Excited to finally see of my new book on anti-slavery activist and colonial reformer George Thompson in print. Itβs been a long road and saying goodbye to a project is always bittersweet, but I hope others enjoy reading about Thompsonβs colourful career as much as I enjoyed researching it.
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NEW: Reimagining Empire in India by @andreamajor.bsky.social looks at the career of anti-slavery activist & East India reformer George Thompson to explore how British colonial philanthropists & Indian elites challenged rule in the decades before the Indian Uprising.
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Just made the jump over from X. Iβll probably mostly lurk here too, but Iβm very much enjoying filling my timeline up with interesting people π
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Historian, cat-guardian, legal consultant, and diminishing cricketer
Professor of African History | Queen's University Belfast | Interested in Politics, Religion, Armed conflicts, jihad, peace, Africa, Mozambique, Portuguese-speaking world, Switzerland, missionaries. Webpage: https://qub.academia.edu/EricMorierGenoud
Early americanist @ Columbia. Late-late-late early modernist. Swashbuckling insurance history Underwriters of the United States, tinyurl.com/uotus. Now: lawsuits, Revolution -> Tocqueville.
~~~~~Evidence and argument. ~~~~~
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
Literature professor specializing in Irish lit, Jane Austen, detective fiction and modern Brits. Twitter refugee (was ccowart1). Live close to NOLA. Married with grown children and grandchildren. Eyeing retirement. she/her
Gender and Cultural Historian at the University of Leeds: likes dogs and cake
Cultural historian, modern Europe @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Books: The Making of MΔmΔligΔ (CEU Press); Networks, Narratives and Nations (Amsterdam UP). Amateur gardener.
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Environmental historian working on wildlife conservation, extinction & political ecology of forests. University of Oulu, Finland, since June 2025.
Former @MaastrichtUni & former RCC fellow
Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
Historian of education, gender and the family. ERC Project "Democratising the family? Gender Equality, Parental Rights, and Child Welfare in Contemporary Global History", FU Berlin
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
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Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23
Historian ΰ₯€ Researcher, Linnaeus University, Sweden. Affiliated Researcher, University of Oslo, Norway.
Interested in Global Health, Nordic-Polycolonialism, Disaster Politics and South Asian History, Politics, Culture, and Development. PhD in History @SOAS