Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Dr Rob @robheighton.bsky.social he/him • Doctor of Physics • Worldbuilder & Conlanger • Fan of Fantasy • Whovian • Amateur Enthusiast of Linguistics, Archaeology, Classics, and many other things
📍 Britain • 📖 Whitewalls • 📺 Trotters' Flat
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Erika Sanderson @erikasanderson.com Actor, director, voice actor, geek. Hobbit-sized Jedi trying to stay out of mischief. She/her 🏳️🌈
www.erikasanderson.com
Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social News for Oxfordshire. Est. 2022.
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The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social The Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Wolfson College.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Bloodhound Books @bloodhoundbooks.bsky.social 📚 Indie book publisher of page-turning reads
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Asylum Welcome @asylumwelcome.bsky.social Supporting asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants in Oxfordshire.
🤝 We provide information, advice, practical support, and solidarity.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society @anesfhs.bsky.social The Aberdeen & North-East Scotland Family History Society exists to assist and promote the study of genealogy and family history based on the North-East corner of Scotland. 
Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social Emotional historian
Laura King (she/her) @lauracking.bsky.social Historian, latest book Living with the Dead (open access, OUP, 2025). Interested everyday life, emotional relationships, and how history gets passed on.
Love collaborating with people in and outside the University
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Dr Daniella M Gonzalez @deegonz92.bsky.social Medievalist: London, urban history, political discourse, documentary culture📜
Archives and Records Management Professional 📚
Social Media Fellow at @harchivestrust.bsky.social 💻
Co-founder @memslibukc.bsky.social
Digital engagement
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine is Britain's best selling family history magazine. Follow for the latest family history news and advice.
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com
Dominic Fisher Poetry @domfishpoet.bsky.social Poet, one-time English language teacher, lives near his Bristol allotment. Two collections https://dominicfisherpoetry.co.uk/
Stephanie Merritt/SJ Parris @stephmerritt.bsky.social Author & journalist. Sunday Times #1 best-selling Giordano Bruno series. Reviews for The Observer. Sometimes on the radio. Rep’d by Jonny Geller/Curtis Brown 📚🗞️🎙️✍🏼
Boaz Trust @boaztrust.bsky.social Providing stable accommodation and holistic support for people seeking safety in Greater Manchester. Advocating for a fair and compassionate asylum system. Stand with us to #EndDestitution 🧡 boaztrust.org.uk
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Joe Shute @joeshute.bsky.social Writer and journalist. Daily Telegraph weather columnist. PhD researcher MMU. Author (Bloomsbury): Stowaway (2024) Forecast (2021) A Shadow Above (2018)
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Global Maritime History @globalmarhist.bsky.social GMH is a forum for discussions of maritime history, broadly conceived. Get in touch if you'd like to post an article, blog, CFP or podcast. Social media run by @canadianerrant
No ChatGPT or AI art permitted for content on our website.
Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️ @kejamieson.bsky.social Short For Bob. Naval & Maritime Historian. AFRHistS Royal Historical Society. Council Member: Society for Nautical Research. C18th Naval Ordnance & Personnel Nerd. Rower. Owned by a Greek Dog 🐾
katejamieson.co.uk / IG: katejamieson_
Dr Catherine Freeman @catgqf.bsky.social Sometimes a girls' education historian, at other times at work down the history mines, finding treasure.
IHR Life Cycles seminar administrator.
Allotment keeper and one of those annoying cyclists who uses cycle lanes and obeys traffic lights.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
David Musgrove @djmusgrove.bsky.social Content director BBC History magazine; HistoryExtra web and podcast
Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social MP for Birmingham Yardley
Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social I help not-for-profits write things. I also write other stuff.
https://shellydennison.co.uk/
Dr Susannah Wright @susannahwright.bsky.social Reader/Postgraduate Research Tutor in Education, Oxford Brookes. Proud mum of two sons. Historian. Loves music, film, books, walking. Not necessarily in that order. Views my own.
Tanya Evans @tanyaevans.bsky.social Public historian. Historian of Australia and Britain from the 18th century to the present. Professor of History Macquarie Uni. She/her.
Helen Morgan @helensnapper.bsky.social Author, writer, historian, archivist, knitter, philatelist, family historian and snapperup of unconsidered trifles
Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight @canadianerrant.bsky.social Maritime Historian. Chief Mate (150 GT). Dad & Husband. Gardener, Cook & Brewer. Ngāi Tahu & McLean of Duart. Toitū te Tiriti. TCEU 416/CUPE L79. Canadian & Kiwi. Go Blue Jays. Cymru am byth. Alba gu brath. Go All Blacks. He/Him. Likes fashion/style
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
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Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Venetia S-Booth @venetiasb.bsky.social Owner of Venetia’s Yarn Shop in Fakenham, Norfolk (UK), knitter, gardener, cook. And interested in politics.
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social Historia Magazine is the online magazine of the Historical Writers’ Association
historiamag.com
historicalwriters.org
Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social The Family History Federation, supporting #Genealogy and the membership of #FamilyHistory societies worldwide 🌳 #FamilyHistoryFriday familyhistoryfederation.com / http://exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk
Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social UK & EU refugees & migration. LGBTI+, feminism & generalised incoherent ranting to boot. She/Her. I do policy, research & campaigns.
zoegardner.net
Refugees at Home @refugeesathome.bsky.social We connect people with a spare room in their home to refugees and people seeking asylum who are in need of somewhere to stay.
www.refugeesathome.org
The Regency Cook @theregencycook.bsky.social Helping you to discover 18th & 19th century food & history. www.paulcouchman.co.uk
Freedom from Torture @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social Torture tries to destroy lives. We won't let it. We stand with survivors, providing therapy and support, and fighting for change together. https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/
Hirschi @hirschi.bsky.social Compulsive bookbuyer, in my second puberty, being embarassing is my superpower, weird, she/they.
Trans rights are human rights.
Free Palestine.
Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social Asylum Rights Campaigning. Migrant & Human Rights advocacy. She/Her 🏳🌈 🧡
City of Sanctuary UK @cityofsanctuaryuk.bsky.social City by city, community by community, we're building a more welcoming UK for people seeking sanctuary. Wherever you live or work there are ways to get involved.
https://linktr.ee/cityofsanctuaryuk
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that. 
Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues
Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Prof Rachel Lichtenstein
https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting
Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social Former editor of White Dwarf, current editor of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. Life writing PhD from UEA. Mostly writing about Romans. REX JUBA, out 2026 from Penguin.
https://linktr.ee/andrewkenrick
David Cooper @drdavidcooper.bsky.social Literary geographer writing about writing about place. Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. 
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social Historian at Lancaster University and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded @victorianhand.bsky.social project. Blissfully married to my Co-I @jbhist.bsky.social. Author of two books: https://bit.ly/3968wLB & https://bit.ly/3KwWtVS
Benedict Leigh @benedictleigh.bsky.social Commissioner in Gloucestershire. My own opinions, and not my employers. He/him.
Charlie Holland @charlieholland.bsky.social 19th century Circus & Music Hall history & Contemporary Circus. Co-organiser of European Circus History Conference (circusconference.org), British Music Hall Society Conference, London Juggling & Flow Arts Festival (throwntogether.org).
HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024.
soniasodha.com
Neil Drysdale @neildrysdale.bsky.social I’m looking for new writing projects to embrace. The more eclectic the better! Contact me at: Neil694@btinternet.com
Natalie Pithers, Genealogy Stories @genealogystoriesuk.bsky.social 🖊️ Write your family history. Founder of http://curiousdescendants.co.uk
🌳 Genealogy articles, hints & tips at http://genealogystories.co.uk
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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The Centre for Robert Burns Studies @glasgowburns.bsky.social Est. 2007 at the University of Glasgow for the development of research, scholarship and teaching in the area of Robert Burns (1759-96).
Winner of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, 2023.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Rhona Brown @rhonabrown.bsky.social Professor of Scottish Textual Cultures, University of Glasgow
18th-century Scottish poetry, early Scottish periodicals, textual editing.
Working on a new edition of the poetry of Robert Fergusson (1750-74). 🏴📚📖🗞️📰
@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social
Vikki Reilly @bookyvikki.bsky.social Cheerleader for Books and Beatles.
20+ years in the book trade.
Supporting publishers @publishingscotland.bsky.social
Editor @booksfromscotland.bsky.social
Author of Beatles 101.
Gimme all yer culture!
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
The Dickens Society @dickenssociety.bsky.social Bluesky page for the international Dickens Society www.dickenssociety.org
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Jorts (and Jean) @jortsthecat.bsky.social Jorts the cat.
Jean helps me.
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social Writer and Art Historian. Old Fox stories. Edward M.Bannister catalogue raisonne and research. Reynard the Fox and Fox for All Seasons published by Bodleian Publishing. Oxford & Dorset. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnneLouiseAvery
Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org The NUJ chapel for the Guardian
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social Franco-Scot 🇫🇷🏴| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Scottish History @scottishhistory.org Online publication covering Scottish history, heritage and archaeology. Featuring articles, reviews, latest book releases, places to visit, events and more. Published in Ayrshire. Editor: @neilritchie.bsky.social
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
Cathy Soughton @bucksresearch.bsky.social Professional, qualified genealogist and house historian with over 25 years research experience. Tutor in house history with @pharostutors.bsky.social . Member and current Secretary of Association of Genealogists and Researchers in Archives (AGRA)
Dr Colin Runeckles @colinruneckles.bsky.social Researcher into urbanism & housing:
Ancient (@OU_Classics) - currently writing a book on non-elite housing
Modern (Writer, Speaker, Treasurer - @ilfordhistory.bsky.social
Likes music. A lot of music. Can often be found at Cafe Oto.
Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social Family historian, lecturer, author. Former Principal Family History Specialist at The National Archives. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 42 years in the business. Loves a good map. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
https://lifelinesresearch.co.uk/
Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social Prof Emerita of Design History & public historian FRHistSoc📙Ideal Homes ✍️ history of the kitchen 📺📻rep by Knight Ayton https://bio.site/deborahsuggryan
Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social Enthusiastic family historian since 2006; moderator pro tempore at Genealogy & Family History Stack Exchange. http://genealogy.stackexchange.com Fan of F&SF, figure skating, baseball, equestrian sports, cycling. Former bookseller; book junkie.