Robert Valentine @mrrobvalentine.bsky.social Hack for hire.
robertvalentine.net
Quinn Rollins @jedikermit.bsky.social History Teacher - US History, AP African American Studies, History Through Film; History Teacher Educator, Curriculum Dev, Author Play Like a PIRATE: http://amzn.to/1S3zVfO LEGO. Jedi. Muppet. Gilder Lehrman Teacher of the Year #HTOY #BLM He/Him 🏳️🌈✌
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Matt Michael @cybermatt.bsky.social Dr Who, whippets and running.
Blog: https://matthewmichael.org
Literary Listings London @literarylistings.bsky.social The only website listing all London’s book events. Visit literarylistingslondon.substack.com or email literarylistingslondon@gmail.com to join the weekly mailing list
Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
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.
ben bradley @benbradleyca.bsky.social cultural & environmental historian. #bchist and #cdnhist and #envhist. landscape, mobilities, public pasts, fordism, tourism, parks, infrastructure, rowdies, fruit stands, seasonality, 1970+, etc.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
Lochlann @lochlannbooks.bsky.social they/them | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴♿🐈⬛ | commissioning editor at Faber | sometimes I write things
about editing https://editorialnotesfromlochlann.substack.com/
about living with disability: https://thenewcrip.substack.com/
Sophie? @sophontrack.bsky.social Writer. Love ghosts and justice and also trains. 🍉. All people are friends.
activehumanity.substack.com
Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ippr.bsky.social - climate, transport, planning | PhD from CSCT Bath | she/her (views my own)
Hagioptasia: Perception & Meaning @hagioptasiatheory.bsky.social Exploring the hidden force of perceived 'specialness' - a natural illusion shaping human belief, behaviour, & culture.
https://hagioptasia.wordpress.com
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
Ivan @hellothisisivan.bsky.social Much-loved and popular funster
Paul Murray @realpaulmurray.bsky.social Music, Antifa, fitba, photies, books, film, architecture, politics, Scottish Greens, Scotland, Glasgow. MD ANT 🇵🇸💪🏾💪💪🏿
Andy Vaughan @vaughandy.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. My lab does “lung stuff” and regenerative biology. Leges sine Moribus vanae. I took the liberty of ironing your homework. www.vaughanlab.com
In Her Place @inherplace.bsky.social Helping create transport, places and spaces which work better for women and girls in the UK and beyond. https://www.inherplace.co.uk
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
Will Dunn @willdunn.bsky.social Political sketch writer at the New Statesman.
Cartwheelcaff, disco hoofer @cartwheelcaff.bsky.social 
Cardinal Cyn @jacquelinecable.bsky.social Human
Sailor godzilla gardener.
Likes honey
Wulferhamptonian
#BrexitHasFailed
Vanessa Pearce @nesky999.bsky.social BBC Midlands Today producer by day, Online features writer by night... MoC of WM News Online NUJ chapel. Coffee, cats and Coventry mainly, with a few gigs thrown in.
https://muckrack.com/vanessa-pearce
Robyn Skyrme @skyrmerobyn.bsky.social the stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful
David Gregory-Kumar @drdavidgk.bsky.social Dad. Husband. Reporter. I work for the BBC based out of Birmingham. Focused on Environment/Science & Rural Affairs. Cargo bike rider. PhD/DSc. RTS reporter of the year.
www.bbc.co.uk/davidgregorykumar
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie
https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
Paul Long @paullongmedia.bsky.social Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries at Monash University researching homemade, amateur and DIY creativity with thoughts about healthy cultures - see @HADIY.creative UTV
@dfglv.bsky.social @dfglv.bsky.social You know who I am, he said.
James Grady @jdgrady.bsky.social I like films, the odder the better. Interesting music and literature. I occasionally take pinhole photographs.
Shakespeare Okuni @ishakespeare.org Actor. Director. Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk – ishakespeare.org
Davis Walden @daviswaldeniv.bsky.social Demonic Ryan Gosling | PDX 🏔️| VFX Coord | SD: Nightlight, Victoria’s Lift | Writer: NoSleep Podcast, Wicked Library, ‘Sand Salt Blood,’ ‘Book of Queer Saints Vol. 2’
Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social Knowledge Transfer Facilitator @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. Bridging research & policy on place-based policy, social infrastructure, regional growth, & devolution. #PolicySky #AcademicSky
Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social Architect Husband Dad he/him; past pres @oaarchitects.bsky.social; president @architectsdca.bsky.social; writer, public speaker, advocate for #procurement reform; #climatepoli @riseforarch
Jason M Thornberry @jason-m-thornberry.bsky.social THE FINISH LINE (Sand and Gravel Press) • Blood Type: Curry • Leeds United • Anti-AI
#LUFC
jmthornberry.wordpress.com
sandandgravelpress.com/store/the-finish-line-jason-thornberry
kugehouse 🏴 @kugehouse.bsky.social Architecture, landscape, design, heraldry, Wales, France, Crystal Palace FC, etc
Peter Mitchell @pdkmitchell.bsky.social 'Imperial Nostalgia' (MUP, 2021) / I do @LortBurnSpecials.bsky.social and @thewhale1851.bsky.social and am bald and very handsome
Niall Oddy @nialloddy.bsky.social Early modernist at the Open University, interested in travel and cross-cultural encounters.
Book on ideas of Europe in c.16 France: https://tinyurl.com/5n6kvbun.
May post cat pics
Tara Hawes @tarahawes.bsky.social Kiwi DJ & HE leader living in MK/UK with my cat Rosa. DJing for fun as FlibbertiGibbet & half of Amaluna. Free-Spirit Records resident DJ. Strategy Advisor @Psy-Sisters: psysisters.com
Rhiannon Morgan (She/her) @rhiannonmorgan.bsky.social I hid who I really was for nearly 50 years.
Acted how I thought everyone would expect me to.
I now choose to live my real life, be my true self.
And if that bothers you, that’s your problem.
🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏴🧚🏻🦆🦄🐞🦋🦕🐓🧝🏻♀️
eilidh @eilidh.online it/she | 30s
library worker, coarse and uncouth vulgarian
Michael Cragg @mcragg.bsky.social Journalist. Author (Reach For The Stars). Tall person. My book about Kylie is out in September 2026 via Faber
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/
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social Architecture and history / Biography of Ada Louise Huxtable forthcoming (Norton, Mar. '27) / Coauthor, CAPE COD MODERN (Metropolis)
Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...
Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social Writer
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now!
"The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/eherring
Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social www.philiphoare.co.uk
contact:
irene@georginacapel.com
Emily Darlington MP @emily4mk.bsky.social Labour MP for MK Central 🌹Email for casework and invitations Emily.darlington.mp@parliament.uk
David Lean Cinema @davidleancinema.bsky.social We are Croydon's independent cinema, screening indie hits, cult classics, world cinema, and so much more. 
Ginny Dawe-Woodings @helloginnybatty.bsky.social Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Yellowbelly living in London. Aprendiendo Español.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Iain @iainmarley.bsky.social Synths, Guitars, things that go beep, #Boro, Food, Books, #TheArchers, Pop, Smoggie. Cat Dad - Rango’s sachet opener. Tack så mycket. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ He/Him- E Erin McKellar @erinmckellar.bsky.social exhibitions curator and professional wet blanket
LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. A small but lively modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
JIMMO @oldjimmo.islandsofno.ca Artist & writer.
World-building across print, books, and objects.
islandsofno.ca
SwearyCarol @robsoncarol.bsky.social Gardener, allotment, cat lover, houseplant nut. Breast cancer 🏴 🏳️⚧️
Simon Hattenstone @shattenstone.bsky.social Guardian interviewer/features writer, with a thing for prison and miscarriages of justice (well not a thing for them as such, a thing for writing about them). Proud Mancunian/Salfordian. City fan of some vintage
Jude Abbott @judeabb.bsky.social Berlin/Normanton
Luckiest woman in pop.
Makes websites, music and textile art.
You'll find me where the trees are.
Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social Best-selling author | artist | write and teach #LateAntiquity, #EarlyMedieval, #Hungarians + #Vikings
Views my own. Appears on BBC radio.
NORSE MYTHOLOGY COLOURING BOOK: https://www.amberley-books.com/coming-soon/the-viking-world-a-colouring-book.html
Adam @adamf23.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Obsessed with politics, history, equality, TV & theatre. Views my own. (He/Him)
ਅਕਸ਼ਜ Akshaj, (they/he/elle/él) @cevahirulebrar.bsky.social DPhil-ing Islamic Art and Architecture, Oxford (MPhil Islamic Art '25)
Ottomans, Uzbeks and everything in between.
Oxford-Nizami Ganjavi Scholar, Khalili Research Centre+New College. Also translator, Hindi and Urdu to English. very 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Gareth @milesbush.bsky.social Leamington Spa, UK 🏳️🌈
Gym, hiking, running, landscape/topography, blah
Walking somewhere in south Warwickshire or north Gloucestershire
instagram.com/milesbush
Daisy Buchanan @notrollergirl.bsky.social I write novels, I host the You’re Booked podcast, I love Jilly Cooper and custard.
Sinéad Gleeson @sineadgleeson.bsky.social 🇮🇪 Writer Hagstone | Constellations | This Woman’s Work (with Kim Gordon) | Agent: Peter Straus at RCW | Newsletter: momentsofrecognition.substack.com
Robert Doran @robertedits.bsky.social Book editor
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera @pantibliss.bsky.social Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist
National Fucking Treasure
Ireland
Agent: Aoife Rice : pantibliss@gmail.com
gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here:
https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
Enrique Arribas-Garde @garde24.bsky.social Theoretical physicist researching radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and exposure (RF-EMF). Fascinated by magnets since childhood. Físico teórico investigando la exposición a campos electromagnéticos de radiofrecuencia. Amante de los imanes desde niño.
Emma Bastin @emmabastin.bsky.social Historian of the early twentieth century; mum; crafter; bibliophile; lover of all things 1930s. Treasurer of Art Deco Soc UK. Founder of the Independent Historians Network Represented by Past Preservers.
www.emmabastin.com
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
Enda o Dowd @endaodowd.bsky.social
Irish times and other video/ audio editing.
Simultaneously both official and parody enda o dowd accounts.
Likes= personal bookmark// reposts=eyebrow raising
Daryl: Part One @hotdonkeybear.bsky.social Artist Management. Musician (Hot Donkey). Film Podcaster (Is Paul Dano OK?). Aspiring Author.
He/ Him
Lucy Braithwaite @lucybraithwaite.bsky.social Treacle Miner, Northern Shopkeeper UK @firstagecomics.bsky.social
Shop: https://www.whatnot.com/en-GB/user/firstagecomics
Small-business stupidity, exploring, spooky stuff, tea, weather, water, maps, folklore, comics, books, chocolate, most stuff.
Seaside Heritage Network @seasidenetwork.bsky.social Connecting people, groups & businesses who care about the heritage of Britain's seaside resorts.
https://linktr.ee/seasideheritage
@caracourage.bsky.social @caracourage.bsky.social 
xanderbernhard.bsky.social @xanderbernhard.bsky.social Politics, cats, psychotherapy, queer stuff, horror movies, comics, plants, books, dogs, and anything else fun and ridiculous.He/him. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️🔻
Scott Agnew @scottagnew.bsky.social Scottish, Glaswegian, Comedian, ex-journalist, Gay, HIV+ (U=U). Back from the dead three times.
Listen to my BBC R4 series here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0021p0h?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
David Haraldson @lostdiarist.bsky.social Professional Alter Ego. Manc. Psychogeography, deep maps, hauntology, zines, games, music, art, photography, sci-fi, & horror—& any gubbins that sheds new light on old places. (He/him) Was LostDiarist & MrBlipvert on the Bird Site.
GPA, NJ, & VT
@miketyl.bsky.social @miketyl.bsky.social
Football Rugby League Music
Mike @daylaunch.itch.io Urban planner, but not a dick about it. Architectural historian, once. Married gay with a dog. Play lots of wispy indie video games. Seattle (but Portland, London and Honolulu a lot.) Neurodivergent and starting to lean into it.
Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social Author, nonfiction writing tutor, editor, proofreader. Out now in paperback, Endless Flight: the Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth (Granta). Agent: @thehamiltonagency.bsky.social 
Meg @roaringmeg.bsky.social Arts & Crafts art & architecture, Italian Renaissance art, books and beer. Family history addict. Train traveller. Environmentally conscious. Former librarian. Stratford for Europe. Green Party member. Manchester City supporter
Gary Panton @garypanton.co.uk Author of THE NOTWITCHES and THE NOTWITCHES: PRISON BREAK. All the links for ordering can be found at garypanton.co.uk/books/
Represented by Rachel Mann at CAA.
📍Perth, Scotland
🌐 garypanton.co.uk
Travis Elborough @improbableatlas.bsky.social modern romantiquarian author, commentator, compere, walker and photographer - my Elborough's Eye book column appears in The Idler magazine.
https://traviselborough.co.uk/
Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social Writer of The Lodger, Me and Mickie James, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel. Lambda Award Finalist. Leicestershire Short Story Prize winner. Saltburn - Feb 2025.
Indie Press supporter.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
MD ANT
https://linktr.ee/drewgum
Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social Cultural Anthropologist | Workplace Strategist | Ethnographer | Clay Artist | into architecture, cultural literacy and Stuff | Wurundjeri land/Melbourne | fiona@whiteowl.net.au | No DMs | whiteowl.net.au
Dr Inigo Purcell @inigopurcell.bsky.social Novelist, non-fiction writer and academic.
Writing a book about Arthur in the British Imagination from 1138-present.
Often not thinking about the 21st century by default
(he/him)
inigopurcell.wordpress.com
Mark Aldridge @markaldridge.info 'Agathologist', H.R.F. Keating Award winner and Associate Professor of Screen Histories. Consultant for documentaries and other projects. Co-host and co-producer of The Swinging Christies. 📧 Agathachristieonscreen@gmail.com 🏳️🌈
Rob Cook @robgcook.bsky.social Slightly older than Sgt Pepper, slightly younger than Milton Keynes. 🏴🇮🇪. Dad. Registered Nurse. Minimally published unit. Variegated dilettante.
Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social "This heaven gives me migraine."
Old enough to know better at the ends of the earth (New Zealand). I am large and contain multitudes, all of them intensely irritating. (Same-sex) married. Catholic. Conservative-ish. Cis-male. Jane Austen cultist.
Shelley Harris @shelleyharris.bsky.social Writer (JUBILEE and VIGILANTE, W&N), Creative Writing lecturer at the University of Reading. Dogs, food and various forms of anguish.
The Lilac Time @thelilactime.bsky.social Poetry and not logic since 1986
Mark M Smith @markmsmith.bsky.social I like music. Buy records. Work for a University and live on the east coast of Scotland. Elsewhere: @cheasyweasel 
Soho Bites Podcast @sohobitespodcast.com
◾ Podcast about films set in Soho
◾ produced & presented by @domdelargy.bsky.social
◾ https://sohobitespodcast.com
◾ sohobitespodcast@gmail.com
◾ https://letterboxd.com/sohobites/list/every-soho-bites-film-to-date/detail/
Brett 🇿🇦 🏴 🏴 @travelbokke.bsky.social Cwmbran-born | Culturally fucked-up Saffa | Third Culture Kid | Nomadic Immigrant | a Newfie’s husband | Ridgeback dad | London
Often found on a plane ✈️
👬 @wanderingthinker.bsky.social
🦮🦮
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social Life's a big banana sandwich
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2188080
Mark Walsh @markwalsh.bsky.social Books, Music, Art and Film. Exists in real life too.
https://themarkwalsh.substack.com/