Benjamin Asmussen
Maritime historian & Senior Researcher @National Museum of Denmark interested in global connections - especially early modern Danish-Norwegian trading companies and their encounters.
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Danish Historians
Just a list of historians in Denmark - let me know if you want to be added to the list...
@kajakallas.bsky.social
EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Vice-President of the European Commission
@balticconnections.bsky.social
Baltic Connections brings together researchers from around the world to explore #econhist, #socialhistory, #bizhist and #comparativehistory, with a special focus on the Baltic Sea region. Topics include trade, migration, social change, and political econom
@rbogelund.bsky.social
Engineer by trait. Er her for det sjove og skæve. Natur, hemmeligheder, politik og kort. Og naturligvis #obdk. Og Daft Punk.
@mettelykkebo.bsky.social
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@drianfriel.bsky.social
Independent historian and FSA, specialising in maritime, local and house history, based in UK. Author of five books on maritime history, multiple research papers and house histories. www.ianfriel.co.uk Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
@ruthahnert.bsky.social
Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Queen Mary University of London: & The Alan Turing Institute, UK. She/her
@emodmetals.bsky.social
EMMRN is an interdisciplinary, international research network for scholars interested in metals in the early modern world. https://earlymodernmetals.wordpress.com/
@sarahabendall.bsky.social
Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
@sdamussen.bsky.social
Historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old lady likes cats and dogs.
@barrytorch.bsky.social
He/Him. Medieval and Renaissance Historian, Skeptical Optimist, Purveyor of Puns, and lover of Books, Fountain Pens, and Dogs. Settler on Treaty 13 Territory. Jewish. Queer.
@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.
@sarakbarker.bsky.social
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.
@matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social
PhD student, Department of History, Trinity College Dublin—State building with early modern investigative commissions; governing the Danish Oldenburg Empire across the Atlantic World and Asia
@jeannetteehlers.bsky.social
Visual artist with a global perspective and engagement based in Copenhagen ✨ Practice based PhD student.
@slaverymuseum.bsky.social
This page concerns the history and news of the Global Black, Indigenous, and First Nation people. We are not the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool.
@henrikholm.bsky.social
Profession: I'm an art historian, curator and teacher. Private life: married, two children, one cat, two turtles, one fish tank.
@lincolnpaine.bsky.social
Maritime historian—The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World, among other things. LincolnPaine.com
@inthesamesea.bsky.social
ERC and University of Copenhagen research project investigating the shared history of the Lesser Antilles, 1650-1850. Website: www.inthesamesea.ku.dk
@oxscandistudies.bsky.social
We're a @torchoxford.bsky.social Student Network, at @ox.ac.uk, run by Sarah Fengler, Leif Hammer, Marie Martine, and Tzen Sam. Our focus is on Scandinavia as a region. Read more on our website: https://torch.ox.ac.uk/scandinavian-studies-network
@alisiacob.bsky.social
Gliding between history and philosophy. PhD @ University of Kent and King's College London. Knowledge Orders Before Modernity, ex RKD & Leiden Universiteit
@ucph-soa.bsky.social
UCPH School of Archaeology is a cross-faculty initiative bringing together the rich diversity of expertise in the field of archaeology found at the University of Copenhagen in unique and innovative ways.
@navalnoerby.bsky.social
Naval historian. Mainly Danish. And submarines. #topgunisanavyfilm Www.noerby.net
@anksteff.bsky.social
Historian of Silesio-Prussian, socio-economic, imperial-based industrialization and global history | PostDoc | University of Vienna
@andrewpopp.bsky.social
Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
@nushpowell.bsky.social
Professor of eighteenth-century lit and culture; person who studies pirates; dragon aficionado; proud parliamentarian dork.
@timdocchoi.bsky.social
Ship modeler, all-around Canadian boat guy (and gov't goon, so usual caveats apply). PhD'd in Norwegian, Danish, and Canadian naval forces: book version coming Soon™️.
@seaspitfires.com
Author, historian & archaeologist, Lindblad Expeditions guide, National Geographic expert. Has a soft spot for WW2 Coastal Forces, landing craft, LCT 7074 & D-Day. Servant to 2 pets. Writes books for Penguin. www.seaspitfires.com
@kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
@johnraw.bsky.social
Amphibious History, Museums, Countryside, Heritage, Royal Marines, Militaria, Food
@davidrarmitage.bsky.social
@Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
@kbuckp.bsky.social
@routledgehistory.bsky.social
We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
@robb51.bsky.social
Maritime and British historian. British Commission for Maritime History Trustee, Hon Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interests include the Yorkshire Coast, fisheries history and the role of smaller vessels in the Great War at Sea.
@nicolemaceira.bsky.social
Historian of early mod animals / hunting & environment / Reformation/ James VI. Teaching Fellow @ University of Edinburgh. Co-organiser @kingjamesconf.bsky.social https://strathclyde.academia.edu/nicolemaceira
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
@viadiversi.bsky.social
Archivist. Loves a good paradox. Consumes many books and cups of tea.
@stuartbro.bsky.social
PhD Researcher • QUB Belfast • Economic History • Banking History • Business History • Irish History • Irish in America • Scots-Irish in Baltimore • Alex Brown & Sons • Brown Brothers & Co 📍 Belfast / London
@videnskab.dk
Nyheder, overraskende historier og vigtige perspektiver fra videnskabens verden. #dkvid \ http://videnskab.dk/nyhedsbrev
@businesshistory.bsky.social
#BusinessHistory is an international #journal concerned with how businesses, #organizations, and their environment develop over time. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbsh20 #bizhis
@tannerritchie.bsky.social
Publisher of Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online (MEMSO) and Scotland's History Online (SHO). Distributor of Scottish Record Society & the Red Book of Scotland (RBS). Designers of MEMSO Shell, custom software for researchers. www.tannerritchie.com
@mthelle.bsky.social
Historian, researching cities, welfare and cultural history. National Museum of Denmark.
@anettelarner.bsky.social
PhD in criminal history | Now setting up a maritime careers center at Aarhus University👊🚢 #MaritimeGateway #ynwa⚽️ #dkpol #altac #maritime
@calscherm.bsky.social
Author of The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (2025) @yalepress. From Southern Maryland🍂. Teaches history in Arizona 🌵
@andresgattinoni.com.ar
Historiador de melancolías ajenas. Amante de las etimologías, cuanto más truchas mejor. Influencer de notas al pie. / Historian of alien melancholies. Lover of (specially false) etymologies. Footnote influencer. #18thc #EarlyModern 🗃️
@runeberg-org.bsky.social
Fri nordisk litteratur, på Internet sedan 1992. https://runeberg.org/ Project Runeberg is a volunteer effort to create free electronic editions of classic Nordic (Scandinavian) literature and make them openly available over the Internet.