SixMillionWords @sixmillionwords.bsky.social Learning a language is a joy meant for humans.
Enjoying outdoors, hiking, nature. Exploring cultures.
Bodleian Art, Archaeology, and Ancient World Library @bodartlib.bsky.social All things Classics, Egyptology & Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Archaeology, and History of Art & Architecture. Part of the Bodleian Libraries.
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Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections.
https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
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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.
Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social New VBP quiz book bit.ly/3DkBcgi: VBP books, tops, cards, calendars & contact: bit.ly/3mWIF9S. Buy me a tea: ko-fi.com/robtemple
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social Weโre the national library of the UK.
Cumbria @cumbriauk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Cumbria, UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
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Alan Cleaver @postalpathsguy.bsky.social Author of books on UK footpaths. My book, Postal Paths, is due out April 2025 detailing the route used by rural postmen and women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. I live in Cumbria, UK. Follow me if you love walking footpaths. https://linktr.ee/postalpaths
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social New book The Place of Tides (Allen Lane) now in all good bookshops
Jhenah Telyndru @ynysafallon.bsky.social MA, Celtic Studies | Priestess, Author, Educator | Founder of the Sisterhood of Avalon | Awenydd Druid in the Anglesey Druid Order | She/Her | /๐\
#pagansky #druidsky #witchsky #occultsky #booksky #mythology #folklore
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Newyddion S4C @newyddion.s4c.cymru Y newyddion aโr straeon gorau o Gymru a'r Byd. Os oes gennych chi stori, cysylltwch รขโr tรฎm ๐ป๐ฑโก๏ธ newyddion@s4c.cymru
Kristoffer Hughes @kristofferhughes.bsky.social Chief of the Anglesey Druid Order, award winning author of 9 books and designer of 3 Tarot decks. BAFTA and RTS winning television presenter.
For Reading Addicts @forreadingaddicts.bsky.social British bibliophiles brilliantly babbling 'bout books, bookshops, bookshelves!
Nick Barlow @nickbwalking.bsky.social Writer, walker, Who and Wolves fan. Lives in Whitehaven. Lots of other things that don't begin with W. https://linktr.ee/nickbarlow He/him
Avatar: Me (50ish man with greying hair and beard) on a mountain top with my dog Dougal
Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Posts from @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social Insta: samreadbookseller Browse a selection from our virtual shelves: www.samreadbooks.co.uk
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet ๐
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org Public Access to Public Data is a Public Good. We want to ensure our data are not gone forever. Read more about our efforts: https://www.datarescueproject.org/press/
Suzanne Steiner @suzsteiner.bsky.social Fan and creator of images. Lover of California. Sometimes runs with scissors.
KB @sorrykb.myatproto.social she/her
Completely amateur photographer and dilettante birder in Los Angeles
Refugees welcome.
Transphobic garbage blocked.
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The Mincing Mockingbird @mincingmockingbird.com Pretty/funny provisions. ๐ฆ
KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social Los Angeles, CA based grassroots org of dedicated volunteers/fundraisers/rapid response social media network for VP Kamala Harris.
Kamalanation.com
Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social Geoffrey Chaucer (Le Vostre GC): Servaunt of the Kynge. Blogger. Wryter of verse. Wearer of litel woolen hatte. Deputy Forestere of North Petherton. He/hym/hys.
California Rare Book School @calrbs.bsky.social California Rare Book School is a continuing education program dedicated to providing the requisite knowledge and skills for the rare book and library community. More info: https://linktr.ee/calrbs
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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The Carpentries @carpentries.carpentries.org The Carpentries: Software Carpentry, Data Carpentry and Library Carpentry. An open global community teaching the skills and perspectives to turn data into knowledge
UCLA Film & Television Archive @uclaftvarchive.bsky.social A unit of UCLA Library. Dedicated to preserving moving image history. The second-largest archive of original film and television materials in the U.S. FREE screenings at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum ๐ฝ cinema.ucla.edu
UCLA Library @uclalibrary.bsky.social Driving world-class research, groundbreaking discoveries and innovation across twelve UCLA campus locations or 24/7 online ๐๐๐ library.ucla.edu
Stephen G. Rae @stephengrae.bsky.social Writer of folklore at The FolkLore Press; Druid and Storyteller alias the Bard of Cumberland; contemporary artist; filmmaker at Land of Lore Films; Haiku poet.
Wild Lakeland @wildlakeland.bsky.social Ecology | Botany | Conservation | Grasslands | Wetlands | Trees... ๐ฟ ๐ ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ชป
Capturing the Lake District and beyond through the changing seasons.
๐Northern Lake District, Cumbria
www.wildlakeland.com
enquiries@wildlakeland.co.uk
Cumbria Wildlife Trust @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social We're a conservation charity dedicated to protecting nature in Cumbria. Become a member today to support wildlife and wild places! ๐ฟ๏ธ๐ฑ๐
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Friends of the Lake District @friendsoflakes.bsky.social The only membership organisation dedicated to protecting and enhancing Cumbria's landscapes. Join us today. www.friendsofthelakedistrict.org.uk
Thanks to John Macfarlane for providing us with our banner image.
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Countrystride podcast @countrystride.bsky.social www.countrystride.co.uk - celebrating the landscapes, culture, heritage and people of Cumbria and the Lake District.
Produced by David Felton and presented by Mark Richards
Waterstones @waterstones.bsky.social All about the books
Pre-Raphaelite Society @preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social The Pre-Raphaelite Society is the international society for the study and appreciation of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and its followers. #PreRaphaeliteSociety
https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May โ25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Jane Austen First Drafts @austen1stdrafts.bsky.social All Jane Austen, all the Jane Austime. She/Her
linktr.ee/austen1stdrafts
A Guide To Regency Dress @austendress.bsky.social A glossary of fashions inc. men, women, hair, beauty, jewellery, textiles and trimmings.
Books-
Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion, 2019
Jane Austen's Wardrobe, 2023
By Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social, published by @YaleBooks London
Lake District Foundation @lakesfoundation.bsky.social We are the charity for the Lake District.
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social Sharing information about archaeology at National Trust places across England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Bookends of Carlisle & Keswick @bookendscarlisle.bsky.social Indie bookshops, family owned & run by Lucy; one mega-sized in Carlisle, t'other tiny-ish in Keswick + Cumbrian titles & signed editions at www.bookscumbria.com. + partners in Words by the Water festival in Keswick [Mar12-15 in 26]
Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is โAn A-Z of Beatrix Potterโ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for โMA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake Districtโ at Ambleside.
Tara Kerin, PhD @tarakerin.bsky.social Pediatric infectious disease epidemiologist at UCLA. Two rescue mutts own my life now. I also enjoy outdoor pursuits and cell phone towers disguised as trees. Here for the science. All opinions are my own of course, and facts are just... facts. #episky
Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social independent journalist, thehandbasket.co
email: marisa@thehandbasket.co
signal: marisakabas.04
Women Hold Up Half The Sky @womenarepowerful.bsky.social Nurturing, sustaining and encouraging the passionate engagement of human beings to improve the world by ensuring the human rights of all people.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Theprogressive โ๏ธ @treadres.bsky.social Sustainability advocate โ Progressive voice โ Environmental Activist.
Aelith Loves Art ๐ฃ @aelith4ever.bsky.social "To be happy is to be liberated from the distractions of desire." - Spinoza
โ๐จ Lover of art & all things beautiful
โ๐ฑ Dedicated to reducing suffering
โ
Goal 40k followers ๐๐น๐น
Matt Haig @matthaig.bsky.social The Midnight Train is coming.
Jake Jaramillo @jakejaramillo.bsky.social 
Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social Director & Writer | IDENTITEAZE film | YouTuber | former writer/video producer at Gamespot, The Advocate, Microsoft, Out Magazine, Rotten Tomatoes, & Skybound | Trekkie by birth
https://www.jessieearl.com/
South Wales Pagans @southwalespagans.bsky.social Pagan events and information for South and Mid Wales UK. Advocate for pagans, witches, druids, heathens and other like minded folk.
#PaganMoot #PaganEvent #PaganSky #WitchSky
Neurdivergent ally. A safe space.
โค๏ธ๐งก๐๐๐๐๐ค๐ค๐ค
There may be cats. ๐
Mickie || The Liminal Witch @theliminalwitch.bsky.social Welsh Hedge Witch & Weaver ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
๐ธ Witchcraft | High Strangeness | Paranormal | Welsh Folklore
๐ถ Liminal Songstress & Liminal Magic
Welsh Myth and Legend and Magic @mythwelsh.bsky.social Mytholeg Cymreig. Welsh myth, legend, folklore and magic beyond the Mabinogion. Quite a huge dose of Welsh magic to be honest with you. Twitter profile was @mythwelsh
Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social Celtic polytheist. You too?
Your friendly neighbourhood Celtic Mythology teacher.
Identity labels? meh Get to know me and find out.
I do like conversations.
Mhara Starling @mharastarling.bsky.social Welsh Witch | Swynwraig
Llen Gwerin, hudoliaeth, a mwy! | Folklore, Magic, and more!
Author, Cauldron and Troll doll hoarder. Whimsy and chaos embodied โจ
Mari Ellis Dunning ๐๏ธ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social Author of 'Salacia' & 'Pearl and Bone' ๐
'Witsh' available now ๐
Lecturer in Creative Writing ๐๐๏ธ
PhD in Welsh Witchcraft ๐
'Obstinate, headstrong girl'โ๏ธ
โข
https://linktr.ee/maridunning
โข
https://mariellisdunning.cymru/
Rae Howells @raehowells.bsky.social Journalist & poet. Shortlisted Wales Book of the Year 2023.
โ๐ป Poet in residence at Llanelli Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
๐ Books: ๐ The Language of Bees ๐ฟThis Common Uncommon (Parthian)
๐ Project Manager NUJ Training Wales
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Cymraes
Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social Poet (Parthian, Green Bottle Press), short stories from Honno. Freelance editor & proofreader (The Royal Mint, Seren Books, Poetry Wales) & artist. No weird DMs (I shouldn't have to say it).
'Bathing on the Roof' due out Spring 2025 from Parthian Books.
Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
Dyfan Lewis @dyfan.bsky.social Llenor. Gweithio ym maes ynni cymunedol.
// Writer. Work in community energy.
Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social Author of 'Little Universe' and 'Small' | Content Marketing Manager at Synergy Learning | Runner | T1D | 'Wild Running' out September 2025 ๐๐โโ๏ธ
Zoรซ Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social Award winning poet, editor of Poetry Wales, poetry coeditor at Seren Books, a founding editor of Modron Magazine
Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social Susie Wild | Poet/Writer | Books include: Windfalls, Better Houses, The Art of Contraception | Wales, UK
https://linktr.ee/Soozerama
Mollie Russell @spookysyntax.bsky.social Scream Queen at Wargamer. Autistic. South Wales poet and facilitator. Nerd for gaming, horror, music, and literature. She/Her.
@wildernesspoet.bsky.social @wildernesspoet.bsky.social 
Hanan Issa @hananelizabethissa.bsky.social National Poet of Wales @litwales ๐ ENQUIRIES: hanan-issa@outlook.comโจI donโt read work-related DMโsโจ All views my own. Repโd by Abi Fellows at DHH Literary Agency
Dr Kate Noakes @katenoakes.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Critic
Author of ten books Goldhawk Road (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Chalking the Pavement (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and Real Hay-on-Wye (Seren, 2022)
www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com
Lives in Bristol
No book promoters or god bothers thanks
Darren Chetty @darrenchetty.bsky.social Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Specialising in Philosophy for Children, Childrenโs Literature, & Antiracist Education
Rep: Rachel Mann, CAA https://www.darrenchetty.com/ https://linktr.ee/DarrenChetty
Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social Poet on unnecessary themes.
Significant Wow out now with Seren Books.
P.C. Evans @pcevans.bsky.social Poet, writer and translator.
Tรดpher Mills @topherpoet.bsky.social Working class, poet and inconsolable Cardiffian. My new and selected poems,โSex on Toastโ is available from Parthian.
Ness Owen @nessowen.bsky.social Poet, lecturer,Cymraes #ForwardPrizeHighlyCommended Books-Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim #ParthianBooks Mamiaith #ArachnePress-co-editor of A470 +Afonydd-Welsh Rivers. Winner #Greenpeace 's #PoemforthePlanet 2022 #YnysMon New collectionNaming the Trees ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ
clare e. potter @clare-e-potter.bsky.social Poet (Healing the Pack, Verve Poetry Press 2024) Winner of RSL Jerwood Poetry Award for Wales 2024
BBC Radio Poetry Progs, Translation, Collaboration, Creative Facilitation, Cymres, Chapbook: Nรดl Iaith (Cyhoeddiadau'r Stamp 2025)
Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social Welsh writer, poet, editor, ecological thinker & founder of Modron Magazine: @modronmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.serenbooks.com/book/100-poems-to-save-the-earth/
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/zo%C3%AB-brigley-kristian-evans-otherwor
Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
fionaowen @fionaowen.bsky.social Latest book is Anima/l. Poetry/Writing. Song/Cรขn. Animals. Rhwng/Between. Eco-means-home. Wales/Cymru. Eye of the Storm. Retired Arts/Humanities Associate Lecturer OU.
Interdisciplinary. www.rhwng.com
Kathryn Gray @kathryngray.bsky.social Poet. Film fanatic. Editor @badlilies.bsky.social. Hollywood or Home, a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year, out now: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/hollywood-or-home/ and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-Home-Kathryn-Gray/dp/1781727120
Briony Collins @brionycollins.bsky.social Writer & publisher | 5 books & counting | PhD | Runs Cape Magazine and Atomic Bohemian | What would Buffy do?
Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Wild eyed Welsh poet. Anti-discrimination, democracy, rights, transcendence.
โจ Mab Jones โจ @mabjones.bsky.social Words โ๏ธ Wonderment โจ Wellbeing ๐ Broadcaster ๐ฃ Publisher ๐ Connector ๐ค๐ผ
Nia Davies @niapolly.bsky.social Poet, new book Votive Mess (Bloodaxe)
Katherine Stansfield @kstansfield.bsky.social Reader, writer, cat fan. Historical fiction, crime fiction, weird fiction, poems. I'm one half of D. K. Fields (fantasy crime series) & co-editor of Bending The Arc: A Thrutopian Magazine which imagines thriving & liveable futures into being
Vicky Morris @vickymwriter.bsky.social British/Welsh Poet, editor, teacher, neurodivergent jack of creative trades, mentor of emerging young writers, founder
www.hivesouthyorkshire.com | www.vickymorris.co.uk
Rhiannon Oliver @rhiannonoliver.bsky.social Children's Poet, Actress & Workshop Leader. South Wales. Dysgu Cymraeg.
Debut children's poetry collection publishing Spring 26 with Firefly Press
Happiest eating chips by the sea
@gaynorfunnell.bsky.social @gaynorfunnell.bsky.social Writer. Penbanc published 2023. Winner Nigel Jenkins literary award 2022. Contributer Nation Cymru.
Studying PhD creative writing@swanseauniversity.
Rights of Nature, psychogeography.
Lesley Curwen @elcurwen.bsky.social Poet, broadcaster, journalist, ex-BBC presenter, sailor, sea-swimmer.
Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales
Bridport shortlist. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floeโฆ.
https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
Angela Graham @angelagraham.bsky.social Film maker / writer EXPOSURE: war, media democracy 2026 Culture & Democracy Press https://angelagraham.org/exposure/. Nominee S. Heaney Award for New Writing 2025. STAR poetry C & D Press; SANCTUARY & A CITY BURNING Seren Books angelagraham.org
Glyn Edwards @glynedwards.bsky.social How to make a Paper Grenade - Verve
In Orbit - Seren Books
Writer in Res - North Wales Wildlife Trust
Taz Rahman @tazrahman.bsky.social Jerwood Poetry Prize 2024 shortlisted, Laurel Prize 2024 longlisted poetry collection 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' published by Seren Books: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/east-of-the-sun-west-of-the-moon/
Jessica Mookherjee @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Poet and Author
Ben Wildsmith @benwildsmith.bsky.social Nation.Cymru columnist. Git.