British Empire military history
A starter pack for people interested in and or working on the military history of the British Empire.í
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@hisbpf.bsky.social
@timbenbow.bsky.social
Professor of Strategic Studies, King's College London My research focusses on UK naval strategy and naval history in the Second World War and Cold War.
@craigtibbitts.bsky.social
Military Historian, Archivist, Guitarist, Basketballer, Celtics fan, lover of music, history and sport, the latter especially teams from Canberra and Boston, MA.
@mrfw17thc.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father. All opinions my own.
@principlesofwar.bsky.social
Linking doctrine and military history to create Professional Military Education for Officers and SNCOs in 30 minute bites.
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com
@draefox.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in IR @ University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
@britwarmemorial.bsky.social
Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance Please like or share to remind people how important and beautiful war memorials are.
@meganahamilton.bsky.social
Historian • PhD student at King's College London & Imperial War Museum (CDP) • Researching SWW army training across the British Empire • 🇨🇦 living in 🇬🇧
@kristenauthor.bsky.social
Aust aviation & captivity historian. 6th book Kriegies: The Australian Airmen of Stalag Luft III (alexanderfaxbooks.com.au or Amazon) winner 2024 NSW Premier's History Awards. Reading, cats & cake. #IAmWriting (at last!)
@alxmck.bsky.social
historian & jd grad, working on casualty identification from the world wars. interested in transnational histories and the impact of conflict, specifically memory, commemoration, and material culture. 📍 somewhere between melbourne and ottawa. 🌻 🇦🇺 🇨🇦
@cmkwong.bsky.social
Military Historian; Asso Prof@Hong Kong BaptistU; Wars in East Asia, 19th-20th Centuries, Spatial History, Digital Humanities; author of "Eastern Fortress" (HKUP) and "Hongkongers in the British Armed Forces" (OUP); Linktree: https://linktr.ee/ocrbohk
@vrandall.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History. Interested mainly in Victorians and their interaction with the Arab-Islamic World.
@marcuscowper.bsky.social
Editorial Director at Osprey Publishing, part of the Bloomsbury Publishing Group, all views my own.
@lairddinnaken.bsky.social
Formerly Scottish ex-engineer ex-banker ex-portfolio manager ex-risk dude. Now an African Viking 🤔🤭 UK expat since ‘82 😬, South Africa, Washington DC and now (finally?) Cape Town. MilAv, MotoGP, F1 & Movie (classic horror/gangster) Hist, terrible puns
@dmorganowen.bsky.social
Historian of War | teaching at UK staff college | next book strategy & seapower in the FWW | own views
@davidrafferty.bsky.social
Historian. ARC DECRA Fellow @ Adelaide with project “How Republics Die: Rome’s democratic breakdown in the 1st century BCE”. Husband and father. I’m the one who set cats and dogs against each other. Not endorsed by employer. https://davidrafferty.org
@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
@rjhammond215.bsky.social
Historian. Senior Lecturer. Vice-President and Founder Member of the Second World War Research Group: https://www.swwresearch.com/. Co-Editor of War in History journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/WIH
@huwjdav.bsky.social
Professor of British Military History @kcl.ac.uk | Associate Dean Professional & Online Education SSPP | Award-Winning Book: Wandering Army | Next one: Forging Armageddon @YaleBooks.bsky.social | FRHistS
@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. 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇹🇼
@canadasmilhist.bsky.social
To create an awareness and appreciation of Canada's rich and diverse military heritage. If you enjoy my Canadian military history content, you can support us with a donation at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/CanadasMilitaryHistory
@townsend-nic.bsky.social
Historian. Lecturer @ UNSW Canberra. Archaeology nerd. Researching Australia's relations with the Middle East, and the Second World War. Also Afghanistan and Iraq wars. All views my own
@nathankfinney.com
Servant of the Republic on the Edge of Empires | Fellow, Duke Program on American Grand Strategy & @AtlanticCouncil.bsky.social | Ed., @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social | Pres, @milwritersguild.bsky.social | Historian of WWI (book @cornellupress.bsky.social)
@alanlester.bsky.social
British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own. Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
@garethknapman.bsky.social
Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
@marksthompson.bsky.social
PhD. Military history; Peninsular War; Royal Engineers; Author of several books on Peninsular War, military engineering and soldiers. Web: https://marksthompson.weebly.com/
@markurban.bsky.social
Writing stuff for Sunday Times, BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime presenter of Newsnight 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils and more!
@alfacasman.bsky.social
School Administrator, observer of political and military affairs, passionate owner of classic Italian convertible, MTL Canadiens define Canada. Father of three wonderful women, and Andrea's full time handyman!
@karljames1945.bsky.social
Head, Military History, Australian War Memorial. Australia & the Second World War. Chinooks in Afghanistan. ADB editor board
@tristanmoss.bsky.social
Historian at UNSW Canberra | DECRA | Researching Australian space history and military history
@stephenclarkenz.bsky.social
History Squire for Hire https://phanza.org.nz/historian/stephen-clarke/ Tāmaki Makaurau Aotearoa | Auckland New Zealand
@mesutuyar.bsky.social
Professor. Ottoman-Turkish Military Historian. University of New South Wales Canberra. Graduate of Turkish Military Academy & University of İstanbul Political Sciences, currently living in #Sydney 🇹🇷🇦🇺🎖
@bowerswrites.bsky.social
Staff writer for Legion Magazine | Telling Canada's wartime stories | Brit living in N.S., Canada | Married to Annie | http://buymeacoffee.com/alexbowers 🏳️🌈
@rorymuir.bsky.social
British History - Wellington; the Defeat of Napoleon; Regency Society, careers open to younger sons; Love and Marriage in the Age of Jane Austen (Yale UP Feb 2024) Lives in Adelaide Hills, South Australia
@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
@richardtoye.bsky.social
Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain
@historypegg.bsky.social
Conflict History my passion, Without history we are nothing, learning from the past to make a better future. Writing a book on Army Chaplains in World War 2 May 2025 published by Chiselbury. Podcast @aohpod
@mike-bechthold.bsky.social
PhD Historian | Royal Historical Society Fellow RCAF | RAF | RNAS | RFC | Canadian Army First World War | Second World War Cartographer | Graphic Designer https://mikebechthold.com/
@airpowerhistory.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of 'From Balloons to Drones.' Specialist in Air Power History, Transport History, & Heritage. Brit in Brisbane, QLD. Tweets ≠ endorsement. https://drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/ & https://balloonstodrones.com/
@profgsheffield.bsky.social
Military History & other stuff. Visiting Prof, Defence Studies Dept, KCL. Husband, father, grandfather. Christian. Arsenal. Labour. Spaniel magnet. All opinions are just mine. Reposts do not = endorsement.
@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
@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.
@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.
@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
@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)
@hisbpf.bsky.social
Military historian at NUS, Habs fan, Gunner tragic, and, most important, father of Conor. Standing with Ukraine. 🇺🇦Denouncing terrorists. 🇨🇦 living and working in 🇸🇬. Trump will be defeated. Stand tall Canada.🇨🇦