The Backseat Policy Critic
Various policy musings from someone with far too little experience to justify their confidence, with an emphasis on systems and culture. All views represent opinions rather than advice.
@ww2tv.bsky.social
🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🎙️ YouTuber, battlefield guide and historian in Normandy. All opinions, comments and newsboy caps my own. Quite "Woke" and proud of it. #WW2TV #Normandy #IpswichTown #Rockabilly #Punk 🐈🍺⚽ https://www.youtube.com/c/WW2TV
@jfb1066.bsky.social
Military Historian. Writing a book on Economic Statecraft and Money as a Weapon of War (OUP, 2025?). Next: Strategy. Author of 2 award-winning books on the First World War. Professor at University of Birmingham.
@nickleh.bsky.social
🇬🇬 Warro! IC member #158. Blog about Occupation of the Channel Islands during the Second World War http://island-fortress.com. Find me on http://linktr.ee/nicklehuray
@michaelneiberg.bsky.social
Writer, Teacher, and Historian at US Army War College. Also a Dog Walker, Coffee Drinker, Traveler, Yinzer For All Seasons, and Family Man. Posts are personal and do NOT represent my employer or Army policy.
@realtimehistory.nebula.tv
Official account for Real Time History, production company behind history documentary series like The Great War, 16 Days in Berlin, Rhineland 45, Red Atoms and more. Covering military history across the eras.
@peterajohnston.bsky.social
Director, Narrative and Content at Imperial War Museums. Military historian, museum professional, and frequent explorer of museums, memorials and battlefields. All views here are mine alone
@nickhewitt4.bsky.social
#naval #historian #Orkney Culture Team Lead @OrkneyCouncil. Author: Firing on Fortress Europe, Coastal Convoys, Kaiser’s Pirates. New book #Normandy: The Sailors’ Story with Yale Books. On TV a bit. Views all mine. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
@coldwarhost.bsky.social
Host of the Cold War Channel in YouTube. Independent Historian 20th Century, military, and Soviet and Post-Soviet spaces. Lifetime Spurs sufferer/supporter. He/him History exists in shades of grey and yet so many seek only black or white
@axe99.bsky.social
Personal account, all opinions my own and not representative of anyone/thing else. Interested in critical thinking, naval history and raising ME/CFS awareness. Also, random nice photos :)
@drsarahmyers.bsky.social
Evolutionary anthropologist, researcher with BirthRites at MPI-EVA Leipzig. Reproduction, postnatal depression, infant feeding, cooperative childrearing, FGMC.
@coldwarpod.bsky.social
Award-winning #podcast preserving the stories of the #ColdWar before they are lost... Listen & follow for free at https://coldwarconversations.com/ Hosted & produced by Ian Sanders, Fellow of Royal Historical Society & Manchester Museum
@sarahloumiller.bsky.social
Lecturer at Kings College London, UK Defence Academy. Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford, FRHistS, MRAeS. Historian of War. Author, Broadcaster, TV, Radio. Rep. @knightayton.bsky.social Web. https://www.sarah-louisemiller.com/
@mhindley.bsky.social
Rogue history Ph.D. Public servant. World War II, hockey, lipstick, and classic movies. Colorado and Wyoming bred. DC dweller. Author of DESTINATION CASABLANCA (PublicAffairs). Opinions my own.
@claremulley.bsky.social
Author of The #SpyWhoLoved (freedom), #WomenWhoFlewForHitler (but ended their lives on opposite sides of history), #WomanWhoSavedTheChildren (but didn’t like them much). #AgentZo (what a hero).
@profpeterdoyle.bsky.social
Military Historian (and geologist) Trench warfare, terrain and material culture FRHistS
@househistorian.bsky.social
Historian • author • speaker • TV consultant • presenter. Specialist in researching the history of houses. Otherwise known as Mel Backe-Hansen. Books incl. #AHouseThroughTime and #HouseHistories Rep #PastPreservers http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
@rboomhower.bsky.social
Biographer. Editor. Ex-reporter. I write a lot about journalists. Writing bio of groundbreaking Black newsman Wallace Terry, author of "Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans" for @unmpress.bsky.social.
@historyrage.bsky.social
#HistoryRage is a #podcast by Paul Bavill where we invite historians to get angry about that one 'fact' you wish people would stop believing
@motheroftanks.bsky.social
Opinions are my own. Likes, RTs, Follows do not equal endorsement.
@curatorian.bsky.social
Historian & curator - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
@goingmedieval.bsky.social
That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie. https://eleanorjanega.com/
@lydiajane13.bsky.social
Author/historian. Bomber Command Minelaying, RAF/Admiralty Co-operation, Norwegian Campaign. Learning 🇳🇴 slowly. Co-host nmtdambusters.bsky.social The Invisible Campaign: Bomber Command Gardening Operations1940-1945 out now
@glienkestephan.bsky.social
Dr. phil. | Historian | Current History | German History | Air-War | Nazi-Judiciary | Biographical Research | Nazi-Trials | Protest-Movement | History of Law | Culture of Remembrance
@otdmilhistory.bsky.social
All about military history. Run by historian Brad St.Croix. Check out the OTD YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@OTDMilitaryHistory Support OTD through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/OTDMilHistory
@lmbd1418.bsky.social
Military & Animal Historian🗡️ 🇲🇲🐴 🐎 Author Works with old ✈️ Freaking out in a Moonage Daydream…
@jamesjhistory.bsky.social
Aviation and Cultural Historian: The memory of the RAF in the Second World War. PhD student and Assistant Lecturer, University of Essex and Wolverhampton. Co-Presenter for @nmtdambusters.bsky.social pod.
@bigandylock.bsky.social
Great War, History, & Rugby. PhD @ University of Suffolk, BEF Infantry tactical development 1916-1917. Guiding battlefields, Germany and London. Karaoke hound.
@ceaubin.bsky.social
"A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian Historian of Nazis & America & Nazis in America • Friendly neighborhood wizard • Host of This Guy Sucked, the world’s meanest history podcast https://thisguysucked.com Media enquiries: [email protected]
@navalairhistory.com
Writer naval/aviation hist. Council member Navy Records Soc. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine
@luketurner.bsky.social
Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
@kejamieson.bsky.social
Short For Bob. Naval & Maritime Historian. AFRHistS Royal Historical Society. Council Member: Society for Nautical Research. PhD Student @ Exeter Uni. Day Job in Offshore Security. Rower. Owned by a Dog 🐾 katejamieson.co.uk / IG: katejamieson_
@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈 THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance): https://www.prometheusbooks.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
@almurray.bsky.social
@stephanieseul.bsky.social
Historian of media and communication 1900-1945 | Mum of 4 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society | Co-editor, Media History | Part-time lecturer, University of Bremen Website: https://stephanieseul.com/ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2616-1366
@vandawilcox.bsky.social
professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
@gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social
British-Austrian Historian, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, author, occasional artist, linguist, food, wine and cooking.
@matthefler.bsky.social
Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
@jamesbarr.bsky.social
I write history. Last book: LORDS OF THE DESERT; before that: A LINE IN THE SAND. Next book: THE ARENA. More at/contact me via https://www.historythatmatters.org Signal - jamesbarr.62 Currently reading: Ed Conway / Material World
@alanallport.bsky.social
Dr. Walter Montgomery & Marian Gruber Professor of History, Syracuse, NY. https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/alan-allport Husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025)
@rebeccarideal.bsky.social
Historian (early modern & true crime). TV & Podcast producer / writer. Author - 1666: PLAGUE, WAR & HELLFIRE (out now), GOD’S THRONE: THE STUARTS 1603-1714 (currently writing). Director of HistFest. Host Killing Time podcast.
@drrobthompson.com
Bluesky’s resident Vietnam War historian. Army University Press historian and documentary maker. Author of _Clear, Hold, and Destroy_—a book about pacification in Phú Yên. All views my own. Слава Україні! Web: https://www.drrobthompson.com
@waitmanwbeorn.com
Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him Host of The Holocaust History Podcast TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers Psalm 109: 7-18
@bho.bsky.social
British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #HistoryBeyondTheBinary
@dankaszeta.bsky.social
Londoner. CBRN expert, particularly nerve agents. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
@ldfreedman.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
@fakehistoryhunter.net
I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked. https://fakehistoryhunter.net/
@thestudyofwar.bsky.social
ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: [email protected]. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar