The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society @letterappsoc.bsky.social To inspire people to write handwritten letters to each other. #PostboxSaturday
Laura @kelpiewrangler.bsky.social Vellichorist, frustrated sculptress/painter, gardener, collector of flotsam, and jetsam.
Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social Video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once talked about cinema on the radio, but now mainly take photos with prisms and pinholes and polaroids. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Tina Hagger @haggytea.bsky.social Printmaker, Artist & Human perpetually seeking wonder | Organiser of For the Love of Print | Printmaking Tutor | Commissions |
Shop etc at haggytea.com
John Tweedie @johntweedie.bsky.social Earth Sciences graduate. But studying for a second degree in History with the OU. Love birdwatching, getting outdoors or snuggling indoors with a good book.
Knitted Clanger @knittedclanger.bsky.social Retired communications manager who once knew a lot about banking strategy. Now mostly having a cup of tea and reading a Victorian three-volume novel.
Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk 
Writers & Artists @writersandartists.bsky.social The best industry advice for writers & artists!
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
@cheltanthology.bsky.social @cheltanthology.bsky.social Former bookseller.
Sean D @seand.me.uk From Belfast. A bit nerdy
Am even more nerdy at Seanddotmedotuk@mastodon.ie
Currently trying to learn Spanish. You can see my efforts @es.seand.me.uk
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Irene @derbren.bsky.social books, bikes, cats, cheese, and cinemas. Non-practising German. Unreliable narrator, ready for my close-up. Probably have a crush on you. For more, go here: https://linktr.ee/DerBren
Andrea @mouseinthehouse.bsky.social Slowly regaining control after years of disquiet
England
Kitty @kittyfisher.bsky.social liking stuff since 1741. arctic expeditions, medical history, marine life, flouncy mantuas, the sea, perfume. Edward Forbes fan account.
🦪 https://edwardforbes.net
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Lea Elm @leaelm.bsky.social Photographer and writer living by the sea. Always looking for places to photograph and books to read. Won't say no to a hike either.
www.leaelm.com
Pamela M @1morepage.bsky.social Book person. Former board member of @aalitagents.bsky.social and former chair of its Copyright Committee. I advocate for human authors.
@booksaremybag.bsky.social @booksaremybag.bsky.social 
Matthew Aldridge @mpaldridge.bsky.social But blue. https://mpaldridge.github.io
Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social Proudly independent literary magazine & small press, established in 2004. Books + print issues + online issues + conferences + writing retreats + other stuff.
https://barrelhousemag.com/
Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social In Bristol. Beer blogging in the UK since 2007. Also wrote some books about beer and pubs. Header image shows a detail from the cover of one. Won't repost if you don't use alt text. Find us at boakandbailey.com
Rich @shouldbeinbed.bsky.social Into Photography, Humour, History, Sports, Audio over TV, cycles a bit, has rescue Greyhounds and Chickens. Not doing politics on here and running away fast from anyone who does. Expect Typos. #BanTheBand
Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social My new special Night Thoughts is out NOW on Hulu.
linktr.ee/kumailnanjiani
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social Writer and researcher with a passion for nature and the outdoors. Previous incarnations in academia, environment/heritage consultancy, international aid, journalism. Trying to pull all this together into something useful.
https://margibryant.co.uk
@hoimir.bsky.social @hoimir.bsky.social NL>ZA>UK. A255831. Recovering newshound training to become a coder
Caroline Goldsmith @goldcaro.bsky.social Book type. Kitchen and garden adventurer. Feminist, obviously. (UK)
Freelance publishing stuff: https://goldsmithpublishingconsultancy.com
she/her
Dianne… @joggerplodder.bsky.social Mainly here for the dogs and cats.
Scottish, Yorkshireish, Lancashireish.
It costs nowt to be kind.
Meikie @meikiecakie.bsky.social Artist Designer colour and pattern obsessive. In love with nature, and all things real. Most important thing in my world is my Bear Dog 💜
Kevin Boniface @kevinboniface.bsky.social Artist/Writer/Postman appearing from behind a rhododendron and cursing loudly #MDANT
Website: https://kevinboniface.co.uk
Sports and Social: https://tinyurl.com/2xmnxh38
Round About Town: https://tinyurl.com/24bwnh2b
daz @darranpotter.bsky.social #parkrun volunteer Event Director (Leybourne Lakes) and Regional Event Ambassador (Kent)
Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 in Yorkshire 🏵️ Fortean Times writer & PhD student, I study folk music 🪕 & folklore 🧚
Also ❤️old 🚙 cars & homebrew 🍺
Dad to 2 (not so wee) girls
Music on Woodford Halse and Fenny Compton https://ryanshirlow.bandcamp.com/
Second Mentions @secondmentions.com The Little Book of Second Mentions, out now https://amzn.to/43oYehw | secondmentions.com | secondmentions@gmail.com
Steven Keevil @stevenkeevil.bsky.social Kent Columnist of the Year
Chair Second Chance Medway
Write https://www.localauthority.news/t/interviews
Mentor Medwayish
Piedwarbler @piedwarbler.bsky.social Reader 📚📕
I post about books, knitting, & nature 🦔🪴🐛
Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social Aerial photography | GIS | Sarsen stone | landscape archaeology | archaeological comics | archives | YAC Leader | MHFA | FSA | MCIfA | all my own views
Martin Wright @martinwright.bsky.social Amateur rider, writer of appalling poetry and stories; love art, music and travel. Synesthesia paints my world.
Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com UK news editor, Financial Times. I write some of the headlines. I also wrote a book, How to Love Animals. https://www.ft.com/henry-mance
A Lady Bear @bearfacedlady.bsky.social Cat Food Letterbox Day is the best thing I've ever done. Bird librarian, awful lefty liberal, booming soprano. Council estate and proud.
Peter Counsell @counsellpeter.bsky.social I never was the man I used to be. 
Folly Wildlife Rescue @follywildlife.bsky.social UK registered charity 1091857 on the Kent/Sussex border near Tunbridge Wells dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of injured, orphaned & distressed wildlife with the aim of returning them to the wild.
https://linktr.ee/follyfundraising
Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social librarian and illustrator.
will post later, too sleepy
My shop: https://www.willquinnart.com/shop/prints
Greyrigs @greyrigs.bsky.social Artist, botherer, know it all, damn nuisance and general giddy kipper
James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social GenAI can absolutely do one. Writer: Green Wing, Piglets, first novel Pagans, available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
Taco Bell Quarterly @tacobellquarterly.org Taco Bell Quarterly is The World's Most Prestigious Literary Magazine. Unaffiliated with Daddy Taco. We publish the boundaries of cease and desist. tacobellquarterly.org
Peter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social 
Tim Minshall @timminshall.bsky.social Dr John C Taylor Professor of Innovation, Head of the Institute for Manufacturing and Fellow of Churchill College, University of Cambridge. Author of ‘Your Life is Manufactured’ https://timminshall.com
#engineering #manufacturing #innovation
RNIB @rnib.bsky.social We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People.
Profile pic: Our logo, bold black capital letters spelling RNIB, with a bold pink underline.
Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social Recovering academic, busy with projects and voluntary work.
Phil @philverney.bsky.social Photon collector, sky gazer, chuckle muscle tickler, word fondler, feminist, earthling.
Paul Smith @octopi666.bsky.social Musician, Sound Engineer, Mix Engineer, Cranes band member, Font Designer, Mac Fixer and general Slave.
Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com Stories about life in Folkestone. A weekly newsletter of independent journalism, direct to your inbox every Wednesday. Sign up now, it only takes a minute
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Emma Chaplin 🏳️⚧️ @emmachaplin.bsky.social Sweary. Neurodivergent. Wildlife, Swifts in particular, Pells Pool, Lewes stuff, including food & drink.
Profile pic is Lucy from Peanuts. Header pic is Mammies for Trans Rights march
She/her Ei/hi
Trans women are women
Kent Current @kentcurrent.news Independent journalism from across Kent. Join free for Monday’s briefing and Thursday’s big story.
kentcurrent.news
Ro55 @ro55woods.bsky.social Creative runner, Parkrun volunteer, 6 star major marathon finisher!
Charlotte Cunliffe - Auricular Acupuncture & Soft Tissue Therapy @charlotteacutw.bsky.social Auricular acupuncture & soft tissue therapy | Pain relief, stress relief, cancer support & holistic wellness | Based in Tunbridge Wells | Helping you feel better & move freely
The Jam and Marmalade @jamandmarmalade.bsky.social Cardiff’s smallest and least profitable tap room. Craft beer and Scarlets Rugby.
@jimjamarch.bsky.social @jimjamarch.bsky.social 
Pig & Porter @pigandporter.bsky.social Craft Brewery based in #tunbridgewells
Unit 9 Chapman Way
Tunbridge Wells TN2 3EF
www.pigandporter.co.uk
MrPayney @mrpayney.bsky.social Yet another social media account I'll hardly ever use
Imogen Burman-Mitchell @imogenbm.bsky.social Wadhurst Runner - parkrun and mud lover, sometime cellist, ex-aikidoka, carer, and work in Music Education for my sins.
Wadhurst Runners @wadhurstrunners.bsky.social A small, friendly, local running club in E Sussex, cakes optional 🏃🏽♀️ 🍰🏃🏽♀️. Club runs on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays, plus XC, races and parkrun.
www.wadhurstrunners.com
Sara @saraeb.bsky.social Citizen. Possibly woke. 
