Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Historian of business and law, and the history of human cooperation. Writing on corruption and polarization, markets and morality, early modern smuggling, and the history of responsible businesses. Sailing in my free time. Check out www.davidchansmith.net
๐ฎ๐ช midlander living in ๐ฌ๐ง. Asst prof (U. of Nottingham)
Book: north Italian states & Louis XIV's France (Routledge '24).
Writing another on military finance & Genevan & Swiss bankers in 18th-c. (w/ Palgrave)
Likes running, reading, cooking, horses, and jazz
History ABD at Duke / visiting student at Cambridge
Writing a diss on consumer spaces & material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry ๐ท๐ผ๏ธ๐ฐ๏ธ๐ช
Podcast on empires and world history ๐
A Goalhanger production with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple
Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish ๐๐ โ๏ธ๐ณ๐๐ซ๐ท๐ฉ๐ช๐ช๐บ
๐๏ธ Director @CREMS-York.bsky.social
โ๐ผ Sec for Advocacy & Public Engagement @royalhistsoc.org
๐ถ Music & post-Ref Catholicism
๐ Exiled Lives: English convents in Catholic Europe
๐ Listening to #EarlyModern Travel Writing
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Historian of the early modern world. Postdoc at Durham. Associate Editor for French History. Also pottery.
Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Wrote a book on Hortense Mancini's salon; now writing on libertine women in seventeenth-century England ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Artist, writer, researcher. Veiled & forgotten 19th Century characters, Circus, Music Hall.
SoA, British Music Hall Soc, Circus250
Book Ahoy!
www.heathertweed.net
www.heathertweed.co.uk
Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Historian
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Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. โ she/her ๐
Writer & researcher exploring the more-than-human
https://peterbozhang.com/
Classics & Ancient History at Exeter, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; much Thucydides, Marx and decadence, but also beer, cats and obscure European jazz. STILL trying to keep the blog going: https://thesphinxblog.com.
Seminar for the history of Europe and the world 1500-1800 the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Mondays at 17:30
See our programme: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/european-history-1500-1800
Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | erstwhile JRF @MagdaleneCollege.bsky.social & โช@leverhulme.ac.ukโฌ ECF @camhistory.bsky.social | PhD Cambridge HPS | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | ๐๐ป๐ฅ
Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com
historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c
ass. ed. French History
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
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Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history ๐ซ๐ท๐๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
Associate Professor of History @Georgetown @GUHistory @CASGeorgetown
Author of COMPANY POLITICS, @OUPHistory 2023 : http://bit.ly/3wqKVgp
Historian. PhD in Economic History (LSE). Author of Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa (Palgrave) &ใๅฅด้ท่ฒฟๆใใใใฆใ(ๅๅคๅฑๅคงๅญฆๅบ็ไผ).
Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
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French History is an international forum for major new articles on the entire range of French history from the early middle ages to the twenty-first century.
The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
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Historian of US liberalism, Congress, and the C20th Democratic Party @ Northumbria University. Trade unionist. Lanyard class warrior.
Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) in History at Northumbria University. Work on the History and Politics of India and Britain, migration & diasporas. Previously based at Cambridge.
He/Him.
Historian, mum, and trivia aficionado
Early modern historian at Saarland University, interested in the history of cities and towns, migration and mobility, the senses, #bookhistory and reading
Chichele Professor of Economic History, All Souls College, Oxford
https://sheilaghogilvie.com/
Professor of Economic History, LSE; Apprenticeship. Health. Pharmacy. Work. Wages. and all kinds of history. Plus a bit of running. New book: market for skill coming out with Princeton in March 2025
The Prize Papers Project is dedicated to the study and digitization of the Prize Papers collection stored at The National Archives, UK. It is based at the University of Oldenburg, Germany, and the National Archives, UK.
Learn more: www.prizepapers.de
All things related to the study of French & Francophone History & Culture. The official BlueSky feed of the H-France website (www.h-france.net).
Historian of the French and Danish colonial empires, political economy, slavery, and abolition. Mom of two little vikings. Author of "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire".
Historian of colonialism and modern SE Asia @UTU.fi๏ฝ๐ฒ Currently working on transimperial histories of forestry ๐ฒ๏ฝPreviously: colonial cities ๐๏ธ and travel ๐ข๏ฝPhD from EUI๏ฝ๐ occasionally writes about books and films ๐๏ธ
Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New projects: Pandora's Box: The First Fossil Fuel Economy (Princeton UP, 2027). And with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1500-1950.
curator & #EnvHist @ German Port Museum, Hamburg & @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7095-4403
#C18 #C19
#HistSTM #EntHist
#HistOcean #AnimalHistory #QueerHistory #museums
Founder @collecol.bsky.social
Treasurer @dgej.bsky.social
Historian, gardener, interested in the Arts, movies, nature.
English, Svenska, Deutsch.
"Der Niederrheiner weiร nix, kann aber alles erklรคren." Hanns Dieter Hรผsch
Anonymous accounts without face-pic and a fake name are considered bad style.
Professor of History, Swedish Defence University
Research & Teaching:
- The Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
- British Civil Wars (1639-1660)
- Maritime Warfare & Law (1513-1713)
- History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD
#Dyslexic in 5x languages
Historian of capitalism, revolution, and the sea. Author of THE BLOODY FLAG: MUTINY IN THE AGE OF ATLANTIC REVOLUTION (tinyurl.com/2p8e79yz)
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Historian at LSE
www.davidmotadel.com
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Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Maritime historian & Senior Researcher @National Museum of Denmark interested in global connections - especially early modern Danish-Norwegian trading companies and their encounters. Experimenting with LLMs to gain historian superpowers!
Working on urban development, gender and history from below more broadly in the early modern period
Led by Professor Peter Wilson, this ERC project transforms the conventional narrative of the European states system.
Historian. Senior Lecturer. early modern & maritime history & forced labor & Ottoman history & German local history & connected history || hiking ๐
Historian, Stockholm University, CEMAS (Centre for martime studies), global history, maritime history, neutrality and IR, 1500-2000
Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
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)
Economic and social historian of the early modern world, innovation, industrialisation and all things cotton. Assistant Prof at UCL History. Chair of the Womenโs Committee of the Economic History Society.
Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
IMHA is a professional association of Scholars. The International Journal of Maritime History is published quarterly, on various dimensions of maritime history
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Academeโs most trusted resource for independent journalism, career development, and forward-looking intelligence.
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Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Historian of science, global history, natural history, substitutes, and (as of recently) History of slavery
"an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Political Thought and Intellectual History. Posting from the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought. https://www.polthought.cam.ac.uk
Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
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Historian of protest, smuggling, and the British state, 1700-1850.
Historian of early modern money, debt, and empire
Professor & Dean @jcucase.bsky.social (Early) Modern Political Thought & Intellectual History. Institutions of trade, free ports, commercial treaties and other. Working and living on Bindal and Wulgurukaba Country. He/him.
Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Historian | Made in ๐ซ๐ท Lives in ๐ฌ๐ง Writes about ๐บ๐ฒ | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | ๐ SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA ๐๏ธ | ๐ฒ +๐ถ๐ปโโ๏ธ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nรฎmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Energy historian based at Northumbria University, working on histories of heat and fuel poverty in 20th Century Britain. PI of the Wellcome CDA "Carbon Bodies". NEW BOOK, "Moral Energy in America" (JHUP). https://shorturl.at/9tFaV
Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
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The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
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
The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/
British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Historian of early modern religion, working on witches and saints. Loves hikes and risotto.
Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at Kingโs College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Professor of History at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Atheist
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Historian of Britain & Ireland at Northumbria University. Beginning new work on the history of ornithology in twentieth-century Britain.
Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
Presenting the most innovative research in the field of history and social sciences.
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Early modern historian at USC. Cultural history, Netherlands, tulipmania, arctic, history of art, history of science, history of the book, etc. Opinions expressed are mine, not USCโs.
Historian. Coffee drinker
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. interested in all things early modern and boaty - currently writing about women and the navy
Historian, journalist, utopian. Based in London & Berlin. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Newcastle University, UK.
Historian of material culture, textiles, manufacturing, design. Professor Emeritus University of Hertfordshire. Senior Research Fellow Victoria and Albert Museum. Hill walker.
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
