Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social HGN brings together academics, game makers and other cultural and heritage workers to explore the relationship between history and games of all kinds || historicalgames.net
Dr Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social Academic historian, writer, sometimes musician, full time cat lady. Interested in gender and deviance in long 18th century Wales & England. www.angelamuir.co.uk
Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social Bringing Fan Studies scholars together since 2012.
https://fanstudies.org/
https://www.instagram.com/fanstudies
19th Century Theatre Caucus @19ctheatrecaucus.bsky.social Bluesky account of the 19th Century Theatre Caucus
Meghan Kelley @iheartsmarties.bsky.social An American Psychoanalyst in London.
Doctoral student in Psychoanalysis and the Gothic,
Manchester Metropolitan University.
meghankelley-lcsw.com
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Shifting Sovereignties @shiftingsovs.bsky.social This account is dedicated to the recently published book "Shifting Sovereignties: A Global History of a Concept in Practice" by @mihatsch.bsky.social & Michael J. Mulligan. We post about new research on sovereignty & debates from news and social media.
Danica Quinn @quinn-jasper.bsky.social Scientist, teacher, medical/public safety professional standing for peace, safety & freedom of all peoples, animals & the environment. Supporting whatever it takes to contain the effects of climate destabilization. There’s still time but we must ACT, NOW.
Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social Independent scholar of popular romance fiction https://www.vivanco.me.uk/ On the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies https://www.jprstudies.org/
My database of scholarship about romances: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
Can't access chat
Javaria Farooqui @javariafarooqui.bsky.social Research areas: popular romance, book history, postcolonialism, media/cinema, gender, and fandom. Shameless posting of published research across all socials.
Nicole Jenkins @frillseeker.bsky.social Fashion historian.
Award-winning author of 'Love Vintage' and 'Style is Eternal'. Collector. Educator. Valuer. Museum professional. MA Cultural Heritage.
https://circavintageclothing.com.au
Victorian Tales @victorian-tales.eurosky.social Victorianist working on popular culture in the nineteenth century, with a particular interest in multimodality, intertextuality, reuse, and co-creation. My main account is on Mastodon: https://hcommons.social/@victorian_tales
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Dr Jennifer Howes @jhowesuk.bsky.social Art Historian looking for dirt on Britain’s imperial past in museums & archives. Author of “The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector". Wife, mother, pug owner.
www.jenniferhowes.com
Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social liking stuff since 1741. arctic expeditions, medical history, marine life, flouncy mantuas, the sea, perfume. Edward Forbes fan account.
🦪 https://edwardforbes.net
Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022)
https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
Faridah Zaman @faridahzaman.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford | working on ideas, empires, and religion | Director of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social 
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East
Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS
Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social
https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542
Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social Historian @dhi-paris.fr, Dept. of African History
media|informal economies|infrastructures
friend of Ned
Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas.
Michael McDonnell @historymatterssyd.bsky.social Historian. Gadigal country aka University of Sydney. Powerful Stories, purposeful history. Website michaelamcdonnell.org
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
Ken Smith @kensmith199.bsky.social Associate Professor of History. Historian of Booker T. Washington, the Black Diaspora, & Empire. Penn State and K-State alum. Proud Californian. Cat dad. Views are my own.
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Mary Lewis @profmarylewis.bsky.social Historian of France and its overseas empire. Living on unceded Pequossette land. Researching the French Empire after the Haitian Revolution. Parent, partner, citizen, defender of democracy, avid gardener. RTs not necessarily endorsements. 
David Ambaras @borderlander62.bsky.social Historian. Author, Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire (2018), Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). Co-director, https://bodiesandstructures.org. Also shitposts. 
Hanna Hodacs @hannahod.bsky.social Historian of science, global history, natural history, substitutes, and (as of recently) History of slavery
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.
Mark Jones @mark18681918.bsky.social PhD student @cardiffuni.bsky.social/Prifysgol Caerdyd. Critical historian researching regimental identity, organisational culture & learning processes within the British Army during the Cold War.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/jonesma19
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
Dr. Ishaan @reluctantmicroblog.bsky.social Literary scholar for my sins
Academic prole
English and Cultural Studies PhD
Animal studies, Marxism, indie rock, cinema
https://ishaanselby.owlstown.net/
https://bandcamp.com/edsays
Kendra Salois @ksalois.bsky.social Ethnomusicologist, introvert, freeze-head. Author of Values that Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life (UC Press).
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Lizzie Boyle @lizzieboylesays.bsky.social Writer and editor, mostly comics; environmentalist; keyboard player. Studying MA in Contemporary Literature - all bookish talk welcome.
Host @SkiShootRepeat biathlon podcast. Ask me about winter sports!!
Player of RPGs; consumer of cheese.
Go Hawks!
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
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Tim Milnes @tmilnes.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. Teacher of students. Writer of books. Connoisseur of Romantic trash and the excremental sublime.
@suchichoudhury.bsky.social @suchichoudhury.bsky.social 
TrishEM @pematson.bsky.social Award-winning journalism editor and writer, speculative fiction reviewer and podcaster, lover of games, music, audiodramas, wordplay and more. (She/her)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patriciamatson
Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social Writer, editor, librettist. Writing a biography of Vernon Elliott and a radio play about Handel and Hendrix.
http://notes-upon-notes.com/
Vincent Lore [Coffee] @vincentlore.bsky.social Self-published author of Lovecraftian and gothic horror featuring trans man protagonists. But I write whatever I feel like.
https://ko-fi.com/A0307Q3
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Witold Konopka @pipesnscotland.bsky.social Bagpiper, scholar, fascinated with Scottish history, literature and culture. Currently exploring Scottish contemporary crime fiction aka Tartan Noir
Jeremiah McCall (he/him) @gamingthepast.bsky.social PhD Ancient History; Gaming the Past (2022), Musings, research, & pedagogies of history, education, games, game design & intersections; High school history teacher; Game Designer; fan of Buddhist compassion; jmc.hst@gmail.com
https://gamingthepast.net
John Harney @ludensprof.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Centre College. Written on: baseball in colonial Taiwan; American missionaries in interwar China. Interested in national identity, science fiction, video games. Associate Editor at www.historyrespawned.com
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
Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Digital History @ Cardiff University. Historical video game marketing & Rockstar Games researcher. Co-convenor: @historygamesnet [She/her]. 🏴
Maurice Suckling @writegameread.bsky.social Writes stories, makes games, reads history.
Associate Professor, Games and Experiential Media, RPI, NY. Researching narrative in games & historical simulations. Writer of stories for games. Designer of board games.
https://mauricesuckling.com
Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social (she/they) Lefty video essayist, independent academic, archaeogaming streamer, and sf/f fiction author. https://linktr.ee/Zyllable
Pfp by Birdee Blake
Dr. Briana Jackson @baladria.bsky.social Egyptologist ⛏ writer ✍️ archaeogamer 🎮gardening 👩🌾 knitting 🧶 Myst 📖 OFMD 🏴☠️ Expedition 33 🖼️ 40 👵
AO3:
- Please Let Me Hold You 🌵🦉
- I Go to the Fenians ☘️
🔗: https://www.brianacjackson.com/biolinks
Dr. Kira Jones @flaviansophist.bsky.social Classicist. Gamer. Art historian. Actual Dr. Jones. she/her, stick around for antiquity in videogames and general nonsense.
Alexander Vandewalle @alexvandewalle.bsky.social Postdoc at Ghent University // Video games and mythology // DiGRA Belgium Co-Chair 
Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com Historian in Tkaronto (Toronto). Likes bats, monsters, sincereposting, alt text, and DEIA. Genderqueer. Trans. Autistic. 40s. 👬 🧛 nicomaramckay.com
There will be typos.
Subscribe for queer and trans culture and histories: patreon.com/ephemeralrecord
Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social Author. Linguist. Scholar of interdisciplinary subjects.
✒ Understands about semicolons
🐺 Monster enthusiast
🕹️ Games @spaceboat.bsky.social
🎵 Metalhead
📖 35 books published
🎙️ Legends and Lectures / Archaeoscoop
https://www.patreon.com/newshortstories
Oonagh Gay @oonaghgay.bsky.social Retired House of Commons official and walking tour guide specialising in women and political history. Upcoming walks can be found at the following link. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/11054676824
GlosBio @glosbio.bsky.social Researcher
Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social Lecturer in Caribbean History, Politics & Humanities Training @sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social | Assistant Ed: Citizenship Studies Book: https://shorturl.at/JPH0j | Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa | #digitalidentity #IDsystems Proud single mamma.
Bethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Artist 📷 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲
Also: languages
PhD: gothic literature, family history
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Marina Moskowitz @profmoskowitz.bsky.social I like stuff!
martha shearer @marthashearer.bsky.social asst prof in film studies. post-2008 film/tv + real estate • nyc + hollywood musical • musicals at the margins • women and new hollywood. she/her
https://letterboxd.com/pauseforthejet/
Sarah Pelletier @sarahpelletier.bsky.social PhD Candidate at Carleton University (Ottawa 🇨🇦). English & Print Culture. Studying C19 typographical trade journals, skill, labour, gender, & race. Letterpress printer, bookbinder/boxmaker + book artist.
https://carleton.ca/english/people/sarah-pelletier/
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.
Anna Shane @annas1891.bsky.social PhD student at Exeter. Alleged speciality: Victorian and gothic literature.
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS, etc
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
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 ⛱
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Dance & Movement | Women’s Writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee | Reviewer, Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
Emily Jeffers Johnson @emilyjjohnson.bsky.social Interested in culture, nature, books, architecture, music | works at Trinity College Dublin | PhD in Digital Humanities and Literature
Laura Rocklyn @lauralostintime.bsky.social I’m a writer, actress, and first person historical interpreter who loves to share stories — true and imagined!
Currently a PhD researcher in English Literature with Creative Writing at the University of York Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies.
Kayleigh Campbell @kayyyleighc.bsky.social Dr, Teaching Creative Writing & Academic Skills in HE. Latest work | Sailor's Blue with Broken Sleep Books https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/kayleigh-campbell-sailors-blue
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/ 
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
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
drsburdett22 @sburdett.bsky.social English Faculty at University of Cambridge. Author of The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). Researching women and dramatic appropriation, 1800-1871. Runner (usually injured) 🏃🏼♀️
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social Producer and director of documentaries🎥. Sounds, music and images. Transport and travel. Based in Kent. Proud Teessider.
Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social Population and evolutionary genetics @UCDavis. Posts, grammar, & spelling are my views only. He/him. #OA popgen book https://github.com/cooplab/popgen-notes/releases
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! (Looks at the news). Oh, for fuck’s sake.
Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social Author of Dexter & Sinister, and The Dragonfly Delivery Company. New novella, Glunda the Veg Witch, out now! BBNYA 2024 Finalist.
#SafeSpace 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦
keithwdickinson.com
Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social Storyteller, audio describer, Romanticism scholar.
Kate Watson @loreandordure.com Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, lexicographer, ADHD+ & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, bookbinding, (alt-process) photography.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/
John C @badsocialism.bsky.social PGR at QMUL 2025-29 researching Political Identity,Decolonisation, "Caribbean-ness" and the World Crisis 1935-1960
Poetry in Motion, Like a Pathe Newsreel" -@tomblack.uk 🏳️🌈//🇬🇧🇨🇦🇮🇪🇹🇹
Will sometimes write things of consequence here:
https://jconcagh.weebly.com
OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester.
#RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
Miles 🩻 @blacksmoke1033.bsky.social Full time UK based artist, working on ‘The Strange Case’ adapting Jekyll and Hyde! I also make loads of enamel pins 🌱 My shop, tip jar and other links are here :) (HE/HIM) https://blacksmoke1033.carrd.co/
Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social archaeologist, at the moment studying volcanic tuff as a building material but interested in all old trash
ΟΣΟΝ ΖΗΣ ΦΑΙΝΟΥ
he/him
Pisa (but bury me beside the Piramide)
🥖🌹
Huttonite Uniformitarian
simultaneously more and less fun than profile suggests
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority.
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
Drew Flanagan Ph.D @drewflanaganphd.bsky.social Historian of western European borderlands, European unity, and civilizational thinking. Assistant Prof. at Pitt-Bradford. Author of From Occupation to Integration: Recivilizing the French Zone of Post-Nazi Germany 1945-55 (LSU Press, 2026)
Tarquin 'Howling Mad' Holmes @tarquinhh.bsky.social Oxford Law Research Admin, dabbler in history, philosophy & sociology of the life sciences & medicine.
Christa R. DiMarco @christadimarco.bsky.social 19thC Art Historian, working on Van Gogh's Paris period. Visiting Assist. Prof. of Art History at New College of Florida. Vice President of the @ncsascholars.bsky.social. Web and Publicity Co-Chair for @incsa.bsky.social and @cncsi.bsky.social.
Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social 1st Am lawyer
Ph.D. Pre-modern Chinese Literature
Korean/Indian American
Bach, Radiohead, classic movies, Star Trek