Maritime historians
Here's a starter pack with scholars/organisations working in maritime history (capaciously defined). Be sure to follow the Maritime History feed too! You can find part 2 at https://go.bsky.app/Rctivb3
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@wadehistory.bsky.social
@lexhvv01.bsky.social
Fellow International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. History of work, social security, North Sea, Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland. Tsundoku. Tweets private views.
@dockyardtalk.bsky.social
My name is Beck ⚓Amateur naval historian mainly looking at the Royal Navy from 1790 to 1815. 📖Dyslexic MA Naval/Maritime history Student in the most landlocked part of the UK. - deferred until Sept 2025 #NavalHistory #SignalHistory
@zwhitehistory.bsky.social
Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast Views my own
@cjdrury.bsky.social
Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
@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.
@euanhealey.bsky.social
PhD historian and archaeologist of labour, subsistence and environment (and fish) at Uni of Glasgow. Antifascist & trade unionist. Baggies, Jags, Warriors, Canucks. Pilgrim through this barren land. he/him.
@lilliantaylor.bsky.social
History PhD student at William & Mary. Working on oceans, environmental history, and history of knowledge in the Atlantic World. She/her
@cazmarris.bsky.social
Research Program Administrator at Drexel University. PhD in early modern European maritime history, Columbia University. Co-Editor of the H-Maritime network. Mum of twins, occasional musician (gamba, violin), baker, aspiring fiction writer. Views my own.
@profmurdoch.bsky.social
Professor of History @mhafhs.bsky.social Research: Britain & the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) & The British Civil Wars (1639-1660). Maritime Warfare (1513-1713) Teaching: History of Military Thought, 500BC-2000AD 🗃 #Dyslexic in several languages.
@muntera.bsky.social
Historian @unigoettingen.bsky.social The medieval maritime, pre-modern transport and urban history. 🗃️ And Banthas.
@hillemmalouise.bsky.social
Recently quit my PhD but have created a census of John Flamsteed’s two star catalogues (AMA).
@dbfenthusiast.bsky.social
DBF but in a preservation sort of way. Maritime historian and museum professional. Talks a lot about submarines. Views my own.
@axe99.bsky.social
Personal account, all opinions my own and not representative of anyone/thing else. Interested in critical thinking, naval history and raising ME/CFS awareness. Also, random nice photos :)
@jessicaminieri.bsky.social
PhD candidate Binghamton University • Incoming Research Resident (25-26), La Capraia (Naples) • Editor H-Sicily • Studying the histories of gender, imprisonment, & empire in the lands of the Crown of Aragon • She/her https://www.jessicalminieri.com/
@usni.org
An independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of seapower.
@maritimesmuseum.bsky.social
The Maritime History of Humanity told through the worldwide largest maritime private collection of Prof. Peter Tamm at the heart of the Port of Hamburg. https://www.imm-hamburg.de
@kcllnucsc.bsky.social
Home to King's College London Naval History, Seapower and Maritime Strategy Research @warstudieskcl @dsdkings https://www.kcl.ac.uk/security-studies
@jerijerod14.bsky.social
World War 1 & 2 Naval historian, also likes RAF bombers & the Luftwaffe between 1935-45. Working on pre-dreadnoughts during WW1 and the Burma campaign in 1945. https://linktr.ee/jerijerod14
@nmkennedy.bsky.social
Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
@davidwilsonhist.bsky.social
Historian working on legal and environmental history within context of colonialism & oceans / lakes, esp. piracy, fishing, & marine science. Current focus: Law, Science, and the British Colonial Fisheries Advisory Committee. Senior Lecturer @ Strathclyde.
@globalmarhist.bsky.social
GMH is a forum for discussions of maritime history, broadly conceived. Get in touch if you'd like to post an article, blog, CFP or podcast. Social media run by @canadianerrant No ChatGPT or AI art permitted for content on our website.
@canadianerrant.bsky.social
Maritime Historian. Chief Mate (150 GT). Dad & Husband. Gardener, Cook & Brewer. Ngāi Tahu & McLean of Duart. Toitū te Tiriti. TCEU 416/CUPE L79. Canadian & Kiwi. Go Blue Jays. Cymru am byth. Alba gu brath. Go All Blacks. He/Him. Very good at Opsec.
@tudorwench.bsky.social
Historical Gangsta. Aspiring meme queen. Hangs with salty dead English guys from the Tudor-Stuart era & tries to avoid scurvy. 🇨🇦⚓️ early East India co voyages. Holocaust educator. Teaches whatever needs teaching.
@gabyrobilliard.bsky.social
Historian of early modern food (especially tea and coffee), intoxicants, medicine, material culture, religion (German Pietism), maritime and global history. Also currently researching sailors‘ stuff. Postdoc, Prize Papers Project, Oldenburg University
@andrewayton.bsky.social
Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
@marinelives.bsky.social
Lives touched by the marine, 1574-1688. A volunteer led collaboration publishing to the Commons. Please join our ai-and-history collaboratory for all students of history and public historians: https://github.com/Addaci/marinelives-collaboratory/wiki
@cathrynpearce.bsky.social
British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast
@maximemorel.bsky.social
French PhD Researcher in history at the EUI (Florence) Early Modern Mediterranean | Naval Ceremony | Diplomatic History Coordinator of the Diplomatic and International History working group Alumnus Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and ENS Paris-Saclay
@benjaminredding.bsky.social
Senior Researcher at UEA researching the Gloucester shipwreck 1654-82. Early modern maritime and naval historian. https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/benjamin-redding https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
@clairejowitt.bsky.social
Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project, book series co-editor, Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 (AUP) https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/claire-jowitt https://www.gloucestershipwreck.co.uk/
@pernilleblues.bsky.social
Historian of the French and Danish colonial empires, political economy, slavery, and abolition. Mom of two little vikings. Author of "Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire".
@gcalafat.bsky.social
Historian, early modern period, Mediterranean shipwrecks Associate Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (IHMC) Institut Universitaire de France (Junior Member) Editor of Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (@annales.ehess.fr)
@joplingn.bsky.social
PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic, and Piracy 🏴☠️
@irenevicentem.bsky.social
MSCA Res. Fellow at Salamanca | Before at MIAS & Ph.D by @eui-history.bsky.social | 16-17c. Bahia, Brazil, Portugal & Spain | Currently... book in progress!
@jessicadenoudsten.bsky.social
PhD candidate Radboud University丨Guest researcher Huygens Institute丨Data curator Amsterdam City Archives丨Early Modern History丨Migration History
@journalmaritime.bsky.social
IMHA is a professional association of Scholars. The International; Journal of Maritime History is published quarterly, on various dimensions of maritime history www.imha.info
@jeremyland.bsky.social
Econ and Biz Historian of the Early Modern World, including but not limited to trade, war, and state capacity. Researcher at Uni Helsinki, Meetings Coordinator of the Econ Hist Assoc, and Exec. Director of @socscihistory.blsky.social. More: jeremyland.org
@anastruillou.bsky.social
Past & Present Fellow @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @ihr_history | EUI PhD Material culture, Mobility & Christian-Muslim relations in the #earlymodern western Mediterranean and beyond 🌊
@gianamar97.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of Colonial Environmental History & Decolonial Futures @uvahumanities.bsky.social | erstwhile Lumley Research Fellow @ Magdalene College & Leverhulme ECF @camhistory.bsky.social | PhD Cambridge HPS | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
@plymprivateer.bsky.social
17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. Still figuring this site out - interested in all things early modern and boaty.
@jconnellstryker.bsky.social
PhD in History, UT Austin; Pratt Postdoctoral Fellow, Memorial University of Newfoundland - Women's Work at Sea, Histories of Maritime, Gender, Labor, Empire, Technology, and the Digital Humanities, etc
@mrfw17thc.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Cardiff University. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. All opinions my own.
@jjponcevazquez.bsky.social
Historian, sevillano, and USian. Spain, LatAm, Caribe & Atlantic. Opinions are my own. Author of Islanders and Empire. He/Him/Él. Nick Fury of the Spanish Bureaucratic Legal Universe.
@roperlou.bsky.social
Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq Co-General Editor, Journal of Early American History Professor @ SUNY-New Paltz. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
@mbarcia24.bsky.social
Professor of Global History and Dean of Global Engagement at University of Leeds. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
@thiagokrause.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Wayne State University, History/African American Studies. Brazilian in the US. Opinions my own, do not reflect my employer. PT/ENG.
@schottemargaret.bsky.social
Early modern history, DH & Indian Ocean @ YorkU. Loves all things bookish, maritime, & history-of-science. ☞ She/her 🌈
@lhaasis.bsky.social
Senior Researcher | German Maritime Museum Leibniz Institute for Maritime History Former Research Coordinator | Prize Papers Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
@wadehistory.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Leiden | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17