Susan @susanreadsbooks.bsky.social I read books, drink tea, love history. Volunteer local history researcher at Regency Town House, Hove. Bereaved mum.
She/her
@drfionamccall.bsky.social @drfionamccall.bsky.social 
Callum Laing @callumlaing.bsky.social I help ambitious people raise capital, get board seats, take companies public. Let's get more entrepreneurs and builders on bsky!
Author of 4 best selling business books
Tim Soens @tsoens.bsky.social Environmental History UAntwerp Belgium. Looks at Climate Extremes in the past. Inequality matters.
Native Dialogs in German @nativedialogsde.bsky.social Practice #German by chatting to virtual humans.
Eleanor @eleanor-19thc.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth researching women botanists in the long nineteenth century
Map Myths @mapmyths.com Map Myths delves into the stories and people behind the phantom geography found on maps - by @rhewlif.xyz
Myth map 👉 https://mapmyths.com
Long reads 👉 https://mapmyths.com/blog
Dr Kate Whitman @katemwhitman.bsky.social Behavioural Economist | Research Fellow | Consumer Culture | Circular Economy
Papillon19 @papillon19.bsky.social Aups d'Auta Provença
Alpes-de-Haute-
Provence
Mont Aiguille, in the Vercors Massif in French Prealps. , is the backing photo
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Elle/elas/she
Non inultus premor
Louise Oldfield @louiseoldfield.bsky.social Northerner, researcher. 2025-26 MA Naval, Maritime Coastal History University of Portsmouth. B&B landlady in an 18th c. house in Margate. Interests: lives of working class people, 20th century Britain, Special Operation Forces, WWII
Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social Environmental consultant, researcher & non-fiction writer; water & nature; heritage & natural history; women in science; biographer of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter; Ireland & Wales connections; accepts commissions.
https://catherineduigan.co.uk/
Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
Stephie @geohistnut.bsky.social Nuts about geology and history, the arts and the natural world especially animals. 💙
No pornography, nor do I wish to date anyone. I believe cryptocurrencies are a con and an abhorrence to the environment.
Please no DMs.
Opinions are my own.
Dr David Jarratt. @davidjarratt.bsky.social Academic. Interested in various aspects of #tourism, place and coastal communities in particular. Interdisciplinary. Preston, Lancashire.
Dr Gemma Masson @glmasson.bsky.social London based cliosophic Historian. Mostly Ottomans but all history & folklore welcome! Editor Islam and Christian Muslim Relations Journal, HEmpire & HFolk. British Association for Turkish Area Studies Committee. Museum & book ethusiast! #skystorians
Matthew Jerome Schneider @socistmjs.bsky.social Sociology Professor | Race/Whiteness | Community and Civic Engagement | Environment | Hiking with my dogs | #FirstGen | Posts my own | mjschneider.net
MA Naval, Maritime and Coastal History Portsmouth @navalhistory.bsky.social Study watery history at the home of the Royal Navy through distance learning. Bringing together students from all over the world. #NavalHistory #CoastalHistory #MaritimeHistory 
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Sam Manning @sammanning88.bsky.social Barry Lyndon fan. Occasionally writes about cinema history, mostly in Northern Ireland. Co-host of the Wonder Cinema Podcast: https://thewondercinema.buzzsprout.com/
Ian McCulloch @pompeymac.bsky.social Green Party activist, volunteer archivist and retired librarian in Portsmouth/Southsea. Also occasional driver of a mobile library. Linux fan.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social Historian. Manager. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, University of the Highlands and Islands. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/about-uhi/senior-management/professor-david-worthington/
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Hannah Porter @hporter.bsky.social Faculty Librarian for Business at the University of Portsmouth
Charlotte Crofts @charlottecrofts.bsky.social New here. Professor of cinema arts; director of Cary Comes Home Festival; co-founder of Angela Carter Society; chief editor of Screenworks; filmmaker, lover of cinemas & their curtains. #BristolCityOfFilm Views my own. https://linktr.ee/charlottecrofts
Francis Pakes @francispakes.bsky.social Professor in Criminology. Nordic prison expert and keen runner, dog walker and chess enthusiast 
Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
Mario Holzner @marioholzner.bsky.social macro-economist & director @wiiw.ac.at, historian @dshcs.bsky.social, visiting professor @collegeofeurope.bsky.social, policy, econometrics, EU, Central, East & Southeast Europe
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
Alexa Price, Ph.D. @downeast-alexa.bsky.social Maritime museum programs and collections manager; artist; beekeeper; historian of memory, masculinity and the Royal Navy; researching the polar career of James Clark Ross.
