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Matt C @matcook.bsky.social Gave up on twitter a while ago, finally found Bluesky (slow to the party).
Albertan, Work in the natural resources sector (O&G, Mining, Forestry). Politically engaged (not an auto-con) don’t believe everything I read on the internet!
Edmonton, AB
Dr David Jarratt. @davidjarratt.bsky.social Academic. Interested in various aspects of #tourism, place and coastal communities in particular. Interdisciplinary. Preston, Lancashire.
hulls @hulls.bsky.social i like your manifesto
put it to the testo
@dfthorne1.bsky.social @dfthorne1.bsky.social 
Ray Wilkes @raywilkes.bsky.social I like hiking.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Keith @keithdunn.bsky.social The image that I run from
Only seems to follow me
East Yorkshire Long Distance Walkers Association @handle.invalid Representing the Long Distance Walkers Association at local level in East Yorkshire.
https://ldwa.org.uk/EastYorkshire
Roy Woodcock @woodyroy.bsky.social Journalist running Yorkshire media & PR company. Presenter Humber Wave Radio. Food, wine, football (lifetime Gooner), cars and music: Pure Blues (10pm) on Humber Wave Mondays and JazzTastic (10pm) on Humber Wave and also Vixen 101 every Tuesday
Dave Windass @davewin.bsky.social Writer. Artist. Producer. Mover. Shaker. Dancer. Prancer. Destroyer of closed doors. Plays ‘n’ that. To be found most weekdays at Humber Street Gallery. Hull, UK, Europe. https://linktr.ee/davewindass
Jo Makel @jomakel.bsky.social Reporter and presenter for BBC in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social Medieval social history. VCH Editor East Yorkshire. Academician. Cardiffian exile. Hwntw Falch. Cymro yn Sir Efrog.
Julian Wild @julianwild.bsky.social Lawyer, adviser, golfer, football supporter, swimmer, charity trustee, modest gambler, Secretary Philip Larkin Society⚖️🏌️♂️⚽️🏊♂️📚
Paul Murphy @bbcpaulmurphy.bsky.social BBC Correspondent, based in Yorkshire & Lincolnshire in the UK. Environment, energy and climate interests.
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Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social Poet living in Withernsea.
Founder of Pebble Of The Day.
New Book - https://tinyurl.com/3rhajmz2
New CD - https://tinyurl.com/mpwyh728
DeanWorld.org
J. E. Books @jebookshull.bsky.social Indie bookshop in Hull's Old Town. 12 Hepworth's Arcade, Hull, HU1 1JU. Email jlellam@hotmail.co.uk if you'd like to order books from me. DMs not working, sorry. Home delivery or collect in store. Open 10.30 to 4, Tues to Sat
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Cathy Quantrill @mrsquantrill.bsky.social 
Joanne Brady @joannebrady.bsky.social Digital Marketing manager, mum, travel blogger, tired. Home is Hull and Beverley, East Yorkshire.
scarbsmuseums.bsky.social @scarbsmuseums.bsky.social A community of creativity, culture and heritage at Scarborough Art Gallery, the Rotunda Museum, and Woodend Gallery & Studios. Make ours a lemon top!🍦
Bradford District Museums and Galleries @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social Home to some of the best museums in Yorkshire, we are part of Bradford Metropolitan District Council - find out more via our
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ScarboroughSteve @stewilson72.bsky.social Into travelling and holidays. Regularly at Walt Disney World, Lake District, European Cities. Walking and Cycling, watching tv and film and playing snooker.
Yorkshire Coast Nature @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social Birding trips, Wildlife Photography Workshops, Wildlife Safaris. Tailor made trips. In Yorks & beyond. yorkshirecoastnature.co.uk
The Yorkshire Post @yorkshirepost.co.uk Yorkshire's National Newspaper since 1754.
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Eileen K @eileenk.bsky.social Yorkshire Retiree, dog lover, leftie, green politically #StuffTrump #BoycottUSA 🍉
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Hull Libraries @hulllibraries.bsky.social We’ve got everything, and the books! Anyone can use our libraries, whatever your age. We've 11 libraries across the city that provide a fantastic range of activities https://www.hulllibraries.co.uk/
Matt Edwards @greenmattbfd.bsky.social 💚 Leader of Green Party on Bradford Council and Councillor for Tong Ward | 🐶🐶 Basset Hounds | 🏳️🌈
Promoted by P. Worsnop on behalf of M. Edwards at 7 Farfield Road, Bradford, BD18 4QP
Louise Houghton @louisehoughton.bsky.social Co-founder of the Bylines Network and Yorkshire Bylines
Andrew Cooper @cllrandrewcooper.bsky.social Green Party Councillor on Kirklees Councillor. 1st elected in 1999. Dad, husband, Yorkshireman. 2024 Green Party Candidate for Huddersfield, now the most marginal Labour/Green Constituency in the UK.
Mick Swales @mickswales.bsky.social North Star Public Affairs - Politics, devolution, all things Yorkshire with a bit of Bradford City and a lot of happy hiking
Graeme 🦋 @fatherhilarious.blog Long distance cyclist, analytical chemist, juggler and priest in the Church of England. I'm an intentional trip hazard on the road to hell: taking 35mm photographs along the way
www.fatherhilarious.blog
He/Him
South Yorkshire Birders @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social Interested in birding in the South Yorkshire county in the United Kingdom.
Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism from Yorkshire | IMPRESS regulated
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@juderhodes.bsky.social @juderhodes.bsky.social Stories of our Generations
Family and local historian. My place: England, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Dales
Men of Worth Project @menofworth.bsky.social Andy Wade, Historian. Author.
We research Keighley & Worth Valley people who served in wartime. We remember their service and try to ensure they’re not forgotten. Est. 2001, QAVS 2021.
www.menofworth.org.uk
Alt text: Embroidered badge, says ‘MEN OF WORTH'
George Hall @georgehall.bsky.social Heckmondwike obsessed. Spen Lad. Genealogy and Local History. Interested especially in the Great War and Educational History.
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Kirsten Amor @amorexplore.bsky.social ✍️Writer | Editor | Photographer
Finding inspiration in caving, climbing & hiking the Peak District and beyond 🧗🏼
https://linktr.ee/amorexplore?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=9b0f2cfb-8eac-46fb-ba29-028ab091a0a1
Dr Lauren Theweneti @laurentheweneti.bsky.social First World War Historian | research focuses on Women, Conflict and Class in First World War Leeds | Regional Ambassador HL+
Adam Cook @adamcook.bsky.social Medievalist interested in 12th century frontiers, particularly Yorkshire and Northumberland. PhD from the University of Hull, Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Hull City fan.
All views my own, not those of my employer.
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
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Kirsty Hannam @kirstyhannam.bsky.social Writing about Jack & Elisha Sinkler of Pateley Bridge: Poachers, Prisoners, Folk Heroes. 👩🏻💻 Yorkshire dialect enthusiast 🗯 Deep in research mode 📚
www.kjhannam.co.uk
Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England. 
Paul Wainwright @paulwainwright.bsky.social Curious about our ancestors and how they changed the world around them. Researching improvement in 18thC Yorkshire. Love maps, visualisations, manuscripts & Suede.
Rachael Unsworth @leedstours.bsky.social Urban geographer & walking tour guide in Leeds 🌍 - local, in a global setting
https://www.leedscitywalkingtours.co.uk/
Researcher, writer ('Leeds: Cradle of Innovation'), presenter, Leeds Phil & Lit, musician 🎻 European
Professional chat posts only
B.J./Mayim Pnina @killearnan.bsky.social Librarian/genealogist. Cats; human to Scout and Flora. Knits. Sews. Swims. Runs on lots and lots of tea. Biblioholic. ADHD/fibromyalgia. One place/name studies. Side interests: linguistics, archaeology. Happily settled in Maine, but mentally in Scotland.
Simon Clark @simonhul.bsky.social Sport & News Broadcaster - MA in History (17thC News Networks) - Photographer
Hull Images - Dave Wise @hullimages.bsky.social My Images of Hull & with a HU postcode. Including some off the beaten track, Reflects my interest in local history, Railways, Street art.
"Visit Hull" Partner 2026.
All pictures are mine, except reposts.
I try to use #altText whenever I can.
Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: conflict & crisis, health & wellbeing, resilience | Writing a book about tobacco & modern war | Lecturer @ The Open University | Co-Chair @historylabplus.bsky.social | https://profiles.open.ac.uk/m-j-reeve | Yorkshireman
Dr Jonny Farley @jfarley.bsky.social Romano-British and public archaeologist, Project Curator of Archaeological Assemblages at the British Museum, PhD "Petuaria: Finding its Place in Roman Britain".
ROYS and ROYSCast
https://play.acast.com/s/627bb65a6cf5d400137e0530
royscast@gmail.com
Sam Wright @samwright.bsky.social Maritime Historian. Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage and Education Centre. Alumni of Blaydes Maritime Centre.
Affiliate of the Institute of Tourist Guiding for Hull Maritime. All view my own
Ridings of Yorkshire Society @roysociety.bsky.social Exploring Yorkshire's past since 2021.
ROYS 2026 will take place at York Explore Library, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th June.
Contact us at help@ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk or visit our website at www.ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk
Darren Burke @darrenburkedfp.bsky.social Journalist for Doncaster Free Press. Doncaster Rovers fan. Proud dad of two. Send news to darren.burke@nationalworld.com Views my own.
Angus Young @angusyoung61.bsky.social Freelance Geordie journalist based in Hull. All views are my own.
Email: aqyoung61@gmail.com
Harry Harrison @hharrisonjourno.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter for Doncaster
Occasional reviewer of coffee shops in Sheffield
Views my own/RTs ≠ endorsements | DMs are open
Email: harry.harrison@iconicmediagroup.co.uk
Ruby Kitchen @reporterruby.bsky.social Journalist for The Yorkshire Post and sometimes lecturer @LeedsBeckett. 
Dan Hayes @danhayesjourno.bsky.social Reporter @sheffieldtribune.bsky.social — part of @millmedia.bsky.social | Got a story? Email: dan@sheffieldtribune.co.uk 📧
Chris Burn @chrisburn.bsky.social Head of Business and Features at The Yorkshire Post, Stoke City fan.
Rob Parsons @robparsonsna.bsky.social Executive Editor - Local Democracy Reporting Service for Reach Plc
Robyn Vinter @robynvinter.bsky.social North of England correspondent at the Guardian. Mostly here to make bad jokes
Peaks & Puddles 🚲 @peaksandpuddles.com Peak District cycling. Cycle routes, active travel news & local exploring in the Peak edges of Derbyshire, Cheshire & Greater Manchester, where Stockport meets the High Peak • Anthony 👋 peaksandpuddles.com
Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social Award-winning active travel campaigner
Stockport and Manchester
Geographical Magazine @geographical.co.uk Published since 1935, Geographical Magazine embodies captivating storytelling and stunning photography, it’s your trusted source for authoritative geographical and environmental journalism.
Join our community of curious minds today.
The Great Outdoors @tgomagazine.bsky.social Making the Outdoors Great for over 40 years, we are Britain's original outdoor magazine. Skills & routes advice, long form stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things & the most experienced gear team in Britain. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/40fvlTG
@backpacker-mag.bsky.social @backpacker-mag.bsky.social Backpacker Magazine helps you get out more. Check us out at
http://www.backpacker.com
Outside Magazine @outsidemag.bsky.social News, award-winning long reads, daily glimpses into the world of outdoor adventure.
UKClimbing @ukclimbing.com UKClimbing is the definitive source for all Climbing and Mountain related activity.
ukclimbing.com
Trail magazine @trailmagazine.bsky.social If you love mountains, we've got you covered. We bring you hiking route inspiration, trusted gear reviews, award-winning writing and photography, adventure videos, and much more.
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Danny Carden @dannyoutdoors.bsky.social Keen for all things nature, access and the outdoors, especially those involving rocks, ice and snow. 🧗 ⛰️ 🌳 👟 🦦 🥾
Land Reform Act (Scotland) Act 2003 fanboy.
My views.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Dan Richards @danzep.bsky.social Writer & Broadcaster – Edinburgh
📚 Holloway • The Beechwood Airship Interviews • Climbing Days • Outpost • Overnight // 📻 Only After Dark / The Bare Necessities – BBC R4
👉 https://www.danrichards.uk/ 👈
Rachel Hewitt @rachelhewitt.bsky.social Author. Feminist life lessons, informed by history and experience. Advice about grief and recovery, and the feminist joys of outdoor adventure. Writing retreats. Substack: https://rachelhewitt.substack.com
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social Writer. Mountain Style (Isola 2024), A Cold Spell (Bloomsbury 2023). Previous inc. Higher Calling, Bunker Research, Lanterne Rouge etc. I also run Isola Press.
https://linktr.ee/m_xl
Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social What if we created the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling and horse-riding network for Britain and Ireland? Up for helping?
linktr.ee/slowwaysuk
www.slowways.org- R @ramblersgb.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social 👋 Looking for Britain's walking charity? Catch us @ramblers.org.uk!
Ramblers Scotland @ramblersscotland.bsky.social Our charity is proud to:
🥾Break down barriers to walking
👟Fight for the places we love to walk
🗺️Champion access rights
🚶🏽♀️ Run 3,500 group walks a year across Scotland
ramblers.org.uk/scotland
Ed Douglas @calmandfearless.bsky.social Writer. Loves the spikier bits of the planet. Bath addict. Contributor to Guardian Country Diary. Represented by David Godwin Associates.
Ash Routen @ashrouten.com Adventure journalist and editor of 'At the Edge of the Map', covering expeditions and adventure globally. By-lines include ExWeb, Nat Geo, Sidetracked, and Outside. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club.
ashrouten.com
Natalie Berry @natalie-berry.com Edinburgh-based journalist, translator, climber. IWMF Ukraine Fellow. Words: NYTimes, The Guardian, WIRED UK, FT HTSI, Nat Geo, The Fence etc. https://www.natalie-berry.com/
James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social The Alpine Club Library - devoted to mountains, mountaineering and the history of both. Part of @alpineclub.bsky.social
Open to visitors & club members on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays.
Mark Horrell @markhorrell.bsky.social Indie author & mountaineering writer | Bit of a mountain history geek | Baldest digital comms professional to climb Everest (probably) | Occasionally frivolous
Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social Writer in the damp Welsh hills.
Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell?
"No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
Paul Harris @paulupwey.bsky.social Birds, Moths, Dragons, Orchids, Butterflies, Bugs.
Dorset.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. My book Wildly Different, about women and nature is now in paperback!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Of course I'm a feminist!
I Never use AI
Dr Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social Environmental Art Historian (she/her), University of Aberdeen | A CIRCUMPOLAR LANDSCAPE (2024) | Editor for NiCHE Canada | PI: From the Floe Edge & Teaching Arctic Environments ❄️ | isabellegapp.com
Kate Armstrong @katejarmstrong.bsky.social Writer. Likes mountains. Bridport Prize runner up ‘24/25. Memoir coming Chatto & Windus Jan ‘27.
https://linktr.ee/beyondthemountain
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social Writer & academic at University College Cork, where I am also Director of Creative Writing. Author of Pathfinding and Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherd’s letters. Walker, reader and single mum. Signed copies of all books: kerriandrews.co.uk
Tom Allen @tomrallen.bsky.social Explorer, author, trail prospector & travel writer. Currently in post as Expeditions & Fieldwork Manager @rgsibg.bsky.social. Mainly here to point you elsewhere. https://tomallen.info/link-in-bio
Fi Photos @alpineclick.bsky.social Hi, I'm Fi, an alpine fine art Photographer 🏔️ FRGS, RPS, BMC & Alpine Club with exhibition images at Insta@FiAlpine 🤍 http://www.fiphotos.org 📸 Also 🇬🇧 🇨🇭 born and a chocolate fan (forever).
https://www.fiphotos.org
Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway