Tim Chamberlain 🧭
Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/
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Histories of Exploration & Travel Writing
Historians whose work focuses on cultures exploration and travel writing studies. Please let me know if you'd like me to add (or remove) you from this list.
@peterhhansen.bsky.social
Historian, Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds, co-editor; The Summits of Modern Man, prof at WPI, opinions own
@manjeetsp.bsky.social
World Orders and World/Global History, Great Powers, Asia, China-India; Usual caveats; New Book - Divergent Worlds (Yale University Press, 2025)
@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
@historysorbonne.bsky.social
Open-access encyclopedia of European history featuring hundreds of articles written by scholars, published by Sorbonne Université. https://ehne.fr/en
@drdjohnston.bsky.social
Media lecturer: UK TV history, telefantasy, historical dramas. At Queen’s University Belfast.
@ninarodet.bsky.social
Classics student at Sorbonne Université and polar enthusiast. Submissions coordinator @newpolartimes.com
@ciarandrinnon.bsky.social
He/they, Tennessee, USA. Editor-in-Chief @newpolartimes.com. Writer, designer, historian, grad student, quiz bowl enthusiast. Still getting the hang of the whole "being a serious academic" thing, and probably always will be.
@chrisgoddardmap.bsky.social
Cartographer, writer, artist, long distance walker, DJ, fell runner
@bkidd.bsky.social
PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology
@botanicalart.bsky.social
The Top Botanical Art Compendium https://www.botanicalartandartists.com
@newpolartimes.com
An upcoming interdisciplinary literary and arts publication for those interested in the "Heroic Age" of polar exploration. ❄️ Submissions are CLOSED! ❄️
@brunnian.bsky.social
Electronic Engineer (rtd), Santa look-alike Lives in Bourne LIncolnshire. see also https://twit.social/@BobHarvey see also https://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/8272
@treasuryoflives.bsky.social
The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. Biographies: 1,440+ Contributing authors: 140+ Geographic place names: 1,100+ treasuryoflives.org
@curzonworkshop2025.bsky.social
A workshop marking the centenary of Lord Curzon's (1859-1925) death bringing together interdisciplinary scholars and heritage professionals for two days of discussion at the University of Derby and Curzon's ancestral seat, Kedleston Hall.
@rebekah-hodgkinson.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Pitt Rivers Museum looking into the memory of colonial warfare through war memorials and museum collections | PhD in Archaeology at the University of Oxford looking at country houses, empire & the National Trust
@robinalexbaker.bsky.social
Film. TV. Archaeology. Pottery. Photography. Novels and short stories. Design. India. London. West Dorset 🌻 Linktree: https://t.co/YEqJmhdXY0
@uhcsas.bsky.social
CSAS UH Mānoa Center for South Asian Studies @ University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Support our programs: giving.uhfoundation.org/funds/12109104 manoa.hawaii.edu/csas
@alunrthomas.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Eurasian Studies at University of Staffordshire. Interested in Central Asia and Russia. Chair of Staffordshire's UCU branch.
@mendelight.bsky.social
Literature professor @ox.ac.uk @engfac.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk • #OscarWilde biographer & curator http://makinghistory.magd.ox.ac.uk • Researching #Women in #Polar & #Arctic #Exploration @ieadeparis.bsky.social • French Canadian armchair cosmopolitan
@chrisbstringer.bsky.social
Palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum London. Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
@vickyinglis13.bsky.social
Sailor, adventurer, wildlife guide, writer and travel blogger. Ocean Wanderer. Occasional Viking. Mother of penguins. Living the wild life. Views are my own Aberdeenshire / Antarctica / Arctic www.thesevagabondshoes.org
@srwride.bsky.social
Historian @york.ac.uk | What ‘culture’ is & does 18thc+ | Now: hows whys & effects of re-imagining historical homicides | Associate Editor @englishassociation.bsky.social journal #YWES | Treasurer @historylabplus.bsky.social | sarahwride.co.uk
@istb-univienna.bsky.social
The Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies (Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde), University of Vienna.
@michaelwood8.bsky.social
Medical journalist, Sydney, via Leeds. Currently travelling in China with a folding bike. Blog at josephrock.net
@rosariolopez.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Málaga Editor-in-Chief, Global Intellectual History (Taylor & Francis) @global-ih.bsky.social @standrewsiih.bsky.social Publications: https://concepta-net.academia.edu/RosarioLopez (she/her)
@alondoninheritance.bsky.social
Exploring London's history starting with my father's photos from 1946, to the present day. https://alondoninheritance.com/
@thetempleguy.bsky.social
Pilgrim, independent scholar of Buddhism, temple aficionado, veg, humanist, co-dweller with 9 sentient beings (7 are large dogs). Born/raised in L.A. (Baby!), mostly in Asia since 1997: 5 yrs Japan, 11 China, 9+ Philippines (now). TempleTales.Substack.com
@mdpowelldavies.bsky.social
Postdoc on non-elite writing in 17C England @ Birkbeck, University of London | PhD on Middling Culture and Maritime London, c. 1580-1640 | New writing | Crystal Palace
@natalie-berry.com
Edinburgh-based journalist, translator, climber. Words: NYTimes, The Guardian, WIRED UK, FT HTSI, Nat Geo, The Fence etc. Languages, travel, adventure, science, environment, animals, current affairs. https://www.natalie-berry.com/
@annamfleming.bsky.social
Author of TIME ON ROCK. Writer, climber, environmentalist, professiomal dreamer, feminist, explorer. Sometimes poet and cold water swimmer too https://linktr.ee/annamfleming
@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
@samdrup.bsky.social
Research Associate @ University of Leeds; pragmatics; Tibetan language and culture; amateur musician
@helenwanglondon.bsky.social
@ss7.bsky.social
Translation Studies@Oxford - literary collaboration and mountaineering - ITA FR ENG
@jessicaschwittay.bsky.social
Mountain enthusiast, runner, PhD Student researching commercialisation & risk in high altitude mountaineering🏔️ Primarily interested in conservation & tourism in protected areas and mountain regions Find me elsewhere: https://linktr.ee/jessicaschwittay
@mef-official.bsky.social
Founded in 1955, the Mount Everest Foundation (MEF) funds exploratory scientific and mountaineering objectives in the world's mountain regions. More on our work here ➡️ https://www.mef.org.uk/
@elaineshaughnessy.bsky.social
FLS @LinneanSociety.bsky.social, Trustee SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social, Associate Editor ‘Archives of Natural History’ published by @Edinburghup.bsky.social, member @IUCN-CEC, @NatSCA, @CIEP.
@timeplace.substack.com
Modern and environmental history | PhD in C20th mountaineering in Eryri @ Bangor Uni | Wales regional ambassador for IHR HistoryLab+
@thenacbs.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
@nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social
One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources. Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment). linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives (Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
@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.
@charjoyjohnson.bsky.social
Writing my PhD ‘Imperial Connections: Re-examining Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire’, AHRC M4C CDA, National Trust and University of Birmingham
@bennoweiner.bsky.social
History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies