The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon.
Our new book, "Life After Cars" is out now.
https://www.lifeaftercars.com/
https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
Steve Hewitt @stevehewitt.bsky.social A repatriated Canadian settler living in Birmingham, UK, with an interest in security and intelligence in the past and present and in a US-Canada-UK context. I also follow politics in those countries as well as the strange world of academia. Plus, I run.
Kevin Carmody @skinofstars.bsky.social Green councillor for Harborne, Birmingham, UK
Work in technology and political ad transparency.
Interested in climate justice and urbanism.
Former host of Better Streets for Birmingham podcast - https://betterstreetsforbirmingham.org/podcast/
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Citizens Advice Arun & Chichester @arunchica.bsky.social We're a registered charity - offering free, confidential & impartial advice on a wide range of subjects. Centres in #BognorRegis, #Chichester & #Littlehampton, West Sussex, England.
🔗arunchichestercab.org.uk
📞0808 278 7969
British Association of Social Workers @basw-uk.bsky.social The official Bluesky account for the British Association of Social Workers. We are the UK's largest professional association for social work.
@bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social 
Dave aka Fletch @sirfletchphelps.bsky.social Cyclist. Guitarist. Bass Basher. Brummie. Gobshite. Green.
Second ever winner of Fix the Headlines.
Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
Leicestershire @leicestershireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Leicestershire, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social Pedestrian Historian.
Imperialism Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/ev4psh98
The Anticolonial Front: http://tinyurl.com/33d3exca.
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/ykp7r5a9.
Jordan @jordanjop.bsky.social Birmingham, UK
Richard Burton @notthedeadone.bsky.social Making sure I claim this handle before Jim Morrison gets here 😁
Cycling, music, politics. Usually politics but trying to change that.
Corrinne F @traviata.bsky.social “There is a time for the evening under starlight/A time for the evening under lamplight/(The evening with the photograph album)/Love is most nearly itself/When here and now cease to matter”
Songdog LP Mirabilia Mundi out now https://orcd.co/mirabiliamundi
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Better Streets for Birmingham @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org We want streets where everyone gets home safely and where there are genuine alternatives to driving.
Account semi-monitored by volunteers trying to cover all bases!
📍 Birmingham, UK
🔗 betterstreetsforbirmingham.org
Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social I research, write, and teach about the Quaker tradition. I also write fiction (mainly sapphic romance novels set in prehistory) and poetry. She/her.
Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social Academic. Work on First World War literature (Assoc Ed., FWW Studies); modernist studies (former BAMS Chair); noncanonical literature; rural modernity; late style. Grumbles my own.
Stroud District Green Party @stroudgreens.org.uk News, events & info from Stroud District Green Party 💚
https://linktr.ee/stroudgreens
Promoted by Rob Brookes on behalf of Stroud District Green Party at 17 Great George St, Bristol BS1 5QT.
Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social Historian and museum curator. #ActuallyAutistic. Views my own. He/him.
Badly Parked Oxford @badlyparkedox.bsky.social Highlighting #antisocialparking across Oxford, UK.
Tag your #badlyparkedcars @badlyparkedox.bsky.social or email pics to BadlyParkedOxford@gmail.com for anon
Pamela Devine @pdevinee.bsky.social Visitor guide/historian at the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon. Available for talks on the Chapel's history, its medieval wall paintings & historic graffiti. Book: Writing on Shakespeare's Walls https://www.youcaxton.co.uk/writing-on-shakespeares-walls/
Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social Writer, speaker, storyteller, folklorist and museum curator. Arts and Crafts Movement lover. William Morris fangirl. Church crawler.
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Darren Mark Skilton @darrenmarkskilton.bsky.social Collective Action Brighton & Hove. Left/Green. Solidarity RPM. Give Street Project. Vegan. Gooner. LGBTQIA ally. He/Him.
Joshua Farrell-Molloy @joshuafmolloy.bsky.social MSCA PhD Candidate in Global Political Studies at Malmö University @vortex-europe.bsky.social IR, digital subcultures, extremism, foreign fighters.
Words: https://gnet-research.org/author/joshua-molloy/
Markus Wright @exacerby.bsky.social Following far-right politics, extremism and other fun stuff
Hacked Off @hackedoff.bsky.social Born out of the UK tabloid phone hacking scandal. We fight for press accountability, for justice for victims still denied and for a responsible press that protects the public, upholds democracy, and defends free expression. https://linktr.ee/hackedoff
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
Jamie Driscoll @jamiedriscoll.bsky.social Former North of Tyne Mayor. Socialist, Dad. @majorityuk
Harald Fredheim @haraldfred.bsky.social Researching lived experience and participation in museums and archaeology. Also enjoys volleyball and cycling. York & Manchester. He/him
Brooke Newman @brookenewman.bsky.social Historian, voracious reader, & cocktail 🍸 enthusiast. Upcoming book—THE CROWN’S SILENCE: The Hidden History of the British Monarchy & Slavery (Mariner, Jan. 2026). Link: https://tinyurl.com/5erj7z6x
All views, my own. Website: www.brookennewman.com
Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social No worthwhile human achievement has ever been instigated on the basis of demonstrable cost effectiveness.
https://adrianbowyer.com
📍Europe
Retrofit Balsall Heath @retrofitbh.bsky.social Working with Community partners to “retrofit” homes, neighbourhoods, hearts and minds. Explainer: https://bit.ly/41vOAum
Green Elects @greenelects.world Reporting on green parties around the world. 🌍
Founded by @daniellaycock.bsky.social
Currently led by @tottenhammasky.bsky.social
🔗 https://linktr.ee/greenelects
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk
support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Barney @producerbarney.bsky.social Producer, writer, composer
Freelance BBC, OU, Arts
Passionate about books and creative writing
London/Bristol/Cornwall
Marie-Anne McQuay @m-amcq.bsky.social Curator, other things. she/her
@geepott.bsky.social @geepott.bsky.social 
Sal Naseem @salnaseem.bsky.social Author of True North: A Story of Racism Resilience and Resisting Systems of Denial, available to buy on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/72Vhd9w
GEOPOLIST - Istanbul Center for Geopolitics @geopolist.bsky.social Predicting the unpredictable!☯ Founded by http://newsaboutturkey.com, GEOPOLIST is your premier source for comprehensive analysis of global & regional geopolitical developments. Op-eds are welcomed. ➔ https://geopolist.com/submit-an-op-ed/
Karen Lewing 💚 @karenlewing.bsky.social Worcester Green Party City Cllr for Arboretum. Architect RIBA, Architects Declare, planning, active travel. Carbon and Water Literate. Clean Air Champion
Promoted by C. Wratten on behalf of K. Lewing (Green Party) at 40 Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1EE
Jane Baston @janebaston.bsky.social 💚 Green Party Councillor & trade unionist
📍 Bournbrook & Selly Park, Birmingham
Promoted by C. Busuttil on behalf of Jane Baston (Green Party) Unit 3 Block 2 Wednesbury Trading Estate WS10 7JN
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
St Albans Museums @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social Celebrating St Albans arts, history and community
Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social Public historian #IrishSlaveholders #SouthCarolina & beyond. https://irishhistorians.ie/members/martine-brennan/ and https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stained-and-bloodied-cloths-of-ireland-9781350445703/
Isabelle Vella Gregory @ivg.bsky.social Archaeologist. Sudan. Malta. UCL. Cambridge. https://thejebelmoyaproject.wordpress.com/
https://m.facebook.com/JebelMoya
Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social Landscape archaeologist, prehistorian, and small finds specialist. At home in the Bronze Age, but living in the deep Welsh Marches. HERO for Herefordshire Archaeology.
All views my own
Expert is Reavillnomicism
Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social Award-winning journalist and author. Latest edition of my book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’, about the pivotal role of what’s now called NatWest in the global banking crash, was reissued in 2024.
www.ianfraser.org
Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social Green Party Member. NHS Worker. Wells. Somerset. Green Runner. Late Rosette Adopter. Hot Fuzz Superfan.
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
Jane @janeaire.bsky.social Reader, walker, crafter.
Fandom, politics, campaigns.
Joe Peacock @brumgreenjoe.bsky.social Green Party councillor for Billesley, Birmingham. Promoted by C. Charles, both at Unit 3 Block 2, Wednesbury Trading Estate, WS10 7JN. He/him
Peter Bowden 🇬🇧 @b31bowden.bsky.social Proud Brummie. Sceptic, pedant and is frequently sarcastic, but tries to be polite. Retired. ex Local Authority Childcare, ex D.W.P. Fraud, ex I.P.C.C. Investigator. Assume nothing, Believe nobody. Check everything.
GJ Charles @thestatichand.bsky.social Artist, Producer, Researcher, etc
Bleeps, Glitches and Redistribution
PhD @ University of Birmingham
Teaching @ BIMM institute
www.garyjcgaryjc.com
Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social #Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
Listen here > https://radiolento.podbean.com
Support here > https://ko-fi.com/radiolento
Ed Freshwater @edfreshwater.bsky.social PhD Researcher & Mental Health Nurse
Dad from #TeamKip
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Alina Botezatu @alinanbotezatu.bsky.social AHRC PhD University of Stirling and Historic Environment Scotland
Uncovering hidden stories of Trinity House, Leith and its portable objects collection 
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
Sonya Hundal @sonyahundal.bsky.social Writer, PhD student in Creative Writing at University of Leicester. Owner of Greenfield Bakers. Living in the cabbage-lands in rural Lincolnshire.