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
Gordon Nodrog @gordonnodrog.bsky.social My name isn't Gordon. Or Nodrog. Takes photos. Of things. And stuff.
Andy Rayfield @andyrayfield.bsky.social 'Doesn't post much'
Helen Geraghty @helengeraghty.bsky.social Primary school teaching assistant in Kent. Used to write stuff for a living.
Caroline Auckland @carolinea31.bsky.social Books, photography, writing and gardening.
Soroptimist, SWWJ, Victorianist.
Angela Funnell @allthingsace.bsky.social Cat lady 🐈⬛ from Tunbridge Wells, Kent
@yetanothermary.bsky.social @yetanothermary.bsky.social 
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
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Emily Collins @emily1collins.bsky.social jusqu'ici, tout va bien
Leigh Forbes @writeleighso.bsky.social Writing, reading, books, cats, environment, birds, bees, butterflies, hiking, running, mountains, France.
Studying sociolinguistics and French.
Typographer at blot.co.uk
Neurodivergent, semi-speaking,
she/her
Raquel Bean @raquelbean.bsky.social 
QtheRoo @qther00.bsky.social Beekeeper, parkrunner, South East of UK.
Royal Tunbridge Wells parkrun @rtwparkrun.bsky.social Free 5km walk, jog, run 9am every Saturday in Dunorlan Park, Tunbridge Wells. All ages & abilities. Register first at http://parkrun.org.uk and don't forget your barcode
Nick Harvey @mrnickharvey.bsky.social Reformed Twitter addict
Derek Johnson @derekjohnsontv.bsky.social Journalist at ITV Meridian. Below is our D-Day digital project. 100 recorded interviews on a dedicated ITV webpage. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️
https://dday80-thelastveterans.itv/
@rubber-duckers.bsky.social @rubber-duckers.bsky.social 
Paul Jerreat @waxwingpaul.bsky.social Video journalist from the UK. Based in Washington DC and New York City.
PD @pd444.bsky.social Music loving NUFC fan here for the craic and laughs.
Double entendres are my specialty…. Be warned.
I only become very sweary if I know you. Don’t expect it immediately or you could be disappointed.
Have been known as the cow whisperer.
Rachael de Moravia @moravia.bsky.social mostly in Gloucestershire but often elsewhere • research @ Centre for Place Writing • https://www.rachael-de-moravia.com/ 
George @harriselectric.bsky.social Owner of Harris Electrical Services, parkrunner & Chair of Tunbridge Wells Harriers running club.
Hunslet the 🐻 @hunsletthebear.bsky.social A rescued bear who worked at Soho depot, gets up to mischief with his antics, brings a smile and a laugh to those around him and raises money for charities close to his ❤
Hunsletthebear.co.uk
Jonhedge @jonhedge.bsky.social Eat, run, cats repeat..
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Delphine Jasmin-Belisle @delphinejb.bsky.social Development & Membership at the Heritage Alliance. Trustee at The Maritime Heritage Trust. Director at Hild. Nichiren Buddhist and SGI Member. Talk in footnotes. Views my own.
Patrick Glencross @paddymonium.bsky.social Employment lawyer by day, amateur musician by night, in between a keen glossophile, history nerd and plodding runner. Proudly Bohemian of Tunbridge Wells.
Morrison Ellis @morrisonellis.bsky.social Audio Producer & Editor - Audiobooks, Accessible Media Specialist. Runner. Hiker. Salsero. Live in Royal Tunbridge Wells.
www.morrisonellis.co.uk
www.meaccessibility.co.uk
www.linkedin.com/in/morrisonellis/
Rema Jyothirmayi @remajyo.bsky.social Nature walks for well-being. Poet, amateur photographer, retired oncologist, karateka and gardener. Posts mostly on nature, poetry, wellbeing, and garden photos. ‘Rema rhymes with Emma’.
Nick Pope - Independent | Local | Democracy @nicholaspope.bsky.social Data expert. Founder, chair & former councillor for Tunbridge Wells Alliance. Trustee for Friends of Calverley Grounds. Supporter of all things local, including TW Yard Sale, Tun Wells Foodie + more.
Local Authority @localauthority.news Award-winning independent news for Medway
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@maidenmad.bsky.social @maidenmad.bsky.social Metal-mad mother-of-two who loves live music, movies, theatre and books
Green @grrrreen.bsky.social 
Thomas Shepherd @shepline.bsky.social Derbyshire born, Suffolk bred.
Lives in Oxfordshire.
Author; Illustrator; Web & UX Design Specialist. Likes photography, bookshops, & nature. Views are my own
Booklover's Guide to Bookshops @bookloversguide.bsky.social An ongoing project by @t.e.shepherd.art to illustrate himself around the country celebrating independent bookshops.
#indiebooksellers @booksaremybag
Martin @mnovius0.bsky.social @MebTravels on instagram