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/
Ryan Anderson @anthropologia.bsky.social Cultural, environmental, and economic anthropologist. All things coastal. Photography. Some baseball too.
Dave Starkey @davidstarkey.bsky.social voyeur of blue skies, simply looking for history, art, science, engineering, amusement and data…
…no relation to the other guy!
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
PelagicNemo ⛴ ⚓️ ✨ 🌈 @pelagicnemo.bsky.social Mariner. Navigator. Wayfinder. Indigenous. Scots. Queer. Love anything of the sea (on & under), natural history, physics, writing, history, literature. I'm an insanely curious, exploring nerd. Like, I've driven little tiny cars right into jungles...
Elizabeth B. Davis @barloventear.bsky.social Academy Prof of Iberian Studies. Specialist in Early Modern Spain. Current research on early modern accounts of the Crossing and the Iberian Atlantic world. *Sorry; I do not send money to persons or organizations who request it on BlueSky.
James Carey @jamescarey714.bsky.social Ocean Advocate, Geospatial Data Ambassador, Marine Archaeology Enthusiast.
Marko Aho @markoaho.bsky.social Working in the field of Information and Cyber Security. Organizational Security and Risk Management professional. This is My private account. All opinions are My own.
Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
Robb Robinson @robb51.bsky.social Maritime and British historian. British Commission for Maritime History Trustee, Hon Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interests include the Yorkshire Coast, fisheries history and the role of smaller vessels in the Great War at Sea.
Dr. Amy Drahota @amydrahota.bsky.social Associate Professor in Health & Care Evidence & Evaluation, University of Portsmouth. Interested in: health & care of older adults; falls and injury prevention; equity, diversity, & inclusion in research.
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social Archaeologist researching the US Southwest, professor, museum professional. My website: https://michelle-turner.owlstown.net/
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Leah Fullegar @leahfullegar.bsky.social Postdoctoral social care researcher at the University of Portsmouth, animal lover, and generally scatty human being. Talk to me about dogs, knitting, quilting, or older adult social care research. Better yet, combine them all.
Deborah Shaw @devorashawa.bsky.social Academic who publishes on film and television with a specialism in gender and sexuality and Latin American film
Some of my work can be found here: https://www.deborahshaw.co.uk/
Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social Woman of Kent | recovering Curator | Wessex Archaeology| Neanderthal-botherer | Akela | submerged landscapes, paths and tracks | #IceAgeIsland #archaeology #palaeolithic
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Frisia Coast Trail @frisiacoasttrail.bsky.social The 1,000 mile coastal history hike. For people with fear of heights and interest in 2,500 years of living on the sharp edge of land and sea - www.frisiacoasttrail.blog/blog
Arthur Seaton #FBPE #Wessex @southsaxon.bsky.social Working class history, photography, railways, skiing, cats, corvids and goats! A sense of humour is essential. Cat butler. Reluctant intellectual. Rare disease survivor. Born at 314.3ppm.
https://railthing.blogspot.com/?m=1
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at University of Portsmouth (but posts are my own, mind). Victorian literature, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Glenn Hadikin @glennhadikin.bsky.social Linguist who recently arrived from Twitter.
Faculty Director of Postgraduate research.
Sacred Heart University History Department @shuhistorydept.bsky.social Explore, Discover, Learn, Become! Study abroad in Dingle, Ireland! ☘️ https://www.sacredheart.edu/academics/colleges--schools/college-of-arts--sciences/departments--schools/history/
Gabrielle Robilliard @gabyrobilliard.bsky.social Historian of early modern food (especially tea and coffee), intoxicants, medicine, material culture, religion (German Pietism), maritime and global history. Also currently researching sailors‘ stuff.
