Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
FWP2009 @fwp2009.bsky.social The Friends of Wanstead Parklands seek to raise awareness of Wanstead Park and campaign for its preservation and improvement.
Calista @calista747.bsky.social I love sharing my stories and connecting with others who inspire me
Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social Historia Magazine is the online magazine of the Historical Writers’ Association
historiamag.com
historicalwriters.org
Richard Vize @richardvize.bsky.social Journalist, policy analyst and events host specialising in healthcare and public policy reform. I write for the BMJ. Working as Public Policy Media Ltd. publicpolicymedia.com.
Dr Carrie Long @carrielong.bsky.social Historian | PDRA: Inclusive Histories Project 25-26| RMG Caird Fellow: Greenwich Hospital School 26 | IHR Pearsall Fellow 23-24 | Research interests: c.18-19th naval and military families, marginalised histories, lone women, petitioning, welfare and care
Ruth @ruthybeth12.bsky.social 61, sweary and sick of it all. Scouser exiled in Manc. Wife. Mother. Friend. #LFC #JFT97 #GenX #Music #Veggie #AmWriting #AmReading. I miss the seaside 🦀
Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social Metropolitan Police lives and stories 1829-now.
Open to researchers and visitors by appointment.
Like/repost/follow≠endorsement
No bio or posts, no follow back.
https://t.co/f5xOlVyLoc
Spice Albert @spicealbert.bsky.social I'm only here for the Orient.
#LOFC
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Claire Ó Nualláin @claireon.bsky.social PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
Sarah Drew @sarah-drew.com Writing about romance & red tape in 1819. Unbalanced accountant, voracious reader, few fixed opinions, slightly Scottish.
https://sarah-drew.com
Amazing cover art ©www.claremelinsky.co.uk
Generals and Napoleon @andnapoleon.bsky.social The greatest collection of military talent in history. Please checkout our links.👇
Spotify (podcast): https://open.spotify.com/show/1Acybxhp9qWqI411i9I3YO?si=S1SClCRsQF-2fEz7xR7q-A
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@generalsandnapoleon?si=fKHlW5BbuL5tR8c4
Brian @brianbrian321.bsky.social Live music, craft beer, etc.
East London
Ilford Historical Society @ilfordhistory.bsky.social The Bluesky account for the Ilford Historical Society. Posts by @ColinRuneckles
Website:
https://ilfordhistoricalsociety.weebly.com/
@orientconstanza.bsky.social @orientconstanza.bsky.social 
Dr Colin Runeckles @colinruneckles.bsky.social Researcher into urbanism & housing:
Ancient (@OU_Classics) - currently writing a book on non-elite housing
Modern (Writer, Speaker, Treasurer - @ilfordhistory.bsky.social
Likes music. A lot of music. Can often be found at Cafe Oto.
Susan Homewood @piano-forte.bsky.social Musicology/social history – researching music consumption in late Georgian England
Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre @redbridgemuseum.bsky.social Redbridge Museum explores the many different people, places & events which are part of the history of Redbridge.
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 17:00
🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/museum
Mrs Tales (🇬🇧) @mrstales.bsky.social • 50 y/o BBW
• More Victoria C-M than Victoria's Secret
• Poly with @NotThatDoctor.bsky ♾️, enm 🍍, demi, bi-playful, nerdy!
• https://linktr.ee/MrsTales
• Rarely in DMs
• Sometimes nsfw. 🔞
The Old Spotted Dog Ground @oldspotteddog.bsky.social London's oldest senior football ground. Based in the Forest Gate area of Newham.
Owned by @claptoncfc.co.uk members, managed by the OSD Ground Trust.
Web: oldspotted.dog
Paul O’Donnell @paodonnell.bsky.social History, Ships, Manufacturing and Trade Policy. Attempting a PhD (the left and the navy in early C20/interwar Britain) twenty years later than is traditional.
Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social Historian of crime and London;
Arsenal fan and member of the Arsenal Advisory Board, Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social
Green Anarchist, and wannabe photographer
Dr Michelle Johansen @historitage.bsky.social Social historian, researching &
writing about British librarians & #PubLibs in the long nineteenth century. Learning & Outreach Manager at the Society of Antiquaries, London.
VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023) ... new book out soon 'Covent Garden: A People's History' (Yale, 2027)
@mightyos.bsky.social @mightyos.bsky.social 
Monika Sobiecki @cybersobiecki.bsky.social Lawyer @BindmansLLP | Legal @Impatience Ltd | Waltham Forest Green Party 💚 | Postgrad researcher on surveillance and climate justice @QMUL | Lawyers Are Responsible (http://www.lar.earth) | Digital rights are human rights |
Ben Derbyshire Dip Arch Cantab PPRIBA Hon AIA RSA @benderbyshire.bsky.social Architect, urbanist, writer.
Chair of HTA Design LLP, Commissioner at Historic England, President of London Forum, Trustee at SAVE Britain’s Heritage.
Author of Home Truths, an urbanists primer.- T The Singing Engineer @treborfirst.bsky.social Choral Singer. TaiChi. PPIE: Critical Care Rsrch (Oxford), ICNARC.
Alumnus: Birkbeck (London Uni), OU, Leicester Poly.
Erstwhile sw Eng Mgr CEng MIET
Philosophy, film noir, JP Melville, RadioLaBaroque, Bach, audiophile.
Brex💩& MAGA stink. No to Amazon.
Erica Buist @ericabuist.bsky.social Writer. Author (THIS PARTY’S DEAD). Playwright (Stockroom, Slackline). Journalist (Guardian). Writing tutor (CityLit).
Social media director (Tupelo Press). Creative Writing PhD. Late-diagnosed AuDHD. Writing a novel but I’m ok.
Joey Ceunen @joeyceunen.bsky.social CTO @ Carefreespace.bsky.social
tania_nexust @tania-nexust.bsky.social Passionate about good beer, good cider, good food, and getting things organised; always seeking beer and food adventures. Hungry for Art.
Danny @dcaw77.bsky.social 
Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social Free access to 900 years of history - Derbyshire, Britain and beyond: books, archives, maps, prints and photographs. Explore online or visit us in Matlock.
Website: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recordoffice
Wanstead Fringe Festival @wansteadfringe.bsky.social 2026 season: September 5th - 26th.
Our fringe festival is a celebration of the arts, performance, literature, music and film.
Wanstead Fringe is a CIC. New recruits and co-conspirators welcome! Made in Wanstead. Est. 2013.
www.wansteadfringe.org
Luci Gosling (it’s short for Lucinda) @lucigosling.bsky.social History madam. Scribe for hire. Plus art, illustration, culture, fashion, food, friends. Mary Evans Picture Library. Glen of Imaal terrier owner. Mother of 3 people. Crisp addict. Co.Durham born; Wanstead dweller. Will finish my website one day.
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Wanstead Village Directory @wanstead.bsky.social Local community magazine
Neopolem @langwoud.bsky.social Man schreibt was ab in seinem Leben.
Da sieht man, dass ich auch schreiben kann!
Aber gewöhnlich schreibe ich nur ab.
Tag ein, Tag aus.
"Bonaparte schreibt eben so schlecht und unleserlich, als sein Ausdruck im Sprechen rein, gedrängt, nachdrucksvoll ist.
@mark-pearson.bsky.social @mark-pearson.bsky.social 
Giles Wilson @gillis49.bsky.social Editor @harpoon.productions. Chair @wansteadfringe.bsky.social. Hinde Street. “One of the most impressive beards I've ever seen” - forensic psychologist Sohom Das
@wansteadium.bsky.social @wansteadium.bsky.social 
Toto @tim67.bsky.social Recently retired to serve my cat's every desire
Londoner in Wanstead
The cat is called Yanna 💙
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social Born Homerton Hackney London local history mainly Hackney history - has es ven yox rufn eyds antisemetik
Tim Couzens @tj-couzens.bsky.social Local historian. Author of Hand of Fate, the History of the Longs, Wellesleys and the Draycot Estate in Wiltshire, ELSP, 2001.
Alix James @alixjamesromance.bsky.social I write Jane Austen Fan Fiction featuring a sassy Elizabeth Bennet and a swoon-worthy Mr. Darcy. #Author of #JaneAustenFanFiction #JAFF #DarcyandElizabeth #RegencyRomance #RomanceAuthor #MrDarcy #ElizabethBennet #PrideandPrejudiceVariations
Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi @robinkobayashi.bsky.social Legal Editor by day, writer by night of historical fantasy. Award-winning Austenesque spin-offs: Kirkus Reviews Best Books 2018 & 2021; Grand Prize Winner-Novella, 2024 Chanticleer Int'l Book Awards. Linktr.ee/rekwriter
ThatKaren @wokekaren.bsky.social Zionism is Racism. Voting Green. Democratic Socialist.
Love London, politics, dogs, art, history, comedy, food . . .
Jonathan Wallis @jonathanmuseum.bsky.social Photography, Books, History, Art + Beer.
Preston Park Museum and Grounds Manager at Stockton Borough Council.
Trustee at https://bsky.app/profile/wwwheritagetrust.bsky.social + part of Photo Scarborough https://bsky.app/profile/photoscarborough.bsky.social
The Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall - charity, museum, gallery and gardens. Former home of Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) vicar of Coxwold & author of Tristram Shandy.
Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk
Helen Dallas @helcdall.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at University of Galway working on Romantic theatre. Current project on history plays. Writer, theatre fan, cat aunt. she/her
Jacqueline Riding @jacriding.bsky.social Film/TV historian; Art Newspaper Lit Ed; Heritage/Exhibition/Curatorial Consultant; Author #Jacobites #Peterloo #Hogarth SundayTimes ArtBook 2021 #HardStreets + Gainsborough & Reynolds: The Art of Rivalry in Georgian London 2027 https://linktr.ee/JacRiding
D. A. @devgm.bsky.social Silent.co (Developer)
📍 fintech / development
I love to program, travel, write poetry, and I think banana bread is underrated.
Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social Historian at Lancaster University and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded @victorianhand.bsky.social project. Blissfully married to my Co-I @jbhist.bsky.social. Author of two books: https://bit.ly/3968wLB & https://bit.ly/3KwWtVS
The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social Weekly Rare & Antiquarian Book Auctions Since 2003
BOOK AUCTIONS END EVERY SUNDAY 8pm (UK Time)
#rarebooks #books #antiquarian #earlymodern
#bibliophile #bookhistory #bookauctions
stores.ebay.co.uk/wisdompedlars
michaeljflynn @michaeljflynn.bsky.social Dad of 2 wonderful people. #Archaeology videos and other content. #Science & #Nature. Smiling. #Writing #Learning and leading with #AI & #edTech
🇬🇧🔖 𝔓𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔩🖖🔖 🇬🇧 @lrp.blog Truth above Delusion, Growth above Comfort, Wisdom and Knowledge above all.
📚 ❯ 🦆 ❯ #Birder, Husband, #Bibliofile. 🐦 And now an #Audiofile.
Staring at a talking box is not for me 😳📺
Proud Gen Xer.
Writing over at... lrp.blog
📧 p@lrp.blog
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com
Abigail Reynolds @abigailreynolds.net Writer of Austen-inspired and gaslamp fantasy romantic novels, servant to Pfeffernusse the Queen of Cats, retired doc, and lousy housekeeper. Probably drinking tea and making good trouble. she/her
https://linktr.ee/abigailreynoldswrites
Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social Author: “STRANGERS & INTIMATES: the rise and fall of private life” Out Now! @picadorbooks. (Also: “Keeping Their Marbles” @ouphistory) Trustee,
@britishmuseum https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com/
Sarah Fisichella @rococo-reinette.bsky.social Aspiring decorative arts historian fond of material culture and monarchical histories. Hoping to soon move to the UK permanently! Also love British country houses and natural history. 👑🦔🌪️🌷🐇
Dr Reider Payne @whigduke.bsky.social Historian, heritage consultant and cat fanatic. Author of 'War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era.'
Monica Descalzi @austenmicrocosm.bsky.social Jane Austen fan, Shakespeare lover. Literature, history, art, and nature.
https://janeaustensmicrocosm.wordpress.com/
@AustenMicrocosm
Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social TV addict, nerdy fan of Dystopian drama. Love a bit of ScandiNoir, Science-Fiction, Aviation, Military History and Cold War Radars & Bunkers.
Wellbeing Walks Leader and Community Volunteer in Barrow-in-Furness with Active Cumbria. #ParkRun #LoveParkRun
Valerie Sylvester @veleda75.bsky.social ♈♊♎Tarot reader, astrologer, semi-retired from many things.Fan of: cats,gardening,silver jewelry,K-dramas,photography, theater, movies, punk/new wave bands (& Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry). Not a fan of: fascists,people who try & take away other people's rights.
Peter Molloy @petermolloy.bsky.social Mainly posts about military history (especially Irish) and toy soldiers. Views mine. Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪.
