Edlad @purseyboy.bsky.social Professional Northerner, skibum, cyclist; do health tech to pay for it all. Still hate Thatcher; FTT. YNWA
Sarah Ditum @sarahditum.bsky.social Writer, Sunday Times (and UnHerd and the Critic)
TOXIC: WOMEN, FAME AND THE NOUGHTIES out 26 October https://www.amazon.co.uk/Toxic-Sarah-Ditum-ebook/dp/B09ZT37CVW
Marcus Aurelius @marcusaurelius2026.bsky.social Emperor of Rome by inheritance. Stoic by choice.
I kept a private journal specifically so that nobody would read it. That has gone about as well as you can see.
If you give excellent advice and take none of it: mypeeps.ai
Queen Mary University of London @qmul.bsky.social Queen Mary University of London is one of the UK's leading research universities, a place where difference leads to greatness.
Wolfson Foundation @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social Independent grant-making charity offering funding across the fields of education, science, culture and health.
Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
#FundedByYou
Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
BOB @thebobster420.bsky.social thebobproject@pm.me
twins with @jade42069.bsky.social
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
WILDsound Writing Festival @wildsoundwriting.bsky.social Daily deadlines for poetry, short stories, screenplays, stage plays, and novels.
Links to submit via sites and submittable: www.novelwritingfestival.com
Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social Minister for Women & Equalities.
Chair of the Labour Party.
Proud MP for Houghton & Sunderland South.
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
Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social Inequality Economist, former trader and author of The Trading Game. Other Economists make predictions, but my ones are actually right.
https://linktr.ee/garysecon
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Anne-Marie Creamer @amcreamer.bsky.social Exploring the interstitial spaces of #Artist-Researcher-Patient. Or, knowing from the body’s edge lands
Dear Friend -Soane Museum
R&D 🗣️Ghostbodies
IRL-Lived Experience Lab UAL
Better Making CSM
EURORDIS xERDERA Open Academy
https://amcreamer.net
Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social A better tax system that benefits everyone in the UK. Sister organisation of @taxjusticenet.bsky.social
https://taxjustice.uk/
Andrew Haglington @andrewhaglington.bsky.social #Author #Scifi #Fantasy 📚 Andrew Haglington
#Environment #Climate #SocialNetworking
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social UK news and World Politics. We support the #Labour Party 🌹, Pluralism 🗣️🏛️, #Liberty 🗽, #Equality ⚖️, #Solidarity ✊️ and #Prosperity 💸. Threads @: https://www.threads.com/@dailyherald24
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Equity @equityuk.bsky.social We are the UK performing arts and entertainment trade union, made up of 50,000 performers and creative practitioners. Together we push for better pay, terms and conditions in the workplace.
www.equity.org.uk
Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social 🌏 Community initiative to fight the billionaire economy in favour of smaller & more ethical businesses
🤖 Starting with Big Tech
🔥 Join the movement!
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The Associated Press @apnews.com Advancing the power of facts, globally 🌎
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Republic @republiccampaign.bsky.social Republic campaigns to abolish the British monarchy in favour of a democratic republic. Join us today: http://republic.org.uk/join
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Max Wilkinson MP @maxwilkinson.bsky.social MP for Cheltenham
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Home Affairs
Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social Excited to announce A NEW LIVE TOUR!
The End of The World According to Jonathan Pie
Tickets ON SALE NOW from JonathanPie.com
Dr Danny Penman @drdannypenman.bsky.social Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' & 'Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World.' www.franticworld.com @DrDannyPenman
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
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)
Dr Karin Schrader @karina42.bsky.social Independent scholar, #portrait enthusiast, book-jazz-tea-choc addict #EarlyModern #C18th #histgender #materialculture #miniature #haiku #photography
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
History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
You can find us at other places, here: https://linktr.ee/historyofparliament
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Martin Nicholls @martinnicholls.bsky.social Creative director, The New World. Centrist - possibly. Dad - definitely.
Historical Novel Society @histnovsoc.bsky.social For historical fiction readers and writers across the world.
Starting to post here, but volunteer-led and still juggling The Other Place and Facebook, so thank you for your patience!
Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social Pissing off billionaires one small action at a time. Get involved ⬇️
https://bio.link/everyonehateselon
IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social Newly on 🦋! A long standing seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. We’re interested in all perspectives on the society, culture and belief of the early modern period. https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800 
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
Oxford 18th-Century Literature & Culture @oxford18thc.bsky.social Eighteenth-Century Literature & Culture Research Seminar, run by the Faculty of English, University of Oxford. All welcome!
Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social University of Cambridge’s workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century | Providing opportunities for postgraduate students to present papers at the University of Cambridge's History Faculty
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-long-eighteenth-century
CECS PG Forum @cecspgforum.bsky.social 🪭showcasing postgrad research on all aspects of the long 18th century 📍Uni of York @cecs-york.bsky.social
Follow us on IG: cecspgforum
Sign up to our mailing list: https://linktr.ee/cecspgrforum 
Warwick EMECC @emeccwarwick.bsky.social The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social Deputy political editor, Financial Times. Also amateur iphone photographer and some-time musician.
Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social Don't hate the media - change the media. We're engaging with advertisers to make media hate unprofitable.
💌Let's make hate cost more: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-hate
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social One of the Daily Telegraph 50 Funniest Comedians of the 21st Century (49th). Also an author. And producer. And a whole life away from work if you can imagine.
The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the history of the Lords, Parliament and society across the 'long 18th century'.
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
https://historyofparliament.com/the-georgian-lords/
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social 18th/19th C. Literature and History: Poetry, Nature, Science, Medicine, and Emotion 🌿✨
Lover of Romanticism, Fantasy, Folklore, and the Gothic 🖤🥀
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Books and Bones @books-and-bones.bsky.social • Historian for 18th-century theatre, natural acting style, gender, history of Hamburg
• Provenance research on Nazi-looted cultural goods
Captanne @captanne.bsky.social NAFO fella, Prof historian, Veteran, ret military pilot C-12/5/22/21, JD from CUA, PhD from G’town. Native Washingtonian (DC). Opinions wholly, entirely and absolutely my own. I don’t interact during working hours. 
Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social Anonymous opinions written by YOU - sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and often niche. Edited by @robmanuel.b3ta.com - add yours: https://bit.ly/addanonopin
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social Forty-year veteran of British leftwing politics. Not the opinions of any publication for which I write.
Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social Writer/reader/speaker/music lover/book reviewer (NPR, Locus, etc)/freelancer/photographer/PhD. Words in many places. I want to do all the things, so invite me!
https://linktr.ee/gabinoiglesias
Melina Namdar @melinanamdar.bsky.social Director | Writer | Facilitator & Dramaturg |
Stage & Screen | 🇮🇷🇬🇧 |
Rep’d by Berlin Associates
ملینا نامدار
#WomanLifeFreedom
http://linktr.ee/melinanamdar
Antony Hook @antonyhook.bsky.social Leader of the Official Opposition at Kent County Council. Liberal Democrat. Ex-MEP.
Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social Seminar for the history of Europe and the world 1500-1800 the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Mondays at 17:30
See our programme: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/european-history-1500-1800
Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social Tag us with feminist philosophy events/pubs/CFPs and we'll spread the word!
FEAST is a home and community for feminist philosophy and feminist social theory since 2001. Intersectional, decolonial, interdisciplinary. posts by @calebw.bsky.social
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social One of the UK's largest academic libraries for arts, humanities & social sciences. 2 million books, 50 special collections & 1,800 archives 📚
https://linktr.ee/senatehouselibrary
Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social The literary prize rewarding mould-breaking fiction, launched and run by Goldsmiths UoL in association with the New Statesman
https://www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-prize/
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social News, stories, opportunities, and occasional memes from the National Trust's Research Team. You're welcome to contact us at research@nationaltrust.org.uk.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social The Revels Office is a friendly and supportive virtual academic network for PGR and ECR scholars of all things early modern! Head to our website for more info on what we do: https://revelsoffice.com
Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social Professor of Humanities, QMUL | Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford | General Editor of the OUP Letters of William Godwin | Writer on the edge | Northumbrian | Trainspotter | website: pamelaclemit.wordpress.com
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science 👁️ https://olivia.science
🍃 https://metatheory.space
associate professor of computational cognitive science · she/they · cypriot/kıbrıslı/κυπραία · σὺν Ἀθηνᾷ καὶ χεῖρα κίνει
Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social Showcases research in long nineteenth-century studies. Housed in the School of English @ Manchester Metropolitan University.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk Artist, animator, utter nonsense. Don't believe a word except when I'm being serious. Did that gif once, those noseflags and other stuff.
HappyToast.co.uk
patreon.com/HappyToast
redbubble.com/people/HappyToast/explore
https://ko-fi.com/happytoast 
British Association for Romantic Studies ECRs & Postgraduates @bars-ecrs-pgrs.bsky.social British Association for Romantic Studies Early-Career & Postgraduate account. Posting news of interest to @bars.bsky.social members/followers. Admin: PGR/ECR Officers.
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
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Pixelpollen @pixelpollen.bsky.social Cat Whisperer.
The Great British Sewing Bee @sewingbee.bsky.social Nothing to do with bees. Everything to do with sewing.
Posts by Love Productions.
https://linktr.ee/sewingbee
Eleanor Fielding @meownersclub.bsky.social ‘We’re driving in the dark with our sunglasses on!”
#RLS #ME #PEM
Retired lecturer/therapist
Open University, CCCS B’ham, feminism, politics, culture, disability, science, music, languages. Woke AF
meownersclub@bsky.social
Maker of #FanningTheFlames
Dr Grace A Nagle @graceanagle.bsky.social Artist | The Courtauld Research Forum | Contemporary Art, Feminism, Spiritualism, Occultism & Magick. All my own views.
Birmingham/London
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
Website: https://helennewsomechandler.wordpress.com
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Dr Emma Pearce @emma-pearce98.bsky.social Art historian | Lecturer in Design History at Glasgow School of Art | PhD on tartan and colonial identity in the 18th c Atlantic 🌎 | currently working on: colonial masculinity + animal-material culture 🐋 | BSECS ECR rep | she/her
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities