gender, sexuality/ies, rape and other forms of sexual violence in war & conflict
| researcher https://www.his-online.de/en/staff/person-details/person/regina-muehlhaeuser/
| co-founder https://warandgender.net
| author of "Sex and the Nazi Soldier"
Marijuana Masao @marijuanamasao.bsky.social New bong, who dis
High on modernism. My tokes used to do numbers. I still do.
JJWalsh @jjwalsh.bsky.social 30+ yrs in Hiroshima, Japan: sustainable tourism focus: tours, consulting & seminars | Feature 'good people doing great things in Japan' on the LIVE Seek-Sustainable-Japan talkshow & podcast https://youtube.com/@seeksustainablejapan
Caroline @canarycaroline.bsky.social Works in academic publishing but will one day find out what she wants to do when she grows up. Supports Norwich City so must have done something awful in a previous life.
Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island. Historian of China and the U.S., specializing in global historical and digital methods.
Tove Björk @bjoerktove.bsky.social I am a scholar of early modern Japanese literature
and Theatre, currently professor at the Graduate School Humanities and Social Sciences, Saitama University, Japan. 日本近世文学、まあ、本当は歌舞伎の研究者であり、現在は埼玉大学人文社会科学研究課で教授をやっています。
George Zhao @xdzhao.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. in history, Sun Yat-sen University | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) | Chinese liberalism, socialism, and nationalism