Matthew Mason @matthewmason.bsky.social Historian of the politics of slavery
Becca Palmer @beccapalmer99.bsky.social Research Officer @LSE | History of ideas, print culture, & early America | Seminar convenor at the IHR
Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. Recently joined Green Party.
Patrick McGahon @paadzer.bsky.social Irish gay guy in the East of England 🏳️🌈
In my fifties
EastEnders & Bargain Hunt fan
RIP mum 💔 2022
Worked at Cambridge University & NHS
Awful at responding to DMs
Sober a few years
Not looking for hookups or onlyfans subscriptions
Meg E. Roberts @megeroberts.bsky.social Historian. Postdoc @ Edinburgh, PhD @ Cambridge. Writing about caregiving labour and health crises in c18th Philadelphia. Usually thinking about early modern nurses, apothecaries, or public transit systems. 🚃
Ursula Hackett @uhackett.bsky.social Reader in Politics | Churchill Associate Professor in U.S. Politics at the University of Oxford (from Sep 1)| Author of America's Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State
Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social The RAI is a Department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the USA. Check out our podcast, The Last Best Hope with our Director, Professor Adam Smith!
https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/
Dave @davejeeping.bsky.social 🌞
Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social Historian & nerd. Author/editor of 5 books, including AMERICAN ZION: A NEW HISTORY OF MORMONISM. views = my own
https://linktr.ee/benjaminepark
Ashlyn @madebysheik.bsky.social
@beyondchaz.bsky.social @beyondchaz.bsky.social Blue-state girl, cares about social fairness, environmental protection, and the little joys in life.
Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social Historian of U.S. politics, law, & constitutionalism. Director, Richards Civil War Era Center at Penn State. Book out fall 2026: The Political Supreme Court: A Forgotten History. Preorder: https://a.co/d/05KfbAa4
rachelshelden.com
Irish By Descent @irishbydescent.bsky.social Irish By Descent is a U.S.-based education company offering practical guidance on Irish citizenship by descent and family history research. Not affiliated with the Government of Ireland.
linktr.ee/irishbydescent
Instagram: @irishbydescent ☘️
Chris Murray @drchrismurray.bsky.social Author and critic | Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University | Host, Irish Books Podcast | FRAS
NUR @nnrnates.bsky.social ~ Nec Ventis Nec Undis ~
~ Mülkiye IR - PhD ~
Conciencia Democrática 🌹 @concienciadem.bsky.social Revista de análisis político, RRII e historia. Tradición de la Rosa Blanca: dignidad humana, democracia liberal, república. ES · EN · IT · DE · PT · PL.
🌹 conciencia-democratica.vercel.app
Hans Klis @hansklis.bsky.social Writer and journalist | Research, books and podcasts | US and geopolitics, history | 📚 Out now: Help, de president is gek geworden. | Also: Generatie Columbine (2019), ABC van de Buitenlandjournalistiek (2022) | debuitenlandredactiedbr.substack.com
Tom Goyens @tomgoyens.bsky.social Professor of History, Salisbury Univ | Anarchism | Author of "Beer and Revolution" & "Johann Most" | Belgian beer lover
https://txgoyens.wixsite.com/tomgoyens | https://tomgoyens.substack.com/
O. Carbolic @ocarbolic.bsky.social Extraction industry. Crustaform pitch. My Preben. That's the short version. The long version is the same, just slower.
Oona Frawley @oonaf.bsky.social This Interim Time out with Lilliput Press May '25. Assoc Prof at Maynooth University.
Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social Economic historian at UL. Author of 'The Irish Department of Finance, 1959-1999' and 'Policy Failures and the Irish Economic Crisis'.
Erin Shearer @erinshearer.bsky.social Historian of slavery, resistance, and gender.
Fellow-in-Residence at the Rothermere American Institute; Associate Tutor at Oxford Lifelong Learning; Associate Tutor at the University of Warwick.
Michael Cangemi @mcangemi.bsky.social Historian of US foreign relations, the Guatemalan civil war and Mayan genocide, human rights, and Catholicism in Latin America. Assistant Professor, Albany State University. Enjoyer of baseball, metal, and a hopeful Tifoso. Despiser of falcons.
Norberto Barreto Velázquez @norbertobarreto.bsky.social Puerto Rican historian and blogger working on USA history, US-Latin American relations, and US-Peruvian relations.
norbertobarreto.wordpress.com
Sarah R. Meiners, PhD @srmeiners.bsky.social Assistant Professor at James Madison University // Historian of US refugee policy in the US empire, 1975 - present // also writing about unaccompanied minors at Guantánamo
Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897). Just finished another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world.
Lauren Davis Jarnach @laurenjarnach.bsky.social History DPhil at the University of Oxford
19th-century state constitutions
Documentary Editor at the Quill Project
https://faircopy.substack.com/
Kaete O'Connell @kaeteoc.bsky.social Historian of Food & Foreign Relations | #SHAFR Deputy Director | Senior Fellow @cphatsmu.bsky.social
Emily Conroy-Krutz @econroykrutz.bsky.social Historian of 19th century religion and US foreign relations. Author of Christian Imperialism (2015) and Missionary Diplomacy (2024)
Gwion Wyn Jones @gwionwynjones.bsky.social Historian of American religion in the c19 and Leverhulme Research Fellow at Oxford University.
Author of 'Christ, Church, and Country: Home Missions and the Religious Reconstruction of the United States After the Civil War' (UVA; out December 2026)
Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social Author, editor, professor of history, Philadelphian. Nobody should be deported.
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469673042/dreamland/
Ben Bankhurst @benbankhurst.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Appalachian Studies, Early America, 18th/ C. Irish and British History.
Karst de Jong @karstdejong.bsky.social Historian of the Irish in the Caribbean. Volunteer bookseller.
Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social;
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social Assistant Dean of Research and Professor in English at the University of Limerick. Fan of all things Gothic. Views mine. She/her.
John Walsh @nuachainteoir.bsky.social Sociolinguist at University of Galway:
language policy, Gaeilge, Cymraeg, language revitalisation, multilingualism, media, archives, politics. Posts/reposts in GA/CY/ES/CA/GL/EN. See @pirate.ie for radio history project.
Rob Parkinson @rparkinson.bsky.social Prof. of History, Binghamton University. Author, Heart of American Darkness, Tyrants & Rogues. Go Vols, Go Steelers.
Rich Condon @richcondon.bsky.social | Historian | Researcher | Writer | Yinzer |
*Opinions shared here are my own*
Professor Mac @bryanmcgovern.bsky.social Liverpool, Notre Dame, Bengals fan. Historian focusing on Irish/Irish-American History. Bourbon, wine, and craft beer. YNWA
Billy Linehan 🇪🇺🇮🇪 @billylinehan.bsky.social Adviser for Business & more! Irish Tech News | Celtar Advisers | StartUp Ballymun | Dublin, Ireland. Grower of ideas, businesses, communities & #historymatters
Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social Co-editor, The Colored Conventions Movement (2021). Writing a history of editing and editors. Making our way at the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, Early Black Press Project, and the Coalition for Black Digital Research.
Donal @donalhist.bsky.social Irish History Postgrad 🇮🇪- G Gordon O'Sullivan @gordonos.bsky.social History, Historical Fiction, Digital Humanities
Irish Humanities Alliance @irishhumanities.bsky.social A joint initiative of humanities researchers within universities across the island of Ireland.
Based @ria.ie
Posts by IHA coordinator @sonjatiernan.bsky.social
www.irishhumanities.ie
Thomas Leahy @thomasdmleahy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer British/Irish Politics & Contemporary History, Cardiff Uni. Research Irish Republicanism, Irish Gov & conflict legacy. Also have RR Multiple Sclerosis and Cardiff/Vale MS Society group organiser. Mavenclad since 2025. Views own.
Eamonn O’Keeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social Pratt Fellow in History, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Author of Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars (McGill-Queen's, 2027).
Previously a Research Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge.
https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Irish Committee of Historical Sciences - ICHS @irishhistorians.bsky.social The Irish Committee of Historical Sciences is the national committee for history in Ireland.
Further details: http://www.historians.ie/
Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
Aisha Djelid @aishadjelid.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the antebellum South, Broadbent Career Development Fellow in American History at the Rothermere American Institute & St Edmund Hall at Oxford
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
Rayna Elizabeth @rayna.bsky.social (she/her) M.Ed., Gamer, AI Culture
Gaeilge, Pro Mutual Support 🩷💜💙
Psych/Anthro 🍉🩼 #enm
#antiimperialist #antifascist #ceasefirenow
Singer 🎤 Imperial Ashes 🤘🏼
Insta: @learningirishtogether
@kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Frances Bell @franrbell.bsky.social Historian of the Haitian revolutionary diaspora, mobility, and freedom-seeking in the United States. Assist. Prof at App State; W&M and Woodson Institute alum. Handy with a knitting needle, happy on a bicycle. She/her.
Connie Thomas @conniethomas.bsky.social Historian of early US migration politics & American identity
Lecturer in US History @UCL.ac.uk
Comms @branchuk.bsky.social
Cambridge American History Seminar Podcast @camericanist.bsky.social Welcome to the Cambridge seminar experience, where leading historians and graduate students exchange ideas about new lines of inquiry shaping the future of the field. Produced by @daisysemmler.bsky.social (img: Kent Monkman 2019)
Eran Zelnik @eranzelnik.bsky.social US Historian, recovering former Zionist, author of “American Laughter American Fury,” on white men’s humor in the early US. CFA union VP, Chico chapter, dogdad
Chris Evans @cevans3.bsky.social Historian of enslavement, emancipation, energy, and metals. Author of “Slavery’s Long Goodbye: Capitalism, Nationalism and Christianity in the Age of British Emancipation” ( 2026).
Hunter Price @mhunterprice.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Western Washington University. Historian of Revolutionary and Civil War Eras.
Author of Sacred Capital: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5936/
Dr James Rowland @jamesrowland.bsky.social Historian and Postdoctoral Researcher exploring the influence of America on 19th century British reform debates | PhD King’s College London | Currently coordinating peer review and research funding at the British Academy
@muttar.bsky.social @muttar.bsky.social I am a student my name is muctar I’m from the Gambia
Erik B. Alexander @erikalexander.bsky.social Professor of American history at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. UVa PhD. Father of 2 boys, dog person, University of Illinois sports fanatic. Opinions are my own.
Claire Dubois @clairedubois.bsky.social Associate Professor University of Lille. Irish history, memory studies…
Currently working on the French representations of the Irish revolutionary period.
Patrick WJ Thompson @patrickwjthompson.bsky.social Researcher at Queen's University Belfast | Interested in civil rights, social movements, Irish-British relations | All views my own etc.
Françoise Baillet @fbaillet.bsky.social Prof. of British History and Culture at @universite-caen.bsky.social
Victorianist. Newspapers & magazines. Labour and the illustrated press.
Principal Investigator (PI) of @punchspocketbook.bsky.social.
She/her
Nicholas T. Pruitt @ntphistory.bsky.social Associate Prof of History | SUNY-Suffolk County Community College | Historian of 20c U.S. religion and political culture | Book w/ NYU Press | Sucker for books and coffee | Views are simply my own.
Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of Claiming Land, Claiming Water & To Feast on Us as Their Prey. More: rachelbherrmann.com
Zachary Conn @zacharyconn.bsky.social Historian of pre-1900 North America. Postdoc at the University of Idaho. Working on a book about early US representatives to Native American nations and a podcast about the Diary of John Quincy Adams. Learn more IF YOU DARE at zacharyconn.com
John Craig Hammond @johncraighammond.bsky.social Professor of History, Penn State
Enslavement, Emancipation, and Empire in North America, 1750 - 1820
Avid Footballer
https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828429/the-centrality-of-slavery/
https://sites.psu.edu/jch24/
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Amanda Waterhouse @amandawaterhouse.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow, Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame. Editor, Age of Revolutions. PhD, IU Bloomington. Historian of int’l development + architecture in Colombia & beyond.
SHAFR @shafrhistorians.bsky.social The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
est. 1967
Thomas Tweed @tomtweed.bsky.social Historian of religion. Author of 9 books, including Religion: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford); and Religion in the Lands That Became America (Yale). https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300221480/religion-in-the-lands-that-became-ame
Cara Delay @delaycara.bsky.social Historian of reproduction and women's health studying abortion in Ireland and the American south. WGST professor at the University of South Carolina
Dr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social Author of Author of Maladies of Empire & Sick from Freedom; Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation; Gilder Lehrman NEH Prof at Gettysburg College; https://www.jimdownsofficial.com
Jason A. Higgins, Ph.D @jasonhiggins.bsky.social Author. Editor. Historian. Prisoners after War: Veterans in the Age of Mass Incarceration (UMass Press) Digital Scholarship Coordinator Virginia Tech Press; Assistant Professor. My views don’t reflect my employer. https://shorturl.at/HpPO7
David Fitzgerald @davidfitzgerald.bsky.social Historian of war, militarization and the US in the world at University College Cork.
Author of Uncertain Warriors: The United States Army betwen the Cold War and the War on Terror (https://cambridge.org/9781009235808).