tomknowles.bsky.social @tomknowles.bsky.social Freelance journalist, covering business, tech, culture and bit of everything else. Formerly tech correspondent at The Times, and economics and property correspondent before that
Second Mentions @secondmentions.com The Little Book of Second Mentions, out now https://amzn.to/43oYehw | secondmentions.com | secondmentions@gmail.com
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social Political sketch writer at the New Statesman.
Country Life Magazine @countrylifemag.bsky.social PROPERTY | LIFE & STYLE | CULTURE | THE COUNTRYSIDE
Since 1897
Alan Renwick @alanrenwick.bsky.social Professor of Democratic Politics and Director of the UCL Constitution Unit. Researching democratic reform in the UK and around the world. Views my own.
Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot Land campaigner, former MSP, forester, author The Poor Had No Lawyers. http://andywightman.scot & http://whoownsscotland.org.uk
The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social “Breaking Rommel” is now available for purchase.
“That's an impressive array of sources, but what are your credentials?"
Long-running research project on the desert war 1940-43, with a specific focus on Operation CRUSADER.
www.rommelsriposte.com
James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor at The Spectator
Sofka Zinovieff @sofkazinovieff.bsky.social Author of STEALING DAD, PUTNEY, Eurydice Street. Podcast: Athens Unpacked.
www.Sofkazinovieff.com
History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social #HistoryRage is a #podcast by Paul Bavill where we invite historians to get angry about that one 'fact' you wish people would stop believing
Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social Historian, writer, immigrant, FRHistS, podcaster, right eyebrow raiser; UK political finance & global private members’ clubs; http://linktr.ee/sathevoz; Latest book: ‘London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious'. clubland.substack.com
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
Alex Jacobs @aj16.bsky.social Director of the Joffe Trust. Illicit finance, economic crime, philanthropy. Scaramouche Sailing Trust too.
@nickkingsley.bsky.social @nickkingsley.bsky.social Historian of the country house; archivist; FSA; Chairman of Gloucestershire County History Trust; author of Landed Families blog
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Leo Carey @leojcarey.bsky.social Senior Editor at The New Yorker, ex-X?
Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social Journalist; author of Butler to the World and Moneyland
Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social Writer, podcaster and former diplomat.
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Tom McTague @tommctague.bsky.social Editor in Chief of the New Statesman
Simon Seligman @oybat.bsky.social Life Coaching, cultural lecturing, comms for arts charity; proud partner & dad in our neuro-diverse family. Derbyshire Peak District. www.seligmancoaching.co.uk
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social Country stuff. Infrastructure finance stuff. Some metal
Henry Jeffreys @henrygjeffreys.bsky.social Booze enthusiast
Marie-Louise Patton @marielouisespp.bsky.social Senior Publicity Manager at Cornerstone, Penguin Random House (previously Penguin General and Faber & Faber).
Stately Home News @statelyhomenews.bsky.social Andrew Triggs - BISH (British & Irish Stately Homes), Lost Ireland https://statelyhomes.wordpress.com/lost-ireland / NI country houses, founding Trustee https://UrbanEye.org.uk. See also https://www.FaceBook.com/groups/595015790578234.
Nathan Brooker @ncbrooker.bsky.social Editor of FT Money. Always looking for story ideas and new writers.
Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm.bsky.social Author (A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering OUT NOW); No Such Thing As A Fish co-host, Private Eye joke-writer, Naked Week host. Agents are RCW (books) and The Agency (showbiz bébé).
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
David Aaronovitch @davidsonofaaron.bsky.social Broadcaster, author, journalist, dad, grandpa, heroic Substacker to be found at davidaaronovitch.substack.com. Recovering tweeter
The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social Our Oak Trees & their Sweet Chestnut chums in our ancient bluebell woodland in the Weald of Kent. Also pictures and facts about trees
twitter.com/TheKentAcorn
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Robbie Millen @robbiemillen.bsky.social Literary Editor of The Times/Sunday Times. thetimes.com/culture/books
Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social Creative Director in audio. Ex telly.
Made things like KILL LIST, HARSH REALITY and THE GIRLFRIENDS happen (and many others!). Won Ambie, BPA, Aria, Signal, RTS, Grierson and Ed Murrow Awards.
Toy soldier enthusiast.
Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social Writer, beachcomber, all at sea. Founder of the award-winning Lego Lost At Sea project. Current Archaeology Rescue Project of the Year. Author of Adrift, The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost At Sea. Cornwall. MD ANT.
Sebastian Payne @sebastianpayne.bsky.social Leader writer and columnist @thetimes.com
Previously seen at Onward and FT. Author of Broken Heartlands and The Fall of Boris Johnson.
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social We publish peer-reviewed research covering the history of parliamentary institutions in Britain and Ireland from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, and the legislatures of British colonies before independence.
Henry Pryor @pryor.co.uk Buying agent sourcing £100m of homes a year in London & the country. 43 years in property. Once “The BBC’s favourite property expert”.
Emma Crewe @emmacrewe.bsky.social Anthropologist researcher of Parliaments at SOAS University of London. Chair, Study of Parliament Group. Posting about anthropolitics
I Saw The Sign @i-saw-the-sign.bsky.social Signs I have seen.
Pics all mine, none nicked from other people.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Debrett's @debretts.bsky.social Formed in 1769, we are the authority on traditional etiquette, correct forms of address and modern manners.
