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PLS have collected & distributed more than £49.3m in 2025-26.
Ram Gulrajani Author 📚 @rockape65.bsky.social From suspense to soul-stirring stories I writes them all Love the arts, writing, painting, strumming my guitar & generally being creative. From Gibraltar originally Website: https://t.co/8gSEmJ7TCu Team Site @iquitcigs.bsky.social
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Jes Trudel 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ @jestrudel.bsky.social Literary agent with The Rights Factory. Founder of WritingCommunity.ca. CLOSED TO QUERIES.
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Amyn Merchant @amynmerchant.bsky.social Musician, Bookworm, Europhile, Family Man & #AutismParent. All views are personal. 
Leo Carey @leojcarey.bsky.social Senior Editor at The New Yorker, ex-X?
Sebastian Kumar @sebkumar.bsky.social Jaded journalist, South Londoner. Music and books mostly.
"Here's something to dwell upon
Now we're living next we're gone"
Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social Rome’s English language magazine since 1985.
News, culture and insights into Rome and Italy.
www.wantedinrome.com
Richard Baxell @richardbaxell.bsky.social British historian writing about the International Brigades.
Author of Unlikely Warriors, the British in the Spanish Civil War. Recent collection of biographies, Forged in Spain, published by theclaptonpress.bsky.social.
richardbaxell.info for more.
Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social Historian interested in foreign fighters, transnational solidarities, emotion, anti-fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Currently based at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Author 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' (EUP, 2020). He/him.
Séan F Scullion @seanfscullion.bsky.social Author of CHURCHILL’S SPANIARDS (Helion) y ESPAÑOLES CONTRA EL NAZISMO (Espasa) #ContinuingtheFight Spain/SCW/Hispanic World Mountains/climbing/ultra distances #ManonaPinkBike🚲
Military History🇬🇧🇪🇸☘️🇫🇷
Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social The Walking Museum of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona. Author Forgotten Places: Barcelona&SCW. Also Iberian wildlife+landscape. Latest book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War" Now researching next book about Iberian wolves
www.thespanishcivilwar.com
ALBA @lincolnbrigade.bsky.social Teaching History | Inspiring Activism | Upholding Human Rights | Established by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in 1979.
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark.
Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017.
(Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
Samuël Kruizinga @samuelkruizinga.bsky.social Associate Professor Modern History & War Studies | Occupations | Blockades | First World War | Spanish Civil War
@UvA_Amsterdam
Wesley Livesay @historyofthesecondworldwar.com Creator of History of the Great War and History of the Second World War weekly history podcasts. Always ready and willing to discuss video games, Tolkien, and the Detroit Red Wings
Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Gary Sheffield @profgsheffield.bsky.social Military History & other stuff. Visiting Prof, Defence Studies Dept, KCL. Husband, father, grandpa. Christian. Arsenal. Labour. Spaniel magnet. All opinions are just mine. Reposts do not = endorsement.
Spanïard from Montana @bikesandbattles.bsky.social Spain, Spanish history (particularly the Civil War). UPenn, Michigan, ICADE: econ., IR, law.
Sergei Eisenstein and motorcycles.
Jack (Handey) of all trades, master of none.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art
Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Brian J Griffith @brianjgriffith.bsky.social Modern European historian. Writing book on 🍷 in Fascist Italy.
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@NewFascismSyllabus.bsky.social
@WMAB-2018-2019.bsky.social
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Websites:
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New Fascism Syllabus @newfascismsyllabus.bsky.social The New Fascism Syllabus is a crowd-sourced collection of scholarly writings on the history of fascist, populist, and authoritarian movements and governments.
Jack Arscott @jackarscott.bsky.social Postdoc Research Assistant at LMU München working on Elias Canetti's English years. Out in 2025 - Reclaiming the Nation: The Left Wing Patriotism of Die Weltbühne in the Weimar Republic. Reviewer for Year's Work in Modern Language Studies. Tucholskyite.
Kevin Murphy @kevincmurphy.com Speechwriter, historian, cinephile, old-school blogger. Formerly academia, Congress, politics, preservation. Nowadays in Philly. He/him/his. http://kevincmurphy.com/biography.html
Rivets and Pins @rivetsandpins.bsky.social @peteblanchard.bsky.social 's military history account.
I focus primarily on AFV development/warfare 1915-42.
Warning: may contain humour.
For more detail: https://rivets-and-pins.beehiiv.com/
Paul O’Donnell @paodonnell.bsky.social History, Ships, Manufacturing and Trade Policy. Attempting a PhD (the left and the navy in early C20/interwar Britain) twenty years later than is traditional.
James Keating @jameskeating.bsky.social 📖 Historian of suffrage, feminism and internationalism | 🖊️ Distant Sisters (MUP, 2020) | @ahsjournal.bsky.social Book Review Editor | he/him
Pierre Salmon @pierresalmon.bsky.social MCF en histoire contemporaine (ENS-PSL - IHMC)
Guerre d'Espagne (1936-1939), trafic d'armes, histoire transnationale
Compte personnel
Ian Webster @websterij.bsky.social PhDed at Exeter: Modernism and the Making of Macroeconomics. Having spent years doing less interesting stuff. Now time to figure out what to do next.
Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social Associate Prof & Head of History @YSJ. Early Soviet history and Stalinism. The Red Army and the Great Terror (2015); The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy (2023). Working on POWs and the Soviet Red Cross. Occasional drummer https://shorturl.at/LRaWz
Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social Epidemics, environments, and state power in the USSR. Currently: Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. PhD from New York University (2025)
Matthieu Boisdron @mtthboisdron.bsky.social 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Maître de conférences en histoire contemporaine (Sciences Po Rennes) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
Anastassiya Schacht @aschacht.bsky.social Historian (East Central Europe, International - & History of Science & Medicine) at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social.
PhD from @dshcs.bsky.social and @recetvienna.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at
Bethany Moore @historyandmoore.bsky.social Military and 20thC Historian and Battlefield Tour Guide. Co-founder of the Great War Group.
http://historyandmoore.com - history blogs, media work, talk requests and more
Disney/Sweet Treats/WBA
Black Country wench now transplanted into Shropshire
Tim Godden @tjgodden.bsky.social Artist, historian, wanderer, keen but average cyclist, husband and dad.
Art: timgodden.co.uk
Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian of northern and western Canada. Associate professor @ SFU. Author: *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North.* New research: oil & queer histories🛢️👩❤️👩 More @ tinaadcock.com
Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Russian Empire history at ULB #Brussels
Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, 1917-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
Dr Lisa Berry-Waite @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social Historian of women & politics, Modern Parliament Records Specialist at The National Archives, and Blog Editor for the Women’s History Network. Views my own
lisaberrywaite.com
History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism 🗃️
Anne Maltempi, PhD @dramaltempi.bsky.social Historian of early modern Sicily focused on cultural and intellectual history/Mediterranean identity/ early modern concepts of race.
Editor of H-Sicily.
Assistant Professor of History.
SISAM | Italian Society for Environmental History @sisambiente.bsky.social Promoting Environmental History in and about Italy🌱
Giovanni Zampieri @giozzam.bsky.social Cultural-historical sociologist / researching the infrastructures of confession in early modern Italy
www.giovannizampieri.com
Robert Harris @robertharrishome.bsky.social Author of 16 novels — Conclave, Fatherland, Enigma, Act of Oblivion, The Ghost, Pompeii. Precipice, An Officer and a Spy, The Cicero Trilogy, Archangel, Munich, V2, The Second Sleep, The Fear Index.
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JEFFREY ROBINSON @writingfactory.bsky.social Old fashioned storyteller, bestselling #author 30+books, keynote speaker, television, film, radio. #9/11 #MoneyLaundering #Fraud #Fiction #BookSky
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https://substack.com/@writingfactory
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Joseph Hone @josephhone.bsky.social Writes about literature and old books ☞ THE BOOK FORGER out now from Chatto & Windus ❧ Editing Pope
New York Mets @mets.com #LGM
John Foot @footymac.bsky.social Historian specialised in contemporary Italy - has published books on Italian football, radical psychiatry (Franco Basaglia), Fascism. Book on the Red Brigades out in 2025. John-foot.com
The Independent Author Network @ianauthornetwork.bsky.social Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1- B @booksandtennis.bsky.social @booksandtennis.bsky.social
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Daniel Soar @danielsoar.bsky.social London Review of Books
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James Topham @jamestopham.bsky.social Screenwriter: @RidleyScottCG, @GaumontTV #BAFTA / @RocliffeForum Winner.
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Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
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Don Winslow @donwinslow.bsky.social 
The Edge Hill Prize Short Story Award @edgehillprize.bsky.social The official account of the Edge Hill Prize. £10,000 for the best published, single-authored short story collection from the UK & Ireland. Facilitated by FiN, Edge Hill University's narrative research group. Convener @saraheschofield.bsky.social
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social Labour client journalist and member of the right-wing MSM, apparently. Also political editor of HuffPost UK.
The Draft @thedraftwriters.bsky.social A writing company founded by former No 10 chief speechwriter
Philip Collins. Thoughts on public language here and in our newsletter, First Draft.
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Alex Hippisley-Cox @ahippisleycox.bsky.social PR working with Frankfurter Buchmesse, The Chalke History Festival, Pippa Funnell's Pony Tales, The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and Bitter Lemon Press.
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Holly Williams @hollywilliams.bsky.social Author, critic, journalist. The Start of Something and What Time is Love? published by Orion. Editor of Exeunt @exeuntmagazine.bsky.social. 
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WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social Scholarly books from University Presses. News and info from across academia. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
Marc Zammit @marczammit.bsky.social Director🎬 | Producer 🎥| Actor 🎭 CEO Aptitude Films, Skylark Vision.
Homeless Ashes, Witch, JITTERS
Colin Midson @colinbookshaped.bsky.social Books, festivals, culture, Cornwall, etc
Ophelia Field @opheliafield.bsky.social Author of THE FAVOURITE and THE KIT CAT CLUB / Programme Director, Biography MA & PhD, Univ of Buckingham in London / Human rights, migration and asylum analyst / podcast & essay guzzler
shaun phillips @shaunphillips.bsky.social Associate Features Editor at The Times
Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social Writer, #BadGirls, #QueensoftheUnderworld, #PrivateInquiries, historian, swimmer, jumble lover. Thanet, Kent. Rep by Robert Kirby, United Agents. https://www.caitlindavies.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/seasidedetective
Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One published by Bloomsbury 9 October. Water news, London history, laundry, ghost pubs etc. Former BBC correspondent…
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Duff Cooper Prize @duffcooperprize.bsky.social A £5,000 annual prize for non-fiction, celebrating imaginative insight, compelling narrative, scholarship & good writing since 1956. Next awarded 2 March 26.
Alessandro Giammei @giammei.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Yale University. Fairy Godfather, (It)Alien on the fence, working on Renaissance and Avant-Garde stuff, mostly in the context of ducal courts and fascist regimes. he/him lui/tu
Shannon Fisher @msshannonfisher.bsky.social Talk Show Host, Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. Occasional host of the National Press Club Update-1 podcast. Social & Political Commentator. Writer. Human Rights Advocate. Love the arts, politics, dogs, and life! #RVA 🏳️🌈
Sarah Baxter @sarahbaxterstm.bsky.social Director, Marie Colvin Center, Stony Brook University, columnist at the i paper, ex-dep ed Sunday Times, IPSO member
Delicious Italy @deliciousitaly.bsky.social Your first stop for cultural travel notes from across the 20 regions of Italy. Do browse our company profile in https://www.deliciousitaly.it and original articles in https://deliciousitaly.substack.com. We do not entertain hidden gems.
Tom Holland @holland-tom.bsky.social New translation of Suetonius out in February! Dinosaur enthusiast. ‘A leading English cricketer’ - The Times. Podcast: theresthistory.bsky.social
European Review of History @euroreviewhistory.bsky.social The European Review of History - Revue européenne d’histoire is an international journal covering European history of all centuries and subdisciplines. It aims to create a forum for ideas across Europe and to assist exchanges between young historians.
Florian Mussgnug @fmussgnug.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
Katia Pizzi @katiap.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
New! MA Languages and Cultures Across Borders.
Forthcoming: Venice Tales (OUP, 2025).
John Dickie @johndickie.bsky.social Prof of Italian Studies at UCL. Historian. Books on mafia crime, Italian food, Freemasonry, etc. Updated edition of Delizia! The epic history of the Italians and their food. Paperback out now!
www.johndickie.net
CatherineORawe @cathorawe.bsky.social Professor of Italian film. Lover of pop culture. Bristol via Belfast. She/her. Basic.
Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social Historian. Into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered, how it remembers. Antifascist. University of Bristol. She/her.
Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social Assoc. Prof of medieval + early modern Italian Studies | author *Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court* (2023) | women, spectacle, violence, prophecy, weird stuff | currently writing on the 1527 Sack of Rome
Anna Wainwright @annawainwright.bsky.social associate professor of Italian studies at UNH. any and all views posted are my own, not those of my employer.
New book: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/widow-city/9781644533598/
Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social (he/him/lui) Lecturer in Italian, University of Galway. Passionate about translation, migration, intercultural communication.
Member of the Young Academy Ireland
All views are mine, or something that I read in a book.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social Historian; Author, NYT Bestseller Strongmen; Publisher, Lucid, a Substack newsletter on authoritarianism and threats to democracy; Film & TV Consultant
Laura Ingallinella @lauraingalli.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Italian & Renaissance at the University of Toronto. Working on forgery and women's literature; transregional encounters; drama, gender, race in #earlymodern Italy. book in progress: #FraudulentMuse
Michela Ardizzoni @mardizzo.bsky.social Associate Professor - University of Colorado Boulder. Italian media and art, exploring intersections of race, gender, and the Black Mediterranean. Co-director of MA in Media and Public Engagement.