Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social History PhD. Defender of Liberal Arts. History of Leftist Thought. Joachim Boaz (he/him) maps the topography of science fiction before 1985. No AI. Creator of the fanzine Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations: https://sciencefictionruminations.com/
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Baltimore.
Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social Former politico, comment writer, spread betting dealer, editor, now think tanker, consultant, former baker of overly dense loaves.
New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social Free thinking in an age of extremes. Follow for independent journalism on ideas, culture, politics and science. Published since 1885.
www.newhumanist.org.uk
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Michael Galustyan @michaelgalustyan95.bsky.social 
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
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
Pete Glastonbury @peteglastonbury.bsky.social Loves Cats, Reading, Nature & Photography.
Long time Stone botherer.
Sky gazer.
If you like or share my photos please
Follow me for #StandingStoneSunday Photos.
Rob @rcj-70.bsky.social Follow the links for regularly updated content: retroarcadememories.wordpress.com
Retro Arcade Memories
With over 2,200 reviews. Feel free to share any of them. Thanks. 🌍
twitch.tv/rcj_70
#retrogaming #arcade #videogames #reviewsi
David Hopps @davidkhopps.bsky.social Freelance cricket writer (old & on the down slope apparently) & Sri Lanka travel guru. Ex ESPNcrinfo & Guardian. Politically-exasperated, conflicted Yorkshireman, largely liberal, centre-left, realist. Great beach hotel at suitelanka.com. Leeds fan.
Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social Born at 314 ppm CO2. (We are now at 427.8 ppm CO2)
Founder and presenter on the Everything Electric Shows.
That bloke from Red Dwarf and Scrapheap Challenge.
Info@unitedagents.co.uk
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social Through good times and bad, boy am I glad, to be brewing up for star names.
As featured on Police 5.
Gabby HC @scriblit.bsky.social Comedy writer & Author. Repped by JFL. Dead Funny History, Horrible Histories & Horrible Science! Loadsa R4 stuff! And more! Buy the Darkwood Trilogy or Rooks Trilogy or Cursed Under London! 🐝 with the 🫖. Avatar by Tealin!
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social 🇬🇧 London-based. 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 dual citizen. CBRN expert. Freeman of the City of London. Liveryman. "Legal Juggernaut". Anglican. Ex Verger. Author. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Scourge of llamas. Former US Army. Former USSS. #NAFO Fella
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Wiltshire VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social The Victoria County History of Wiltshire. New to BlueSky and happy to be here.
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
siriusxm.com/podcasts-plus-subscription
Iain Mew @superchartisland.com Writing a British history of popular video games one UK sales chart #1 at a time. Now in 1988. Also into pop music and writing on The Singles Jukebox. He/him. http://www.superchartisland.com
Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social In Bristol. Beer blogging in the UK since 2007. Also wrote some books about beer and pubs. Header image shows a detail from the cover of one. Won't repost if you don't use alt text. Find us at boakandbailey.com
@museumofcomputing.bsky.social @museumofcomputing.bsky.social 
Sham Mountebank @shammountebank.bsky.social My blog, Where Were They Now? Tracking down the offices of Britain's pioneering video games houses https://whereweretheynow.blogspot.com/
Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social Hello, classics graduate - I’m interested in classics, the middle ages, history in general and art. Also, rabbits. Finished the Aeneid, Heroides, Catullus, Georgics, Suetonius in Latin. Now on Silius Italicus’ Punica.
“Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
HG2G Scrapbook @hg2g-scrapbook.bsky.social Cover Art, newsclippings and really wild things from every version of The Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy since 1978. Share and enjoy!
Paul Bassett Davies @thewritertype.bsky.social Writer in residence, at my house. To look upon my works, ye mighty, visit my website:
https://www.thewritertype.com
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.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
The Handsome Family @thehandsomefamily.bsky.social The oldest living band in North America.
"Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing...
Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice."
—GREIL MARCUS
https://handsomefamily.com/
Paul Hayes @paul-hayes.bsky.social Writer and BBC radio producer.
Author of Doctor Who: Star Flight, OUT NOW from BBC Audiobooks:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/471521/doctor-who-star-flight
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
Can I Pod With Madness @podwithmadness.bsky.social Can I Pod With Madness is a podcast in which we meticulously review a copy of Kerrang! or Metal Hammer, from the EIGHTIES (or occasionally the early 90s).
https://linktr.ee/podwithmadness
Hector Cappelletti 🏏 @hectorcappelletti.bsky.social I like writing about cricket. Flâneur and blogger with 6 demerit points. Part of the problem apparently.
Blogging at yahooovercowcorner.wordpress.com
Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com That bloke who does that podcast your annoying friend keeps trying to get you to listen to. He/him. Posts every random thought in his head. AuDHD and not many filters. If you're only interested in my podcast you probably don't want to follow.
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Colin Gorrie @colingorrie.bsky.social English is weirder than you think. Every week I dig into the hidden history of everyday words: etymology, Old English, and the accidents that shaped how you speak. Linguistics PhD. deadlanguagesociety.com
Steve Jinman @educatedleftft.bsky.social Dedicated educator, Trustee, Director.
Village Cricketer (retd). Philosophical Footballer.
If you can't box, wear a big hat.
Longreads @longreads.com Sharing and publishing the best longform stories at longreads.com since 2009. Sister site of @atavist.com.
Become a member: https://longreads.com/join/
Submit to us: https://longreads.com/submissions
Dr Evelyn Koch @evelynkoch.bsky.social Early modern/19th-cent. English literature, science and literature, landscape in literature, fantasy, horror and weird fiction.
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 
Andy McH @andymch.bsky.social Top tips:
Listen to NoMeansNo.
Watch Nirvanna The Band The Show
Me and my brother have released another dumb album here.
https://album.link/i/6785817432
Prof Bob Nicholson @digivictorian.bsky.social History Professor • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
Hans Hofmann @hhofmann.bsky.social Fan account of Hans Hofmann, a German-born American painter, considered to have both preceded and influenced Abstract Expressionism.
1880-1966
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Nathan Gower @nathanjgower.bsky.social BBC audio journalist working on, amongst other programmes, More or Less.
Trying to make a career out of splicing together complex explanations with stupid, stupid jokes. Results pending.
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Guy Pratt @guypratt.bsky.social Rockonteur Bassist Various
John Murdoch @tetuan22s.bsky.social Herefordshire based. Bell Ringer in Ledbury. Works in Education. Loving the positivity of my new home. Moving up an age range next year. Feeling old
Science Fiction Foundation @sffoundation.bsky.social Founded by George Hay in 1971, the SFF promotes the study and understanding of science fiction, both in the UK and overseas. Home to the journal Foundation and the SFF Library at Liverpool. Become a member at www.sf-foundation.org and support our work!
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Christopher Douglas @chrishdouglas.bsky.social Writer/Actor. Ed Reardon's Week (series 17 under construction). Most recent eps available on BBC Sounds. Also available, my two-part adaptation of George Gissing's great novel 'The Odd Women'.
reception@davidhigham.co.uk. info@roxanevacca.co.uk
Forbidden Worlds Film Festival @fwfilmfestival.bsky.social Genre film festival dedicated to screening repertory action, sci-fi and horror films from around the world on the biggest screen in the South West.
Forbidden Worlds will return: 22-24 October 2026
linktr.ee/FWFilmFestival
Andrew Hunter Murray @andrewhunterm.bsky.social Author (A Beginner’s Guide To Breaking And Entering OUT NOW); No Such Thing As A Fish co-host, Private Eye joke-writer, Naked Week host. Agents are RCW (books) and The Agency (showbiz bébé).
The Laurence Sterne Trust @lsternetrust.bsky.social The Laurence Sterne Trust at Shandy Hall - charity, museum, gallery and gardens. Former home of Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) vicar of Coxwold & author of Tristram Shandy.
Shandy Hall, Coxwold, York www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk
Lauren Laverne @laurenlaverne.bsky.social Broadcaster. Slow eater, fast reader.
Kevin Eldon's Speakers @kevineldonspeakers.bsky.social A monthly dose of magnificently produced twaddle and guff.
Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
www.petefrasermusic.com
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social Historiographer and practicing public historian that is fanatical about rugby union.
Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social Bad Astronomer (formerly @BadAstronomer), SciCommer, Dork. Crash Course Astronomy guy. He/him. Newsletter: badastronomy.beehiiv.com
I'm self-employed so my opinions do in fact represent my company's.
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Ignacio PG (Neil Parsons PB48K) 👾🎹🎬🏳️🌈 @ignacioprigar.bsky.social Apasionado de los videojuegos retro, entre mis aficiones están la música, el cine, el deporte y vivir sano. Muy fan de Mike Oldfield y otros intérpretes.
Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy Charlatan, Humbug and Imitation Humorist.
Former sporadic cartoonist and game designer. Occasionally #Outdoorsy, sometimes #Cycling. #Ukulele torturer […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://social.vivaldi.net/@BigJackBrass, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Kim Newman @annodracula.bsky.social Novelist and Critic. https://johnnyalucard.com/
artnau @artnau.bsky.social art
https://www.instagram.com/artnau/
Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social 50% of the world's ninth longest running comic book podcast, House to Astonish. 100% of interview/book group podcast Desert Island Discworld. New Warriorologist. Robots, Time Lords. He/him.
Angus Dunican @angusdunican.bsky.social Actor/Comic/Writer/Hot Dad
Tendency to show up for stuff. Put me in your thing.
Doctor Who:
http://bit.ly/3XeATtL
Rep:
@bccreativelondon.bsky.social
Spotlight:
https://app.spotlight.com/9111-5610-9256
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
Represented by Pew Literary
Links:
https://linktr.ee/OttoEnglish
Edward Aczel @edwardaczel.bsky.social Random Comedian/Actor
Whatever happened to Sasha Distell? - I leave it out there for you
Dog Lover btw
Art of The Beano @art-of-thebeano.bsky.social Classic Beano comic art appreciation, ranging from the mid century to the '00s.
Insta : @Art_of_TheBeano
Tumblr : @art-of-thebeano
@wiltsmedgraffiti.bsky.social @wiltsmedgraffiti.bsky.social 
Jacke Wilson @jackewilson.bsky.social Host of the History of Literature Podcast. Check it out at historyofliterature.com. 
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs @500songspodcast.bsky.social The official podcast account. Andrew Hickey presents a history of rock music from 1938 to 1999, looking at five hundred songs that shaped the genre.
https://500songs.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AndrewHickey
Merch: https://500-songs.teemill.com
Warren Pilkington @zawtowers.bsky.social IT person by day, former Zzap! 64 and Commodore Format contributor, Man City fan, F1, snooker, writer, poet, photographer and music lover at all other times.
https://www.zawtowers.org.uk/
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
John Finnemore @johnfinnemore.bsky.social Writer, comedian, actor, puzzle-maker. I'm not really sure what the right word for that last one is.
For now, I'm only here to bags my name in case this one takes off. But I hope it does. 
Great art on Bluesky @art.feediverse.org A beautiful work of art every every hour.
Sounds Clips @soundsclips.bsky.social Articles from Sounds Magazine 1975 - 1980
Archivist, Steve "Stig" Chivers.
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
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
David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social Trade wonk, Brexit bore, globalisation defender, music lover, cricketer, gardener, supporter of mediocre football teams, who knows where the time goes?
Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social Video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once talked about cinema on the radio, but now mainly take photos with prisms and pinholes and polaroids. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social Semi-automated posting of old computers and videogames. Sometimes other bits of retro aesthetics and design. ~6-8 posts a day, ~24 posts on holidays.
⚠Outbound links tagged and monitored by Bluesky.
Lost Otter's Pilgrimage of Food 19.12.30.3.22 @lost-otter.bsky.social Food (our aulde enemie) - its appearance, calorific energies, and locations (historic, domestic, sublime & banal); that the shame of it should outlive him.
Hey Kids Rock'n'Roll @heykidsshop.bsky.social Home grown & hand sewn, folk-pop art. A happy idiot, struggling for the legal tender.
Shop: heykidsrocknroll.etsy.com
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
Innocent🕷Abroad @jjgass.bsky.social American living in England. Previously lived in 日本, NL, France. Motorbikes, cricket, opera, etc. He/him. Jew.
If you think my skeet might be sarcastic, it probably is.
Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social Lustlacker. Drivellista. Parked wonkily - or, rather, wonked Parkily.
Here's all my nonsense:
https://soundcloud.com/jlimb-1/tracks
Simon HB @norock.bsky.social I'm gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground
Madeley @madeley.bsky.social Nid doddynt, nid ydynt, nid ŷnt barawt.
He/him/fe.
Stuart Ian Burns @feelinglistless.bsky.social Intensely interested in everything. He/Him.
Si Hart @sihart.bsky.social Librarian at RHS Wisley, Doctor Who fan, sometimes podcaster. Owner of The Library of Impossible Things, part of the Maximum Power and Trap One podcast teams.
Adores rabbits, Crowded House, capybaras, cake, custard, pandas and tea. Dislikes cheese. 🏳️🌈
This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social I post daily about something that is “this many years ago”. This account is a hobby project. Time zone is GMT+2.