Postdoc, Prize Papers Project, Oldenburg University
Claire Bailey Ross @clairebaileyross.bsky.social Associate Dean Academic @uniportcci | Associate Professor Digital Heritage | Museums Tech, Co-design & Audience Experience | Geordie in the South (she/her)
Jo Godfrey @jogodfrey.bsky.social Editorial Director, Penguin Press - commissioning history for Allen Lane (views my own)
Dr Joan Passey @joanpassey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English / Gothic / queer ecologies / coasts and seascapes / Shirley Jackson
Bethany Claus Widick @bethn8r.bsky.social Architectural historian (women’s spaces in the long 19th century), PhD candidate (Courtauld), assoc. lecturer, knitter, wool shop employee. Politically progressive and culturally effusive. Former lawyer. US—>UK, based in Bath. I love a good fountain pen.
b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social modern German+US history is my niche. archives & libraries are my happy place📚. She/her 🇵🇸🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🟧✊🏻.
Tim McMahon @timtimothy87.bsky.social Historian of 19th-20th c Ireland & the British Empire. Faculty at Marquette University (WI, USA). Researching national identity, empires, decolonization, popular culture, especially religion.
Dr Gemma Harper OBE @jncc-ceo.bsky.social CEO, JNCC - UK’s statutory advisor on nature | Award-winning Leader | ENDS Power List 2025 | Mentor of the Year 2025 | Non-Executive Director | Trustee | Keynote Speaker | On a mission for nature 💚
www.jncc.gov.uk
Bob Pierik @bobpi.bsky.social Historian. Researching early modern space, gender, water and other things.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern Urban History at the VUB. Brussels based.
Posts in Dutch and English
https://linktr.ee/bobpierik
Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
Dr Paul O’Brien @drpaulobrien.bsky.social Historian of 19th century. Columnist: Limerick Leader. Editor of the North Munster Academic Journal. Council of Europa Nostra. Lecturer: MIC Limerick. Board: Alliance Française de Limerick.
Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic, and Piracy 🏴☠️
Jon Waggoner, PE @jonwaggoner.bsky.social Coastal Engineer, sailor, cider maker, general putterer and dabbler around the house
Department of History - Western University @westernuhistory.bsky.social Department of History, Western University, Lawson Hall 2201, London, Ontario, Canada #westernu #purpleandproud #ldnont
@westernupubhist #Masters #PhD 🐎 history.uwo.ca
history-inquiries@uwo.ca
Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social Join us at Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project Group.
https://oceandecadechfp.org/.../indigenous-people.../
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Rowan Thompson @rowan-thompson.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain. Former IHR Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History. Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain out now: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/organised-militarism-in-interwar-britain/
Nikki Cleaver @nikkicinnotts.bsky.social Social history obsessed.
Creative and inquisitive.
Passionate about life long learning.
Ex Adult Ed course organiser in East Mids. Now carer.
"Well behaved women seldom make history".
Labels are for clothes.
Univ. Portsmouth History @uophistory.bsky.social Feed for University of Portsmouth History.
Vera-Simone Schulz @verasimoneschulz.bsky.social at the crossroads of African, Islamic, European art histories and critical museology; co-convener of "Planetary Patchwork", "Material Migrations", and "Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies and Aesthetics"
Mary Williams @marymaryw.bsky.social Journalism lecturer, sea swimmer and gig goer when the dogs let me. I’m vegan just to annoy you.
Shaz Wheeler @lartonmedia.bsky.social Day job is journalism and PR to finance an expensive stationery habit. Recovering sports writer. Main topic of conversation is rugby, with media and music not far behind. Co-editor of www.crimereview.co.uk.
Casarina @casarina.bsky.social phd student at carleton || food & environmental history || former boob & bagel expert || mcgill & uoft alumna || she/her 🌺🌿
Christiane Kroebel @whitbyhistory.bsky.social Historian, mostly medieval Whitby, St Hilda churches; fellowship @ihr.bsky.social ; archaeology recorder @whitbynats.bsky.social ; abbey collection curator at Whitby Museum @whitbymuseum.bsky.social
Scotch and Miltonic @chronodyne.bsky.social Fascinated by the early modern period: I'm here if we you want to talk about John Milton, the 17th Century, Baroque Music and Art. The Reformation to The Enlightenment is my JAM.
COPP Survey @coppsurvey.uk Dedicated to Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP), a top-secret unit that carried out covert reconnaissance of enemy-held beaches during the Second World War. Website: coppsurvey.uk
Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social karenaverby.co.uk
Buildings Historian/Consultant
Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights
Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk
FRHistS ACIfA
Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist
Rep PastPreservers
Brum/London
David Wilson @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social Historian working on legal and environmental history within context of colonialism & oceans / lakes, esp. piracy, fishing, & marine science. Current focus: Law, Science, and the British Colonial Fisheries Advisory Committee. Senior Lecturer @ Strathclyde.
Joe Thorndike @joethorndike.bsky.social Tax | History | Politics
Not in any particular order, although tax pays the bills (for me and everyone else). 
Alexandra Cronin (she/her) @alexandracronin.bsky.social Environmental Peacebuilding 🌿🕊️🧱 | Transboundary Freshwater Conflict and Cooperation ⛲️ | Maritime Affairs 🌊 | Energy Justice ⚖️
📚 MA The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
📚 BA Wellesley College
✨Views my own✨
Simon P @tallsimon.bsky.social IT Contractor, wargamer, ex-RN tiff and submariner, volunteer guide at RN Submarine Museum. Can cook. Partial to a single malt or a good red wine
Jay Carriker @jaycarriker.bsky.social Published historian with a focus on #MarshallTX, culture of the ancient Mediterranean ( #Elagabalus thesis; #Hatshepsut historiography ), & #historiography & #historicpreservation — #writer, #grantwriter, #notary, #photographer, jaycarriker.com
Lisa Constanti - Chronicology @chronicology.bsky.social Professional Genealogist. Family History and Heraldic enthusiast. Cyprus Research and Cemeteries project. UK and European family histories.
Norah Schneider @nschneider03.bsky.social Disaster and hazard historian, but I like it all. Climate, hazards, society, and infrastructure. Natural & human made.
Always up for talking about cats, books, office supplies, reality tv, true crime, and pop culture.
New England Girl always! 💕
Miriam Al Jamil @miriam1.bsky.social 18th century art, sculpture and literature; travel writing, material culture; fine arts editor BSECS Criticks, Burney Society, women’s Studies Group, Johnson Society. Too many books.
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Michael Romero @mromero.bsky.social Science-Fiction fan, World History teacher, Naval Historian, always something more I need to be writing or reading...
Brian Mackie @brianmackie.bsky.social WW2 Clyde history. HMCS Niobe / Royal Canadian Navy. Greenock Morton / In the Community. Slava Ukraini!
Inger Sheil @oceanicing.bsky.social Assistant Curator Australian National Maritime Museum, loves lighthouses and ocean liners, vintage and antique clothing collector, historian, 1920s aesthetic, literature and art lover, silent film watcher and chihuahua attendant
Dr Jenny Lee @jennyrlee.bsky.social Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication.
Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life.
AuDHD.
Views my own.
Guillaume Calafat @gcalafat.bsky.social Historian, early modern period, Mediterranean shipwrecks
Associate Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IHMC)
Institut Universitaire de France (Junior Member)
Editor of Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (@annales.ehess.fr)
Rachel Murray @rachelmurray.bsky.social Lecturer in Lit and Environment at @bristoluni.bsky.social | Co-director @uobrisceh.bsky.social
Writing: Marine Attachments 🦀🐚🪼🐙
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rachel-Murray-fc3d0780-8a1b-4a92-9676-5c862ea56faa/
@pag10.bsky.social @pag10.bsky.social Retired accountant. Loves animals. Hates tories.