Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Moonsbookshop @moonsbookshop.bsky.social Antiquarian and secondhand bookshop 30,000+ books in stock in Whitehaven West Cumbria. Est. 1970 BIBLIOPHILE!
Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social Editor of The New Comet and the Comet Bulletin for The Norman Nicholson Society: https://www.normannicholson.org/
Dr Rosamund Lily West @rosamundlilywest.bsky.social Lecturer | Historian | Curator
Lecturing @unioftheartslondon and @westdean | PhD on post-war LCC sculpture and housing @KingstonSchArt | Fellow @RoyalHistSoc (she/her)
Graham @lakes-graham.bsky.social Pro EU, Pro Ukraine, Liverpool FC follower, animal lover, like to get out into the mountains when I can.
Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social A semi-retired architectural illustrator, drawing buildings & old stuff to relieve stress. Illustration, art, archaeology, conservation, reading. FSA, Fellow Society of Architectural Illustrators (FSAI). No NFTs.
Matthew Mckeague @memckeague.bsky.social CEO @archhfund.bsky.social | communities, built environment & social infrastructure | interested in all kinds of places | music and running most of the rest of the time
Save Rydal Mount @saverydalmount.bsky.social Keep William Wordsworth’s home open to the public. Www.saverydalmount.org.uk
Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
Caz Graham @cazg.bsky.social Cumbria, farming, scones, hills, radio
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.
Theatre by the Lake @tbtlake.bsky.social Theatre made with passion in an extraordinary place.
Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social Museums, galleries, medieval and Irish literature, folklore, poetry, botany, Cumbrian walks, Oxfam bookstores. Remainer trying to do the right thing in a world that's going/gone off balance. All 📸 mine, unless stated
Iconoscape @iconoscape.bsky.social Iconoscape | Architecture • Design • Culture
Unveiling iconic spaces & untold stories
John @heritagejohn.bsky.social Senior lecturer in planning and the historic environment and course leader of planning apprentices. Interested in all things historic environment and planning, currently writing a PhD on the use of a heritage significance toolkit. Motivated by 🫖 and 🍰
Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social The Society was formed in 2006 to promote, study and discuss the work of the English poet and writer Norman Nicholson who lived in the Cumbrian coastal town of Millom his whole life, 1914 - 1987. Plenty more information at www.normannicholson.org 
Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social Malcolm Shifrin FRHistS—"Victorian Turkish Baths": 'a major act of historical recovery', 'readable', 'scholarly', 'something in it for everyone'. Profusely illustrated. worldcat.org/title/931082056. Complementary website http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
Solvejg Nitzke (sie/she) @nitzkesolvejg.bsky.social Plant-Book-Person, academic with a tree-twist, fern-obsessed
Books: Farne. Ein Portrait @ Matthes und Seitz,
Fremde Verwandtschaft. Eine Kulturpoetik der Bäume @ Wallstein Verlag, Making Kin with Trees @ Palgrave
Julia Aglionby @edenswimmer.bsky.social River Swimmer
Passionate about Uplands and Commons
Your Friendly Neighborhood Pharologist @pharology.bsky.social All things lighthouse-related, with the occasional detour into maritime history, heritage preservation, and related fields, by an indifferent photographer, incorrigible bibliophile, and unlicensed pharologist. Remember -- typo's mean its real!
West Country Modernism @westcountrymodern.bsky.social A journey around mid century modernist buildings in the West Country. By @magslhalliday.bsky.social
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Scottish Society for Northern Studies @northernstudies.bsky.social The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
https://ssns.org.uk
Scottish History Network @scothistnetwork.bsky.social 
Seaside Heritage Network @seasidenetwork.bsky.social Connecting people, groups & businesses who care about the heritage of Britain's seaside resorts.
https://linktr.ee/seasideheritage
Lizziwake @lizziwake.bsky.social All’s well that ends well.
Author of Sketching a Year in Lakeland
(Pub: https://www.inspiredbylakeland.co.uk/collections/books/products/liz-wakelin-sketching-a-year-in-lakeland
Springhead Books @springheadbooks.bsky.social Specialising in cult authors, artists and designers
Simon Ford, former librarian, art historian, art critic
Author: Wreckers of Civilisation (1999) Hip Priest (2002)
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/springhead-books-rochester/54278647/sf
Jim Cheshire @jimchesh.bsky.social Associate Prof. Gothic Revival, Tennyson, stained glass ; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2371-2142;
Co-Director http://www.lincolnconservation.co.uk;
Honorary Secretary, Tennyson Society https://tennysonsociety.com/
@coopster83.bsky.social @coopster83.bsky.social Cultural Heritage Curator | Devon and Cornwall
Art, decorative arts, ceramics, 18th century material culture, historic houses.
Harriet Rycroft @harrietrycroft.bsky.social Notorious for gardening in pots. Author, speaker. Interested in greenery of all sorts
Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic and formerly ABC7 Chicago. Author/photographer of Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side. I dig vintage TV/movies and 20th century funk, soul and jazz.
Heritage Network @heritagenetwork.bsky.social The Heritage Network (formerly Heritage Trust Network) is the UK's umbrella body for organisations that are rescuing, restoring and re-using historic buildings, structures and spaces.
https://heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk
Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
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
https://linktr.ee/bradfordmuseums
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social A bot randomly posting images taken from films made by British Transport Films, a government film unit active from 1949-1986. 3 posts a day. Expect trains.
by bsky.app/profile/joegrassby.bsky.social
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County @nhm.org Inspiring wonder, discovery, and responsibility for our natural and cultural worlds. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily.
💜 http://linktr.ee/nhmla
John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social Wildlife artist and ecologist based in Buckfastleigh, Devon, UK
Helen J @helgaj.bsky.social Community arts, heritage and archaeology. Was on the Thames, now in Cumbria. She/her.
The VictorianSociety - SouthYorkshire @vicsoc-syorks.bsky.social Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian built heritage in South Yorkshire. providng education & campaigning through Talks, Walks & a local quarterly Newsletter.
Working across the cities of Sheffield & Doncaster, and the towns of Barnsley & Rotherham.
Kathleen Jones @kathleengjones.bsky.social I'm an author and poet from the English Lake District. Left wing, passionate environmentalist, hater of bullshit www.kathleenjones.co.uk
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social Historic Buildings Investigator @ Royal Commission Wales | Nonconformist Chapels | C20 Built Heritage | Digital Technologies in Heritage | Countryside & Dogs | O Gymru - Dysgwr | Personal Account
Pete Herring @peteherring.bsky.social Cornish and European landscape archaeologist and historian
Fellwalker @lakelandwalker.bsky.social Hiking the fells of Lakeland, Yorkshire and the North of England.
Grasmere Dialect Plays @grasdialectplays.bsky.social Researching & sharing information about the extraordinary village plays performed in Grasmere from 1893 to 1937. Most were written and produced by Eleanor Rawnsley (nee Simpson); all were in Westmorland dialect. #LakeDistrict #Cumbria #GrasmereDialectPlays
Emily Cole @emilyvcole.bsky.social Senior architectural historian at Historic England. Expert in early modern country houses, C20 pubs and various things in between. FSA. Book on the Woolwich Rotunda forthcoming. Own views.
Zoe Gilbert @lakesandbooks.bsky.social Museum professional, writer, lover of books & outdoors
LL Times/Chicken House 23,
Top 100 Bath Children's Novel Award '24, LL Northern Writers YA '25
X @lakesandbooks
Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social PhD Researcher at Northumbria University
Interests: Environmental History, Transport, Mobility, Built Environment, Tyneside, 20th Century, Oral Histories.
Specialist subject: Metros, Motorways, Modernism and Municipal Ferries
Sarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social Associate Director of Fellowships and Academic Programs, Newberry Library (all views my own). PhD. Victorian Art History, #MaterialCulture, #HistoricLandscapes, those kinds of things. Also @morris-on-screen.bsky.social
David Pott @davidpott.bsky.social Landscape artist living in North West England. I paint the Lake District and The Pennines a lot, and sometimes venture over to Whitby. Website at www.davidpottart.co.uk
Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social 'That bloke that does stiles'; also clouds and general nonsense.
'gradually the sense of disappointment wears away'
Shap, this account, etc
'Diplomatically tight-lipped about fluvial processes'
June Diamond @jjwy.bsky.social Victorian buildings, culture and social history. Preservation and repurposing of built Heritage. Local History. Feminist. Yorkshire. Wensleydale cheese. Trade Unionist.
Ragged Robin @carolineirwin3.bsky.social Passionate about natural history, environment and conservation, visiting historic buildings, churches and gardens. Love reading and photography.
Kirsty Hartsiotis @stroudstory.bsky.social Writer, speaker, storyteller, folklorist and museum curator. Arts and Crafts Movement lover. William Morris fangirl. Church crawler.
Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social Guardian Natural History Writer, author of The Swimmer – the Wild Life of Roger Deakin, Wild Child, Islander, Badgerlands, The Butterfly Isles and a few others. President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Special interests: butterflies, trees, restoring nature.
Bloomsbury Wildlife @chiffchat.bsky.social 📚Natural history from Bloomsbury Publishing
🌳Nature writing, field guides & more
🍃Imprints include Bloomsbury Wildlife, Helm and Poyser
Rebecca Smith @rebeccasmithauthor.bsky.social Writer, journalist.
Rural: The Lives of the Working-Class Countryside out now. Published by William Collins
Beckcsmith.com
David Cooper @drdavidcooper.bsky.social Literary geographer writing about writing about place. Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. 
Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist. Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife Best Books of 2025): https://shorturl.at/PFJPF
MA, PGCE, FBNA, Patron #JohnClare Countryside, Trustee of British Naturalists' Assoc. Rep: Joanna Swainson
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
NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources.
Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment).
linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives
(Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group (SVBRG) @svbrg.bsky.social We record and study historic buildings in the county of Somerset, UK. Events, surveys, research, publications. Established 1979. https://svbrg.org.uk/
Gillian Darley OBE @gmdarksky.bsky.social Writer, reader, perambulator, observer.
www.gilliandarley.com
Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland @theahss.bsky.social www.ahss.org.uk
Speaking For Scotland's Buildings since 1956! Campaigning. Membership. Events.
Lake District Films @lakedistrictfilms.bsky.social Award-winning UK-based documentary filmmaker. As well as documentaries about artists and nature, we have a YouTube channel about walking the 214 Wainwright summits across England's glorious Lake District: Youtube.com/lakedistrictfilms onyvafilms.com
J B Banks & Son Ltd @jbbanks.bsky.social We are a friendly, family run hardware store based in Cockermouth, Cumbria. We've almost 200 years of experience and have a traditional, heritage museum in the back.
https://www.jbbanks.co.uk/
Kim Tillyer - witchmountain @witchmountain.bsky.social Artist, illustrator and part time bookseller at Sam Read Bookseller, Grasmere. Author of Beginner's Guide to #Cyanotype - Search Press 2024
witchmountain.co.uk
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
Ben Cowell, Historic Houses @bencowell.bsky.social Director general, Historic Houses. Author, The British Country House Revival (2024).
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Charles Holland @charlesjholland.bsky.social Architect
Professor at UCA, Canterbury
Principal at Charles Holland Architects
Cruck Cottage @cruckcottage.bsky.social Historic cottage museum in the village of Torthorwald, near Dumfries. Last remaining example in the south of Scotland of a once common building type, now cared for by volunteers. We explore rural history, folklore, and traditions.
www.cruckcottage.com
ScottishCinemas.org @scottishcinemas.org Visit http://www.scottishcinemas.org for 1000s of current & archive pictures of 100s of cinemas across Scotland.
Run by @GordonBarr.scot and
@garypainter74.bksy.social
since 2001.
Niall Murphy @murphyniallgla.bsky.social If you are interested in architecture, urbanism and conservation issues in Glasgow, Scotland, then follow me. I’m Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, Chair of Govanhill Baths BPT a Trustee of BEFS and Co-chair of the Glasgow Built Heritage Commission.
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social Celebrating Scotland's rich culture and built heritage since 1978. We preserve, promote and protect Scotland's unique assemblage of ecclesiastical buildings.
https://www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/
Ed Henderson @dredhenderson.bsky.social Mostly historic buildings but also occasional landscapes of North Cumbria.
Daniel Ratcliffe-Shutt @daniel.statement-heritage.com Historic buildings and landscape archaeologist, working for a living as www.statement-heritage.com . Ruins and their repair, maritime, industrial and agricultural heritage. Aerial photographer. Intertidal deposit.
Craig Frew @frewconservation.bsky.social Historic building consultancy & training. Based in Fife 🏴 working anywhere with old buildings. IHBC HESPR. www.frewconservation.co.uk
Julie Coldwell @livingtlol.bsky.social An English lakes dweller. Into long distance solo cycle touring. Walking, photography and writing. Currently working on regaining good health! 🚴♀️🏕️
https://livingthislifeoutloudblog.wordpress.com/
Instagram.com/livingthislifeoutloud
Colin Glover @colin-glover.bsky.social Culture, heritage, the arts and nature. Director at Carlisle Matters. Trustee Tullie Museum and Art Gallery Carlisle and Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life. Former leader at Carlisle City Council.
Mark Hammond @mark00h.bsky.social Architect | #BuildingConservation | #Heritage | #Culture | #Bicycle | #Kayak | Old Classics | Found up ladders | Director @caroearchitecture | Insta: @mark.00h | SW London | UK
Alex Woodcock @beakheads.bsky.social Writer, artist, and former cathedral stonemason. King of Dust published by Little Toller Books out now.
MD ANT.
www.alexwoodcock.co.uk
Gritstone Publishing @gritstonebooks.bsky.social Gritstone Publishing Cooperative is Britain’s first publishing company which is an author-run co-operative. We publish non-fiction and fiction titles relating to the landscape and the countryside. 
Hen Lockhart @archivewhg.bsky.social Curator at Winterbourne House and Garden, Birmingham, posting about collections, archives, The Winterbourne Press, University of Birmingham Herbarium www.winterbourne.org.uk
Mark Payne @markpayne.bsky.social Greetings from Cumbria - mostly posting my own photographs, or re-posting other stuff I like - short story writer, short song writer, lapsed Physicist
Nigel Thompson @nigelthompson.bsky.social 🎤🎧Journalist and podcaster
Writing, recording and walking.
🔗Nigel-Thompson.co.uk
Lancashire, Cumbria, North Yorkshire
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
@lynncorrigan.bsky.social @lynncorrigan.bsky.social Clyde-built. Recovered shambrarian, monger of metadata and fettler of systems. Genealogy/Local history. Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.
Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, curator
Editor: recessed.space
Teaching: UCL Bartlett
Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer
Probs won't chat to faceless/anon/troll profiles
Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social This iconic 1934 apartment block was once home to emigré Bauhaus masters, Agatha Christie, Soviet spies, and more. Open from March to the end of November, 11 am - 4 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, and on the last Friday of each month. https://isokongallery.org/
MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Committed to the daily re-imagining of what a university press can be since 1962.
Website: https://mitpress.mit.edu
The Reader (our home for excerpts, essays, & interviews): https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
MIT Press Direct: https://direct.mit.edu/
Paul Dobraszczyk @pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social Magpie architectural writer and image maker. 'The Matter of Architecture: Geology, Buildings and Us' out soon with Reaktion Books. www.ragpickinghistory.co.uk
Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social Formerly an architect, academic and software peep. Now advocating for media literacy and responsible GenAI in HE. Northerner: border collie & brass band lover. Trombone learner (still). Here to learn not argue. Thinking round corners.
Landscape Research @landscaperesearch.bsky.social Landscape Research Group produces and supports research into all aspects of landscape across all boundaries. Posting here as both LRG & our peer-reviewed journal Landscape Research.
https://linktr.ee/landscape.research
https://www.tandfonline.com/journal