Royal Historical Society ✓

@RoyalHistSoc · University College London, UK · joined 19 Feb 2013

The Royal Historical Society supports history and historians. From 21 Feb 2025 we have ceased posting on X and moved wholly to BlueSky. Please join us there.

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Royal Historical Society ✓@RoyalHistSoc22 Feb 2025

This is a final post on X from @RoyalHistSoc. From Friday 21 February we have ceased posting and have moved entirely to BlueSky. Please join us there for news and updates from the Society and about #history and historians. #twitterstorians 5.4K views · 24 likes · 7 reposts · 4 replies Open on X →

Royal Historical Society ✓@RoyalHistSoc16 Feb 2025

@RoyalHistSoc I was thinking of joining but with this obvious boycott of this platform I don’t think that I will bother now as you are obviously not the society I would wish to he part of. 57 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Royal Historical Society ✓@RoyalHistSoc15 Feb 2025

.@RoyalHistSoc will close and archive its X account from Friday 21 February. Thereafter all our social media about the Society's activities, and those of fellow organisations in support of #history and the historical profession, will be via BlueSky. Please join us there. 8.1K views · 22 likes · 10 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Royal Historical Society ✓@RoyalHistSoc10 Feb 2025

We've not been posting much on X since last December. From 21 February we will be archiving this account and focusing wholly on BlueSky https://t.co/DEqiMluU4N to communicate the Society's news, and the work of fellow organisations supporting #history and the humanities https://

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Royal Historical Society ✓@RoyalHistSoc29 Jan 2025

You can now listen to a recording of our recent lecture with @ghilondon given by Prof Roland Wenzlhuemer (LMU Munich) on 21 January. Learn more as Roland explores the significance of marine salvage in global history: https://t.co/iiTerR8HVt https://t.co/g4OuBupriB

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Royal Historical Society ✓@RoyalHistSoc28 Jan 2025

What is the value and use of history in contemporary society and culture? We're delighted to launch a new OA short-form book series - 'Elements in History and Contemporary Society', with @cambUP_History - to explore this question. Proposals now invited https://t.co/j7rLjWM5th

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

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Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

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What the audience does

Likes58.0%98 in total

Reposts23.1%39 in total

Replies4.1%7 in total

Quotes5.9%10 in total

Bookmarks8.9%15 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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