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
Cumbria Guru @cumbriaguru.com 🌄 Cumbria Guru | Sharing the best of Cumbria's attractions, hidden gems, and local culture | Your guide to exploring the Lake District and beyond ✨ www.cumbriaguru.com
Avishek ghosh @avishekcolours.bsky.social 
Keith 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @oneworld-onelife.bsky.social "So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.” Bede
Inherently skeptical but trying not to be cynical
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social In 2025 my ex-publishers Unbound imploded, taking many many £1000s of my earnings, for seven (yes, seven) books, into hell with them. I am here primarily as an attempt to recover from that disaster. if you buy/read/recommend one of my books, it helps.
Rob Drummond @robdrummond.bsky.social Professor and author.
Sociolinguistics.
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Folklore of Scotland @folklorescotland.bsky.social A book of Scottish folklore by Ayrshire-born Druid and Bard, Stephen G. Rae. Available in print and ebook. Published by The FolkLore Press.
Antoinette Fawcett @editornncomet.bsky.social Editor of The New Comet and the Comet Bulletin for The Norman Nicholson Society: https://www.normannicholson.org/
Jim B @blencathran.bsky.social Lake District. I love chasing blizzards and warming by log fires
The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social Our Oak Trees & their Sweet Chestnut chums in our ancient bluebell woodland in the Weald of Kent. Also pictures and facts about trees
twitter.com/TheKentAcorn
Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation.
stoneclub.rocks
#MDANT
Jill Segger @quakerpen.bsky.social Quaker.Writer.Editor.Slow poet. NUJ. FRSA.Some recent work at archival site of @ekklesia.co.uk
https://www.ekklesia.co.uk/author/jillsegger/
My book #WordsOutofSilence is available here https://www.ekklesiapublishing.co.uk/books/words-out-of-silence/
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
Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social Poet and non-fiction writer. Latest poetry collection "All The Men I Never Married" won the 2022 Forward Prize. Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Substack: https://shorturl.at/Ea3sI
Hollie McNish @holliemcnish.bsky.social Follow for poetry, random thoughts and new discoveries because poetry and the world is endlessly fascinating and I know nothing.
On tour now: www.holliepoetry.com/livedates 
Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social Skin the Rabbit (The Braag) Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve). Writing long poems about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Runs Sub Club for Manchester Poetry Library. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield www.susiewilsonpoet.com
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Showcase Cumbria @showcasecumbria.bsky.social A community platform showcasing all things great about #Cumbria www.showcasecumbria.co.uk
Gary Ismay @goodbinary.bsky.social Indie developer in Greater Manchester.
Made Hike Maker, Slow Ways Makers, GeoSort, Star Hordes, SoloTime and others.
#indiedev #swift #custard #walking #gardening #environment
https://www.goodbinary.com
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Paul Rathbone @paulrathbone.bsky.social Retired and live in the Lake District, UK. Really enjoy photography, travelling, nature & wildlife, and my family.
Chris Cant @chriscant.bsky.social Lichens: the closer you look the more you'll see; zoom out and you'll read the habitat
clevacamo @clavacamo.bsky.social Hobbyist Photographer, I love hiking in the great outdoors and spending my summers in and around the water.
#NewZealand
#Aotearoa
🇳🇿 📸✨✨
©️ All photos are my own unless reposted.
Bookish By Shaw @bookstrend.bsky.social ✨ Bite-sized book reviews for every kind of reader.
My blog: https://bookishbyshaw.wordpress.com/
Alison the Read @alisontheread.bsky.social I’m here to drink tea and kick my own ass. And I’m all out of ass.
walk · listen · create @walklistencreate.org walk · listen · create (WLC) is the home of walking artists and artist walkers. We are a home for walking writers too!
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Pinar S. 🦦 @pinars.bsky.social Used to be a Byzantinist, now an independent researcher, potter, part time translator and interpreter &person of leisure. Posts on history, art, archaeology, nature, mythology, folklore, the occult, books, language, καὶ τὰ ἕτερα. Team Oxford Comma.
Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com Linguist, writer, broadcaster, language fanatic. Author of 'Why Q Needs U', bestseller and Economist book of 2025. Host of 'ALILI...' podcast. ČR/UK.
Website: dannybate.com
Inquiries: jaime@jpmarshall.co.uk
Pic: J. Kovalík
Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social Landscape archaeologist, prehistorian, and small finds specialist. At home in the Bronze Age, but living in the deep Welsh Marches. HERO for Herefordshire Archaeology.
All views my own
Expert is Reavillnomicism
Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Kendal Rotary Club @kendalrotaryclub.bsky.social Connecting with our local community at home and abroad and helping wherever possible. Come and join us. People like us do things like this.
Women of Letters @womenofletters.org 📚 conversations on work, writing, & professional success with the women shaping our cultural landscape
🎤 @janajm.com, PhD
👇 SEASON 3 OUT NOW
📝 womenofletters.substack.com
🎵 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/women-of-letters/id1747035747- L Lee Schofield @leeschofield.bsky.social Northern (non) monkey...
JoannaMWilliams @joannamw.bsky.social Historian, nature and music lover. Author of historical biographies on Mancunian Victorians Abel Heywood and Lydia Becker. And now I have a new book out: ‘Emmeline’s Loving Comrade: Richard Marsden Pankhurst, the man who inspired the Suffragette leader’.
@rfb71.bsky.social @rfb71.bsky.social Integrity that's what I want and I'm willing to pay for it. 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 🇬🇱
Slow to follow back but don't take it personally
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Lucy Wallace - arranwildwalks.com @snoweider.bsky.social Mountain Leader, wildlife guide, otter groupie, I love nature, and I love science ♥️🦦🌳🪲🪼🌸🦉🦎🦈
Also a wannabe runner, thwarted cyclist, sometime rock climber, lapsed archaeologist.
The Isle of Arran is my home and I frequently crop up in other places too 😃.
TenInchWheels @teninchwheels.bsky.social Dad, husband, Yorkshireman. Cumbrian.
Ex-national newspaper art director delighted to find himself living halfway up a Lakeland fell after 30 years in London
Beer, Vespa, history, hill, life, lake, bike
Libraries gave us power
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
Jamie @movingslowly.bsky.social Moving slowly and fixing things…
The artist formerly known as @tlwforcumbria
(Let’s see how long this lasts)…
Glenys Marriott @cumpston.bsky.social Trustee Cumbria Community Foundation, Chair Headway South Cumbria & Age Friendly South Lakeland. Hoping to find my Twitter buddies here 💕
Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social Open research person | feminist | writer
Loves books and cats
Mike Dettinger @mdettinger.bsky.social Water/environ/climate news & my occasional thoughts/calcs, from CarsonCity (Wá∙šiw land), NV. Retired USGS & now p/t @CW3EScripps scientist.
Bona fides? PhD.UCLA F.AGU F.AAAS M.NAE; www.mdettinger.com
Alison Foster @retsofnosila.bsky.social Musical 🎶 outdoorsy 🥾 history lover🗿 type..
Ann Gate @ceadela.bsky.social Erstwhile secondhand bookseller and Classics teacher; Cumbria and Oxfordshire
Borderseth & Cragrats @borderseth.bsky.social Cumbrian • adventures of Seth, a Border terrier and his old man Cragrats • Wainwrightsx2/Birketts completer • Fell pictures • Made in Shap 28.8.20 • #BTposse #borderterriers #lakedistrict #wainwrights #fells #cumbria 🐾🐾
Sofia de Melo Araújo @sofiameloaraujo.bsky.social Literary Studies scholar (Research interests: Ethics and Literature, Contemporary Narrative, Education)
Adjunct Professor at Porto Polytechnic and University of Porto
Head of the Foreign Languages Department at the School of Education- Porto Polytechnic
Windermere Lake Cruises @windermereboats.bsky.social 📍 Windermere, Lake District | ⛴️ Scenic cruises & boat hire | 🐾 Dog friendly | 🕘 Open daily (except Christmas) | 🎫 No need to pre book
https://www.windermere-lakecruises.co.uk/
Dave Crowdy @scarthcruddle.bsky.social Live in Cumbria. Work in the electricity industry. Love my family and my dawg.
Dr Pauline Nelson @drpmanc110.bsky.social Qualitative researcher in #HealthServicesOrganisation @sheffielduni.bsky.social; ‘Norn’ Irish; unpaid carer; tea drinker 🫖
Wild Indigo Artisan Design @wildindigoartisan.bsky.social Original Art Glass and Jewellery produced by myself Sarah Wilkinson. If not at my workbench I am to be found out in nature… best place 😊.
I’m also on ‘X’, Facebook & Instagram, but I’m loving being here.
www.wild-indigo.com
Journal of Historical Geography @jofhistgeog.bsky.social A well-established international quarterly, the Journal of Historical Geography publishes articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields.
sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography
Pete Herring @peteherring.bsky.social Cornish and European landscape archaeologist and historian
Dr Robert Muller @robertmuller.bsky.social On Kaurna Land, Adelaide, South Australia. PhD Thesis Editor; Sociologist; Founding Board Member TruthBombSocial: https://www.truthbombsocial.org/; Research on grey zone warfare, democratic & community resilience, disinformation. https://drrobmuller.com
Kathryn Twelvetree @k12tree.bsky.social Welcome & Services Assistant at Hill Top @nationaltrust.bsky.social
Formerly Museum Assistant & Marketing at The Armitt in Ambleside
MA student in Literature, Romanticism and the English Lakes
Expect musings on museums and literature, mostly
She/her
Helen J @helgaj.bsky.social Community arts, heritage and archaeology. Was on the Thames, now in Cumbria. She/her.
John Manning @johnmanningpct.bsky.social Outdoor writer and editor, long distance walker (kinda), father, Beach Boys nut and Whovian (kinda).
Fellwalker @lakelandwalker.bsky.social Hiking the fells of Lakeland, Yorkshire and the North of England.
Rob Ralley @robralley.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine. Editor for The Casebooks of Simon Forman and Richard Napier (1596-1634), now writing about Napier, slowly. And taking photos. Views my own.
Sunnyside Guest House @sunnysidekeswick.bsky.social Award winning licensed guest house close to Keswick centre, Derwentwater and Theatre by the Lake. Private car park with EV Charger and large guest lounge. Wet & muddy guests and boots welcome Tel: 017687 72446
David Lowes @relayer.bsky.social Probably in Preston.
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'
Tessa Whitehouse @mtwht.bsky.social Researching religious minorities in eighteenth-century London; being by the sea; working in the English dept at QMUL
British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
Michael G 🇱🇹 🇺🇦 🐕 🐾 🙏🕉 @beardedwalker.bsky.social UK based photographer, mountain walker, outdoor swimmer and dog person living a quiet life in Cumbria/Northumberland, Intolerant of racists, bigots and bellendery.
www.sycamorebarn.com
Sony A7r3/4, S24 Ultra
No DM's, NFTs, Crypto/Traders, OF 🚫 = Block
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
David Forster Photography & Film @davidfimages.bsky.social Award-winning photographer and videographer based in Teesdale, Co Durham who produces imagery for TV, national news, magazine and book publishers. Also photography workshops. https://www.david-forster.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/davidbspro/videos
Gila Schauer @gilaschauer.bsky.social Professor of English & Applied Linguistics @unierfurt.bsky.social
Interested in Pragmatics, Intercultural Competence & Communication, ELT, SLA, Diversity & Higher Education.
Posts in English & German. LGBTIQA ally . She/her.
https://linktr.ee/gila.schauer
Marc Alexander @marcalexander.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Heriot-Watt University, researching interaction, long-suffering NCFC fan, and Oxford comma late-adopter #DiscursivePsychology #EMCA
https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/persons/marc-alexander
Robert @handle.invalid Be Kind 🫶
Politics, comedy, games, books, culture and sports.
Daood Hamza @daoodhamza081.bsky.social يَا أَيُّهَا الْإِنسَانُ مَا غَرَّكَ بِرَبِّكَ الْكَرِيمِ
"O mankind, what has deceived you concerning your Lord, the Generous"
Herdwick Sheep @herdwicksheep.bsky.social Iconic, smiley sheep from the Lake District, Cumbria, just spreading the love
https://yewtree-farm.com/herdwick-experience/
Come along on a Herdwick Experience!
The Stage @thestage.co.uk The Stage is the world’s oldest and best theatre publication 🗞️
Dr Kate Cushing @drkatecushing.bsky.social Doctor, scientist, mum, cat slave.
Public Governor Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust
Long Covid & CCH.
Love Northumberland/Newcastle, owls/wildlife/books/art/music/politics/EU
Wrote Little Orange Book 4 parents of babies & small kids.
Green Party member
ÓhÁilleagán @ohailleagain.bsky.social Gardener, Photographer, Nature, History, Science, Environment, Geology, Archaeology. Free education for all. Derbyshire UK.
No DMs. No politics.
ALL PHOTOS MY OWN except reposts.
pinkpebs @pinkpebs.bsky.social 📍Cumbria UK 🇬🇧
Middle-aged. Runner. Ginger.
Cats. Compost. Crafter. Music. Food. Family. Friends. Greenish. Spreadsheets. PokémonGo. parkrun. Ex-twatter OG. Woman in construction.
Family history / genealogist Cumbria & Scottish Borders, & Holyoke
Mark Griffiths and the Word @mgriff99.bsky.social Northern English…family; art; wild places; politics…
Artist (visual/music/song writer/poet/performer)…
Retired therapist living life lightly
Publisher - https://caldewpress.com
Music - https://youtube.com/@markgriffithsandtheword?si=feMjR4-LCqmHhH4x
Paul Stephens @paulstephens.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English @ University of York.
C18-19th Literature and Culture. He/Him
https://www.york.ac.uk/english/people/paulstephens/
Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social She/her. Poet. Words in The Forward Book of Poetry, Propel, Mslexia, Strix, Arachne Press, Modron & more.🌱FTA. Dyspraxia. Foxes.
Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.
Nikki Hessell @nikkihessell.bsky.social Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀
Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies
https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social Hopeless Romanticist, childless cat dad, and coffee addict (he/him)
Solving real word problems
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
@grasmerewi.bsky.social @grasmerewi.bsky.social 
@jfalsner.bsky.social @jfalsner.bsky.social 
Dr Amy-Jane Beer @amyjanebeer.bsky.social Biologist, naturalist, writer, campaigner at Right to Roam; Country Diarist at The Guardian; Wainwright Prize winning author of The Flow
WIP: Old Nows
Agent: Jane Turnbull jane.turnbull@btinternet.com
Dr Rose O’Neill @roseoneill.bsky.social Ceo Campaign for National Parks. Fighting for wilder National Parks in England and Wales.
Nature. Landscape. Rivers. Access. Social justice.
Bob Cartwright @lakesbob.bsky.social Passionate about protecting the planet, biodiversity and landscape photography. Follower of most things Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social Retired primary school teacher. Interested in reading, walking, running, skiing, photography, history, gardening, knitting and education. Loving being a grandmother. Hope to return to EU one day.
Love the Lakes @lovethelakes.bsky.social We have two stores in the English Lake District, one in Bowness on Windermere and one in Keswick #lovethelakes
Dr Gill Loomes-Quinn @gillloomesquinn.bsky.social Socio-legal scholar; Co-director of openjusticecourtofprotection.org; Autistic; Wheelchair-user
Here for all things #OpenJustice, #MentalCapacity #DisabilityRights, #SocialCare, and #Advocacy
Also nature, textile crafts, Irish language - and cats 🐈...
Phil Rigby @phil59.bsky.social 
@jimupnorth.bsky.social @jimupnorth.bsky.social Live in north England. Interested in history, politics, nature and aurora !
Lakeland Days @lakelanddays.bsky.social A daily photo from our walks in the remarkable Lake District 🥾🥾
Rosie Callaghan @rosiecallaghan.bsky.social NHS, Music, Books, Wasdale and a bunch of other stuff
@stevetrotter1.bsky.social @stevetrotter1.bsky.social Nature and its recovery, people, art, historic landscapes. Born 318ppm CO2
Also, chief executive at Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Board member: RSST, CWMET, Nature North; vice-chair North Pennines National Landscape, Great North Bog.