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.
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@waymarks.bsky.social
@newpolartimes.com
An upcoming interdisciplinary literary and arts publication for those interested in the "Heroic Age" of polar exploration. ❄️ Submissions are CLOSED! ❄️
@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
@questchronicle.org.uk
Polar Exploration:The Shackleton-Rowett Expedition and the broader Quest family. Antarctica. South Georgia. Polar science. Rowett. https://questchronicle.org.uk/
@inverting-vision.bsky.social
Writing about the history of science, exploration, and technology. Interested in photography + robotics in planetary science, oceanography, cryosphere. Regular contributor for JSTOR Daily. Work in Aeon, Atlas Obscura. History Blog: invertingvision.com
@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.
@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
@jemimahubberstey.bsky.social
Research on the literary culture of the c18th country house. Garden rambler, book hoarder, coffee fiend, art dabbler, and servant to my cat. Views own.
@tadashiishikawa.bsky.social
Historian of Japan, Taiwan, and Asia | Assistant Professor of History @ucf.bsky.social | Author of Geographies of Gender @cambridgeup.bsky.social | Ph.D. in EALC at UChicago | First Gen Personal website: tadashiishikawa.com
@amymatthewson.bsky.social
Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
@zizzyballord.bsky.social
Journalist and travel writer | South African-Australian living on Kuring-Gai country | Itching to head off-map | Words + images in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Financial Review, Qantas magazine, BBC and more | Instagram: @zizzyballord
@anitasethi.bsky.social
🌾writer ✍🏽walker👣 talker🎤 Judge, Orwell Prize 2025 Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for #Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje. FRGS. Mancunian 🐝 anitasethi.com
@jeremybassetti.com
Writer. Photographer. Educator. Human. Currently thinking about mountains. More info ⤵ jeremybassetti.com/link-in-bio
@shafikmeghji.bsky.social
Journalist, travel writer, author 📖 Small Earthquakes (pre-order ⬇️), Crossed Off the Map ✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Lonely Planet, DK, Geographical 🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño https://linktr.ee/ShafikMeghji
@paulclammer.bsky.social
Writer | BLACK CROWN: Biography of Henry Christophe, King of Haiti | Antarctic Editor | Recovering Lonely Planet guidebook author | Bristol https://paulclammer.com/
@calmandfearless.bsky.social
Writer. Loves the spikier bits of the planet. Bath addict. Contributor to Guardian Country Diary. Represented by David Godwin Associates.
@trude-dijkstra.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in the History of the Book | University of Amsterdam | Early Modernist | The Role of Print in Intercultural Encounters between Europe and Asia| current project: Hand-Colouring the World Outside Europe
@annegoldgar.bsky.social
Early modern historian at USC. Cultural history, Netherlands, tulipmania, arctic, history of art, history of science, history of the book, etc. Opinions expressed are mine, not USC’s.
@rossanawyatt.bsky.social
Over 60 Celiac Traveller | ❤️🇨🇦 💪| writer | travel, lifestyle, and food info | #Glutenfree | #travel| 🏳️🌈 Ally| Sometimes get political (a lot lately) 🍁 https://www.lifeisfullofadventures.com
@mikeparker.bsky.social
Writer in the damp Welsh hills. Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell? "No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
@dralexiswolf.bsky.social
Editor. Researcher. Writer. Eighteenth-century & Nineteenth-century, Romanticism, Women's Literary History & Creative Nonfiction (memoir & biography). She/her. Pacific NW person living in Sussex. www.alexiswolf.co.uk
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
@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
@curioustravellers.bsky.social
‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London) Histories of Enlightenment Travel https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
@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.
@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
@emmalucycole.bsky.social
☆ PhD researcher with Traumatic Brain Injury ☆ University of Bristol ☆ Thesis: "Stereotypes of Bedouin in Travel Writing since TE Lawrence" ☆ Erstwhile Wanderer
@afquaireau.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in British literature and translation. Travel writing / women’s writing / 18th and 19th centuries / environmental literature / history of motherhood and childhood @univAngers
@gigitang.bsky.social
Postdoc on Research Ireland-funded project ‘Minerals’, UC Dublin School of English. PhD in English. Research global 19c, extraction, infrastructure, petition, periodicals, travel writing, Trollope, emotion history. Adore dogs. she/ her.
@curatorconnelly.bsky.social
Head Curator at the National Science and Media Museum. Historian of science and technology. Nerdy about media tech, the history of electricity, the polar regions and the history of exploration #histsci #histtech #museums 📜
@captjamesfitzjames.bsky.social
Captain James Fitzjames RN (1813-1848?) research by Fabiënne Tetteroo MA / jamesfitzjames.com / BA Art History+MA Naval History / Collector of ephemera
@karinlach.bsky.social
Is leabharlannaí mé. 📚 Librarian in Vienna, Austria, interested in John and Jane Franklin and the lives they touched, Ireland, Irish theatre, and Anglophone literatures and cultures. Hoping to continue to grow my inner historian and my office plants.
@clairewarrior.bsky.social
Senior Curator Royal Museums Greenwich, content lead Royal Observatory redevelopment. Trustee UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. PhD Polar Studies. Sing London Oriana. Views my own.
@richardjansell.bsky.social
Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. Forthcoming book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/
@gaborgelleri.bsky.social
Scholar of cultures of travel within the French-speaking world, living on the Welsh seaside. Nowadays mostly working on the ways travel and education intersect at various periods, and colonial "influencer" tourism.
@nannaklk.bsky.social
Historian of science, medicine, and exploration, with a focus on material culture and the politics of knowledge-making. Postdoc in stakeholder engagement in museums at Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
@asimonekeland.bsky.social
Academic librarian at the University of Oslo and historian of exploration in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly interested in the polar regions, the history of celebrity and the history of emotions
@guysechrist.bsky.social
Early-modern history of science | Commerce and Science -Practical Maths -Natural History Uni. of Tennessee | PhD Cambridge HPS
@farsouthhistory.bsky.social
Historian of Antarctica #Antarctica #STS #envhist #histsci #polar #maritime #exploration opinions my own
@illuminator.bsky.social
Franklin Expedition news+research. Erebus & Terror dive season is Aug/Sept. I write a monthly-ish newsletter for this stuff. www.illuminator.blog
@timhannigan.bsky.social
Writer: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, Indonesia; academic stuff on travel writing. From Cornwall. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo
@thethousandthpart.com
RN/polar exploration | C18-19 British/Irish history | Photographer; librarian; independent researcher of life and career of Capt. Francis Crozier. www.thethousandthpart.com
@jonwestaway.bsky.social
Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies. PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network. uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway
@finger-post.blog
I write about the Franklin Expedition and other parts of history heavy on the “doomed” and “ill-fated” side of things. I also enjoy petting cats in Victorian cemeteries. Humanitarian. She/They. #MDANT. #NUJ. #NoTerfs. https://finger-post.blog
@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/
@sarahmpicks.bsky.social
Historian of exploration, extreme environments, material culture + outdoor gear. Hist. sci & med PhD, editor at Endeavour, History of Anthropology Review, and Global Maritime History. I unpack packing. She/her. www.sarahmpickman.com
@waymarks.bsky.social
Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/