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Kung Fu Piggy @pigfluencer.bsky.social I love travelling but not by plane. Love the planet, love overlanding, in fact I've got a black belt in overlanding. Follow my travels here.
Sabina Cveček @sabinacvecek.bsky.social Anthropologist | Kinship & households in deep past | MSCA Global Fellow @ Field Museum, Chicago & ÖAW, Vienna | Fellow @ Royal Anthropological Institute | Co-🪑 @ EAA Archaeology & Gender in Europe | FirstGen | She/her 🇪🇺🇸🇮🇦🇹🇺🇸 | www.sabinacvecek.com
Yugin Teo @yugin.bsky.social Principal Academic in Communications & English
Kazuo Ishiguro | memory | nostalgia | science fiction | robot carers | dementia | film | contemporary literature
he/him
Views own
http://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/yteo
Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social Academic. Families. Research methods.
Take a look: academicswives.co.uk
Creator for Meta AI (they stole my work)
Na’amodnik
You can’t DM me here
David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
WomenWarriors @womenwarriors.com
~ INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE ~
Our main thing is Substack, please visit: substack.com/@womenwarriors
#women #warriors #womenwarriors #revolution #selfdefense #usa #uk #selfdefence #forbes #australia #china #extinctionrebellion
bookhaus @bookhaus.bsky.social Contemporary bookshop located in the heart of Bristol's vibrant Wapping Wharf. Member of the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. 
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Dakota land
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'.
Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist. 
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Anthrodiva @anthrodiva.bsky.social Cultural anthropologist. Sagittarius with Aries rising. Condiment Queen of the Post-Apocalypse. Lives in WV.
Tony Pearce @languid-man.bsky.social Disappointed in things generally…
Oksana Dudko @oksanadudko.bsky.social historian and theatre curator | violence, body, the first world war, and the 1917 revolutions | Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union | also write about contemporary Ukrainian theatre | in theatre when not in the archives
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
University of Leicester @uniofleicester.bsky.social 🏆 University of the Year (Daily Mail 2025, Shortlisted by THE Awards 2024 & The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025)
#CitizensOfChange
Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social You will find me around the middle of the room. Outward looking because if you are not you get isolated and stop learning
NHS for many years before retiring. Read a lot, listen a lot.
Dovestones Reservoir ⬆️
I don't have access to DMs so don't bother!
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social 🎓Lecturer @BristolUni @BILT (curriculum, pedagogy, SFHEA, sustainability, AI, qual research) UCU WIASN Higher Education
🏺 Archaeologist @archsengage.bsky.social Archaeology
👩🎨Crafter, TephraArts https://tephraarts.etsy.com
📍Bristol ☘️ she/her
Stacy Boldrick @stacybold.bsky.social Iconoclasm, medieval and contemporary art history. Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social 💚 Making hope normal again in Birmingham.
Promoted by C. Busuttil at Unit 3 Block 2, Wednesbury Trading Estate, WS10 7JN.
https://birmingham.greenparty.org.uk/
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk 💚 Real hope. Real change.
greenparty.org.uk
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL
Feminist Greens (GPEW) @feministgreens.bsky.social 💚 The Green Party Feminist group for women, intersex, and non-binary people
https://feministgreens.greenparty.org.uk
chair@feministgreens.greenparty.org.uk
Bluesky messages not monitored
Promoted by Feminist Greens c/o PO Box 78066, London, SE16 9GQ
Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social Conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity in the Early Modern British Atlantic, at the University of Birmingham, 12 September 2025: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/nonconformistdialogues/
Ian Phillips @ian-phillips0324.bsky.social Formerly history teacher and then history teacher educator. Now paid by govt to walk a dog.
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
Tincture of Museum @tinctureofmuseum.bsky.social Museum blogger - all about museums, art, history & culture.
Tinctureofmuseum@gmail.com
Founder of Autism in Museums
Blog - https://tinctureofmuseum.wordpress.com/
Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York. Director of the Wolfson Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab & Centre for Digital Heritage.
I post about beautiful archaeology, digital phantasmagoria and anarchist imaginaries & realities.
She/her 🏴
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Eddie Jenkins 🦤 @eddiejenks510.bsky.social Polar exploration and natural history
Croker Mountains truther
Beckford's Tower @beckfordstower.bsky.social 120ft high Tower and #Museum in Bath. Built in 1826 for the use of one privileged man, now open to all.
https://beckfordstower.org.uk/
John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls.
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https://johnerichardson.wixsite.com/home
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