History of colonialism and imperialism
For historians of European empires, colonialism and imperialism from the 16th century to the 20th century. Including decolonisation
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@garethknapman.bsky.social
@jessicawhyte.bsky.social
Assoc Prof. of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales. Writes about economic sanctions, human rights, neoliberalism, international law.
@brionyneilson.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-century France—incarceration of juveniles, prisons, settler/penal colonies (esp New Caledonia). Book out soon "Dangers of Youth" www.mqup.ca/dangers-of-youth-products-9780228024330.php. Based in Sydney, Australia
@hannahloney14.bsky.social
Visiting Prof in Gender Studies @ CEU, Vienna; women’s & gender history (esp. Timor-Leste & Indonesia), feminist theory, oral history; she/her.
@yiannicart.bsky.social
Lecturer in Greek Studies (Culture) History Teacher PhD (History) graduate @flindersuniversity.bsky.social Assistant Editor @jich.bsky.social https://yiannicartledge.wordpress.com/
@federicotadei.bsky.social
Associate Professor at University of Barcelona. Economic History | Development | Africa | Colonization | Trade | Inequality Website: https://sites.google.com/view/federicotadei/home
@hizmir.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology (University of Leeds)- Interested in Critical Muslim Studies, Decoloniality, religion and secularism, Islamophobia, the Far Right and the Manosphere. Podcast host for Radio ReOrient. Enjoys gaming, anime and GNX
@daphnebdz.bsky.social
Feminist, antiracist, antifascista, unapologetic. Phding in history of #colonialism #gender #race #sexuality #BrisithEastAfrica Also working on #BlackEurope #colonialmemory #racism #decoloniality/decolonisation Side project https://postcolonialitaly.com
@kylemcauley.bsky.social
Oceans guy. ACLS fellow. Fan of the SF Giants and the G train. Opinions mine. https://www.acls.org/fellow-grantees/kyle-mcauley/
@indigenousechoes.bsky.social
This page explores the History of Indigenous individuals who inhabited the Rio de la Plata region during the colonial period. Run by @guillaumecandela.bsky.social
@jhowesuk.bsky.social
Art Historian looking for dirt on Britain’s imperial past in museums & archives. Author of “The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector". Wife, mother, pug owner. www.jenniferhowes.com
@scl1979.bsky.social
Historian of empire, museums and collecting in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. University of Lincoln. Also interested in islands, the environment and pedagogy.
@xruiztru.bsky.social
International Relations and History 📚 • Founder of The World in Maps • Here, I post maps and graphs about how the world works and how it once was 🌍📊
@mariannedhe.bsky.social
crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer | contributing writer at Truthout and Yes! Magazine | marianne@mariannedhenin.com, signal: @mariannedhe.26
@khowaga.bsky.social
I’m not clumsy, I’m just sensitive to gravity. Historian | Professor | Traveler | Foodie | 👨🏽🤝👨🏻@pistorin.bsky.social | ATX & SATx | Usually in bed by 10. Pronouns & langs: He / él / هو / hey you christophersrose.com
@historianmkalb.bsky.social
Historian, writing about intersections of colonial, environmental, and African history; author of "Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure, and the Making of German Southwest Africa" (2022, open access); worried about our planet; www.martinkalb.com
@hollyhiscox.bsky.social
PhD researcher | Schools of Empire - Rugby School | OOCDTP | 19th/20th century public schools, elite formation, the City of London and imperial finance | former history teacher
@miguelchavez.bsky.social
Historian // Assistant Prof. @cumberlandu / PhD @VanderbiltU / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // currently: lecture prepping! 😅 site: miguelchavez.net
@boydvandijk.bsky.social
Fellow @ Nuffield College, Oxford Martin School & Faculty of History, Oxford | 'Preparing for War' (OUP) | 'Humanity in War' (OUP - forthcoming)
@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social
Religion Prof. Islam, South Asia, Middle East. Fascinated by religious actors & movements in modernity. Author of two books on Islamic da'wa (mission, propagation). Other words in sundry other places. Opinions mine. 13.1🏃🏼♂️✅, next up 26.2
@sophieloywilson.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history Also: Opening Australia's Multilingual Archive https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1031461X.2024.2390216
@amritamalhi.bsky.social
History & Politics Malaya/Malaysia/Malay World @HRC_anu, #CHASS @flinders & IPRC @Murdoch. Visiting Fellow, ISEAS-Yusuf Ishak Institute. Former Asia-Pacific Research & Evaluation Head in the Humanitarian & Development sector. Retweet/like not endorsement
@davidrarmitage.bsky.social
@Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
@pauljmeighan.bsky.social
Gael Sociolinguist | Research: Colonialingualism, Transepistemic Education, Multilingualism | Website: www.paulmeighan.com | Views=own, Reposts/likes≠endorsements
@danrueck.bsky.social
Historian of settler colonialism, sacred land and ruination, law and order, trees and rivers, theft and restitution. University of Ottawa, settler, he/him, www.danrueck.com
@duncanbell.bsky.social
Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
@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
@seandlawrence.bsky.social
Assist. Prof. European History. Germans, Ottomans, environment, political economy. Cinephile.
@meerashar.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Australian National University ll South Asia, History, Postcolonialism, Empire ll Mum to two boys: one canine & one human, knitter, storyteller ll
@drjatindermann.bsky.social
Academic, author, and editor, specialising in history, law, and politics. Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of History at @uniofreading.bsky.social https://reading.academia.edu/JatinderMann https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7079-8324
@stacynationknapper.bsky.social
Historian | Mom | Goofball | Settler on Apsaalooké, Salish Kootenai, Tséstho’e lands (Bozeman, MT) | she/her cover image: https://www.umt.edu/this-is-montana/columns/stories/ekalaka.php
@johannamellis.bsky.social
Ex-D1 swimmer, historian. @endofsportpod.bsky.social. Writing on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her. Anti-DeSantis. IG jojomellis for outfits
@sjvigneault.bsky.social
PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950) Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH) https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
@resistingempire.bsky.social
A history podcast that explores how people resisted empire all over the world and throughout time.
@janelydon.bsky.social
Australian historian of colonialism, legacies of slavery, & visual culture. Perth, West Australia. Author: Anti-Slavery and Australia: No Slavery in a Free Land? (Routledge) & Imperial Emotions: The Politics of Empathy Across the British Empire (CUP)
@lynetterussell.bsky.social
Always was, always will be. ARC Laureate Professor. Posts are my own views. Reposts are often ironic. Historian and political junkie. Always tired, @MonashUni I prefer dogs to most people.
@hannahelias.bsky.social
Historian. Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. IHR Fellow for 2024-5.
@sierramatute.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at @baruch.cuny.edu | colonial & early modern culture + materiality & history of the senses.
@emmaelinor.bsky.social
Historian of 20th-century political activism; writes/rants about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; live on Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö. http://www.emmalundin.co.uk https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
@ahvonenonni.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher | Working on Caribbean Black radicalism, temporality, political imagination, and Third World Marxism
@roellinghoff.bsky.social
Assistant professor of Japanese Studies at HKU. I write about settler colonialism, empire, Indigenous sovereignty in Hokkaido and the transpacific. PhD from UToronto. Postdoc at UTokyo. Views mine, like/repost ≠ endorsement.
@mariehuber.bsky.social
global economic history | development | Africa | currently Uni Marburg | co-founder @metoohistory.bsky.social and perspektiven.blog
@rekakrizmanics.bsky.social
Historian, PhD. Akad. Rätin a.Z./Asst. Prof. @unibielefeld Writing a book on women│global│solidarity│state socialism. Posts on events, lit, job calls, and ongoing research. Parttime feminist killjoy, fulltime foodie. Runner, biker, overthinker.
@davidandress.bsky.social
Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
@davehitchcock.bsky.social
Historian: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Course Director and research unit lead, CCCU. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800' (2nd album). He/him.
@historysunny.bsky.social
Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
@tsasson.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Modern History at Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Co-Editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8 https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-tehila-sasson
@lottelydia.bsky.social
Historian. Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024). Work stuff here: https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley repped by Carrie Plitt @ FBA pronouns are she/her and views are my own 💫
@duhaut.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton. Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
@jamesamark.bsky.social
Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022) https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
@rhyskamjones.bsky.social
Celtic Revivalism, Romantic Celticism, Celtic Imperialism. Research Fellow at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (Summer 2025) He/They/Fo/Nhw
@adamblackler.bsky.social
Historian of Germany, particularly of colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. Associate Professor and proud cat dad. https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/bereiche/global_history/People/Visiting-Scholars/Adam-Blackler/index.html
@faridahzaman.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford | working on ideas, empires, and religion | Director of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History @oxfordcih.bsky.social
@mideastineurope.bsky.social
Global+Colonial Historian btw London/Paris/Berlin & the Mid East. Writes on Photography, Memory, Heritage, Museums of 'Lost Objects' & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social https://100histories100worlds.org/mirjam-brusius
@rheinze.bsky.social
Historian, German Historical Institute Paris, Dept. of African History Je réservai ma dialectique pour le moment opportun, et je m’occupai du repas. Mastodon: @rheinze@todon.eu @rheinze@hcommons.social HCommons: @rheinze
@historymatterssyd.bsky.social
Historian. Gadigal country aka University of Sydney. Powerful Stories, purposeful history. Website michaelamcdonnell.org
@muvonbulow.bsky.social
Mom. Historian. Lecturer in School of IR @ University of St Andrews: decolonization & Cold War, colonial conflict, intel & security, Algeria, Franco-German relations, civil society actors & IR
@michaelgvann.bsky.social
Anti-fascist surfer, grappler, & historian. "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt", other words in Jacobin and elsewhere, & mumbled podcast musings as a host on New Books and guest on Long Reads, Southeast Asia Crossroads, Napalm in the Morning, Bungacast, AmPrest.
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
@edjonesc.bsky.social
Historian - Max Planck Institute (Heidelberg) & UNED | New book out: Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (OUP) | FRHistS & FRSA | Past: Cambridge & LSE
@barlafuess.bsky.social
Ex historian ( #SaintDomingue/ #HaitianRevolution / early #Haiti) at @unitrier.bsky.social / Uni Halle / Uni Milan. Now PR, Press & science comm @mpici.bsky.social From 🇮🇹, living in 🇩🇪 https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/MiriamFranchina
@farhanasultana.com
Professor, author, speaker Department of Geography & the Environment, Syracuse University Past: King’s College London; UNDP ✍🏼 Climate, water, politics, justice 📕 Confronting Climate Coloniality 🔗farhanasultana.com #GeoSky feed: https://tinyurl.com/a6mdyuvd
@briandrohan.bsky.social
US Army officer and historian of war, humanitarianism, human rights, and the United Nations at the US Military Academy - West Point. Author of *Brutality in an Age of Human Rights* (Cornell UP ‘18).
@gwynjapan.bsky.social
🐨 oral historian of Asia and 🗾Japan. Born🇵🇬Raised🇧🇩 Works@UNE Anaiwan Country. Lives Wurundjeri/Kulin Nation. Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki 2020; Aromas of Asia 2023. 🏀 🏃♂️
@stomperjax.bsky.social
Historian of education at the University of Kansas interested in the British Empire, world history, and settler colonialism. All views my own.
@danrohde.bsky.social
Assist Prof Windsor Law | legal history of money, banking and central banking, especially in Canada | LPE/Const Approach to Money | co-ed @justmoney.bsky.social | sjd harvard law | Papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2799391
@catherinegibson.bsky.social
Historian of Eastern Europe at the University of Tartu working on intra-imperial solidarities (ERC-EMPSOLID https://empsolid.ee/) and entanglements (ETAG https://sisu.ut.ee/entangledborderlands/). Author of Geographies of Nationhood (OUP 2022).
@justingage.bsky.social
Historian, Assistant Professor in Arkansas. Author of awards winning We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us. https://linktr.ee/justingage
@tinaadcock.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian of Canada and the Arctic. Author of *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North,* forthcoming June 2025. Co-editor of *Made Modern: Science and Technology in Canadian History* (2018). She/her.
@guysechrist.bsky.social
Early-modern history of science | Commerce and Science -Practical Maths -Natural History Uni. of Tennessee | PhD Cambridge HPS
@anjuliwebster.bsky.social
Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism in southern Africa. Lecturer, Department of Liberation Studies, University of Fort Hare.
