James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Duncan Laird @dlaird78.bsky.social Bringing forgotten places back to life - https://www.rewovenplaces.org/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/duncan-laird-20002524/
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Grace Murray @mazinggrace.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Birkbeck, working on plant-writing in c16th London 🌷
Also: print culture | marginalia | recipe books | practical knowledge in early modern England ⚙️
Alex Prichard @profalexp.bsky.social Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (https://tinyurl.com/54r98nv6), Constitutionalising Anarchy with Ruth Kinna (https://tinyurl.com/4y9pn3v4 coming soon). Uni Exeter, UCU, HEC Rep. UCU Commons. DM me re anything UCU UK-wide HE. I’m your rep. #ynwa
Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social Lecturer in Archaeology at UHI. PI of the Prehistoric Policies project, unpicking narratives of Deep Time Heritage in Just Transition policy. Beyond that, I do sound, antlers, craft & masks in Early European Prehistory. Based in Orkney.
Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority.
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
Gender Cynical @gendercynical.bsky.social 🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 The Bluesky feed for the Gender Cynical subreddit. A satirical perspective on TERF hypocrisy and trans-exclusionary views, highlighting contradictions in anti-trans arguments through humor and critique. Pro-trans, anti-bigotry. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈
DisMember @dismember.co.uk http://dismember.co.uk/
Hansard: Cheat Mode Activated
Everything interesting MPs said since 2010, easily searchable, sortable, sliceable.
We also uncover interesting moments from the entirety of parliamentary history and share them regularly here.
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social CUNY prof. Historian of, and advocate for, student organizing. @studentactivism from Twitter.
@pdwordsworth.bsky.social @pdwordsworth.bsky.social 
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social Astrobiologist, Author, Musician. 👽🎸❤️🚀
Sagan Medalist, PEN winner, AAAS fellow.
Former Senior Scientist for Astrobiology Strategy at NASA.
There’s an asteroid named after me (22410 Grinspoon) which is better than having one with your name on it…
Sophie Hall @sophlouisehall.bsky.social Boltonian in London. Garlic bread! ✨ A silly billy!
COMEDY: https://sophlouisehall.medium.com
SUBSTACK ABOUT BEST BITS OF POP SONGS: https://sophiehall.substack.com
Tom Railton @tomrailton.bsky.social Head of Comms and Politics at Prospect union. Mainly politics and Newcastle United on here.
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social We expose all forms of racism and fascism in Ireland and further afield. 
Paul Ryer @paulryer.bsky.social Ethnographer of Cuba and its diasporas, based at the School for Advanced Research, in Santa Fe, NM. Host of "In Context with SAR" podcast.
Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social Writer and independent feminist scholar
Queer person of colour
#FreePalestine
Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
Dr Beccy Scott @beccyscottuk.bsky.social Woman of Kent | recovering Curator | Wessex Archaeology| Neanderthal-botherer | Akela | submerged landscapes, paths and tracks | #IceAgeIsland #archaeology #palaeolithic
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social Reprinted Old Ordnance Survey Maps across Britain & Ireland introduced by specialist authors.
https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/
USA sales - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/alangodfreymaps?_trksid=p2334524.m570.l113337
#CombatCartography #MatchMap
John Hoopes @jwhoopes2.bsky.social Anthropologist. Archaeologist.
https://hoopes.academia.edu/
I’m not here to try and change your mind. I’m here to let other people who think as I do know they’re not alone. Be kind. Love one another.
Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social An accredited Tour Guide providing tours of London by licensed taxi; also bespoke walking tours in the City of London. Liveryman & Past Master Parish Clerk.
Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social Antifa goat farm and beer garden in Field Store (Houston) Texas. We used to make cheese and trouble, but we no longer make cheese.
Buy stuff: https://blueheronfarmcajeta.com/
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
McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net The official Bluesky feed of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, & McSweeney's Books.
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Miatta Fahnbulleh @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Peckham
Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities
Miatta.fahnbulleh.mp@parliament.uk
Curator Rob @curatorrob.bsky.social Museums, Archaeology, Romans, Corduroy
All views are my wife's
#SundayHuxley
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.
We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
Cambridge University Press - Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org The latest research in Archaeology from @universitypress.cambridge.org
cambridge.org/archaeology
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social Edinburgh, dragged along by a spaniel 🐕
Latest book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/europe-in-the-eleventh-century-9780198860235?cc=gb&lang=en&
Univ. website: https://edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/charles-west
depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social hi i'm @annierau.bsky.social i love wikipedia! dm submissions if you want :-)
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
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Justin Myers @theguyliner.bsky.social Author, journalist, and Guardian Blind Date superfan. A body like Arnold with a Denzel face. (he/him)
theguyliner.com
theguyliner.substack.com
Hannah Wickes @hannahwickes.bsky.social Studying History & Archaeology of the Highlands & Islands at UHI. Non-Exec Director for Fair Tax Foundation, UK Community Foundations and Impress: the media regulator. Advisor @ Creatives for Climate. She/Her.
Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social be inspired or be DESTROYED
@skeletor@mas.to
'Rewilding' Later Prehistory Project @rewildarch.bsky.social UKRI project led by Anwen Cooper, exploring 'the wild' in Bronze & Iron Age Britain. Oxford Archaeology with University of Oxford, Historic England, Archaeology Data Service, Knepp Estate & University of Exeter. https://rewilding.oxfordarchaeology.com
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social Director of the Public Good Narrative Project. Served as a Director at the UN, Oxfam, ActionAid & Save the Children. Fellow at Bellagio, Notre Dame & Bosch. Wrote How to Fight Inequality. Writing a new book.
DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social ERC-funded project on the sexual exploitation of people enslaved within the households of the greater Mediterranean world, AD 300-900. Hosted by
@uniofleicester
https://www.dosseproject.com
Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social Writer, feminist.
Out now: Feminism for a World on Fire (Virago)
Previous books: Living Dolls, Before the Light Fades, A Quiet Life
Hon Professor Centre for Climate Justice, QMUL
Founder Women for Refugee Women
natashawalter.co.uk
Claudia Kinmonth MRIA FSA @claudiakinmonth.bsky.social Author of books with Yale University Press & of 'Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000' @corkup.bsky.social ... Board Member @nmireland.bsky.social ... @ria.ie ... green optimist
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
@tag26exeter.bsky.social @tag26exeter.bsky.social 
Ancient History 101 Podcast @ancienthistory101.org A podcast all about the Ancient Mediterranean world hosted by @belovedofoizys.bsky.social
Info: www.ancienthistory101.org
Donate: https://ko-fi.com/ancienthistory101
Merch: https://www.redbubble.com/people/AncHist101/shop?asc=u
Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social Ancient Historian in the UK.🇵🇸
📖'Gladiators in the Greek World'
Host of @AncientHistory101.org
ADHD + ClusterC. Sweary.
Expect typos.
Birkbeck and Leicester alum
www.ancientalexandra.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/alexandrasills
Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
Adrie van der Luijt @traumainformedcontent.com Senior Content Designer & Strategist specialising in trauma-informed content. Dutchman living in France, working in London. Passionate about AI’s impact on career and workplace, diversity 🏳️🌈 and creating content that truly serves people. Dog owner.
Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social We are a UK-wide educational charity that helps champion and promote participation in archaeology. We run the Young Archaeologists’ Clubs and the annual Festival of Archaeology. Join us to help shape the future of archaeology.
https://www.archaeologyuk.org
Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social Green MP for Bristol Central.
Former Co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
Engineer. Bi 🏳🌈. She/Her.
Need to get in touch?
📧 carla.denyer.mp@parliament.uk
https://linktr.ee/carladenyer
James Taylor @archaeo-james.bsky.social Archaeologist and Lecturer @University of York. Neolithic Greece and Turkey and beyond, digital methods, GIS, fieldwork, and the creative mess of turning trenches, data, and drawings into knowledge of the past.
A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social Exploring London's history starting with my father's photos from 1946, to the present day.
https://alondoninheritance.com/
Marcus Mauney @marcusmauney.bsky.social Scribbler. Working on Prosopography in the 3rd Century Roman Empire. Late Roman Empire/Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages enjoyer. North Carolina expat in California. Appalachian and old man undergrad.
Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social Author of Dark PR: How corporate disinformation undermines our health and the Environment, 2023, Daraja Press. Read it here: http://tinyurl.com/bookdarkpr
Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social A new communications-focussed collaboration launched to champion the truth and fight disinformation about how to make better cities for people. Formed by @brenttoderian.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @grantennis.bsky.social.
www.UrbanTruthCollective.com
Museum of British Colonialism @museumofbc.bsky.social Transnational network confronting British colonialism UK, Kenya, and beyond. http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/ourblog http://museumofbritishcolonialism.org/support
Jenny Andrew @drandrewv2.bsky.social Trade union nerd.
Chronically fatigued.
No patience for long bios.
@wennergrenorg.bsky.social @wennergrenorg.bsky.social Supporting anthropology worldwide.
https://wennergren.org/
Carla Francome @carlafrancome.bsky.social Cycle campaigner and comms professional • Former TV Producer • Award-winning cycle campaigner • Former clown, expect jokes.
Steve Thomas @stevetprospect.bsky.social Deputy General Secretary, representing Prospect members in the public sector and leading our national organising team.
TUFC lifer and community investor.
Hannah Moots @mootspoints.bsky.social Archaeology & ancient DNA 🧬
Mobility, kinship & identity in the ancient Mediterranean 🏺
Ice Age communities of central Europe 🧊
Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social Miami Herald Investigative journalist, author of "Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story." Philly girl trying to make my way in the South Florida wilderness. Temple Owl. Jkbjournalist on Substack.
Build Like a Roman - Podcast @buildlikearoman.bsky.social A podcast which focuses on how the Romans built, the materials they used and those who did the work.
https://apple.co/4fi4Fus
https://open.spotify.com/show/3keRSIipuoxRkagDXSMkmp
https://www.patreon.com/collection/1982437
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Harry Fokkens @harryfokkens.bsky.social Em. Professor of European Prehistory at Leiden Universty.
Interested in the cultural transformations in the 3rd Millennium BCE
Mayor of London's Culture team @ldnculture.bsky.social Working to support London’s culture, creative industries and night time economy. Sign up to our Culture Newsletter and follow #LondonCreates | #MyLocalCulture.
https://www.london.gov.uk/programmes-strategies/arts-and-culture/sign-arts-and-culture-email-up
Cath Haddon @cathhaddon.bsky.social Senior Fellow @instituteforgov.bsky.social
+ history, Whitehall geekiness and constitutional agony aunt Subscribe to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/3dxiJ5J
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Alex Ingram @nutty.bsky.social Free range nerd in Sydenham, Lewisham, London, England, Earth. (He/Him)
Trying to fix climate, environment, streets, housing and harvest tomatoes.
Regional Studies Association @regstud.bsky.social Supporting and connecting researchers and policy-makers engaged in regional analysis and research. We're mostly on BlueSky now.
www.regionalstudies.org/
Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social Cartoonist for The New Yorker
Archaeo-CNC @cncipolla.bsky.social Anthro prof. & director of Tufts Archaeology. Former curator. Author of some things, most recently Archaeology for Today & Tomorrow. Interested in hist. #archaeology, #collaboration, #theory, #writing. Also: #dogs & #skateboards. Views my own. He/him/his.
Shit Planning @planningshit.bsky.social A celebration of all the Shit Stuff imposed on our environment. Perpetrated by Architects, Planners, Surveyors, Engineers & other environmental ne’er do wells.
Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social Reporter | eoinhiggins@gmail.com | Signal: eoinhiggins.413
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/eoin-higgins/owned/9781645030461/
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
Council for Global Anthropological Linguistics @theglocal.bsky.social This is the official profile of The GLOCAL,The global council for Anthropological Linguistics
Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social Environmental Historian of Modern Britain | Heatwaves, Overheating & Environmental Change | Cities, Urban Childhoods & Play | Heritage, Public Engagement & Policy
Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social YOU MUST TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF IF YOU WANT TO VANQUISH YOUR ENEMIES. I WILL HELP. (by @nora.zone, icon by Delapouite at https://game-icons.net)
Matthew Roberts @matqbritholiday.bsky.social 4th year PhD (part-time). Presenting at Gulliver's Travels at 300. The Global Afterlives of a Bestseller in Print, Transmedial Adaptations, and Material Cultures (Seventh ILLUSTR4TIO International Symposium, London. 23rd-24th Sept 2026.
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
cbnewham @parishchurches.org FSA. Author. Photographer. IT specialist.
Church architecture & contents.
If you want to know what churches are open during the day then get my Keyholder for Parish Churches app (Android and Apple).
Bio:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Newham
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social News for the 99%. ON-THE-GROUND and investigative reporting covering stories the corporate media COVERS UP | https://statuscoup.com/join
Women’s Classical Committee UK @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social 🏛️ Supporting women and non-binary people in Classics
🏛️ Enhancing studies of women within antiquity
🏛️ Advancing equality & diversity in classics
Ally Lester @cogenthippo.bsky.social Writer and reader of fiction -- history, sff, romance, thrillers. Interested in sustainability, rewilding, growing things. Knitter, early tech adopter, parent, spouse, disabled.
They/them. Also writes as Frances Fox. https://lnk.bio/gjD5 🏳️🌈 ✒️ 🏳️⚧️
Brendan @brendanbbcp.bsky.social Midwest Archaeologist.
Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social Archaeologist and researcher in island cultures, because there's no better place to work than islands #wedoislands 
Ana @vnvsm.bsky.social Archaeologist looking at landscape and labour; inter cuprum et capram. A bit too into theory, a bit too into maps.
Tulsi Parikh @tulsiparikh.bsky.social Research fellow in archaeology at the BSA. Lecturer at CYA. Greece, outreach, and migrant rights.
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Emily Tour @touremily.bsky.social Early career archaeologist ⛏️ PhD candidate at University of Melbourne🏺 Obsessed with scripts, tablets and sealings 📜 Dabbling in all things digital, including 3D modelling, GMM, phylogenetics and machine learning 🤖 (she/they)
Alan chaplin @alanchaplin.bsky.social Long time pensions professional. Trying to make them better; usually failing. This time it’s different
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.