Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Patrick Barker @patombark.bsky.social Historian of the Caribbean and Atlantic World. Working on the histories of slavery, resistance, and internal marketing systems. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Omohundro Institute. Asst. Prof of History at Miami Dade College. Views my own, not my employer's.
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Kathryn Laing @kslaing.bsky.social Co-founder and curator of the Irish Women’s Writing Network
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
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.
Michael Hancher @michaelhancher.bsky.social Sometime English professor, JHU and UMN; past president, Dictionary Society of North America. Victorian literature and art, book illustration, speech acts, interpretation, law. Macaulay and English in India (Routledge, 2026). https://z.umn.edu/M-H.
Karen Waring @karenwaring1.bsky.social Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
De Gruyter Brill @degruyterbrill.bsky.social A leading academic publisher in the humanities and beyond. Browse our pinned starter pack and visit our website: www.degruyterbrill.com
University of Aberdeen Centre for the Novel @aucfn.bsky.social The Centre for the Novel is a research centre dedicated to the study of the novel in all its forms, based at the University of Aberdeen. Visit our homepage here:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/research/novel/
Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social Author of AMERICAN FOUNDERS: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. I study, research, teach, & post American history.
Ben Rogers @brogers1721.bsky.social Research Fellow at The History Of Parliament Trust | House of Lords (1660-1832)
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social Collector. Antiquary. The Material Culture of the Jacobites (2014). Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing (2017, 2021). Trustee, George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto
Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social History PGR at Newcastle University | apprenticeship, women, and gender in the long 18c English book trade | previous librarian | New Englander in Old England | no terfs | she/her
Richard Bell @rickbell.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Part-time American. Richard-Bell.com
Drew Snow @shakesbrain.bsky.social US Fulbright scholar (Alum): Distinguished Teacher Researcher | H.S. English Teacher & Dept. Chair | Collector of Rare Books | In the middle of Chicago.
www.shakespearesbrain.com — my book collecting website.
Edinburgh Bibliographical Society @edibibsoc.bsky.social The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society promotes the study of books and manuscripts of any date, particularly Scottish. Founded in 1890, it is the oldest such society in the world and the only extant one with a Scottish focus.
EdinburghMinute.com @edinburghminute.com The Edinburgh Minute newsletter. Read by 30,000+ locals. Get smarter about Edinburgh with a quick curation of news, culture & communities @ 7am daily 📬 Proudly subscriber-supported.
Written by Michael MacLeod along with thousands of local contributors.
Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social Chief football writer at the Independent. Author of 'States of Play'
Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social Historian of the future, utopia/dystopia, radicalism & socialism. Anti-totalitarian socialist. Last book: Utopianism for a Dying Planet (Princeton UP, 2022)
Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social UK Editor & Presenter, ITV News. Host of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner. *Author, Fight to the Death, out Oct ‘26.* https://geni.us/FighttotheDeath
Sophia Boyd @susansontag.bsky.social WMHP | SFU | Interested in British Romantic literary families, orphanhood, manuscript history, and the lack of capers in American cuisine
Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social Associate Prof of English | Romanticism, book history, and everything to do with bookbinding | The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers is out now with Bucknell UP! 
Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. Current project ‘England’s Roads to Renaissance’ on English scholars in Europe, 1490-1550. Likes: Renaissance, reformation and early modern books
Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics, EUI. President of @epssnet.bsky.social. FBA, FRSA. Democracy, parties, elections, electoral systems etc. Live music. COYI
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Stephanie Lawton, PhD @skaylawton.bsky.social not-quite-as-newbie history professor at a SLAC; CA girl in the South,
working on 19th c. US history, presidents, funerals, classics; creator of #histgym
Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, psychology, etc.
Been called “brilliant but out there.”
Smith College BA, MSW | LSE
#AuDHD #LGBTQ #MECFS
Patreon: patreon.com/leahmcelrath
American Nineteenth Century History Journal @anchistjournal.bsky.social Social media profile for the journal American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Financial Times @financialtimes.com The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis.
https://www.ft.com
The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
Nicola Pritchard-Pink @npritchard-pink.bsky.social Social historian of all things 18th century, specialising in Jane Austen, country houses, gardens, literature, and domestic vocal music.
nicolapritchardpink.substack.com
Tom Williams @tomwfootball.bsky.social Football journalist | The Athletic, FourFourTwo, Totally Football Show, Canal+ | Author of Do You Speak Football? and Va-Va-Voom | www.tomwfootball.com
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social underemployed musicologist, sometime professor
research: music, political culture, history, and identity in medieval England, Scotland, and beyond
currently writing: musicispolitics.beehiiv.com
British-American, based in LA for my sins
Kate Ferrier @kateferrier.bsky.social sgsah funded PhD | letters & literary networks of the Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier | Aberdeen & Edinburgh | she/her
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️🌈 @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
@shruti-jain.bsky.social @shruti-jain.bsky.social 
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
History of Libraries @histlibraries.bsky.social History of Libraries Research Seminar, University of London. Open to all. Sponsored by the Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, Warburg Institute, and CILIP Library & Information History Group.
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social researcher, often around the 18th century, but sometimes earlier, sometimes later. novels, books, bibliography, media, gender, periodicals, & more. they/he. currently in Edinburgh
The Collected Letters of Hannah More: A Digital Edition @hannahmore.bsky.social Bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Based at University of Bristol
https://www.hannahmoreletters.org/
Leo Cadogan @leocadogan.com Antiquarian bookseller, London. (ABA/ILAB).
Content here mainly old books and dog, some other stuff.
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Alina Botezatu @alinanbotezatu.bsky.social AHRC PhD University of Stirling and Historic Environment Scotland
Uncovering hidden stories of Trinity House, Leith and its portable objects collection 
Eilidh Dunlop @eilidhdunlop.bsky.social PhD candidate at Stirling and Glasgow University | Early modernist & angelologist | Views my own.
David Silkenat @davidsilkenat.bsky.social Milbauer Chair of Southern History, University of Florida
https://history.ufl.edu/directory/david-silkenat/
Sophie Evans @urbangridlock.bsky.social Librarian. 'Just a twinge of cosmic angst.' 'One day we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.' 🏴 🇮🇪 🌈
Bristol via Dublin via Cymru 
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social The Scottish History Society is a registered charity and the leading publisher of original sources relating to the history of Scotland. Founded in 1886, the Society has published over 170 volumes.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. UK regional journalist of the year 2025. 4 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year winner. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot nominee. Proud dad who loves overpriced craft ale.
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
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 🙂
Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley
"visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal
💚🇨🇦
Lee Savage @leesavage.bsky.social Reader in Comparative Politics (I think that's like an Associate Professor everywhere else in the world)
Hand of A'dal
https://leemsavage.wordpress.com/
Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social Former diplomat, active on foreign policy in Lords. Vice-Chair RUSI, Hon Pres Normandy Memorial, Special Envoy for the Bayeux Tapestry loan. Pop up on the media a bit. New book Peace Makers. https://geni.us/PeaceMakers
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages.
www.rrrjournal.com
EiC @katiemacleann | Dep Ed Andie Lloyd
Dr Sarah Wingrove @sazwingrove.bsky.social ECR @ Surrey Literature & Languages and Sociology, and freelance technical editor.
Queer pilgrimage practices, lesbian histories and their legacies. www.sarahwingrove.com
she/her 🏳️🌈
Banner courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, SH:7/ML/E/26/1/003
Dr. Emily Rhodes @erhodes.bsky.social Recently completed PhD in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge
Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social Professor of History. Empire, Crime, Policing, and Video Games. Creator and host of historyrespawned.com (history in video games). Not communicating on behalf of my employer.
https://linktr.ee/bobwhitaker
Mr. Beat @iammrbeat.bsky.social I'm Mr. Beat. I teach social studies, produce videos, and make music, often at the same time.
Michael Hattem @michaelhattem.bsky.social Historian and Author of "The Memory of '76" (YUP, 2024), “The Declaration of Independence: A Concise History” (OUP, 2026), and “Past & Prologue” (YUP, 2020) | Music: National Steel | @Arsenal
Rachel Willie @racheljwillie.bsky.social Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social Research Associate at The John Carter Brown Library; GMU History PhD researching early American disability and religion; Formerly doing DH at RRCHMN; GWU Fencing coach; Ask Me Anything coordinator at r/AskHistorians
🤺🏳️🌈
dhowlett1692.com
SGSAH @sgsah.bsky.social The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the Arts & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Professor Maria Fusco
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
John McTague @johnjoemctague.bsky.social Assistant Prof in C18th Studies, Univ. Bristol. Book: ‘Things that Didn’t Happen’ (2019). Co-director @ Bristol Common Press (www.instagram.com/bristolcommonpress). Co-President of Bristol UCU branch. 🎸&🎤 in Autocorrect (https://spoti.fi/4fIaTAJ). He/him.
Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
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.
Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher, gardener, seamstress, contrarian. Alice Griffin Professor Emerita of English, Former Director-Carter G. Woodson Institute, U of Virginia. Please, no DMs unless I know you. For professional matters, please contact me via UVA.
Cardiff Book History @cardiffbookhistory.bsky.social Updates on book history, print culture and digital humanities. Tweets do not reflect views of my employer.
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social Went to some colleges, now studying them for a living
Talk equally about ed policy and reality tv
She/Her
Personal account
https://www.dominiquebaker.com/
(I generally don't follow students as they deserve space to blow off steam about people like me)