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Julian Woodford @historylondon.bsky.social Historian (FRHistS), author of THE BOSS OF BETHNAL GREEN, a true foundation story of London’s East End and biography of Regency godfather Joseph Merceron.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boss-Bethnal-Green-Merceron-Godfather-ebook/dp/B086XFTWXK
E7-NowandThen @e7nandt.bsky.social Host of www.E7-NowandThen.org. Interested in #CPFC, food, local history, politics, our dogs. Ex hack.
Justin Parkes @justparkes.bsky.social Museum curator | travel | industrial history | art | photography | views mine
Katie MacLean @katiemaclean.bsky.social PhD student at Stirling Uni researching Jane Austen and queer performance / Editor-in-Chief, Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal 📚✨🎭
It’s actually Kate @18thcentkitty.bsky.social Previously known for all things 18th Century, now covering more bases! Expect history, boating, nature, lifestyle and a Bichon Frise ☺️
Etsy shop - https://nouveaurococo.etsy.com
Brad @retryorcancel.net Watching Project Fear become Project Told You So.
Turning into a grumpy old man.
Orient Season Ticket Holder. Scunthorpe United at heart.
@bradleyem@mas.to
No longer active on Twitter.
#ExitBrexit
Kate Bod @katebod.bsky.social Book #Editor, #Writer and #Lipspeaker (@se-lipspeakers.bsky.social)
John Shelley - Illustrator @studionib.bsky.social Illustrator and author for children's publishing and the wider design business. #KidLitUK #illustration https://linktr.ee/studionib
Londonopia @londonopia.bsky.social Celebrating London. News and history. #London
londonopia.co.uk
Kieran Hazzard @kieranhazzard.bsky.social Historian of C18th-19th Britain and India. No longer institutionally attached. Previous research into Robert Clive's loot at Powis Castle and Regency Radicals who hated the East India Company. Increasingly interested in the Great War.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
ultima thule @thethousandthpart.com C18-19 British/Irish history | RN/polar exploration | Photographer; librarian; independent researcher of life and career of Capt. Francis Crozier. www.thethousandthpart.com
Kristin Girten @kmg23.bsky.social 18c British scholar (of literature, science, etc.) Also a university administrator. Author of https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/sensitive-witnesses . Bird lover and aspiring public humanist. Proponent of the sublime of the small.
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
Andrew Brunatti @andrewbrunatti.bsky.social PhD in Politics & History. Art lover. Currently researching/writing on visual portrayals of Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822).
Access Heritage @accessheritage.bsky.social 🏛️Loving History: Ancient. Medieval. 17th & 18th Century. Napoleonic Wars. Victorian & 19th century conflict.
Former Military Curator for National Historic Sites (Canada)
Websites: https://militaryheritage.com & https://warof1812.ca 🏛️
Shannon Selin @shannonselin.bsky.social Writer of historical fiction/alternate history, author of Napoleon in America, history blogger (Napoleonic & 19thC)
https://shannonselin.com/
Jennifer Anne Girardin @jenniferagirardin.bsky.social Classical Pianist and author of Moriston House British Mysteries and the historical Regency romance novel "Lady Beckford's Lover."
Harris' List of Covent Garden Ladies @coventgardenladies.bsky.social A Public History MA project of @rachelthehistorian providing an insight into the ladies found in the lists of Covent Garden Ladies in the 18th Century.
https://linktr.ee/coventgardenladies
Christopher Guyver @cguyver.bsky.social NHS substance misuse service administrator. Writing a biography of King Leopold I of the Belgians. Beautiful Surrey. 
Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social 🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
She/her
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland @asimonekeland.bsky.social Academic librarian at the University of Oslo and historian of exploration in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly interested in the polar regions, the history of celebrity and the history of emotions
Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Regency History @regencyhistory.bsky.social We love researching and sharing about the late Georgian and Regency world. There's more to it than Jane Austen (lovely though her books are).
By Andrew and Rachel Knowles.
@andrewwriter.bsky.social
History Symposium @historysymposium.bsky.social A Canadian not-for-profit organization sharing our love for history with a focus on War of 1812/Napoleonic Wars, Regency Culture and Canadian History.
Proud hosts of the an annual 3 Minute Canadian Thesis Competition
https://linktr.ee/historysymposium 
Suzi Love @suzilove.bsky.social Australian author of contemporary, Regency, and historical romances, plus history non-fiction. Making history fun, one year at a time.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X