Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Substack Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
New York News @newyorktopnews.bsky.social Summarizing top stories from multiple sources, providing actionable facts. Multi-sourced human-curated, New York and beyond.
Posts are not general endorsements of source or imply a relationship.
Shane Little @shanealittle.bsky.social Researcher of anarchism and US radicalism.
Podcaster: Little | Bigger | Anarchism.
Editor: https://www.helsinkinotebooks.com
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ligh7.bsky.social @ligh7.bsky.social Rise Relentlessly.
Allison L. Bennett @taureanhistorian.bsky.social •PhD Candidate in History researching British and Anzac sexual encounters in First World War Macedonia and the Middle East.
•PhD Rep, co-membership secretary @fwwsoc.bsky.social
📍 Newfoundland and Labrador
Danny Sproat @64dan.bsky.social A married 60 year old Veteran, Son of a Korean War Veteran, Brother of a Vietnam Veteran served during the Cold War held a security clearance,, will still stand up to defend the USA against MAGA
Oldest Olympians @oldestolympians.bsky.social We have moved from Facebook and Twitter, but we are still updating the table daily. Check it out at https://oldestolympians.sdsu.edu/.
Derbyshire @derbyshireuk.bsky.social News, stories, and updates from the county of Derbyshire, UK - we originally started this service on the bird app in 2012 and now happily here on Bluesky
Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social The project page for Kicking the Habit: Historicising 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025. Wellcome Trust Funded. Runs 2024-30 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
@lbeardsey.bsky.social @lbeardsey.bsky.social Midlands-based independent writer and researcher, focusing on the history of sport in green spaces, sport and wider space, such as place and non-place, football violence, football clothing and fan fashion, and sports impact on the local community.
Julie Taylor @snarkymimi.bsky.social Retired RN.RNM.IBCLC.ANLC.CNS.
She/her. Mum & Mimi.
Amateur astronomer. Winemaker. Married. #bluevoice.
🌈Ally.Anti Fascist!
BHoswell [Money doesn't change men. It unmasks them.] @benhoswell.bsky.social Proud Australian living in New Zealand. Artist. Reader. Gamer. I love animals and nature. Tolkien lover. Cat whisperer.
Former AI art creator. Dismayed at what the AI data centres are doing to our world.
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Some Random Monk @phranicholas.bsky.social Educator. Community builder. ☸️ monk. Tragically woke. Race traitor. Tends not to reply to DMs. https://linktr.ee/phranicholas
Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social The Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, UK, for records of the archdiocese, local parishes, businesses, hospitals etc. borthwick-institute@york.ac.uk
Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social PGCE Tutor and former history teacher with an American West obsession. All views my own…I think. #UKTeaching #historyteacher #PGCE
Will Barber Taylor @willbarbertaylor.bsky.social Host @debatedpodcast.bsky.social
Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social The official county archive for the former counties of Gwent and Monmouthshire. Open Tues-Thurs 09:30 - 16:30. What will you discover?
www.gwentarchives.gov.uk
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.
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Bas Wisselink @baswisselink.com Student of Philosophy at University of Amsterdam. Interested in sex work, autonomy, classical languages and western esotericism. Member of http://sekswerkexpertise.nl.
Tegwen Hammersley @thammersley.bsky.social PhD student
Industrial heritage, communities, and new towns.
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
UoN Humanities @uonhumanities.bsky.social Building a community and shining a spotlight on our courses at the University of Nottingham. #WeAreUoN | #UoNHumanities
👉 Classics & Archaeology | History | Music | Philosophy
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/school-of-humanities.aspx
University of Nottingham @uniofnottingham.bsky.social The official account for the University of Nottingham. #WeAreUoN
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social News and expert comment from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) one of the world's leading #PublicHealth universities. https://linktr.ee/lshtm
Prof Stacey Pope @staceypope.bsky.social Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University. Research interests women, football and inequalities.
Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social 🍉; “Happiness Vampire”; Assoc Prof of Soc; social theory + sport; words in The Guardian etc; co-host @endofsportpod.bsky.social; he/him; plz order *The End of College Football*: https://t.co/0C19WAmL6y
@acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social
Michael Morrell @genuinemichael.bsky.social Opti-mystic writer & futurist; father of two. Author with Richard Rohr of 'The Divine Dance.' Co-founder, Wild Goose Festival . Curator, TheSpeakeasy.info Read my stuff @ MikeMorrell.org/BonusChapter
Francis Taylor @frankietaylor317.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of York, Department for English and Related Literatures. Working on weeding in early modern agriculture, and natural philosophical, theological, and devotional prose.
N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ https://www.irishlondonhistory.com/
Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter
Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social Australian academic (media production & journalism), historian of gendered labour & technology in media industries, factual content producer. Lover of radio & GLAM. She/her. Dharawal country, Wollongong & Awabakal country, Newcastle, Australia.
Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social • Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Musicologist & book historian
• MSCA Alumna
• Opinions mine
• She/her
Christian Rau @christianrau.bsky.social Historian @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social
| East German & Eastern European History | History of Democracy | Protest History | Urban History| Gender History |
Und sonst so: Betriebsrat a.D., Demokrat, Schallplatten-Nerd
Hier ganz privat
Rehnuma Sazzad @rsazzad.bsky.social Research & Associate Fellow (IES & ICwS), External Lecturer (University of Regensburg), AE & RE, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, BAMS & SCS, Committee Member: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-rehnuma-sazzad
Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social Cold War Historian | Research Associate at the University of Oxford | views and cat pictures my own
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social Cat Mom, Historian of Modern Britain. Study gender in English state funded primary education, crime, and poverty. Recently worked in US History, recovering the histories of enslaved and freed Black workers on a southern college campus. Views Mine. She/Her
Old Thurles @oldthurles.bsky.social Wildlife, sport, old stuff, history and ephemera
Dr Maeve O'Dwyer @drmaeve.bsky.social Views my own. Academic developer, C18 art historian, SoTL, part-time lecturer & facilitator entrepreneurship & leadership, co-founder @thirdspaceHE SFHEA.
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy -- Official Journal of BPSA @sportethicsandphil.bsky.social The journal is particularly open to essays of applied philosophy that engage with issues or practice, policy, and scholarship concerning the nature and values of sports. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsep20
@vornc.bsky.social @vornc.bsky.social Dad, HPE lecturer, likes to be outdoors
Joe Litobarski @joelitobarski.bsky.social Historian of Digital Technology | PhD candidate in the history of public cybernetics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University
Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social Teacher, scholar, editor; PhD, FHEA; Academic Skills Lecturer at GBS. Interested in the Gothic, the weird, ghost stories, objects, Speculative Realism, Algernon Blackwood 🌲 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew
Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social Reader in Management at the #University of York and general business history expert. Research interests include corporate governance, sport, transport and teaching and learning using history. Opinions expressed are mine, not the University's.
AndyR @regrobo.bsky.social Grandad to two footie mad boys, and a beautiful baby girl. Dad to two grown up kids. Season ticket holder at Goodison and now HDS, sanity alert...is that light I can see at the end of a very long tunnel. Emigrated to the Land of my Fathers 🏴
MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social 🌍 The #Sustainability Index
🌲 Environmental News & Guides about sustainable Products, Companies & their impact
💻 Privacy, Journalism, Politics, Humor, AI, Pacifism, Animal Rights, Cleaning nature
💚 Vegan & vegetarian topics
🔗 madeindex.org
Linda Wilke Heil @lwilkeheil.bsky.social Boy mom, college history teacher, Nebraska history writer. Author of Murder in the Land of Broken Promises: The 1884 Tragedy in Nance County, Nebraska.
Journal of Sport History @journsporthist.bsky.social Promotes the study of historical, social, and cultural aspects of sports. Published by the University of Illinois Press and the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH): @nassh1972.bsky.social
John Kelly @johnkelly750.bsky.social Author - The GAA Covered
Occasional Irishman's Diarist
https://linktr.ee/johnkelly750
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Essex @essex.bsky.social The original (& still the best) #Essex Bluesky account run by the Essex community - Latest news & views independent of any local authority or news outlet
#EssexAndProud
Jim MacMillan @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator, researcher and social innovator. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Recently relocated to Cork. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. JimMacMillan.com | DuffyMalone.ie | Signal: JRM.353 | He/him | Pax et Lux
𝙲𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚐 𝚅𝚊𝚗 𝙿𝚎𝚕𝚝 @drcraigvanpelt.bsky.social Political Economy of AI | Dead Cognitive Labor | Critical AI Studies | Data Temporalities | #Cyberzombies | Sociologist | No DM | Follow does not = endorsement | Views are mine, not my employer |
https://craigvanpelt.org
nicholascelt.bsky.social @nicholascelt.bsky.social Storyteller 🎬 Bringing the epic fantasy saga of Nick Celt to life. Every world, every battle, created with Technology. Follow the adventure ⚔️
Alex McEachern @alexmceachern.bsky.social I like sports and history. PhD History Student at WMU, prev UArk and Mizzou. Everton, Tx Rangers, Go Bills
Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/ https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/
Lifelong artist. Just trying to do a little more painting when not gardening. Not actively looking for sales at present. Posting mostly older work and some new. 🚫AI
@windrushcricket.bsky.social @windrushcricket.bsky.social
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Match Of Them Days @matchofthemdays.bsky.social Looking back at seasons past in the formative years of Association Football. Currently following the 1863/4 season.
Joanne Genealogy @joannegenealogy.bsky.social MSc Genealogy, Professional Genealogist, Business Mentor. PhD Researcher: 19c Women in the Temperance Movement. @temperancehistory.bsky.social
ihta_ria.bsky.social @ihtaria.bsky.social The IHTA is a research programme of the Royal Irish Academy & produces historic atlases of towns on the island of Ireland from earliest times to 1900
Go deeper: https://www.ria.ie/research-programmes/irish-historic-towns-atlas//
C🌻🏳️🌈 @caseyactual.bsky.social Student, scientist in training, solarpunk. I like making art/music and writing things. No war. (They/them)
I have friends everywhere.
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Jon Kendall @jonkendall.bsky.social Collective capability | Change without a cause | Solutions are not the answer | Sourdough apprentice | When will we have #flyingcars
North Cornwall
Alan Dawson @porchesterpress.bsky.social Personal views and ramblings whilst writing copy for individuals, projects and organisations in the East Midlands (UK). Trustee
Bendigo Heritage Project
Susie Rantz @susierantz.bsky.social Storyteller. Soccer Fan. Nerd. My dogs run my life. she/her
Kevin Cristin @kcristin.bsky.social Docteur en littérature britannique - Enseignant contractuel second degré à Aix-Marseille Université
PhD in English literature | 19th century literature and engineering | Robert Louis Stevenson | history of technology | visual and material culture
infoclio.ch @infoclio.bsky.social Geschichtsportal der Schweiz / Portail de l'histoire en Suisse / Swiss Digital History Portal. Impressum: http://tinyurl.com/hdbr7qz
Mastodon: @infoclio@fedihum.org
Susan Homewood @piano-forte.bsky.social Musicology/social history – researching music consumption in late Georgian England
Sylvia Foolproof Suddes @bossproofreader.bsky.social Copy-editor extraordinaire.
Goddess.
Martin da Cruz @martindacruz.bsky.social Uruguayan football history.
New book URUGUAY: Football’s First Global Power, out 8 June!
Subscribe to my Substack for new book: martindacruz.substack.com
Also author of From Beauty to Duty (2022)
Lucas @lucasmwe.bsky.social
Lesley Haworth @lesleyh.bsky.social MA student at EHU 19th century studies. Retired solicitor. Now working in the cheerier world of the library.
Manda Why @manda-why.bsky.social Writer. Used to write about wrestling, now writes evidence-based self-help. #HealthPsychology MSc. 🌈 #Queer #Autoimmune #ChronicIllness #Autistic #MentalHealth. (They/Them - Nonbinary) 🌈.
Folksy Store: https://folksy.com/find/shop/OakLeafCrafting
53rd ICOHTEC Annual Meeting @icohtec2026.bsky.social Annual Meeting of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC)
| 8-11 October 2026, Alexandroupolis (Greece)
| https://icohtec2026.hs.duth.gr/
Championship Again @pcbdailypod.bsky.social Championship News & Podcast
St Mirren Nostalgia @stmirrennostalgia.bsky.social Retro St Mirren photos and stats
𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗜𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗧𝗘 @footballinvite.bsky.social ⚽️| Football Content.
🔥| Building the biggest Football community.
⬇️| Join below
https://beacons.ai/footballinvite
Ekain Zubizarreta @ekainxubi.bsky.social Doctor in Sport Science (sociology). Interests: sports policies (anti-doping & gender) and TGS. (he/his)
@isp-cnrs.bsky.social @ehu.eus
HSTM Network Ireland #HSTM @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social History of Science, Technology & Medicine Network Ireland fosters research, teaching & engagement in #HistMed #HistSci #HistTech #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HSTM #MedHums #Science #Technology #Medicine #Health #Speirgorm Managed by @chendirl.bsky.social
Katie Holmes @runyoung50.bsky.social Independent sports historian sharing the stories of pioneering female distance runners.
"Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners: the British women who asserted their right to run" out on 13 Aug
Member: Women's History Network & British Society of Sports History.
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
Jamie Hew @jamiehew.bsky.social West Country boy interested in architecture, history, churches, standing stones, wildlife and wilding, roses, clean politics, justice and democracy
Karen Reeve @kazzie70.bsky.social Copy editor and writer for Kent and Surrey Bylines. Works in the social care sector. Interests are literature, theatre, cinema.
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Dr Adam Prime @primeadam.bsky.social Civil servant by day, historian by night. Researching the military in British India. Accidental First World War historian. WFA Universities Trustee. Husband & Dad. Views my own.
https://linktr.ee/adamprime
Gareth Roddy @grod.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain & Ireland, landscape, regional/national identities, borders, heritage, travel literature.
@sophiebellamy.bsky.social @sophiebellamy.bsky.social PhD Researcher at Durham University | North East Jewish History
Sarah Hellawell @sarahhellawell.bsky.social Historian
A lost academic
Research on British women's history and transnational activism.
Writing a book on British women in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Currently on 👶🤱leave
South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage
DMs don't reach us but our email is here https://sghet.com/contact/
Hector Chicken @hectorchicken.bsky.social Not the Belgian restaurant. Dundee United, Derbyshire cricket, cats, sports history, family history, football programmes...