Emily Wells
History Ph.D. candidate at William & Mary. Writing a dissertation on place, identity, and white, Southern girlhood prior to 1865.
@onceuponafine.bsky.social
PhD in Comp Lit, MA in History. Fairy tales, material culture, (fast) fashion, gender, children’s literature. Special interest in fairy godmothers and American Girl brand.
@cecilefromont.bsky.social
Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com
@jamesafox.bsky.social
Social historian of numeracy, communication, knowledge, books | Postdoc at Glasgow Uni researching early modern how-to books howtobook.eu | PhD from St Andrews on numeracy in early modern Britain | Writer and co-editor at scilicet.org.uk
@katyghistory.bsky.social
Women's historian of early America and slavery. Hosts a podcast about 18th-century-ish women's letters. Will, to everyone's dismay, post about politics sometimes.
@chrisparsons.bsky.social
Historian of Science, Medicine, and the Environment in colonial North America at Northeastern. Author of A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (UPenn, 2019).
@danjohnsonhymns.bsky.social
I study early modern & long eighteenth-century Protestantism. Working on evangelical hymns in slavery, mission, and abolition currently. Infrequent guitarist. Views my own
@jpisangio.bsky.social
uchicago / @historytcd.bsky.social - trained public historian, currently working for @virtualtreasury.bsky.social
@professher.bsky.social
historian, academic, educator who likes to cook and eat... a lot. Author of Women in Texas History.
@meghantownes.bsky.social
Recovering registrar. American Studies PhD candidate @ BU. Politics and art practices in post-Civil War Richmond. Send tea, cats, and gray sweaters. She/her/hers
@emdillon.bsky.social
Literature professor at Northeastern University. Book-in-progress: Sweetness and Ruin: A History of Sugar, Race, and Capitalism (Dutton 2026). From the 17th-century plantation to 21st-century diabetes epidemic. Writing: https://emdillon.substack.com
@knitwhitted.bsky.social
she/her | History PhD candidate at UMass Amherst | let's talk textiles
@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/
@racheltils.bsky.social
PhD candidate in History at UChicago-Atlantic and Caribbean worlds-slavery, internal markets, policing, economic autonomy-18th c. French and British Empires
@house-oac.bsky.social
Archivist/Superintendent of Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social and current MA Contemporary History and Politics @bbkhistorical.bsky.social Opinions mine
@frelaine.bsky.social
A historian with a recklessly optimistic view of human nature paired with always- low expectations for human actions. We meant well.
@devoney.bsky.social
Professor and Author, ASU. Next book, Wild for Austen, Sept '25. Also sisternovelists.com & makingjaneausten.com. Bylines NYT, WaPo, TLS. Author news: devoney.substack.com
@joanmjohnsonphd.bsky.social
Historian, US women, gender, race, philanthropy, education, reform, suffrage. Author of Funding Feminism; and of The Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States
@ccjones.bsky.social
Historian of religion + race in North America + the Atlantic World. Editor, Journal of Mormon History. Also #BHAFC / #RSL.
@kyhistsoc.bsky.social
Official account of the Kentucky Historical Society (museum, library, archives), Old State Capitol, KY Military History Museum.
@lkeiter.bsky.social
Historian of marriage & family in early(ish) British America. Knitter.
@clartyclara.bsky.social
PhD. Lecturer. Historian of modern British childhood, gender, the family, welfare.
@thesouthernsha.bsky.social
The SHA formed in 1934 with a mandate to take an investigative rather than a memorial approach to southern history. We have been investigating ever since.
@bmcgx.bsky.social
writer, curator, early Americanist. history PhD candidate writing a diss about labor, material culture, & social reform. stupid and unserious opinions my own
@robertpaulett.bsky.social
Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
@annesarah.bsky.social
Historian of the American Civil War and the South, writing about food and famine. Maybe a mean girl Dissent is Patriotic Trans rights are human rights.
@historymuse.bsky.social
Exhibits curator in KY. Historian of girlhood/young womanhood, material culture, and object/place-based epistemology. Co-Author, Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures. Wifey of @captainizzy.bsky.social
@lalexander.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English, Restoration/18th c. Brit lit, women writers, fairy tales https://sites.google.com/view/lauraalexander/home 2024 Ridenhour Award for research Royalties donated to Catherine's House, a shelter for women/children
@lmchervinsky.bsky.social
Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library @mount_vernon. 🖊️ MAKING THE PRESIDENCY & THE CABINET. 🐶 mom. Views my own.
@joshrgreenberg.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. Editor: commonplace.online. joshuargreenberg.com
@emilysneff.bsky.social
Historian of the Declaration of Independence Curator of Digital Content @declarationstories.bsky.social
@fourredshoes.bsky.social
Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
@addressingart.bsky.social
Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
@jillburke.bsky.social
Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, senior fellow Turin Humanities Programme, committee member @srsrensoc.bsky.social
@stwajda.bsky.social
Historian, curator, knitter of the American experience, daughter & granddaughter of immigrants, waiting for Lefty & CLE World Series win. American material & visual culture, museum studies, craftivism, women's history, everyday life. Too many projects.
@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.
@vtisaac.bsky.social
Material Culture Historian | Past Curator | Specialist in 19thC theatre costume & dress | Writing a biography of actress Ellen Terry | @concoshistories
@hottycouture.bsky.social
Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
@ecurrie.bsky.social
Dress and textile historian. New book 'Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio' out Sept 2025. Joint Series Editor MUP Studies in Design and Material Culture. Lecturer at Central Saint Martins: https://independent.academia.edu/ElizabethCurrie
@jordanmitchellking.bsky.social
Dress historian. Working on a PhD on 18thc undress at DMU, interested in all things embodiment, material culture and reconstruction. Some videos of stuff I like to do! https://youtube.com/@JordanMitchellking?si=2vWTfAUTp0Qo_Bwf
@mimicofmodes.com
Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her) Blog: http://mimicofmodes.com Author newsletter: http://buttondown.com/cassidypercoco
@luciewhitmore.bsky.social
Fashion Curator Museum of London | Fashion City exhibition and book coming October 2023 | PhD on WW1 fashion 2018 | She/Her | Views my own
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media 📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
@themerl.bsky.social
(social media manager on leave until 29/5) We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Posting hog on main. Chaotic Good. https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
@austendress.bsky.social
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
@cora.bsky.social
Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
@carolynaday.bsky.social
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).