Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Wilson Cruz @wilsoncruz.bsky.social “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” - Audre Lorde
King Arthur Baking Company @kingarthurbaking.bsky.social Baking With Joy Since 1790
kingarthurbaking.com
Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social Associate Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University. Author of Jesus & the Forces of Death and A Jewish Paul: The Messiah's Herald to the Gentiles.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
The Medieval Academy of America @medievalacademy.bsky.social North America's first organization of medievalists
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Empire: World History @empirepoduk.bsky.social Podcast on empires and world history 🌎
A Goalhanger production with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple
Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her) @lindstorian.bsky.social I like history. Horses are also cool.
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!
John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social Nebula Award & Locus Award winner. Novels: SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (2024), WEARING THE LION (2025), THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS (2026). Disabled. Ace/aro. He/him. https://linktr.ee/johnwiswell
Folger Shakespeare Library @folger.edu The world's largest Shakespeare collection - plus, home to Folger Theatre, Consort, Poetry, Exhibitions, Research, Education, and more!
Jake @ HUBhistory @hubhistory.com Host of HUB History, a Boston history podcast that goes far beyond the Freedom Trail. Freelance podcast producer. Recovering marathoner and current YMCA swimmer. Dog lover.
🔗 https://HUBhistory.com/
📍 Boston, MA
🎧 HUB History
Hat Full of Sky @hatfullofsky.bsky.social Profile pic by Lynda Barry. Nonsense by me.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Iberian Connexions @iberianconnexions.bsky.social Routlege Early Modern Iberian History in Global Contexts: Connexions
L.D. Burnett @ldburnett.bsky.social born and raised and flourishing in California’s Great Central Valley
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social Ancient Historian @ UC Berkeley • 🇪🇦 • politics | sports | electronic music • He/Him
Lauren Fraser @walkyouhome.bsky.social
Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social Honorary Fellow in History Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯
Website and blog: https://drtayloraucoin.com
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
Ellen Arnold @medievalpenguin.bsky.social Medievalist, environmental historian, penguin historian. Incoming editor of Environmental History. Author of Medieval Riverscapes, Negotiating the Landscape, and Water in World History. EFArnold.com
Penguin (even when you struggle you're still a penguin)
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Dr Sam Bailey @18thcenturysam.bsky.social Antiquarian bookseller @keelrowbooks /Visiting Fellow of Bibliography and Book History @newcastleuni / fan of weird books/ she/they
Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social Emotional historian
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social We bring the best of Canadian scholarship to the world and the best of international scholarship to Canada.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social American Vandal Pod | Prof of AmLit & Twain Studies + Director of Media Studies, Elmira College | Resident Scholar @MarkTwain.bsky.social | Political Economy of Mass Media
TheAmericanVandal.com
MattSeybold.com
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social historian of early christianity, scholar of magic & heresy, critic of empires, neurospicy, bleeding heart
books: magic and heresy (https://bit.ly/4mo1fY4) and smoke & mirrors (https://bit.ly/43ygshX). now writing about teleology, epistemicide, and empire.
Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com Professor, historian, author THE BRIGHT AGES (2021), OATHBREAKERS (2024), and VIOLENCE: A CHRISTIAN HISTORY (coming soon). Host podcast "American Medieval"
nostalgia/apocalypse. religion/violence. medieval/modern. Neutral Good. He/ him.
profgabriele.com
George The Station Cat @george-station-cat.bsky.social My name is George. I am the senior mouse catcher and I “work” at Stourbridge Junction railway station. *not all quotes are my own- but quoted with love
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social Anthropologist 👣 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams 🐚 and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷♀️ She/They)
https://ko-fi.com/manigarm
Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker. Author of 'The Ballad of Abu Ghraib', 'A Cold Case' & 'We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.’ Faculty at Bard Prison Initiative.
Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social Antifa goat farm and beer garden in Field Store (Houston) Texas. We used to make cheese and trouble, but we no longer make cheese.
Buy stuff: https://blueheronfarmcajeta.com/
H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social All things related to the study of French & Francophone History & Culture. The official BlueSky feed of the H-France website (www.h-france.net).
kc green @kcg.bsky.social cartoonist of Greatures, made "This is Fine" • he/him • http://kcgportfolio.site • https://linktr.ee/kcgreenn • email me: kcgreenn@icloud.com
Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social Author of Barack Obama’s summer 2026 reading pick DATA EMPIRE 📉👑, Provost Leadership Fellow for AI Strategy at Dartmouth 💚, horse girl 🐴, roopikarisam.com
Joel Plaskett @joelplaskett.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for Joel Plaskett. Tour dates & more: joelplaskett.com. Newsletter: thewindowinn.substack.com
Andrew "Ace" Arsenault @acearsenault.bsky.social Open Thoughts, Electrical Engineering, Computer Programming, Music & Oldskool Technology.
I design audio gear, compose music and build experimental musical instruments.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Stephan Eicher Officiel @stephaneicheroff.bsky.social Compte officiel de Stephan Eicher
POUSSIÈRE D'OR mon nouvel album disponible partout : https://stephaneicher.lnk.to/poussieredoralbum?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
🇺🇸 Guardian US https://bsky.app/profile/us.theguardian.com
🇦🇺 Guardian Australia https://bsky.app/profile/australia.theguardian.com
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr Founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
Presenting the most innovative research in the field of history and social sciences.
👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales
👉 https://shs.cairn.info/revue-annales
oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social One line a day from @erinbartram.bsky.social's dissertation research. Dissertation here: https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/dissertations/988/ Key to sources and people: https://erinbartram.com/research/janes-world-daily/
Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social School and Applied Child Psychology Program
McGill University, Montreal, QC
Director of the School Psychology Credibility Project in The Connections Lab
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social Contemporary History Person - Histories of activism and suchlike. Malvern dweller, Bham worker. Trier. Proper info here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/moores-chris.aspx
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
AltWatcher @altwatcher.bsky.social Keeping an eye on "Alt" US Govt. accounts, and one account in particular.
For more of my writing on this subject:
https://dispatchesfromtheonlinevoid.wordpress.com/
My main account: @jjoycelynch.bsky.social
Visit altnationalparks.com to learn more!
Jane Whittle @jwhittle.bsky.social Professor of economic and social history at Exeter University. Research on work, gender, households, material culture, rural economy and more. Mostly England 1300-1750.
Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me National Reporter for Religion News Service. "Workaday writer." — The New Yorker. Author of "American Prophets," a book on the religious left. Tips? Try me on Signal: jackmjenkins.60 Website: jackjenkins.me
fuzzydinosaur @fuzzydinosaur.bsky.social
French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account for the French Colonial Historical Society.
French Colonial Studies @frenchcolostudies.bsky.social
Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social Texas Medical Center (TMC) Pediatrics Professor-Vaccine Scientist-Author; Member, Philosophical Society of Texas, Texas Academy of Medicine Engineering Science Technology, National Academy of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Jack Hayes @jack-hayes.bsky.social Collections @brunelmuseum.bsky.social | IHR Fellow @ihr.bsky.social
Micheline White @michelinewhite.bsky.social Professor at Carleton U. #earlymodern. Lover of old books, Katherine Parr, female writers, the English Reformation, marginalia, and early modern liturgy. Essays forthcoming on Mary Tudor's marginalia and Catherine of Aragon's Book of Hours.
Linda Porter @drlindaporter.bsky.social Tudor and Stuart historian. Author of six books, most recent a biography of Henry VIII's misunderstood and maligned elder sister, Margaret Tudor. Historical consultant and broadcaster. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social Royal Studies scholar, interested in monarchy (particularly queens!) in all periods and places. Always spinning a few too many plates for my own good, and admit to having a soft spot for a good G&T
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
Rosie White @drrosalindwhite.bsky.social Aspiring Time-traveller⏳ #SloaneLab 🔬🌿 Community Research Fellow @UCL, & Collections Assistant at Strawberry Hill House 🏰
Dr Elizabeth L'Estrange FRHistS @drlizlestrange.bsky.social Medieval/Early Modern MSS and books, art history, material culture, gender studies, SL at Birmingham Uni, nomad, good wine, views mine
Mary Jo MacDonald @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social Political theorist at Mount Allison University, previously JYU and UofT
maryjomacdonald.com
Rachel J Kirkwood @drkirky.bsky.social Academic library manager-researcher, bi mum, singer, Quaker, European; #DH #EarlyModern stuff #DoctorWho #fanfic #GoodOmens #languages #linguistics #metaphor #QuakerStudies
Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson @earlymodernaf.bsky.social #EarlyModern England, gender, religion, and childbirth, lecturer @MacEwan U, Cofounder of Bodies and Being
Current: a chapter for A Hist of Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Early Modern Age (Bloomsbury, 2026)
Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
Jennifer Topale @faerietnk.bsky.social Assistant Professor (English) at KU, interested in Milton, early modern women, utopian/dystopian themes, & exiles in literature (she/her)
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Writing a book on Perkin Warbeck. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
Dr. Emily MN Kugler @emnk.bsky.social Associate Professor @ Howard
Explores how people imagined themselves in the past & how we (mis)remember them.
I’ve a book on #c18 representations of the Ottomans, articles on Black Britons, teach gender/sexuality, & talk games with @friede.bsky.social
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Cat Evans @crevans.bsky.social Early modernist working on women's writing & philosophy @cultphil.bsky.social
Interested in books, beads, birds and baking.
Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social PhD researcher looking at the textual legacy of Mary Queen of Scots at University of Glasgow 👩🏼🦰 📝 She/her
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/emilyhay/#
Dr Catherine McMillan @catmcm.bsky.social Early modern historian. PhD (Edinburgh) on Reformation in NE Scotland. New projects on British humanitarianism, Mediterranean captives, & African presence. Clergy in Early Modern Scotland 📖 https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781783276196/the-clergy-in-early-
Naomi McAreavey @naomimca.bsky.social Lecturer, English, University College Dublin, early modern women’s writing, University for All
Marie-Louise Coolahan @mlcoolahan.bsky.social Tweets @recirc_
Christina Luckyj @luckyj1.bsky.social Editing Anne Southwell, most excellent seventeenth century woman of letters.
Liz Loveland @lizlgenealogy.bsky.social Historian & pro genealogist 1st trained in anthro & arch. M.A., History of Family. Slavery in northern colonies/US; early modern era; African-American history; genocide. Mutual aid, travel, art history, climate change. Citizen scientist. Learning Japanese.
Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com
Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Kathleen Lubey @kathylubey.bsky.social i study pornography, profess literature, cook food, sip cocktails. kathleenlubey.com
Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social 18th-centuryist, book historian, media scholar. I read old letters. Professor, UCSB English
rachaelsking.com
The Book of Improvement: Media Landscapes in the Global Enlightenment (Yale, 2026)
How Much, How Little: A Memoir of Caregiving (One Signal, 2027)
Lisa Maruca @lmaruca.bsky.social C18 English professor, student of old and new media, SHARPist, tree hugger, dog lover, mom, cook, eater, hiker, reader. Not in that order.
Deborah Spring @dspring.bsky.social Writing about women’s history, garden history; love unruly gardens, singing, walking. New book ‘Lady Anne Bacon: a woman of learning at the Tudor court’, UH Press.
Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social PhD | Medieval and Early Modern Dutch (religious) literature @UAntwerpen | History of women's intellectual, literary, and religious culture | Book history | Sermon studies
Margaret Boyle @margaretboyle.bsky.social Hispanic Studies/ Latinx Studies @ Bowdoin College. Writes on language, food, plays, early modern gender + health. 🇲🇽 from LA. #Fulbright for 🇪🇸. Views Mine.
Diana G Barnes @dianagbarnes.bsky.social Early Modern Literature @ University of New England (Australia) Letters, Emotions, Early Modern Women, Neostoicism & Bubbles
Dr Cathy McClive @rouge1767.bsky.social Historian of medicine, forensic expertise, bodies, and gender in early modern France
Emily Stevenson @emilylsteve.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate on Knotted Histories @engfac.bsky.social @researchnt.bsky.social | working on carpets, travel writing, social networks, the global stage 🌍 | Always on a train somewhere 🚆 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/emilylsteve
Sophie Pitman @textilehistorian.bsky.social Researcher & curator of all things textile, fashion and material culture (especially early modern)
Pleasant Rowland Textile Specialist & Research Director
Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection - Center for Design and Material Culture - UW Madison