I've not really cracked how Bluesky works but I'm not going to let that stop me from doing a cover reveal for my next book. And here it is: Out 6 January 2026! Preorder now at the usual spots, including: bookshop.org/p/books/free...

This isn't just gardening – planting roses this beautiful for all passers-by to see is nothing short of a public service ❤️🌺

Hi everyone (and a big hello to so many new followers 👋). I've been off social media, finishing up my third book — The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas. It will be with you (US and UK) in February! Don’t worry, I’ll remind you to pre-order it nearer the time 😉

This week on the podcast @carriegibson.bsky.social discusses the women involved in Caribbean slave revolts: who were they, what do we know about them, why don’t we know more & as always, what are the biases that shaped the way their stories are, or are not, told. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/inf...

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!

THE meme of 2025 for me.

Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King Jr.—Mountain Top, color screenprint, 1968

Virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY @ucpress.bsky.social, hosted by @srsrensoc.bsky.social! Weds Feb 19th 9:30am PST / 12:30pm EST / 5:30pm GMT / 6:30pm CET. Register now! Pub date Feb 4. 1/15 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #HAMH www.crowdcast.io/c/monsters-h...

GLORIOUS. I cannot wait to hold a copy of this in my hands. What a beauty! Congratulations @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social!! I feel privileged to have witnessed part of the process from idea to finished book. #earlymodern #skyhistorians

Heading to #AHA25? Check out "The Large and the Small", two roundtables I organized on creative and narrative nonfiction history, biography, and memoir. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury 🧵 1/n aha.confex.com/aha/2025/web...

the seoul tourism board is feeling so tired lmao

Author copies of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY #HAMH from @ucpress.bsky.social! I’m in awe of Art Director Lia Tjandra’s work. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thcentury 🧵 1/6

HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is in the @ucpress.bsky.social Spring 2025 catalog (3-4)! It tells the 4,000-year story of how humans have created monsters out of one another & what these monsters tell us about humanity's present and future. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #histsci #histmed 1/2 www.ucpress.edu/about/season...

✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic 💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom 🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24 🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Wow, thanks lovely people – 1,000 follows this week! 👋About me: I'm finishing up a book on abolition in the Americas. It's my third, the other two in bio. US born, long-time Londoner, but I moved to Korea in February. No cute pets, sadly, but here's one of my plants and a maneki-neko ❤️

Hello Bleeps (Bluesky + peeps), quick #history question: looking for works on gender/sexuality in early #Spanish exploration/empire in #Asia – #Philippines but also anything to do with missionaries in #Japan ~16thc. A friend asked me but not really my area, so I'll turn to the experts here. Thanks!

That feeling when your book turns up in unexpected places ❤️ Life in Seoul off to a lovely start

I'm back with another review . . .

Tonight!! A real-life, in-person conversation with @carolinepennock.bsky.social, @carriegibson.bsky.social and Montaz Marché about public history and the public life of the early modern. Do come in person if you can, and attend virtually if you can't. (Link via email or DM if you missed sign-up... )

Delighted to say that I'm going to be chatting with @carriegibson.bsky.social and Montaz Marché about public history and the early modern in the first IHR workshop this coming Monday. It's a hybrid event, so you can join us on Zoom if you're not in London!

Zoom and on-line talks coming up at the Institute of Historical Research, London (@ihr.bsky.social)! First, @carolinepennock.bsky.social, @carriegibson.bsky.social & Montaz Marché discuss public history on Oct 6th. 🗃️ #18thC #SkyHistorians #EarlyModern

*peeks out from behind curtain, waves tentatively*