An authoritative reference work of nearly 11,000 lives for scholars of Irish history, society and culture from the Royal Irish Academy.
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All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Pratt Fellow in History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Author of Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars (McGill-Queen's, early 2027).
Previously a Research Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge.
https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/
Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
The IHTA is a research programme of the Royal Irish Academy & produces historic atlases of towns on the island of Ireland from earliest times to 1900
Go deeper: https://www.ria.ie/research-programmes/irish-historic-towns-atlas//
Stromness Museum is an independent museum based in Stromness, Orkney. We host special exhibitions and have a range of permanent galleries, welcoming visitors throughout the year.
Norfolk Record Office collects and preserves unique archives relating to the history of Norfolk and makes them accessible across the world.
Library and Archives Canada preserves your documentary heritage.
Terms and conditions: http://ow.ly/PSbf50Kw33P
En français : @bibliotheque-archives.canada.ca
The inspiring Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her globally beloved novels.
Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore. Joint editor IHS.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Premier research library @ria.ie. Manuscript, book, pamphlet & drawings collections, outreach programmes, master classes & visits, exhibitions & lectures.
• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
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I read, I write, and I learn. I left Academia to pursue those three things. I believe important discussions shouldn't stay locked behind pay-walls. I write over at The Professor (https://lecternmedia.substack.com), bake gluten free bread, and cycle.
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Working on Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland project (@virtualtreasury). I ❤️ censuses, Irish demographics, and enjoy running when not at the desk.
Irish barrister sharing historical accounts and images of the Four Courts, Dublin, Ireland. Past posts archived at http://ruthcannon.com.
Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Co-I with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
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
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.
AHRC-funded project ‘Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers’, based at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
https://www.maryhamiltonpapers.alc.manchester.ac.uk/
@manchester.ac.uk @uomhums.bsky.social
Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Recognised as @timeshighered.bsky.social University of the Year 2024.
Latest news, research and events from Ulster Uni. A leading University with world-class teaching.
#WeAreUU
Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.
Careful reader, thoughtful writer, nature-lover, garden-potterer, history-dabbler. Distracted by birds. 🐦⬛
theunhurriedreader.substack.com
@the_unhurried_reader on Instagram (yes, I know that's confusing).
#InvisibleIllnessVisibleLives
#Nordlichtberaubt
I have created a website called The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com. I am a 66-year-old pensioner living in Japan; I have lived in the blue sky since 18 November 2024.
The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com という艦艇の名前のサイトをやってます。
Professor of Public History. Author of 'The Darkness Echoing'. Public History/Museums/Heritage/Memory/Death/Dark Tourism/Spies/Nuns/ Board member Irish Museums Association
Liverpool Irish Festival brings Liverpool and Ireland closer together using arts, culture and heritage.
We're new to BlueSky. We left X searching for better inclusion. To help us, please follow us here if this would be a good place for us to reach you.
I write history books, make videos, & sometimes wear hats ~ KŪLIA I KA NU‘U ~ Hakuna matata ~ Mungu akipenda, tutafika ~ Aun Aprendo https://joshprovan.com
A French🇫🇷 infantry #Reenactment group in the UK 🇬🇧 portraying the lives of soldiers, NCOs, Officers, vivandières and camp followers of the #Napoleonic and #FrenchRevolution era.
Posts by: @Plinys23.bsky.social
I post daily about something that is “this many years ago”. This account is a hobby project. Time zone is GMT+2 and I usually post between 9AM and 1PM.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes was a 19th century Spanish painter and printmaker.
1746-1828
#artbots by @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
linktr.ee/goya_artbot
Early career historian | 18th Century Britain | research fellow at the University of Buckingham | visiting scholar at the Centre for Geopolitics | writing a book with Polity Press
University of Reading. We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
PhD candidate (History) University of Warwick (2022-2026) || Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| 🇦🇺 || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
Home of the higher education debate
www.wonkhe.com
Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.social
Writes about the First World War. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Historian of Late Medieval Ireland, Wales, and England | Irish Traveller | https://shorturl.at/u4JSw
Enthusiastic about exploration, the polar regions and dodos 🦤
30+, multifandom, some polar exploration. also on twt! 🏳️🌈🇧🇻
23 years old.
Upcoming Book "Wellington on Napoleon; The Duke's Commentary on Napoleon's Disastrous 1812 Invasion of Russia" due to be published
Opening up Historic British Law and Legislation and digitally deforming it
Social historian, researching &
writing about British librarians & #PubLibs in the long nineteenth century. Learning & Outreach Manager at the Society of Antiquaries, London.
This account posts status updates about @blueskyfeedcreator.com
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https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/new-zealand/auckland
Information about Saint Helena, the extraordinary island in the South Atlantic Ocean
https://sainthelenaisland.info/
Happy to answer questions about our home.
(Comments reflect the personal opinions of their author.)
They/Them We block rude people.
An arts, heritage and media collective from County Down
www.heartsofdown.org
Subject Librarian for Schools of HAPP and Law at Queen's University Belfast. Historian in a previous life. Reader, runner, mum. Blueskies personal.
Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Military Historian and Lecturer at King’s College London
Teenage angst, boys and hunger strikes. The life of a 13 year old in N Ireland. My 1981 diary entries tweeted daily.
Contact: @BeebsyMcA
Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him 🇦🇺🇸🇪🏳️🌈
The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
A place to inspire wonder, spark creativity, and explore our shared humanity.
🌍 Art, nature, and history to make sense of the past, present & future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulstermuseum.org
Historian, heritage consultant and cat fanatic. Author of 'War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era.'
Historian, archives and digital humanities.
Naval, maritime, royal, social; Britain and Germany. History in academia, museums, archives and beyond.
Professor of Historical Geography, University of Glasgow, Scotland. My book, The Observatory Experiment: Meteorology in Britain and its Empire, is out now with Cambridge University Press.
The venerable, time-tested guide to style, usage, and grammar. An indispensable reference, informing the editorial canon with sound, definitive advice at cmos.style/ONLINE. We answer your “Chicago Style” questions at cmos.style/QandA.
A glossary of fashions inc. men, women, hair, beauty, jewellery, textiles and trimmings.
Books-
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion, 2019
Jane Austen's Wardrobe, 2023
By Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social, published by @YaleBooks London
British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
Interdisciplinary conference on #frontiers, 11-12 July 2025 @tlrhub.bsky.social, @tcddublin.bsky.social. Organised by @pduffy1.bsky.social. Enquiries to pduffy1@tcd.ie. Book tickets here: https://fixr.co/event/frontiers-before-borders-tickets-166477930
Linking scholarship, teaching, and learning since 1994
Award winning walking tours of Belfast. Home of the U.K.’s Top Tour Guide. Experts in the history of the Troubles. Book online at https://deadcentretours.com
Discover Dublin is (mostly) dedicated to exploring the hidden, little known or even forgotten, parts of Dublin. But expect whiskey and random posts too.
Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social
#bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
A committee of historians working with local & international stakeholders to preserve the heritage of the Waterloo campaign for future generations.
Find out more at heritage1815.com
A nationally accredited archive repository for Kent, established in 1933 and based in Maidstone. Get involved and keep up-to-date with the latest news and events from our service.
This account is monitored from Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5pm.
Historian at heart. Independent scholar. Currently researching & writing about the C19th Royal Navy in the Arctic & Antarctic.
The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Writer // Photographer // Drystone Waller
#Landscape and #Portrait Photographer south-west of UK. Almost completed transition from Windows & Adobe to Linux & darktable :-)
All photography my own except for reposts. #NoAI
WWW tamarphotography.co.uk
Substack: https://tamarphotography.substack.com/
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société internationale d'étude du dix-huitième siècle.
http://www.isecs.org
Honorary Research Lecturer, English @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Principal Investigator of 'Exploring the Arctic Archive' funded by @researchireland.bsky.social. MSCA alumni @umeauniversitet.bsky.social. Travel writing, Arctic exploration, Visual Culture.
Prof Social History LSBU | Female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | History of Experience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism & #Afterlives | Visiting full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social
Historian of the urban poor, children & welfare, migration, difficult public histories. Director, Centre for Public History Queen’s University Belfast . Happy in the forest with the pup or in front of the fire with a glass of something red
VAP, c18 literary historian, meme curator.
She/her.
Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Very fond of chocolate. Also cheese. Have anorak. Working on photography. Cameras: medium, medium-ish, small-ish and smaller-ish. Creator and curator of the Victorian Engineering Connections Diagram at https://www.VictorianEngineeringConnections.net
Victorianist Prof @exeter.ac.uk. Cotton Famine Poetry. C19th working-class and provincial newspaper poetry. Director of @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social.
Also delusional multi-instrumentalist, veg grower, U12 football coach.
Study watery history at the home of the Royal Navy through distance learning. Bringing together students from all over the world. #NavalHistory #CoastalHistory #MaritimeHistory
A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Husband, father, grandfather. Ex-Navy. Retired professional mariner - deep sea, submarines, ferries. Author of non-fiction books on Arctic exploration history. Sometime expedition member to Arctic. Old fart.
www.aglooka.ca
Author, musician, actor and father currently doing MA Naval History. Love to talk about the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail and Exploration, and who was the best Mr. Darcy...Matthew Macfadyen, if you were wondering! 😉
Maker of corsets and assorted historic, vintage, and bespoke clothes. Textile and fashion history.
Toronto, Canada.
Email: cloakandtailor @ gmail (.) com
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is a CoreTrustSeal-certified digital repository, or online archive, for the long-term preservation of Ireland's social and cultural digital legacy. Explore the Repository: https://repository.dri.ie/
A collaborative group bringing to light details of Ann Walker’s life from the archives, as well as creating a lasting legacy. Insearchofannwalker.com
Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. Procrastinator
Associate Professor University of Lille. Irish history, memory studies…
Currently working on the French representations of the Irish revolutionary period.
Historian of protest, smuggling, and the British state, 1700-1850.
We are the UK’s national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! 👉 https://historylab.plus/
Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century Studies, School of English, Trinity College Dublin | Author of Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & wargaming collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; CMRS TCD, NI , Wales
Tours and tales, sometimes with a beverage in hand. History for those who see enjoyment and importance in the past. Run by Mr Cemetery Club (Sheldon K. Goodman) and Dr Battlefield Birding (Andy Lock).
Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
