Annabel Ross @annabel-ross.bsky.social writer person
politicsdancingxyz.substack.com
Caryn Rose @carynrose.bsky.social Music journalist, historian, archivist, crabby old punk rock lady. Music columnist @ salon.com | writing @ jukeboxgraduate.com
clips @ https://carynrose.contently.com/
She / her | current Detroiter, forever New Yorker, child of the Garden State
Joseph O'Neill @josephoneill.bsky.social Writer
Vanessa Briscoe Hay @pylongurl.bsky.social Mom, retired nurse, artist, singer / musician. Member of Pylon Reenactment Society, former member of Pylon and Supercluster
https://www.pylonreenactmentsociety.com
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Emma Stump @pisci.bsky.social Beer, Belgium, pissed takes on 70s and 80s Top of the Pops, pubs and football, coming atcha from darkest Catford.
Chris Shaw @chrisshaweditor.bsky.social Christian; musician; host of podcasts @eggpod.bsky.social ; Watford FC supporter. In that order. https://sgtpepperphotos.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/16/
James Cook @jamesecook.bsky.social Linktr.ee/shoobypodcast
Comedian. Often speaks of pop songs from days of yore.
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate racism. Servant to a Patterdale,
Rob Birley @robbirley.bsky.social Work in Further Education, helping SEND students find paid work. Love Jazzy music, ideas. long walks, late nights.
Ashleigh @vinylgeek.bsky.social Vinyl lover 🎶🎶 🎧
Coffee Monster ☕️
Gen X UK🇬🇧
Lover of coloured vinyl and cassettes Music lovers welcomed
No PORN accounts , No POLITICS accounts No FAKE accounts No DATING profiles No money begging accounts
#Prince4ever
Temporal Boundary @temporalboundary.bsky.social Editor at Temporal Boundary Press (Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion, Waiting For You: A Detectorists Zine, Man is the Animal: A Coil Zine).
Marieke Navin @mariekenavin.bsky.social Particle physicist turned science communicator
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social Ex EU Antitrust Lawyer
Chair: Laura Kinsella Foundation, Law For Change, Clean Up The Internet and Press Justice Project;
Board member: Hacked Off and Reprieve;
Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2025
Director, Stroud Book Festival
Emma Stott @stottemma.bsky.social Lead Practitioner of English, Author of Speedy Reading (John Catt) and Jimi Hendrix On Track; The Zombies On Track (Sonicbond). Love On Track out now.
Thom @thisthom.bsky.social Northern emerging writer, reader, musician, & photographer. Snaps are taken on my #FujiFilmXT5, mostly.
Find me on Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/kVe7F
#author #writingcommunity #horror #booksky #writer #SFF #Photographer #UrbanPhotography #Photography
Rob Richardson @drrobrichardson.bsky.social Lecturer in Urban Planning & Placemaking at University of @Manchester.ac.uk Department of Planning, Property & Environmental Management | MRTPI | Urban design, planning, place & policy | Own views
Lucy @artymystery.bsky.social Arty northern lass pretending to be a grown up. Music is definitely the food of life….and love. Member of The Velvet Owl.
International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social What's it going to be then, eh? All things Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange) from his Estate and Archive in Manchester, UK.
www.anthonyburgess.org
Bradford Literature Festival @bradfordlitfest.bsky.social explore words, discover worlds
11 - 20 June 2027
https://www.bradfordlitfest.co.uk/
@katymcgahan.bsky.social @katymcgahan.bsky.social artist, filmmaker, writer
Suite (212) @suite212.bsky.social Podcast that looks at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts.
https://soundcloud.com/suite-212
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Matt Thorne @8minutesidle.bsky.social Author of six novels, three children’s books, one film and critical study of pop star Prince. MA Convenor in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. New book FAMOUS: Ego, Envy and Ambition in Rock, Pop and Hip-Hop out now.
Joelle McTigue 📷 @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Annie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author, “Taylor Swift: The Stories Behind the Songs.” Newest book: "Stevie Nicks in 50 Songs." Others on Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Xmas songs, Cher. Trans + disability rights are human rights. apstudiozaleski@gmail.com; anniez.com.
Roy Kelly @stanyanfan49.bsky.social Beats.Beatles.Bob.Brautigan.Bloxwich. Sixties.Writer.Poet. Drugstore Fiction, Bob Dylan Dream. Clouds.The cats. The tortoise. Frayn.Stoppard.
HT4Ecosocialism @ht4ecosocialism.bsky.social Eco-socialist, blogger, photographer, gardener, poet, and author. Nature lover. Working for social, economic and environmental justice. Banned from Twitter for being too left. Trans ally. "Demand the impossible!" #MMT #Antifa #Woke 🇵🇸 Welfare Not warfare!
