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Nora Yitong Qiu 仇乙彤 @norayitongqiu.bsky.social Permanent Lecturer/Asst Professor in Modern East Asia History @ UCL 📚 Manchu, Political, Economic & Financial History 🎨 Material Culture & Medicine 🎓 LSE & MHC Alumna 🌈 🌏🥘🍱🥍🏹🎾🎳🎹🎻 🎮📖 norayitongqiu.com
Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social The Biodiversity Heritage Library provides free & #OpenAccess to 63+ million pages of #biodiversity literature online. 🔗 biodiversitylibrary.org
Science and Empire Commission @sciemp.bsky.social Official account of the Science and Empire Commission - SCIEMP > A Commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST / IUHPST) | https://scienceandempire.com/
Caitlin Webster, M.A. / M.T. @caitlinwebster.bsky.social AP History Educator & Department Head | MA History student at Texas Tech | 18th–19th c. British history | Researching British female botanists as science popularizers 🌿📚
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Mountains of Greece @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social Jason König / Professor of Classics, University of St Andrews / https://mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ / Literary and archaeological heritage of the mountains of Greece / 21st-century challenges for mountain landscapes and communities
Mountain Stories, Mountain Futures @futuremountain.bsky.social Podcast https://mountainstoriesmountainfutures.buzzsprout.com/ Web https://msmf.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/ Curated @mountainsofgreece.bsky.social @jonwestaway.bsky.social @profpitches.bsky.social #MountainHums #MountainHist #EnvHums #EnvHist
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.
Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Prof of Cultural History @uophistory.bsky.social C19th fantastical, supernatural folklore, Gothic cities & seas. Co-director of port.ac.uk/portcities The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic (Reaktion) out now.
SOAS Library @soaslibrary.bsky.social Library at the heart of SOAS University of London UK National Research Library for Asia, Africa and the Middle East Not monitored 24/7 https://soas.libguides.com/ Also, our: Gallery @soasgallery.bsky.social Special Collection @soas-speccoll.bsky.social
Dr. Jessica Lepler @jlepler.bsky.social Historian at UNH. Teaches early America, capitalism, & animals. 1st Book (2013): "The Many Panics of 1837." 2nd Book (2025): "Canal Dreamers" https://uncpress.org/book/9781469690551/canal-dreamers/
Kat Long @katlong.bsky.social Freelance science journalist, 19th-century Arctic enthusiast, biographer of polar explorer William Scoresby, Jr. Uncover fascinating stories in the history of Arctic science and exploration in my newsletter Arctic Archives: https://katlong.substack.com/
Dr Grace Touzel @boundtobeused.bsky.social Digital Special Collections / Metadata Librarian @nhm_library_archives. Easily distracted by bookbinding(s), blank books, rare books, and book history in general.
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Peter H Hansen @peterhhansen.bsky.social Historian, Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, co-editor; The Summits of Modern Man, prof at WPI, opinions own
Manjeet S. Pardesi @manjeetsp.bsky.social Global Order and Global History, Great Powers, Asia, China-India; Usual caveats; New Book - Divergent Worlds (Yale University Press, 2025)
Sorbonne Digital Encyclopedia of History - EHNE @historysorbonne.bsky.social Open-access encyclopedia of European history featuring hundreds of articles written by scholars, published by Sorbonne Université. https://ehne.fr/en
Derek Johnston @drdjohnston.bsky.social Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
David Motadel @davidmotadel.bsky.social Historian at LSE www.davidmotadel.com
Nina @ninarodet.bsky.social MPhil in Polar Studies at SPRI and submissions coordinator of @newpolartimes.com
Ciarán Wright Drinnon @ciarandrinnon.com They/he. Tennessee, USA. Editor-in-Chief @newpolartimes.com. Graduate student and historian of the polar regions. Still getting the hang of the whole "being a serious academic" thing, and probably always will be.
Christopher Goddard @chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social Cartographer, writer, artist, long distance walker, DJ, fell runner
Beth Kidd @bkidd.bsky.social PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology
The Treasury of Lives @treasuryoflives.bsky.social The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. Biographies: 1,480+ Contributing authors: 150+ Geographic place names: 1,200+ treasuryoflives.org
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S.R.Thévoz @s--z.bsky.social Exploring
Curzon, Contacts & Contexts @curzonworkshop2025.bsky.social A workshop marking the centenary of Lord Curzon's (1859-1925) death bringing together interdisciplinary scholars and heritage professionals for two days of discussion at the University of Derby and Curzon's ancestral seat, Kedleston Hall.
Dr Rebekah Hodgkinson @rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social Student Journey Advisor at the University of Winchester's Student Support department. Independent postdoctoral researcher interested in the memory and legacy of colonialism in Britain, with expertise in the museum and heritage sectors.
Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social Film. TV. Archaeology. Pottery. Photography. Novels and short stories. Design. India. London. West Dorset 🌻 🍉 Linktree: https://t.co/YEqJmhdXY0
UHCSAS @uhcsas.bsky.social CSAS UH Mānoa Center for South Asian Studies @ University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Support our programs: giving.uhfoundation.org/funds/12109104 manoa.hawaii.edu/csas
Alun Thomas @alunrthomas.bsky.social Associate Professor of Eurasian Studies at University of Staffordshire. Interested in Central Asia and Russia. Chair of Staffs UCU branch.
Michèle Mendelssohn @mendelight.bsky.social Armchair cosmopolitan & literature professor @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk • MAKING OSCAR WILDE book https://rb.gy/hjps64 • MAKING HISTORY exhibition http://makinghistory.magd.ox.ac.uk
Vagabond Vicky @vickyinglis13.bsky.social Sailor, adventurer, wildlife guide, writer and travel blogger. Ocean Wanderer. Occasional Viking. Mother of penguins. Living the wild life. Views are my own Aberdeenshire / Antarctica / Arctic www.thesevagabondshoes.org
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
ISTB University of Vienna, Austria @istb-univienna.bsky.social The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde), University of Vienna.
Michael W @michaelwood8.bsky.social Medical journalist, Sydney, via Leeds. I post stuff about my travels in China and random 1980s music and telly. Blog at josephrock.net
Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Málaga Editor-in-Chief, Global Intellectual History (Taylor & Francis) @global-ih.bsky.social @standrewsiih.bsky.social Publications: https://concepta-net.academia.edu/RosarioLopez (she/her)
Michael Powell-Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social Postdoc on non-elite writing in 17C England @ Birkbeck, University of London | PhD on Middling Culture and Maritime London, c. 1580-1640 | New writing | Crystal Palace
Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com Edinburgh-based journalist, translator, climber. IWMF Ukraine Fellow. Words: NYTimes, The Guardian, WIRED UK, FT HTSI, Nat Geo, The Fence etc. https://www.natalie-berry.com/
Anna Fleming @annamfleming.bsky.social Author of TIME ON ROCK. Writer, climber, environmentalist, professiomal dreamer, feminist, explorer. Sometimes poet and cold water swimmer too https://linktr.ee/annamfleming
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Tsering Samdrup ཚེ་རིང་བསམ་གྲུབ། @samdrup.bsky.social Curator of Tibetan Collections @British Library; pragmatics; Tibetan language and culture; amateur musician
H Helen Wang @helenwanglondon.bsky.social UK-based researcher, translator, editor (silk roads, textiles, money, collections, Chinese children’s books). Previously at the British Museum, currently at Zhejiang University, and University of Leeds
Jessica @jessicaschwittay.bsky.social Mountain enthusiast, runner, PhD Student researching commercialisation & risk in high altitude mountaineering🏔️ Primarily interested in conservation & tourism in protected areas and mountain regions Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/jessicaschwittay
Mount Everest Foundation @mef-official.bsky.social Founded in 1955, the Mount Everest Foundation (MEF) funds exploratory scientific and mountaineering objectives in the world's mountain regions. More on our work here ➡️ https://www.mef.org.uk/
ElaineShaughnessy @elaineshaughnessy.bsky.social FLS @LinneanSociety.bsky.social, Trustee SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social, Associate Editor ‘Archives of Natural History’ published by @Edinburghup.bsky.social, member @IUCN-CEC, @NatSCA, @CIEP.
George Higgins @handle.invalid Modern and environmental history | PhD in C20th mountaineering in Eryri @ Bangor Uni | Wales regional ambassador for IHR HistoryLab+
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources. Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment). linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives (Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
surya bowyer @suryabowyer.com curator & historian linktr.ee/suryabowyer
Charlotte Johnson @charjoyjohnson.bsky.social Curator of Industry and Metalwork🍴 Recently submitted my PhD ‘Imperial Connections: Re-examining Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire’, AHRC M4C CDA, National Trust and University of Birmingham
Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
Kevin Riordan @kvnrrdn.bsky.social Modernism | Theater | World Literature teaching @ Temple University, Japan Campus (Kyoto)
Dr Jemima Hubberstey @jemimahubberstey.bsky.social Research on the literary culture of the c18th country house. Garden rambler, book hoarder, coffee fiend, art dabbler, and servant to my cat. Views own.
Alexander McNamara @albeardyeditor.bsky.social Editor-in-chief at @livescience.bsky.social. Doing my very best to stick to following science people on this platform
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.
Valentina Boretti @vboretti.bsky.social Historian of modern China - childhood, mobilisation, material culture and gender. Research Associate at SOAS @soashistory.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen @kreskildsen.bsky.social History of sciences, humanities, and universities. Interested in alternatives and experiments in higher education, and likes old stuff. Author of "Modern Historiography in the Making" (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/eskild
Dr Jenny Lee @jennyrlee.bsky.social Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall. Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication. Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life. AuDHD. Views my own.
Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress. Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
Danny Robb @inverting-vision.bsky.social Writing about history of science, exploration, and technology. Interested in photography + robotics in lunar and planetary science, oceanography, cryosphere. Work in JSTOR Daily, Aeon, Atlas Obscura, The Space Review. History Blog: invertingvision.com
Bruno M. Shirley @brunomshirley.com Historian of Buddhism, political thought, and gender in medieval Sri Lanka. Kiwi in Heidelberg. Big fan of nice maps. He/Er/ඔහු/அவர்
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
Map Myths @mapmyths.com Map Myths delves into the stories and people behind the phantom geography found on maps - by @rhewlif.xyz Myth map 👉 https://mapmyths.com Long reads 👉 https://mapmyths.com/blog
Alison Carrol @alisoncarrol.bsky.social Historian at Brunel Uni of London working on borders in modern Europe. Author of The Return of Alsace. Current project: the idea of the Channel tunnel.
Nuala Johnson @nualajohnson.bsky.social Professor Emerita. Historical and political geographer. History of science, botanical gardens, natural history. Nationalism, public monuments. Gender and natural history. Gardening. Art.
Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--Post mostly plants, mountains, energy transition. Occasionally political snark.
Tadashi Ishikawa 石川匡 @tadashiishikawa.bsky.social Historian of Japan | Associate Professor @ucf.bsky.social | author of Geographies of Gender: Family and Law in Imperial Japan and Colonial Taiwan @universitypress.cambridge.org‬ | 日文研「外国人」研究員 (2027) | Ph.D. @UChicago Personal website: tadashiishikawa.com
Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Tufts University; chief editor, Journal of Global History; decolonization, borders, South Asian internationalism; www.elisabethmarikoleake.com
Visualising China @vischina.bsky.social Updates on Historical Photographs of China: explore 25,000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 & 1950. A University of Bristol project https://hpcbristol.net We blog at https://visualisingchina.net/blog/
Mareike Wulff @mareikewulff.bsky.social social-& cultural anthropologist / ethnographer / bhutan & himalayan studies / buddhist studies / endangered languages documentation / material culture/ visual anthropology / uni of sydney/ https://sydney.academia.edu/MareikeWulff
Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him. Formerly Seattle, now retired and living in London. https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home Photo by Stephanie Seguino
Eleonor Marcussen @eleonormarcus.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History South Asia, environment, disasters, aid, colonialism, postcolonial studies, #infrastructure Member #concurrences Author of Acts of Aid: Politics of Relief and Reconstruction...(CUP, 2023)
Dr. Amy Matthewson @amymatthewson.bsky.social Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
Munro Microadventures @munromicroadventures.uk 👋 I'm Iain Watson. 🚶‍➡️You might find me stravaiging through the hills of Scotland. ⛰️ 📽️Some trips appear on my YouTube channel 📝Others, I write about on Substack https://linktr.ee/munromicroadventures
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Víctor Sierra Matute @sierramatute.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses | @wolfhumanities.bsky.social & @futuresed.bsky.social fellow.
Santiago Lazcano @santiagolazcano.bsky.social Tíbet and the Himalayas
Adam Butterworth @adambutterworth.bsky.social Tweets about rocks, film and politics Editor of the Alpine Journal. Digital and Comms for the Alpine Club, Mount Everest Foundation & others. Opinions are my girlfriend's, but you wouldn't know her. She posts on a different app.
Andrew Grant @angrant.bsky.social Assistant Professor University of Tampa, PhD UCLA, Author of The Concrete Plateau, Cornell UP 2022, Living the subtropical dream/nightmare
Emma Martin @tibetcurator.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Museology and 2026 British Academy Mid-Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. Practicing & researching Tibetan museology & material culture, past & present #Tibet #Museums #MaterialCulture #Archives #Colonialism #Provenance
Nia Deliana @nidel.bsky.social Researching coloniality, race and global order across the Indian Ocean IR, politics, and history https://niadeliana.com/
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Hanna Geschewski @hannageschewski.bsky.social PhD researcher in Human Geography @cmi.no / University of Bergen. Displacement, migration and socio-environmental changes in the (rural) Himalayas and South Asia. cmi.no/staff/hanna-geschewski
Jeremy Bassetti @jeremybassetti.com Professor of Humanities. Interdisciplinarian. Human. Currently thinking about mountains. More info ⤵ jeremybassetti.com/link-in-bio
Benedict Allen @benedictallen.bsky.social Motivational Speaker, "Extreme Explorer", Environmental Scientist, broadcaster, author. Brought non film-crew expeditions to the telly - inadvertently pioneering the Video Selfie. Instagram: @benedictallenexplorer X: @benedictallen www.benedictallen.com
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Illustration Archive @profjt.bsky.social The Illustration Archive is the world’s largest searchable archive dedicated to historical book illustration: https://illustrationarchive.cf.ac.uk/. Account run by Prof Julia Thomas. Interested in the Victorians, word and (mental) image, digital humanities
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories elisedwang.com
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social Professor emerita of early modern European history, University of Southern California and King’s College London. Views expressed are mine, not theirs.
Emma Brennan @emmaeditorial.bsky.social Editorial Director, Manchester University Press. Commissioning art and design history, British Pop Archive and creative writing guides. Big fan of cats.
Colonialism & Migration in Global Perspective @colmigproject.bsky.social Interdisciplinary project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social investigating how colonialism has shaped migration governance around the world. Team includes @mcslaven.bsky.social, @evansmithhist.bsky.social, and others who aren't here yet
Anooshka Rawden @anooshka.bsky.social #museums #collections #archaeology #landscapes Formerly Museum Development SE, Science Museum Group, Society of Antiquaries, Chichester Museum, Reading Museum. Mainly #dogs #cats #books #archery and musings. All views my own.
Jacob Saliba @jacobsaliba.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame | modern Europe, religion, continental philosophy, social theory | former Primary Editor @jhideas.bsky.social
Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social Material & participatory approaches to everyday histories of faith | Lecturer in Historic Environment at @ihr.bsky.social | Member of @chppc.bsky.social | Co-General Editor @vch-home.bsky.social | https://www.history.ac.uk/people/ruth-slatter