Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
Dr Christina Cowart-Smith @celticist.bsky.social Early medievalist, West Highland fiddler, writer & editor based in London (UK). Occasionally posts sculpture on @ASCorpus.bsky.social. Trustee @gefrintrust.bsky.social. British Museum tour guide.
Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social Historian of the Early Middle Ages based in York.
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
York Festival of Ideas @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social Annual award-winning Festival with more than 150 free events. York Festival of Ideas 2026 took place 30 May to 12 June under the overarching theme of ‘Place and Space’.
GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social Once a soldier. ND. I post about:
* Israel/Palestine.
* The Balkans.
* Iraq.
* Edges of empires in Europe.
* The First & Second World Wars.
* Tanks.
* WMD.
* Mental Health, Moral Injury, Neurodivergence.
* The current state of the British military.
BM: Arts of the Islamic World (Bot) @bmislamicarts.bsky.social Sharing artworks from Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World department. Not associated with the Brooklyn Museum.
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Judith Herrin @judithherrin.bsky.social Historian: especially of Early Christendom, the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Ravenna, and the role of women. 
Sven Beckert @svenbeckert.bsky.social 
William Owen @wdowen.bsky.social Advisor on digital transformation & conservation in the cultural sector @ wdowen.substack.com & Factum Foundation. Writing about East India Company influence on art & industry @ eaho.substack.com
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Tom Menger @tommenger.bsky.social Historian of colonial violence and war, transimperial history c. 1880-1914. Forthcoming book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/colonial-way-of-war/0F3E02F14036481275F425952E91BD5C#fndtn-information
Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social "A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Jake Puddle @jakepuddle.bsky.social Director of Research at British Future
Interested in migration, cohesion and countering the far-right
Aspen Institute Fellow
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Katty Kay @kattybkay.bsky.social BBC US Special Correspondent | MSNBC Contributor | Host, The Rest is Politics US | NYT Bestselling Author
Alex Watson @footnotesman.bsky.social Prof. at Meiji University, Tokyo. Research: Romanticism; paratexts; Asian adaptations/translations; intermediality; public humanities. Organizer of Tokyo Humanities Café. Like hiking, travelling, museums, music, and movies. https://www.alexwatson.info
Karishma Patel @karishmapatel.bsky.social Journalist | Prev: BBC Newsreader & Middle East Journalist | ‘Cultures of London’ (Bloomsbury 2024) | MPhil (Cambridge Uni) | Rep: Peters Fraser + Dunlop | Views my own.
Jerry Brotton @jerrybrotton.bsky.social Writer, teacher, broadcaster, curator, Londoner. Podcast: What’s Your Map? Book: Four Points of the Compass.
Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat.
Jessie Childs @jessiechilds.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Books:
The Siege of Loyalty House
God’s Traitors
Henry VIII’s Last Victim
Reviews for the Times and LRB
jessiechilds.co.uk
IG @jessiechildshistorian
Belle de jour @bowman120.bsky.social Archaeologist & antiquarian; ex-Whitehall Digital programme mgr; Info & Rec Mgt; longbow archer; French 🍷; jazz 🥁 . Eclectic. Opinions own, retweets not always endorsements
Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman.bsky.social FT columnist. Also have podcast. Author of three and a half books. Four kids. Two cats. One wife. Numerous friends. Fulham fan.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE, demolish the arch.
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Jennifer Yee @jenwhy.bsky.social Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com
Gary R. Bunt @garyrbunt.bsky.social Digitally distracted Professor. Researcher/author on Islam, Muslims and the internet. Emoji-free zone. Posting does not imply endorsement, etc. Based in Wales. X antidote. https://virtuallyislamic.com 
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
Mukulika Banerjee @mukulika.bsky.social Professor of Social Anthropology, LSE. Author of Cultivating Democracy (2021) Why India Votes (2014) Muslim Portraits (2008), co-author The Sari (2003) The Pathan Unarmed (2001).
Co-presenter 'The India Briefing' https://open.spotify.com/episode/1xvtHY0Rqs
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Bruno Maçães @brunomacaes.bsky.social Author Dawn of Eurasia (2018) Belt and Road (2019) History Has Begun (2020) Geopolitics for the End Time (2021) and forthcoming Masters of the Metaverse
Chris Doyle @chris-doyle.bsky.social Commentator on Middle East, international politics & Director of @Caabu Council for Arab-British Understanding. (Views mine alone)
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
STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social | scientist | hurr/durr | Pronouns: Your Grace/Your Majesty/Yes Ma’am
All power to all the people
No DMs.
Melbourne, Australia
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed.bsky.social Historian at Union college. In an avoidant attachment style relationship with writing.
kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social writing and teaching histories of 19 and 20c South Asia and Indian Ocean Worlds.
Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Emma Kalb @emmakale.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia. 
sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social historian, walker.
Jecca Namakkal @jecca.bsky.social Editor at the Abusable Past, Radical History Review collective, professionally a historian, teaching at Duke. Film school dropout. Wrote *Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India* (Columbia UP, 2021) she/her
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social anticolonialism / antifascism / anarchism / author of 'The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire' (2026) https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781807810153
Divya Cherian @dillivali.bsky.social Historian of India/South Asia
Maria Framke @mariaframke.bsky.social Historian of modern South Asia, interested in humanitarianism and rural development & women, Berlin and Oderbruch fan
Aditya Balasubramanian @abalasub.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at ANU School of History
Working on Roads
Book: Toward a Free Economy @princetonupress.bsky.social
Order: http://tinyurl.com/5andt77x (USA/UK) http://tinyurl.com/2p88pvmv (India)
Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social Historian @ QMUL
Refugees, Migration, and Rights
Author of Making Refugees in India 
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
Antara Datta @antaradatta.bsky.social Historian of South Asia. Refugees, Migration and Borders. 
Diya Gupta @diyagupta.bsky.social Literary scholar, cultural historian. Senior Lecturer in Public History, City St George's, University of London. First book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' (2023) #happyeveryday
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Canadian & American. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
Sanchia @bombil-fry.bsky.social 
Andrew Wyatt @andrewwyatt.bsky.social Tree fan, Francophile. Watches cricket. Studies nationalism. Teaches South Asia too! @ University of Bristol. Own views.
Osama Siddiqui @orsiddiqui.bsky.social Historian, crossworder, (half)marathoner.
Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social
Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech.
Disappointing people since 1972.
Indian Ocean World Centre @iowcmcgill.bsky.social Research centre at McGill University studying the history, economy, & cultures of the Indian Ocean world from China to Southeast & South Asia, the Middle East & Africa.
https://indianoceanworldcentre.com/
UCLA Center for India and South Asia @uclacisa.bsky.social The Center for India and South Asia (CISA) supports research, hosts public lectures and workshops, and collaborates with other institutions and centers to raise the profile of South Asia on campus and, more generally, in Southern California.
Swati Chawla, Ph.D. @swatichawla.bsky.social Historian (Himalaya, migration, Buddhisms, DH); Associate Professor at Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, via @scholarslab.bsky.social, UVa History, and Sacred Writes.
Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social @swatiatrest on Twitter. || Website: https://www.swatimoitra.net/ || Email: sm@swatimoitra.net
Ariana M @arianam.bsky.social Himalayan & South Asian material culture, Bhutan, Tibet, Buddhist art & ritual. Fulbright Scholar (2x) & NEH-Mellon Fellow. Also likes: digital humanities, open access, Pictured Rocks. lifeofthebuddha.org | bhutan.virginia.edu
Steven M. Vose @thejainguy.bsky.social Bhagwan Suparshvanatha Endowed Chair of Jain Studies, Dept of History, CU Denver. Book: Reimagining #Jainism in Islamic #India (forth., Routledge). Religion, Politics, Boston sports. He/Him. Anti-fascist. Mainer.
Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Art History, Cold War internationalism, Modernism in Pakistan and South Asia | GC-CUNY alum | Cleveland based | From across the pond
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)
Manasvin Rajagopalan @southasianbuoy.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Literature at Krea University, India.
South Asia/France/Early Mod/Lit Crit/Visual Studies/ Performance. All skeets mine.
Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social Monasticisms | Empire, Caste, Gender, Law & Labor in South Asia | Buddhism, Virtuality & Death-tech | Familiality & Fascism | PhD @Stanford | Asst. Prof.
University of San Diego: https://sandiego.academia.edu/NicholasWitkowski
Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social Southasia’s magazine of politics and culture. Get our newsletters in your inbox: bit.ly/HimalNewsletters
Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) is dedicated to the advancement of the field of Asian Studies through international exchange, networking, publications, research support, and career development.
Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions my own; not speaking for my employer.
13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, 26.2🏃♂️✅
Jeremy Simmons @caeliambulator.bsky.social Ancient historian @UChicago. Author of Sea of Treasures: A Cultural History of Ancient Indian Ocean Trade (2026). More than occasionally talks about the doggo. Opinions my own.
Patricia Sauthoff 司徒雛菊 @sauthoff.bsky.social Historian of rasaśāstra (Sanskrit alchemy) and tantra. Researches: medicine, gender, sexuality, religion, history of science and technology.
Assistant Professor at HKBU.
News junkie with a journalism past.
https://hkbu.academia.edu/PatriciaSauthoff
Adeana McNicholl @adeanamcn.bsky.social She/her. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Historian of Buddhism in South Asia and the United States
Author, Of Ancestors and Ghosts (OUP 2024): https://global.oup.com/academic/product/of-ancestors-and-ghosts-9780197748909
Dr Adam Prime @primeadam.bsky.social Civil servant by day, historian by night. Researching the military in British India. Accidental First World War historian. WFA Universities Trustee. Husband & Dad. Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/adamprime
Tim Lubin @timlubin.bsky.social Historian of religion and law in premodern S&SE Asia, Sanskrit & Old Javanese philologist, interdisciplinarian, art spouse. Head of Law, Justice & Society program at WLU. President of the American Society for Premodern Asia. https://timothylubin.net/
Prachi Deshpande @prarochana.bsky.social Historian @CSSSC. Author, Creative Pasts(2007); Scripts of Power(2023). Infosys Prize for Humanities 2020. Current obsessions spinning, weaving, growing food.
aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social diaspakora
Roz S Ro @rozsro.bsky.social History ABD at Duke
Writing a diss on material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry 🍷🖼️🕰️🪞
Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social Historian of childhood, experience, emotions, education and nationalism of Britain, Empire, Global. Senior Researcher, NARS (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
Kate Imy @kateimy.bsky.social Writer/cat lover. Author of FAITHFUL FIGHTERS and LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. Outfest Lab, WGF Veterans Writing Project, AFF screenwriting winner. Rutgers PhD, UT historian.
Will Sherman @willsherman.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islamic Studies. Here again till Gilligan and Halligan call again to hooligan. Living under the Bluefunk Fires of the Dipper.
Dr Priya Atwal @priyaatwal.bsky.social Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own.
Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social Associate Professor of Islam in South Asia and the Middle East at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem // Author of "In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (UNC Press, 2019) // www.simonwolfgangfuchs.com
William Rees Hofmann @wrhofmann.bsky.social Research Associate, SASU, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Historian of music and poetry in Islam in South Asia / Sufi, Nizari Ismaili, and Shi'a devotional thought and practice
Working on a monograph: Amir Khusraw and Sufi Ecologies of Song (EUP)
Sandipto Dasgupta @sandipto.bsky.social Political theorist, @thenewschool.bsky.social
Author: Legalizing the Revolution, @universitypress.cambridge.org
sandiptodasgupta.com
Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
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
Ralph H. Craig III @rhcraig.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Religion - Whitman College | South Asian Buddhism and American Buddhism | Religious Authority; Religion and Music; and Religious Experience.
Book: Dancing in My Dreams (https://www.eerdmans.com/9780802878632/dancing-in-my-dreams/)
Neha Vermani @nehavermani.bsky.social Historian of Mughal material culture,food practices,senses,emotions & objects. Former @Britishacademy_ Fellow @unishefhistory. I frequently share snippets from my research on the Instagram handle consuming_history.
Kieran Hazzard @kieranhazzard.bsky.social Historian of C18th-19th Britain and India. No longer institutionally attached. Previous research into Robert Clive's loot at Powis Castle and Regency Radicals who hated the East India Company. Increasingly interested in the Great War.
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker.
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way.
Lives with epilepsy.
sundeep @historysunny.bsky.social Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy