History Tweeters

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Twitter can be a shouty place at times, but it can also be a source of information and discussion if you follow the right people.

Here are a few history-based account I follow. They're not necessarily tweeting about my areas of interest, but they're always interesting:

Dan Snow "The History Guy"
https://twitter.com/thehistoryguy
One of the "big names". Good for general British and European history

Mary Beard
https://twitter.com/wmarybeard
Classical history, often focuses on the role of women

Suzannah Lipscomb "Sixteenth Century Girl"
https://twitter.com/sixteenthCgirl
16th century, particularly England and Colonial America

Whores of Yore
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore
"A catalogue of jilts, cracks, prostitutes, nightwalkers, whores, she-friends, kind women & others of the linen-lifting tribe."

John McCafferty
https://twitter.com/jdmccafferty
Irish history

Benerson Little
https://twitter.com/BenersonLittle
Pirates, mainly Golden Age

Any other recommendations? Include your own account if relevant!
 

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Off the top of my head (I mainly follow historians so there are probably more I don't remember):

I enjoy Jonathan Healy's tweets - he's a social historian, mainly early modern history, and rather funny:

https://twitter.com/SocialHistoryOx

Matthew Ward is usually full of fun history stuff too:

https://twitter.com/HistoryNeedsYou

Medieval Death Bot with causes of death from medieval sources is also enjoyable:

https://twitter.com/DeathMedieval

Emily Brand if you are interested in 18th century:

https://twitter.com/EJBrand
 

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Oooh, I love colorized photos! I'm totally into colorized Civil War photos--very eerie. You don't realize just how strongly your impression of the time period is (literally) colored in shades of black and white until you see it in color and you realize that they, too, had color vision.
 

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Just popping in to say that at first glace, I thought the thread title was "History Tweezers," and once the thought was in my head, I had no choice but to go research the history of tweezers. It turned out the actually be quite interesting!
 
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I recently discovered the incredibly talented Marina Amaral, who colorizes old B&W photos:
https://twitter.com/marinamaral2

Oooh, I love colorized photos! I'm totally into colorized Civil War photos--very eerie. You don't realize just how strongly your impression of the time period is (literally) colored in shades of black and white until you see it in color and you realize that they, too, had color vision.

I just got Amaral's new book, The Colour of Time (with text by historian Doug Jones). May have used the word "wow!" a lot. It's amazing how much closer the past seems when it's in colour.
 

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One of my favs, almost to the point of cultishness, is Adrienne Mayor, https://twitter.com/amayor who's areas of interest include steppe nomads, women in the ancient world, pre-scientific folklore, poisons, and robots. Also political retweets (so many!) and SFF fandom.