@malthusjohn.bsky.social
Philosophy & History of Science, Complex Systems, Knowledge Management. Networks, Harmony, Co-Evolution, Autopoiesis, Neurodiversity ♾️ AuDhD. Ecology, Digital Revolution ~> Information Paradigm. Theorist, .. wait!- come back, there's more.. 🕺🎶🍞📸🤡
@drninastuder.bsky.social
Historian, IEH2, University of Geneva History of medicine & psychiatry, gender issues & drinking studies in the colonial Maghreb. Current: https://wetdreams.hypotheses.org/ 🗃️🍸 Passionate about literature and theatre. She/her https://nina-studer.com
@janeijking.com
History & Theory of International Relations. Junior Research Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. Oxford Martin Fellow, Changing Global Orders. www.janeijking.com
@spe07.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science Research on Abolition of passports, Free Movement, Political theory, Migration studies University Paris Cité @upcite.bsky.social https://u-paris.academia.edu/SperantaDumitru
@jasminekgani.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in International Relations Theory at LSE. History | Political Theory | Race | Colonialism | Resistance | MENA Teach on Colonialism & Israel-Palestine Repost/Like usually = bookmark or endorsement jasminekgani.wordpress.com
@tomaashby.bsky.social
Historian • Soon JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social nominated @britishacademy.bsky.social • Reviews Ed @global-ih.bsky.social • Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social • PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social • the English republic • England & Sengoku/Edo Japan • autistic
@sakshi.bsky.social
🐦 Vibing environmental justice, constitutionalisms and sovereignty in Australia 🇦🇺 Marx in everything. Canberra ❤The other half is here: @guyjackson.bsky.social
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Publisher Éd. Codex & Éd. Plein Jour Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
@primeadam.bsky.social
Historian researching the military in British India. Accidental First World War historian. WFA Universities Trustee. Husband & Dad. Views my own. https://linktr.ee/adamprime
@bgissibl.bsky.social
Historian of colonialism and the environment @IEG Mainz. Author of "Nature of German Imperialism" (2016)
@mbarcia24.bsky.social
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
@eldrclaire.bsky.social
Historian of the French empire, esp Algeria. Author: From Empire to Exile. New project: colonial soldiers, crime & FWW. Co-editor of French History. She/her
@carolinesequin.bsky.social
Historian of France | race, gender, sexuality, empire, migration. Author of Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France and Colonial Senegal, 1848-1950 (Cornell University Press, 2024). https://tinyurl.com/ejs3udt2
@christiandp.bsky.social
Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
@ilotem.bsky.social
Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
@rjmauk.bsky.social
Professor of Imperial History at Sheffield Hallam. Working on the Black experience during the Nazi period. Long suffering follower of terrible sports teams. shu.academia.edu/RobbieAitken
@carolienstolte.bsky.social
Historian | Leiden University | India | Books | Running #peacemovementsproject
@christophkalter.bsky.social
Historian | University of Agder | Author | Discovery of the Third World (CUP 2016) | Postcolonial People (CUP 2022) | New project: European Languages in Post-Independence Africa |
@boscha.bsky.social
Currently writing: 'Pluralising Europe. A Swiss History of Empire, ca. 1830-1900' https://wp.unil.ch/collaborativehistory
@margoncalves.bsky.social
Historian | Empire, European Colonialism, Identities, Race, 19th/20th Cent. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Leiden University Institute for History (but views my own) | EUI History alumna universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/marcia-goncalves#tab-1
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Exvangelical. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@laurafg.bsky.social
Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress #architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa Own views 🌈 she/her
@kensmith199.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History at Taft College. Historian of Booker T. Washington, the Black Diaspora, & Empire. Penn State and Kansas State alum. Proud Californian. Cat dad. Views are my own.
@parisnoire.bsky.social
Historian @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact @monidrke.bsky.social for talks! Robinmitchellhistorian.com
@juliehardwick.bsky.social
Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020). Order here: http://bit.ly/2YYXPTn liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/facult…
@avick.bsky.social
Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, described by a colleague as “omnivorous”. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
@chcarroll.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History @kcollege. Modern France, imperialism, politics, culture. Views my own. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501763083/the-politics-of-imperial-memory-in-france/
@tlmarttinen.bsky.social
Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee