Dr David Cowan @cowanda.bsky.social Political historian | long 18th century | political economy, party systems, and geopolitics
Malik Al Nasir @malikalnasir.bsky.social PhD Candidate, (History) University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College. Poet, author “Letters to Gil” (William Collins, 2021) “Searching for my Slave Roots” (William Collins, 28 Aug 2025). Protégé of Gil Scott-Heron
https://linktr.ee/malikalnasir
ihta_ria.bsky.social @ihtaria.bsky.social The IHTA is a research programme of the Royal Irish Academy & produces historic atlases of towns on the island of Ireland from earliest times to 1900
Go deeper: https://www.ria.ie/research-programmes/irish-historic-towns-atlas//
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social Curtin Law School. Legal history, statutory interpretation, research and writing. Japan. Permanently at risk of being squashed by books in my office.
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
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Steven (He/Him) @crabbedsun10.bsky.social Current Masters of education at ACU (Melbourne)
Caitlin Mahar @maharc.bsky.social Historian exploring histories of dying, pain, sexuality and social movements. Based @ Swinburne University. Author: The Good Death Through Time (MUP, 2023).
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
Michael Evans @colombiadocs.bsky.social Editorial Director at National Security Archive. FOIA enthusiast. Colombia specialist. Bluegrass guitarist. He/Him nsarchive.gwu.edu
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
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Rachel Dobson @rachelzd.bsky.social Family history researcher + writer, artist, embroiderer, home librarian + archivist, #dougjonesforgovernor , Smithie, UofA, Alabama School of Fine Arts grad. I'm on Wikitree and LibraryThing. #NoKings #NoWar
Brian Casey @briancasey123.bsky.social Historian of the Victorian countryside, agrarian radicalism. and 20th Century global Catholicism and female religious. Hon. Fellow Durham University Theology and Religion.
Melanie Burkett @melb2001.bsky.social Historian of 19th century working-class immigration in the British Empire & settler colonialism. Author of "Opposing Australia's First Assisted Immigrants, 1832-42." PhD from Macquarie Uni, die-hard Duke alum. Mother to a Muppet dog.
Andy Kaladelfos @andykaladelfos.bsky.social Criminologist & Historian @ UNSW, unceded Bedegal Land
Co-Convenor Gendered Violence Research Network
Co-Lead Community of Practice for Inclusive Research with Queer, Trans, and Intersex People
They/Them 🏳️⚧️
https://linktr.ee/andykaladelfos
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Cassie Byrnes @cassiebyrnes.bsky.social Historian of reproductive rights, abortion, consent | lecturer at UQ | living and working on unceded Jagera and Turrbal lands | she/her 📚
Dr Meg Foster @mfoster-history.bsky.social Historian of Banditry, Settler Colonial and Public History | Chancellor's Research Fellow @UTS | Former JRF @camhistory.bsky.social | She/ her | FRHistS
Alexia Moncrieff @historynerdess.bsky.social Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
Cathie Sherwood @familyhistory.academy Family Historian. Educator. Speaker. DNA Sleuth. Research Enthusiast.
Owner, Family History Academy (familyhistory.academy) & Ancestor Discovery (ancestordiscovery.com.au).
Innovating #familyhistory one story at a time.
Joy McCann @mjmccann.bsky.social Environmental/public historian & writer - oceans, ice, coasts & islands. Author of Wild Sea: A History of the Southern Ocean. Living on Palawa country, lutruwita Tasmania.
#envhist #envhum #naturewriting www.joymccann.blog
Marc Bernstein @marcbernstein261.bsky.social MSc Politics & BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & History Birkbeck University of London, Civil Servant From & live in London Uk. politics History & intl affairs, Culture, Jewish life, Soccer. Also on here to make friends. Straight Single & Jewish
Nathan Hobby @nathanhobby.bsky.social Biographer, scholar & special collections librarian in Perth, Australia. Author of THE RED WITCH, 2023 WA Premier's Prize Book of the Year. Working on a biography of John Curtin. https://nathanhobby.com
Centre for the Study of Violence @studyofviolence.bsky.social The Centre for the Study of Violence, University of Newcastle is a group of active scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences whose work focuses on the origins, causes and experience of violence, historically and in the present.
Simone Battiston @sbattiston.bsky.social Researching different aspects of Italian emigration, with a particular attention to the Australian context. Snr lecturer, history and politics @ Swinburne. He/him
Public Record Office Victoria @vicarchives.bsky.social Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) is the #archive of the State Government of Victoria, Australia. We hold records from the mid-1830s to today. Visit our website at prov.vic.gov.au
Anthony Zougras @anthonyzougras.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History from South Australia | Host of the A History of Australia podcast (@ahistoryofaus.bsky.social) available on all platforms | General lover of Australian history & politics | My Links: https://linktr.ee/AnthonyZougras
Benjamin T. Jones @drbenjaminjones.bsky.social Associate Professor in History at Central Queensland University. Australia on the World Stage (Routledge, 2022).
Jamie Roberts @jamierobertsoz.bsky.social Jamie Roberts is a knockabout storyteller from Bendigo, Australia. Spinning gold from history and other ill-thought out musings. Founder of Bendigo Guided Tours.
@sybiln.bsky.social @sybiln.bsky.social Historian, editor, publishing academic. Melbourne, Australia
Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social Historian & Editor | Playtime (La Trobe, 2025) | Australian Dictionary of Biography | Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
Kathryn Dyt @kathryndyt.bsky.social Vietnam environmental historian @ Warwick | Weather, environment & underground worlds | Author of The Nature of Kingship
Scott McKinnon @sjmckinnon.bsky.social Historian and Librarian. Author of Gay Men at The Movies (Intellect, 2016) and Co-author of Australian Queer Screens (Bloomsbury, 2026) 🏳️🌈
Dr Amanda Wells 🍊📚 @amandawells.bsky.social #envhist PhD @ UON living on unceded Ngadjuri Country, SA. Researching citrus worlds in the Riverland (SA) 1950s & 1960s. #deathlycapital #envhums Artist in my spare time (ha!), sessional academic, and programs @ HCNSW.🏳️🌈 she/her
History Council of Victoria @historycouncilvic.bsky.social We connect Victorians with history and inspire engagement with the past. Website: historycouncilvic.org.au
Michelle Staff @michellestaff.bsky.social Feminist historian | Online + outreach manager @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social | Hazel Rowley Literary Fellow 2025 @writersvictoria.bsky.social | Co-convenor @auswhn.bsky.social | on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land | she/her
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Georgia McWhinney @georgiamc06.bsky.social Historian for The Lodge and Kirribilli House. Living and working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land. She/her. All views my own
Dominic Kelly @dominickelly.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow, La Trobe University
Short-form: https://medium.com/@dominickelly_
Book #1: https://blackincbooks.com.au/books/political-troglodytes-and-economic-lunatics
Book #2: a history of Quadrant magazine (forthcoming)
Limina @liminajournal.bsky.social Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
• For early career academics 🎓📑
• Guided by an editorial collective 👩💻🧑💻
• Linked with an international advisory board 🌏
• Est. on Noongar Boodja
Call for Papers: www.uwa.edu.au/limina/submissions
Carmel Pascale @carmelpascale.bsky.social Cultural historian and Visiting Research Fellow at Adelaide Uni - 20th century Australian nationalism, settler colonialism, ideas of Britishness and imperialism, federation, commemoration.
Sharn White @sharnwhite.bsky.social Professional family, Local & House Historian, International Speaker, Member of APG, AGRA, Official RootsTech Media Group. Blogger, Love Maps! Based in Australia, hobbies writing, travel and photography. Currently writing a children’s fantasy novel 8-12 🐉
Charmaine Robson @charmr.bsky.social Historian of Australian missions and colonisation, nursing and health history. Hon lecturer, UNSW. Writing a biography of a woman activist/musician/author. 
Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social 📖 Est. 1959
🖋 Based in the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
📍 On Ngunnawal/Ngambri land
https://adb.anu.edu.au
https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Dr Stefanie Affeldt @drstaff13.bsky.social Hist-Soc Investigator, writer & Wissensarbeiterin – AUSn racism & whiteness; translator; design & layout whiz; photographer; proof-reader; IT educator- E Liz Hale @ebrhale.bsky.social Associate Prof at University of New England; children's books and classical reception, between Australia and New Zealand... website: https://antipodeanodyssey.wordpress.com/
Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social Historian at the Australian National University
Christian missions, Indigenous history, deep history, gender, religion
Editor History Australia & Aboriginal History Monographs
Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social History, empire and the politics of knowledge. University of Technology Sydney
Ben Wilkie @benwilkie.bsky.social Proud Dad. Sometimes a historian. Often a lawyer | Adjunct Research Fellow at La Trobe. https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/bwilkie | Wrote 'The Scots in Australia 1788-1938' and 'Gariwerd: An Environmental History of the Grampians'
Hillary Loomis @hillaryloomis.bsky.social all things sheep~wool~tweed 🌞🌱🐑🧶🪡
environmental history
agricultural/commodity/textile history
PhD student SIU Edwardsville Historical Studies
Mama, enviro ed pro, Wisconsin girl at heart
Amy Freeborn @amyfreeborn.bsky.social Head of Content and Digital (9-5), writer and public historian (rest of the time). Driven by curiosity and creativity.
International Australian Studies Association @intlausstudies.bsky.social The International Australian Studies Association brings together Australianists from across the world and publishes the quarterly Journal of Australian Studies.
Simon Wyatt-Spratt @swyattspratt.bsky.social #Archaeology PhD student at the University of Sydney researching the lithic technologies of the ancestors of Indigenous Australians
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5976-3614
Karen Downing @drink-an-ocean.bsky.social Historian, living and working with gratitude on Ngunnawal and Ngambri land.
oralhistory (formerly @notoralhistory) @oralhistory.bsky.social Formerly @notoralhistory on Twitter, but now fully #oralhistory.
Scholar of Oral History, Anthropology, Critical Disability Studies, Folklore & #disabilityanthropology
https://www.tumblr.com/oral-history
Museums & Galleries of NSW @m-g-nsw.bsky.social Museums & Galleries of NSW supports museums, galleries and Aboriginal cultural centres in metropolitan and regional NSW.
James Donaldson @cairojim.bsky.social Australians, Antiquities and WW1.
The Shellal Mosaic.
Collecting Antiquities in the Antipodes.
Manager/Curator at UQ Antiquities Museum.
Alex Searle @alexsearle.bsky.social (She/Her)
Student. Historian. Student Historian. Mad cat person who adores her dog. Passionate about architecture, heritage, narrative, historiography, photography, and much, much more.
Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social We're the national voice for cultural, creative & ethical thinking and one of Australia's five Learned Academies. We promote the study and application of the humanities. Posts by Comms team. Re-posts not endorsements.
www.humanities.org.au
Phillip Jaworski @phillipjaworski.bsky.social Digital Media, RAHS. Associate Member, PHA (NSW & ACT). BA (Hon), History, ACU. Interests: Settler Colonialism, Australian History, British Imperialism.
Srishti Guha @srishti-g.bsky.social Historian of visual culture | Aus-Ind colonial relations | Associate Lecturer @ University of Newcastle, Australia. she/her.
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/srishti-guha#career
Kristie Patricia Flannery @thehistoriann.bsky.social Historian of the global Spanish empire living and working on Wurundjeri country. Author of Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (2024).
Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social Historian of migration, media, radicalism, oral history & memory in AU/NZ/US/Pacific. Based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Vannessa Hearman @vhearman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Writes on Indonesia, East Timor, Cold War, decolonisation and related topics.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social ~ https://www.auswhn.com.au/ ~ the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) promotes research, writing + advocacy in feminist, gender + women's history + publishes the peer-reviewed Lilith: A Feminist History Journal + #VIDAblog ~
History Australia @historyaustralia.bsky.social HistoryAustralia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association. Pub. by T&F. Innovative scholarship in any field (not just Oz!)
Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social Currently: Exhausted by long COVID. Usually: Histories of migration, citizenship, family and the law. Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Senior Lecturer in Humanities at UTAS.
Always: Missing south China and wishing my Cantonese was better.
@clareifications.bsky.social @clareifications.bsky.social genderqueer librarian by day, archivist by night, unions always. when not in libraries or archives, I can increasingly be found spending time and matching shirts with plants and animals. they/them.
Anna Wilkinson @annawilkinson.bsky.social Historian, PhD candidate, potter-in-training 🏺(she/her) || Post-1945 conflicts, Asian Australian history, migration, oral history and memory, gender and decolonisation https://experts.deakin.edu.au/58078-anna-wilkinson
Peter Symons @petersymons2647.bsky.social Editor, historian, fiction writer, educator and professional insomniac.
@carolynholbrook.bsky.social @carolynholbrook.bsky.social 
Emily Fitzgerald @emily-fitzgerald.bsky.social Historian, data-nerd, map maker, cat lover. (She/her)
Kim Connor @theotherkim.bsky.social Archaeologist, food historian, digital humanist. Working on historical archaeology of institutions of immigration in the British Empire (AUS, GB, IE, CA). More info at kimberleyconnor.com. All opinions my own.
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
Alice Garner @soundslikealice.bsky.social Historian, musician, audio maker, actor & teacher. National Library Australia oral history interviewer. Cellist in Sunshine Tip and Sally Ford & the Idiomatics. Latest project: No Context Slide Nights (Melbourne)
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
Sophie Couchman @sophiecouchman.bsky.social Professional Historian and Curator
Alexandra Dellios @alecadell.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in heritage studies; researcher of diaspora history, memory studies, oral history with migrant background communities, multiculturalism/s, public history, social history, labour history @ the ANU https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-2419
Australian Histories Podcast @aushistpod.bsky.social The Australian Histories Podcast: a fresh look at some brilliant stories from Australia’s past.
An Australian history podcast presented as themed topics - see if the current topic sparks your interest!
AustralianHistoriesPodcast.com.au
The Journal of Pacific History @journalpacifichist.bsky.social JPH is a leading refereed journal dedicated to research about the Pacific Islands, their peoples & their pasts (est. 1966).
https://linktr.ee/journalofpacifichistory
Account run by @colourfulhistories.bsky.social
AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social The Australian Historical Association was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians working in all fields of history.
https://theaha.org.au
Hannah Loney @hannahloney14.bsky.social Visiting Prof in Gender Studies @ CEU, Vienna; women’s & gender history (esp. Timor-Leste & Indonesia), feminist theory, oral history; she/her.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
History Council of SA @historycouncilsa.bsky.social HCSA is the peak body providing a representative voice on historical issues, celebrating and raising the profile of history in South Australia.
David Waldron @davidwaldron.bsky.social I am a historian at FUA on Wadawurrung land, writer for the podcast Tales from Rat City, and ENNIE Winning Call of Cthulhu TTRPG writer.
Alicia Cerreto @aliciacerreto.bsky.social Historian, Educator, Speaker. Melbourne.
www.aliciacerreto.com
Melbourne City of Literature Office @melcityoflit.bsky.social The official Blue Sky account for the Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature office.
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Australian Migration History Network @amigrationhn.bsky.social https://amigrationhn.wordpress.com/
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