Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social 🏠 Dad / writer / movie and book nerd
🏀 Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
📌 Washington, DC
Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social Global HE news, data, insights and events
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: abundancepod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Ivan Kreilkamp @ivan812.bsky.social English prof, easily distracted Victorianist
Writing: https://ivankreilkamp.com/
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
Erin McInnis @erinbraincandy.bsky.social Small town girl, living in a lonely world. Fan of camping, kayaking and cruising. She/her. Originally from Dawson Creek, BC, which is not the same as Dawson's Creek, WB. Currently in Vancouver, BC.
Mark Walsh @markwalsh.bsky.social Books, Music, Art and Film. Exists in real life too.
https://themarkwalsh.substack.com/
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
The Nights Before Christmas @nightsbeforexmas.bsky.social Since 2011 at 89.1 WBOI, Rob Martinez (producer/host) has been producing holiday specials featuring Christmas music that's overlooked, underplayed, and forgotten.
Holiday music and stories you won't hear anywhere else on the dial.
Andrew Michael Gorin @andrewgorin.bsky.social writer, assistant professor of poetics, media, public sphere andrewmichaelgorin.info, organismforpoeticresearch.org
Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer and Houston Rockets fan.
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social Assoc. Prof., McGill English | Book: WRITING BACKWARDS (Columbia UP) | Articles: The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Nation, LARB, Public Books, Post45, PMLA, and MELUS | Next Up: The History of High School English |📍Montreal
Dr. Whit Frazier Peterson @whitfrazier.bsky.social Writer; Lecturer at University of Stuttgart, Germany; PhD American Studies
The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society @stwsociety.bsky.social An account dedicated to the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, and for news from the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society https://townsendwarner.com/
Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com Writer, political analyst, comms consultant. UK, Israeli, US. Politics, current affairs and technology. arieh@ariehkovler.com. https://linktr.ee/ariehkovler
Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex.
Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer.
🔸
Elsewhere: @timofnewbury
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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social History Squire for Hire.
http://phanza.org.nz/historian/stephen-clarke/
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
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.
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History
#18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust
Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
Pat Martin @pdwmartin.bsky.social Socialist, gamer and history nerd. Labour Party member. He/him; LGBTQI+ ally
Dr Catherine Preston @docp67.bsky.social Welsh historian
Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Researcher and author, words in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today. Writing about Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society 1890-1914 on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com/
Alan chaplin @alanchaplin.bsky.social Long time pensions professional. Trying to make them better; usually failing. This time it’s different
Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social Military historian. Great War Group Trustee. Written a couple of Great War books plus articles. Francophile, but also lived 30+ years in Germany so pretty European in outlook. 
Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social Writer. Fiction editor. Philosophy PhD. Rooted cosmopolitan, gardening Jew. Long Islander by birth, nature, and habit. #3A
Nick Jenkins @nickjhistorian.bsky.social Journalist and historian, specialising in the First World War and its aftermath. Especially its aftermath (book on the way). Yorkshire, France, Craven Cottage. Used to have a cat. Now I have a grandson.
Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social (Digital) historian of fifteenth and sixteenth century cities, communities, trade, guilds, maps
PlanetSlade.com @planetslade.bsky.social Visit http://www.planetslade.com for Murder Ballads, Secret London & more. Inset quote: Kurt Vonnegut.
Ida Tolgensbakk @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social Folklorist at Norsk Folkemuseum. Migration history, folklore, childlore, netlore.
ida.tolgensbakk@norskfolkemuseum.no 
Jacques Lamarre @jerklamerk.bsky.social Connecticut-based playwright, proud liberal, drag whisperer, lover of memes, books, Prince, Mark Twain, pizza, and all things camp. Chief Creative Officer for Buzz-Engine.com. jacqueslamarreplaywright.com 📚🐕🐈🏳️🌈👸🧚♀️💃
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Bryon Ackerman @bryonackerman.bsky.social Dad to 2 daughters. Husband.
Writer of the "Pretty Good Dude from Earth," "You Good?," "All of the Above" and "Worst Mom Ever" short stories in Ahoy Comics.
School communications specialist. Former newspaper reporter. Syracuse University Newhouse grad.
Jessica Pickens @hollywoodcomet.bsky.social Owner of Comet Over Hollywood since 2009. Gidgetologist. Dynasty fan. Chad & Jeremy enthusiast.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Christmas Specials @chrspecials.bsky.social Lots of screenshots, posts of Christmas wrapping paper, thrifted Christmas stuff and a bunch of other Christmassy things. I used to post a ton of gifs from Christmas specials, but I haven't quite figured out how to do it best here yet...
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Mark Storey @multistorey.bsky.social Teaching American literature at the University of Warwick. Englishman in Wales. Trying this out.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/people/markstorey/
Top 100 Christmas Movies @top100xmasmovies.bsky.social Using data science to rate the perfect Christmas movies - done purely for the passion of it! Looking forward to the conversations on the movies we love.
Check out our ad-free website - www.top100Christmasmovies.com
The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social jonathanbeecherfield.net
JBF IRL. (Jonathan Beecher Field) The Internet's only early Americanist. Acting Dean of Weird Kids. Uncle. Assistant SID, PTKU. Early American settler colonialism, charcuterie, stonemasonry, mutts.
Ben Finlay @benfinlay74.bsky.social MA Cultural History, BA (hons) History. Former history and politics lecturer at University of Chichester.
Historian, writer, reader, musician, talker, blues and jazz obsessive.
https://bsky.app/profile/lionunicorn.bsky.social
Collin Murr @collinmurr.bsky.social Writer. I host game shows sometimes.
Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social Every time I reread Virginia Woolf’s The Waves I love it even more.
Also a fan of Sam Shepard, Kerouac, Dickens, Steinbeck, Capote, du Maurier, Willy Vlautin, Donna Tartt, the Backlisted podcast, film noir, Twin Peaks, Columbo & folklore. Portland, OR
Dr Zoë McGee @thezhm.bsky.social Writer, tea-drinker, dancer
Works at Illumicrate ✨
Repped by The Soho Agency
📚Courting Disaster
November 4th 2025
with Manchester University Press
She/Her
📸: Steve Cross
Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social The gentle rumble of distant dub thunder.
https://www.rob-chapman.com
The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
Kathleen Rooney @kathleenmrooney.bsky.social Editor at Rose Metal Press & Professor at DePaul
Writings: https://kathleenrooney.com/
Typewritings: http://poemswhileyouwait.tumblr.com
Man Overboard!: A Novel (July '26): https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Man-Overboard!/Kathleen-Rooney/9781668212387
@stefanwigele.bsky.social @stefanwigele.bsky.social 
Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social Film critic of the LA Times and host of the podcast Unspooled.
Say hello with your favorite movie and why -- or a picture of a standard poodle.
IG/Letterboxd: @theamynicholson
Alain Elliott @wightblood.bsky.social Writer for hire & author of Home Sweet Home, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas & Everyone Was Dying and, Wight of the Living Dead
Also retro gaming/Nintendo, Arsenal F.C., all things horror & other ramblings
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.
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
Free newsletter, Can We Still Govern?: https://donmoynihan.substack.com
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social Dartmouth political scientist and Bright Line Watch co-director. Previously Upshot NYT / CJR contributor, Spinsanity co-founder, All the President's Spin co-author.
https://sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/
http://brightlinewatch.org
Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social Political science professor, academic dean, writer, podcaster, shaker of hands with Mel Brooks — you know, the usual kinks.
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social Historian - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://democracyamericana.com - Website: https://www.thomaszimmer.online/
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social Assistant professor of political science at Stanford. Forthcoming book, Respectability Politics, with University of Chicago Press.
Not Hakeem Jeffries, the Minority Leader.
Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social Historian of early US politics & culture; howl re: democracy—a lot. Last book: The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress & the Road to Civil War. Owned by Newbie the History Bird & Rosie the Resistance Bird.
https://www.youtube.com/@joannefreeman1755
Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change
Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Law and Politics, Georgetown Law: https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/josh-chafetz/
Author, most recently, of _Congress's Constitution_: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248333/congresss-constitution/
Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social Historian of the white power movement, gun violence, the apocalypse. Coloradan. kathleenbelew.com Book coming soon! Home, at the End of the World (Random House) Posts reflect my own views only.
Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social Historian & author of seven books on US history including WHY THE NEW DEAL MATTERS and WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
pfp by Daniel Mackie
Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social Constitutional law prof, historical political scientist, FRHistS studying:
The United States Supreme Court
American Political Development
Anglo-American Constitutionalism
📍ATL
Author, Rot and Revival:
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/rot-and-revival/paper
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social Explaining anti-democratic rhetorical tricks. Award winning #teamrhetoric professor & author. Very earnest. Democracy cheerleader. Views represent my academic research, not my university. I post things on substack: https://jennifermercieca.substack.com/
Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social Southmayd Prof @YaleLawSch + Philosophy @Yale. Ed, @LegalTheory + Stanford Encyclopedia of Phil. “Legality”, “The Internationalists” (with @oonahathaway), “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing.” Overuses “neurosymbolic”
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.
Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com I'm a political scientist in the @mccourtschool.bsky.social. I study trust in institutions & media effects on the public. Apologies for typos.
Web page: https://www.jonathanmladd.com/
David Noll @david.noll.org Vigilante Nation:
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Vigilante-Nation/Jon-Michaels/9781668023235
Updates on the meritocracy:
https://tinyurl.com/56u9n6zc
Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social Historian at Cornell University and author, most recently, of FREE ENTERPRISE: AN AMERICAN HISTORY. Working on a history of backlash politics in the United States, from Reconstruction to the present. 
Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social Journalist & Pulitzer finalist Historian. Fmr ed, @PoliticoMag & @washingtonian. Author of "Watergate: A New History" and "The Only Plane in the Sky" and other books. garrett.graff AT gmail OR ProtonMail. Subscribe to my newsletter: Doomsdayscenario.co
Emily Farris @emayfarris.bsky.social Professor of Political Science who thinks you should care more about local politics (especially sheriffs) and foster dogs.
Author of Power of the Badge: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo220537347.html
David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social Historian. Academic Advisor @ University of Virginia. Columnist @ Boston Review. Book: TAKING AMERICA BACK: THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT AND THE FAR RIGHT // Yale Press // April 2024
Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
Manisha Sinha @profmsinha.bsky.social Past President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, author most recently of The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic, Draper Chair at UConn
Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-17
Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social Historian of imperialism, mass violence and atrocity photography - current project on the My Lai Massacre 1968.
Latest book: 'Massacre in the Clouds - An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History' (PublicAffairs, 2024)
Rep by Wylie Agency
Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social Award-winning historian. Author of four books.Op-eds in NYT, WaPo, CNN, Time, & Smithsonian Magazine. Warren Center Fellow, Harvard University, 2026-2027. https://karencoxhistorian.substack.com
Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
Join my Civil War Memory newsletter: https://kevinmlevin.substack.com
Hidetaka Hirota @hidehirota.bsky.social Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
Glenda Gilmore @glendagilmore.bsky.social Historian who lives in Connecticut and County Kerry. Latest book is Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination. 
Benjamin L. Carp 🎏 @bencarp.bsky.social Historian of Early America, Brooklyn College & Graduate Center, CUNY. Leading AHA wit. Latest AmRev book: "The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution" 🔥 Dad, Mets fan, fantasy reader
Tom Sugrue @tomsugrue.bsky.social Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social History, analysis & unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England. 
Joshua D. Rothman @jrothman.bsky.social Historian of American slavery, Crimson Tide Intellectual.
Austin J. Clements @clementsaustinj.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame | PhD ‘26 Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | ASU West alum
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
Keri Leigh Merritt @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social Historian (PhD) & Author: AN INCONVENIENT WOMAN; Masterless Men; After Life; Southern Labor History.
Rocker. Traveler. Questioner. Seeker.
IG @kerileighmerritt
Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social US South & Appalachia. Research: historical & cultural memory; race & white nationalism. Most recently writing on Gone with the Wind, plantation tourism, and campus racism. Horror enthusiast. Sports watcher. Dad.