Dorian Stuber @ds228.bsky.social Reader; newly in St Louis; always as Canadian as possible under the circumstances
https://eigermonchjungfrau.blog/
Mark B @markbutchr.bsky.social House since '86. Balearic Silverback. Balearic Mark on Soundcloud
https://soundcloud.com/mixtape-mark-dj
LewisB @lewisb9-3.bsky.social The Fall, post-punk/new wave, late80's/early 90's techno, Spaniels, Saabs, Leicester City FC, that sort of thing. No love for anyone identifying as Tory or Reform.
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social The official podcast account. Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.
https://500songs.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey
Merch: https://500-songs.teemill.com
(no offence to Imagine Dragons, who suck) @countryjim.bsky.social Same daft get as in the other place
Richard Balls @musicbiographer.bsky.social Music fan and author A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane MacGowan, Be Stiff: The Stiff Records Story, and Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Life of Ian Dury. Elvis Costello book now in progress.
Ed Caesar @edcaesar.bsky.social Writer @newyorker. Author of "The Moth and the Mountain" and "Two Hours". "The Comet" will be published in February 2027. https://celadonbooks.com/book/the-comet/
John Power Jr. @johnpower.bsky.social Void Wizard
Large Stone Enjoyer
Wyrd Science Editor
Freelance Writer
God’s Own Idiot
https://linktr.ee/wyrdscience
Susan McCallum Smith @susanmccallum.bsky.social Reader, writer, teacher.
@siobhanwalsh.bsky.social @siobhanwalsh.bsky.social NHS Doctor (1983-2019). Aspiring Eco - Warrior/poet/singer-MDANT 🏅
Michael Wadding @waddo100.bsky.social Producer and director of documentaries🎥. Sounds, music and images. Transport and travel. Based in Kent. Proud Teessider.
Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social Retired (mostly...) Irish Times tech columnist. Chair, New Music Dublin. Privacy/infosec/human&digital rights. Likes 🦇. Lots of 4-legged talls/smalls 🐕🐈⬛🫏🐴. Talkative. 🇨🇦➡️🇺🇸➡️🇮🇪 www.newmusicdublin.ie
Stacy Boldrick @stacybold.bsky.social Iconoclasm, medieval and contemporary art history. Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
JūģģēR @jugger.bsky.social Music and stuff. Stokie
STP Guy @stpguy3.bsky.social Reviewing the UK's Sticky Toffee Puddings
70k on Instagram (with full review backlog)
90k on Tiktok
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Rebecca Radnor @rebeccaradnor.bsky.social ‘Oh I guess that I just don’t know.' Hard line pragmatist. Yes to romance, no to magical thinking. Velvet Underground, The Fall, Lee Perry, Beefheart, Can, Sly. Labour social democrat. Sixty-two.
Near a mountain in Wales, United Kingdom
Régine Debatty @wmmna.bsky.social Art critic, curator and forever blogger https://we-make-money-not-art.com/
Harry Prenger @harryprenger.bsky.social Vinylvictim
Doug Wallen @dougwallen.bsky.social Arts journalist, band booker & broadcaster in Australia https://linktr.ee/dougwallen
Revival Records @revivalrecords.co.uk Music journalist/reviewer specialising in mod revival, power pop, new wave from the 1970s to present day. Also prog and classic rock, folk and jazz.
EuroSky Account
Online record sales and reviews:
https://revivalrecords.co.uk
Groovy Times @groovy-times.bsky.social An online magazine about vinyl and the culture that surrounds it
Find the latest issue at…
https://groovy-times.com
Neil Collins @neilcollins1986.bsky.social Author of International Velvet: How Wales Conquered the ‘90s Charts. Co-host of the Welsh Music Podcast. Dysgwr. Liverpool fan.
dave roberts, PhD @dr-faustus.bsky.social An American from Detroit who’s lived in the UK for a long time. Did my PhD on the ethics of war. Love music, especially on vinyl, art, wine, books and politics (I’m woke though prefer awakening and far left). DM=Blocked, no crypto and I’m happily married.
Kay @kaymarquis.bsky.social Theatre, books & writing.
Bits of culture & history that I find interesting 📸
Personal opinions on this & that.
Glasgow/London 🎭
SAST. Theatre 118
www.kaymarquis.com
@deborahsnell.bsky.social @deborahsnell.bsky.social Artist - illustrator, printmaker, installation & music videos. Works at The Crack Magazine - gig lover & reviewer. @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social
@susannesavage.bsky.social @susannesavage.bsky.social Music industry exec in A&R Admin & recording production mgmt. 10 year 2nd career in politics and progressive do-gooding. Dog loving entrepreneur.
avantologist @avantologist.bsky.social sound art, radio art, still & moving image
Emma @dtate0007.bsky.social Music lover with a big record collection. Favourites include The Fall, Talk Talk, The Cure, Siouxsie, Cocteau Twins, The Smiths, New Order, Kraftwerk, John Foxx, Björk & Jane Weaver. No DMs please.
[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social midwest academic, political science + psychology / inveterate fan of The Fall / cat enthusiast / boring social democrat / photographer
David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social Former economist and civil servant. Former (age related) national cycling champion. Still a music fan. Sewn up member of the Zipper Club.
RJJNY @rjjny.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@RJJNY
@bettyjaywren.bsky.social @bettyjaywren.bsky.social 
Nazaret Ranea @nazaretranea.bsky.social Poet. Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar. My debut collection, Nettles, is out now! 🇪🇸🏴
nazaretranea.com | https://www.instagram.com/nazareterreese?igsh=MWdyNmNpNHcxcjVwNg%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Tom Noble @tomnoble.bsky.social book editor and marketing man | campaigns director at Orion (views my own etc etc) #lufc
Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
JT Welsch @jtwelsch.bsky.social Writer, academic, worrier. Literature, creative industries & liberal arts, University of York.
New book: The Poetry of Suicide (MUP, 2026).
Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social Professor in Sound Production and Post Production, Sound Designer, Educator. Researcher in acoustical heritage and accessibility through sound design. Zumba instructor. Latina. She/Her https://marianajlopez.com/
Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
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
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social 👩🏻🏫 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social
✍️ Influenza book @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social
📚Research Rep @cncsi.bsky.social
🦇Co-host @GothicaUob.bsky.social
👋🏼ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social
👻 Summoned to the Séance @britishlibrary.bsky.social
Joel Morley @joelmorley.bsky.social Oral historian; cultural history of war and gender.
Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157232/
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
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
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: https://subscribe.emailblaster.cloud/MjEyMjQ/122.html
Clare Copley @clarecopley.bsky.social Historian of Modern European History, currently working on Cold War Berlin.
Author of 'Nazi Buildings, Cold War Traces and Governmentality in Post-unification Berlin'
Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social Historian working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. Advocacy & Academic Engagement Officer at Royal Historical Society. Lecturer in History @ Queen’s College, Oxford. FRHistS. All views my own. 🇨🇦🇱🇰🇬🇧
📧 hannah.elias@royalhistsoc.org
Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social Fiction writer (EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU, LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE, OUR MISSING HEARTS). Science nerd, ex-Clevelander, embarrassingly sincere. Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you. she/her. www.celesteng.com
Kate Wilson @katekatewilson.bsky.social Historian of culture, care, class and the city. Research Associate, Newcastle University.
Dr Esmorie Miller @esmoriemiller.bsky.social Lecturer | Historical Criminologist | Lancaster University | Everyday Exclusions as Penalty | Youth | Justice | Race | Gender | Creative Methods. What did Topsy say to Little Eva?
Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD student (SWWDTP) | Space and feminism in the British Women's Liberation Movement | Virgo | she/her
Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance.
Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh
Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions
agent: @WatsonLittle
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social Professor of Cultural History, Uni of Birmingham. c18th history, letters, body and Mary Toft (the woman who gave birth to rabbits). PI https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/. Webage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/harvey-karen
Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
Dr Emily Cooper @criminographer.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancashire. Geographer. Mum of four (two live in my heart). Tweets child loss, SUDC, PPA2 deficiency, sex work, sextortion/FMSE, fraud, policing, VAWG. #WIASN
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
April Wolfe @aprilwolfe.bsky.social Bette Davis eyes. Make movies. Comb cats. Michigandery. WGA.
Book: BURY ME IN VEGAN LEATHER (Soho Press) May 2027
Caitlin is Tired @looly.bsky.social Bostonian, progressive, proud Jeopardy loser.
Incredibly rude, extremely aggressive, frankly unhinged.
https://abprogressives.beehiiv.com/
Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social Film festival judge & consultant for filmmakers. Sharing my love of cinema. http://imdb.com/name/nm4862196/
#IndieFilm #Filmmaking #FilmFestivals
Patricia Brown @patricialondon.bsky.social Cares about people and cities. Rather allergic to the word "can't"...
Rob Cowan @robcowan.bsky.social Writer, editor, speaker, consultant, cartoonist, illustrator. Author, The Dictionary of Urbanism. Editor, Context. Plandemonium videos. http://robcowan.co.uk
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they