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SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social New Life for Remarkable Buildings
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Emma Peplow @emmapeplow.bsky.social Head of Contemporary History, History of Parliament Trust. Oral History, Politics, Parliament and some cricket
House of Lords @houseoflords.parliament.uk News & information from the UK Parliament’s second chamber. Produced by its staff to show how the Lords checks and challenges the UK government.
https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/
Ben Cowell, Historic Houses @bencowell.bsky.social Director general, Historic Houses. Author, The British Country House Revival (2024).
Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social Private Eye hack and Page 94 podcaster. Author of the 🏳️🌈Tommy Wildeblood thriller series , and ghost stories: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034N6PK4
Robert Colvile @rcolvile.bsky.social Former boss of CPS think tank and CapX, Sunday columnist for The Times, author of 'The Great Acceleration'. Politics, policy and parenting.
Olivia O'Malley @oliviafranceska.bsky.social Used to do politics, now I do comms
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
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Iain Dale @iaindale.bsky.social LBC Radio presenter
Gob on a Stick
Serial book editor
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism.
Website: https://private-eye.co.uk
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Alex Massie @alexmassie.bsky.social Columnist for The Times and The Sunday Times, specialising in Scottish affairs. Also, co-host of The Ponsonby & Massie podcast, available on all pod-platforms.
Helen Rumbelow @helenrumbelow.bsky.social Feature writer and interviewer at The Times
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)
Kate McCann @kateemccann.bsky.social Political Editor, Times Radio
Isabelle Fraser @izzyfraser.bsky.social Money features editor at the Telegraph
Matt TK Taylor @tk.gg pm on developer platform @cloudflare.social
ex pm @financialtimes.com
@MattieTK on the bird app, tk.gg elsewhere.
Builder of vidgrid.tk.gg and @project-push.tk.gg
Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
Host of the FT’s award-winning ‘Political Fix’ podcast🎙️Author 📚
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
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Theo Bertram @theobertram.bsky.social Director of the Social Market Foundation
Nick von Westenholz @nvonwestenholz.bsky.social Chief Executive, Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust
Patrick Galbraith @patrickgalbraith.bsky.social Author of Uncommon Ground, 2025, William Collins
Columnist for The Critic & Country Life
Environment Correspondent for The Telegraph
Sam Knight @myprivateatlas.bsky.social Staff writer at the New Yorker, Letters from the U.K, "The Premonitions Bureau." Find me on Substack: https://myprivateatlas.substack.com/
George Osborne @georgeosborne.bsky.social Co-host Political Currency podcast, Chair of British Museum, president of Northern Powerhouse Partnership, former Chancellor & Evening Standard Editor
Jonathan Ford @grepsul.bsky.social Former newspaper person. Likes trouble, cycling and regional crime drama. Doing A Long Time in Finance podcast with Neil Collins, and also a substack on stirring business stories, grepsul.substack.com
James Chapman @jamesmchapman.bsky.social CEO of PR firm Soho Communications. Former director of comms at HM Treasury. Former political editor, occasional columnist for @cityam.bsky.social. Views my own. www.sohocommunications.co.uk
Dr Tessa Dunlop @tessadunlop.bsky.social Agitator and agitated. Historian. Writer. Talker.
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Steve Dinneen @steevdee.bsky.social Editor of City A.M. The Magazine and the Life&Style stuff at City A.M. | Dumb jokes and self-promotion | “Pied Piper of the snobby”
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
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James Jenks @jenksy.bsky.social Artist.
Storyteller.
Awkward.
Tom Caygill @tomcaygill.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics, Nottingham Trent University 🎓 | Course Leader - BA (Hons) Politics | Parliament nerd 🤓 | Comms Officer @StudyofParl | Research parliamentary committees & law making 📚
Sally Coffey @sallycwrites.bsky.social Editor of Scotland magazine and Discover Britain. Scotland obsessive covering British travel for @Telegraph, @thetimes.com and more. Londoner born and bred. Honorary Derry Girl.
insane moments in british politics @politicsmoments.bsky.social UK politics isn't normal. Reminding people of the strange and downright insane moments that we've had to bear through the years. DM for ideas.
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Will Lloyd @willoyd.bsky.social Senior Writer, FT Weekend
Sam Brodbeck @sambrodbeck.bsky.social Personal finance journalist at the Telegraph
Jason Loch @jasonloch.bsky.social I am a historian of the British constitution whose work focuses on the Crown, the House of Lords, and the Church of England.
You can read my blog here: venerablepuzzle.wordpress.com.
Jake Fiennes @jakefiennes.bsky.social Enhancement of the natural world, food, environment, landscape and people.
Lee David Evans @leedavidevansuk.bsky.social Podcasting and writing about post-war British politics. Ramsden Fellow at Mile End Institute.- C Carina O'Reilly @carinaoreilly.bsky.social Criminology lecturer at Lincoln, working mostly on policing. Recovering Labour councillor. Allotmenteer, lover of terrible old cars.
The Fence @thefence.bsky.social Facts, features, fiction, etc. Buy a subscription to the UK's Only Magazine here: https://www.the-fence.com/shop/
Neil Henderson @hendopolis.bsky.social Cat slave and journalist
Andrew Cotter @mrandrewcotter.bsky.social Dogs, Broadcasting, Writing, Mountains.
Jennifer Davey @jhdavey.bsky.social Historian and Director of The History of Parliament (@histparl.bsky.social). On substack https://historyofparliament.substack.com/. Views are my own.
Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk Consumer journalist | Feature writer | Columnist for Times Business | Make TV progs, chats on radio | Host conferences, panels etc.
Agent: Knight Ayton
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
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