Top 45 History Influencers in 2026

1. Poutine

Bio Time for your daily history update! Professor Poutine is a 28 year History teacher and holder of three university degrees (Honours BA; BEd, MA). *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @trevors_history_reels Instagram Followers 1.4M Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Mega Gender Male Social YouTube Get Email Subscribe Request upto top 1,000 History Instagram Influencers with email contacts in a spreadsheet or csv file. Email us at [email protected] Copy emailEmail us

2. Dan Snow

Bio Visiting the world’s best historic sites.
🎧: Dan Snow’s History Hit Podcast.
📺: @historyhit TV channel. *****@historyhit.com Instagram Handle @thehistoryguy Instagram Followers 1.1M Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Mega Gender Male Get Email Contact

3. Jacklynn

Bio Travelling the world in pursuit of history!
VOTE for me Travel Creator of the Year ⬇️🔗
@lonelyplanet correspondent
💌 *****@wmgmt.co.uk Instagram Handle @byjacklynn Instagram Followers 656.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

4. Dr Jess Venner

Bio 🏺 Ancient Historian & Archaeologist @oxford_uni
🌋 Author of ✨THE LOST VOICES OF POMPEII✨
🧡 Mgmt: *****@northbanktalent.com Instagram Handle @lifeinthepastlane_ Instagram Followers 145.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +63% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

5. Clementine de la Poer Beresford

Bio 🏰 Historian, Curator @goodwood & Writer
🏛️ History, historic places & art history
📜 PhD King James I funded @ahrcpress *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @the_history_gal Instagram Followers 129.2K Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

6. Lisa Weakland

Bio Discover the people & places that shaped the fabric of America🇺🇸 The Historical USA Podcast is available on Spotify, Apple, Rumble, and YouTube! *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @historical_usa Instagram Followers 122.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

7. Myron

Bio • Mainly WWI and WWII history daily, to educate and to learn from its mistakes. 📚
• Strictly non-political! 📝
• Militaria collector 🔎 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @the_dutch_historian Instagram Followers 110.9K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact

8. Megs

Bio 🕯️ Early modern historian
🗝️ Women’s history, social history & art history
👑 All eras - medieval, tudor & beyond!
📧*****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @historywithmegs Instagram Followers 110K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

9. Scott Webber

Bio Founder of Mad About History
Sharing history with 300K+followers across platforms
BA in History • Published Children’s Book Author • Award-Winning PT *****@yahoo.co.uk Instagram Handle @mad_about_history_scott Instagram Followers 78.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +28% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

10. Betsy Sweeny

Bio Preservationist, yogi, dog mom.
Rehabbing #themclainhouse in Wheeling, WV
Co-owner of @goodmansionwines 🍷 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @betsysweeny Instagram Followers 68.6K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

11. Sarah Levy

Bio The History Chick 1941
:: Military History WWII-GWOT::
:: History Behind The Page: Live :: Instagram Handle @thehistorychick1941 Instagram Followers 50.2K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

12. Ursula Weekes

Bio Art historian of Mughal India etc. author, speaker, teacher, writer. Instagram Handle @ursulaweekes Instagram Followers 41.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

13. Cay Bluestocking

Bio History facts, fits & skits
London 📍
Public Historian, author, and presenter: @twogirlsonecorsetpod 🎙️
*****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @caybluestocking Instagram Followers 40.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

14. Nina

Bio 💥 Legenda PB 2nd July competition💥
https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
📚 Best selling author 📚
🎓 Cultural historian Oxford & Lincoln 🎓
🎥 Documentary film maker 🎥 *****@unitedagents.co.uk Instagram Handle @drjaninaramirez Instagram Followers 33.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +6% Type Micro Gender Female play.acast.com/s/artdetective + Follow Get Email Contact

15. Elizabeth

Bio 📕 Author of Bloody, Brilliant Tudors
✉️ *****@hotmail.com
🏰 Blenheim Palace Ambassador Instagram Handle @the_historical_gal Instagram Followers 30.4K Follower Growth (3mo) +8% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

16. Reema Singhal

Bio YouTube: Historia Maxima
I ♥️ history Instagram Handle @historia_maxima Instagram Followers 24.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +96% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

17. Ashley Risk

Bio I reimagine 16th century art to help bring history alive.
Pro human rights and democracy. Instagram Handle @tudors_reimagined Instagram Followers 24.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

18. Mandy Bartok

Bio 🇺🇸 in 🇯🇵, 15 yrs, 47/47 prefectures
Sharing Japan’s history, seasons, culture, food
⬇️ All tours + self-guided walks *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @uncover_japan Instagram Followers 21.6K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

19. Craig Owens

Bio Uncovering forgotten history, one story at a time.
📖 Author • 🎬 Historical Researcher
Haunted Discoveries • Tours • Books • TV *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @bizarre_los_angeles Instagram Followers 17.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +6% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

20. Dr Fern Riddell

Bio Historian. On your TV/Radio
*Victoria’s Secret OUT NOW* link in bio👇 📺 Queen Victoria: Secret Marriage, Secret Child, @channel4 *****@morgangreencreatives.com Instagram Handle @fernriddell Instagram Followers 14.4K Follower Growth (3mo) +18% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

21. Emily Brand

Bio Historian, 18thcenturyist, genealogist
📝 Marie Antoinette’s ladies-in-waiting
📚The Fall of the House of Byron: Times & Mail on Sunday Book of the Year Instagram Handle @historian_emily Instagram Followers 5.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

22. Lauren Johnson

Bio Public historian - writer - historical interpreter - marginalised histories. Author of bios: #ShadowKing Henry VI & #MargaretBeaufort *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @history_lauren Instagram Followers 2.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +7% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

23. Victoria

Bio 🏰Guide at Edinburgh Castle
🎓BA History student
🎞️Photos and facts from my historical travels
⚜️Plantagenets, Tudors, Stuarts⚔️🏰🕯️🛡️🗝️ Instagram Handle @16thcenturygeek Instagram Followers 2.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +59% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

24. Neil

Bio All about ancient history. Creator of the Ancient History Hound podcast 🏺🏛 🎙 *****@hotmail.com Instagram Handle @ancientblogger Instagram Followers 1.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +15% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

25. Dr Charlotte Spence

Bio Lecturer in Ancient History @sthildasoxford @oxford_uni
PhD from @exeterclassics
Sharing my world of #academia #ancienthistory and #books 📜🏛️📖 *****@classics.ox.ac.uk Instagram Handle @drcharlottespence Instagram Followers 1.4K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

26. Matteo Bebi

Bio Historian 🏛️ Art, Medievalist, MuseumGuide
Ideatore e curatore @matteodagualdo.it
Author EraNuova, Typimedia *****@outlook.it Instagram Handle @matteobebi217 Instagram Followers 1.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

27. PatFurstenberg

Bio Patricia Furstenberg writer 🏰 WHEN SECRETS BLOOM ❄️AMAZON: author.to/PatFurstenberg 📚 DREAMLAND, TRANSYLVANIA'S HISTORY AtoZ, SILENT HEROES🐶 Blog: Instagram Handle @patfurstenbergauthor Instagram Followers 523 Follower Growth (3mo) -2% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

28. Suzannah Lipscomb

Bio Can you trust the stories you hear about the past
I’m a history professor, TV presenter, author & podcaster
🎧 Podcast: Not Just the Tudors *****@knightayton.co.uk Instagram Handle @sixteenthcgirl Instagram Followers 128.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +29% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact

29. Amber Butchart

Bio Fashion & textile historian, author & curator
🪡 History on @britishsewingbee
📺 BBC: Stitch in Time
☠️ Forensic Garment Analyst
📚 Books/exhibitions ⬇️ *****@miradormanagement.co.uk Instagram Handle @amberbutchart Instagram Followers 68.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

30. James Holland

Bio Historian, author & broadcaster
MY NEW BOOK: THE VISIONARIES OUT NOW @wehavewayspod @avreind @ww2headquarters *****@griffonmerlin.com Instagram Handle @jamesholland1940 Instagram Followers 61.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +72% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

31. Malia Miglino

Bio 📍L.A.-based when not traveling
📚Historian ✈️ Luxury Travel
👻🍷Spooky Spirits & Music
💌 - *****@lahistorygirl.com Instagram Handle @macabremalia Instagram Followers 59.4K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

32. Dana Schwartz

Bio No. 1 NYT bestselling author and screenwriter
🎧 @noblebloodtales / @hoaxthepodcast
📚 ANATOMY: A LOVE STORY; THE ARCANE ARTS *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @danaschwartzzz Instagram Followers 53.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

33. Greg Jenner

Bio PUBLIC HISTORIAN
🎙Host of You’re Dead To Me comedy podcast on @bbcsounds
📚Author of 7 funny books for adults & kids
📺 Ex-BBC Horrible Histories *****@gregjenner.com Instagram Handle @greg_jenner Instagram Followers 30.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +8% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

34. Natalie Grueninger

Bio Historian, author & podcaster
📚Women’s History| Books | Anne Boleyn
🎙️Host of @talkingtudors
📍Sydney | 💌 *****@onthetudortrail.com
Learn more ⬇️ Instagram Handle @themosthappy78 Instagram Followers 23.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +12% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

35. Jonathan Sacks

Bio 📍: 🇰🇿 Next: 🇺🇿 - Travel, culture, food, beer, cocktails, wine, history, wandering #travelwriter | *****@everybodyhatesatourist.net
🏠 SF & DC Instagram Handle @everybodyhatesatourist Instagram Followers 23.1K Follower Growth (3mo) -2% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

36. Ahmet Yaşar Akkaya

Bio Marmara Üniversitesi | Doktora
Arşiv Kurdu 📜
Menderes • Darbeler • Azınlıklar
Yakın tarihin tozlu raflarından. Instagram Handle @ahmetyasarakkaya Instagram Followers 18.6K Follower Growth (3mo) -5% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

37. Laura Fitz

Bio Irish Fashion, Art, Beauty Historian
Presenter|Consultant|Writer of Irish fashion past & present @rtelifestyle + global media
@fashionhistsocireland *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @seekthehistoric Instagram Followers 16.3K Follower Growth (3mo) +12% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact

38. Steve

Bio Cold War Historian. 21st Century Digital Boy.
East Germany.
Support my work/buy a button! ⬇️ Instagram Handle @stuheevun Instagram Followers 12.1K Follower Growth (3mo) +35% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact

39. Callan

Bio museum girlie chatting history
27 | PHL *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @callanshea Instagram Followers 10K Follower Growth (3mo) -3% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact

40. Guus

Bio kunsthistoricus, en curator DE RUIT: artist project space; Gedempte Zalmhaven 761, Rotterdam - 24/7 te bekijken vanaf het trottoir @de_ruit_rotterdam Instagram Handle @guus0404 Instagram Followers 858 Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact

41. Lawrence Gray

Bio Watch our documentaries on the history of Malaysia:
https://YouTube.com/goodnessgrays
And read Liminal Britain: https://lawrencegray.substack.com *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @lwgray Instagram Followers 640 Follower Growth (3mo) -2% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact