your old pal andy @andycs.bsky.social he/him. musician • beetle enjoyer • occasionally funny on purpose
The Underground Map @theundergroundmap.com Obsessed with London history, transport and maps. Occasional posts about space science and random stuff. Based atm in Leiden, NL
Lisa O’Carroll @lisaocarroll.bsky.social Guardian correspondent covering international trade from European perspective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com
The Rio Cinema @riocinema.bsky.social 📽️ Celebrating our 50th Birthday with #RIOFOREVER! We're The UK's longest-running cinema, Operated by and for the Hackney community since 1976.
Gary Foskett @garyfoskett.bsky.social Main interests are family, friends, education, music, politics, equality, philosophy, health.
"Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late" - Bob Dylan
"Blues a healer" JLH
https://3diassociates.wordpress.com/2021/02/24/progressing-education/
Niall Devitt @historyniall.bsky.social Author, tenacious historian and researcher, love all trains-Camelot, QPR, The Fall, opera, film and comedy, Warner Brothers cartoons, Will Hay and importantly, where to find the best doughnut in London and how to make the perfect pot of tea to go with it!
Small Sites London @smallsites.london RCKa's directory of small site housing projects in London, intended as a resource for architects, policymakers and anyone interested housing design excellence.
The interactive directory is available at https://smallsites.london.
Ashley Giles @ashleygiles.me Coffee, cities, beer, cycling.
🚲☕️🍻🏳️🌈
(Am not a retired cricketer)
mosaic.substack.com
📍London, E3
Linda @lindacdolan.bsky.social Worked at RHS Wisley, now retired and a happy and proud volunteer there. Passionate about Wisley, plants and gardens. Also a quilter, embroiderer and beader. Proud to be Woke. 'Woke just means you give a damn about other people’ Jane Fonda 2025
Mat @okwithmydecay.en.osm.town.ap.brid.gy East London dweller, cyclist, swimmer, runner powered by plants and great tunes. 時々日本語でつぶやきますよ。
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://en.osm.town/@okwithmydecay, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social City of Westminster and Clerkenwell & Islington Guide. Social history walks. Walthamstow & Chingford walks too.
Booking details for all my public guided walks and tours are here: https://linktr.ee/joannawestminsterwalks
Gabe Moshenska @gabemoshenska.bsky.social I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland.bsky.social Rights of nature & climate campaigner. Barrister & river guardian. Love trees & rivers; & working to defend, protect & restore them. Founder of @lawyersfornature.bsky.social & @riverroding.bsky.social
Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social Reprinted Old Ordnance Survey Maps across Britain & Ireland introduced by specialist authors.
https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/
USA sales - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/alangodfreymaps?_trksid=p2334524.m570.l113337
#CombatCartography #MatchMap
Russell Shaw Higgs @russellshawhiggs.bsky.social born 1960 he/him human
- art & politics -
Autotelic - Earthling - Global Citizen -
OPEN BORDERS
Steiger @steigersteiger.bsky.social Photographer filmmaker and sometimes publisher
Josef Steen, Local Democracy Reporter @jslondonldr.bsky.social Journalist covering Hackney, Islington and Camden for MyLondon. Tips to josef.steen@reachplc.com
Adblock Hackney @adblockhackney.bsky.social 
Pembury Estate Residents' Association @pemburyresidents.bsky.social The representative body for all residents on the Pembury Estate in Hackney. Become a member at https://pemburyestate.com/
Josef Steen @js-ldrs.bsky.social Local Democracy Reporter for Hackney, Islington and Camden @ Citizen News. Reposts =/= endorsements. Tips to Josef.steen@hackneycitizen.co.uk
John Dee @johndeedesign.bsky.social Walking, cycling, design, rugby, theatre, Labour, much music, good journalism. Hackney UK
Low Traffic Hackney @lowtraffichackney.bsky.social We’re a group of local residents supporting efforts to reduce motor traffic levels in Hackney, to reduce air and noise pollution, enable safer cycling and reduce carbon emissions
https://www.lowtraffichackney.org/
Hackney Showroom @hackneyshowroom.bsky.social 🤌 award-winning shows
🫴 artist development
🤝 community space
📍 Kings Crescent Estate, Hackney
Gerry Tissier @gerrytissier.bsky.social Founder of the Hackney Buzzline
Dan Berg @danberg.art 🎨 Art by an evil genius/plonker
🏆 BAFTA winner / ex Cartoon Network
🏠 Based in Hackney Downs Studios
Hackney Food @hackneyfood.bsky.social The Hackney Food Partnership brings people together to create a healthy, sustainable food system in Hackney. Contact us at hackneyfood@sustainablehackney.org
Hackney Empire @hackneyempire.bsky.social Something for everyone in Hackney 📍
Coming Soon: Ballet Black, Ilana Glazer & more...
Monitored Mon - Fri, 10am - 6pm
linktr.ee/hackneyempire
Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social We're volunteers who grow trees at the Hackney Community Tree Nursery and plant them out in Hackney’s parks and green spaces.
Email: hello@treemusketeers.org.uk- Z Zuhri James @zuhrijames.bsky.social PhD student from Hackney
blog: https://zuhrijames.wordpress.com
Paul Reynolds @paulreynolds.bsky.social Landscape Architect. Urban Designer. Flâneur. European.
Founding Director - @TapestryStudio
Chair - Urban Design Group
Director - Hackney Wick Fish Island Community Development Trust
Peter Carlyon @petercarlyon.bsky.social Freelance journalist living in London. Words in The Fence, Fieldfare Press, The Hackney Mixer
Zero Emissions Network @zeroemissions.bsky.social Supporting businesses and residents improve air quality by using sustainable transport. Working in Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, City of London and Westminster. 
gdpreston @gdpreston.bsky.social Rockbusters winner, Spurs fan, music snob, beer 'enthusiast', Hackney lover, ex-Libertines fanboy, lefty, carnivore, rubbish gay, KEXP donor, copier of old bios
@sampallis.bsky.social @sampallis.bsky.social 
Tania Townsend @taniatownsend.bsky.social Head of Strategic Programmes & Strategy. ❤️#localgov. Black & Jewish, Londoner, Mother, Gooner, Hackney lady and blogger. ♥️ diversity matters. Views my own.
@TaniaTSays on X
Greener Hackney @greenerhackney.bsky.social Green news, advice and events from Hackney
Joe Walker @joewalkeruk.bsky.social Hackney Labour Councillor 🌹 Deputy Cabinet Member for #StrengtheningNeighbourhoods. GMB member. Trustee Surfers Not Street Children Views my own
Will Prochaska @willprochaska.bsky.social Campaigner for gambling reform (Coalition to End Gambling Ads). Urban health enthusiast. Dad of three in Hackney, London.
HackneyGreens.org.uk @hackneygreenparty.bsky.social Real hope and real change, for social, economic & environmental justice.
Published by S Liberadzki on behalf of Hackney Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Anya Sizer @anyasizer.bsky.social Hackney councillor and deputy cabinet member for SEND and early years. Freelance speaker and advisor in the fertility sector and VC of Fabian women’s network amongst other things ! Trying to make a bit of a difference…
Caroline Woodley @carolinewoodley.bsky.social 
Sarah Young @sarahwoodberrydown.bsky.social Promoted by Promoted by Lewis Hurst, Labour Party, Unit 106 Bradbury Works,Bradbury Street, London, N16 8JN.
For casework please email sarah.young@hackney.gov.uk
Tim Evans @hackneymartian.bsky.social Leftish, greenish, bookish. 50 years urban 🚲, 4 years 🦽. Londoner, Hackney, Lea Valley. Bad naturalist (urban). Warré beek. Was community tree carer, forest gardener, bikeability teacher, TU H&S librarian. Climate Doomer 2006-. Read poetry voluntarily
Andrew Brown @abrown23artbooks.bsky.social Founder of indie publisher Art/Books. Hackney and Naples via Yorkshire and Paris. Football. Books. Food. Forza Napoli Sempre. 23. Music. Usually but not always in that order. 'Meglio 3 scudetti con dignità cà 36 senza onestà.' Now 4 scudetti.
Sam Gelder @samgelder.bsky.social Investigations editor at Liberty Investigates. Previously of Dialogue Earth, openDemocracy, Big Issue, HuffPost, Hackney Gazette. London via Wolverhampton
filter more streets @iambrianjones.bsky.social Video and photo maker
Hackney - London
Born California Raised New Jersey.
Urban mobility, Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, parklets.
https://youtube.com/@iambrianjones
Carole Williams @carolewilliams.bsky.social Trustee, Shoreditch Trust, and member of the Windrush Commissioner's Advisory Board
Hackney Cycling Campaign @hackneycycling.org.uk We want to make Hackney safer, healthier with streets for everyone.
Join us, and be part of the London Cycling Campaign to help transform our borough.
Philip Glanville @philipglanville.bsky.social VMO: Campaigner, politico, proud ♥️ Hackney & London - likes urbanism, community, culture, cooking, #ParkRun, F45, travel, housing, architecture, theatre, climate action, public transport & fmr Mayor.
Hackney Council @hackneycouncil.bsky.social Hackney Council's official Bluesky!
Weekly news and what's on ➡️ http://hackney.gov.uk/newsletters
This account is currently not monitored.
N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ https://www.irishlondonhistory.com/
Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter
Herstorical Tours @herstorical1.bsky.social I'm Maria, and I run walking tours of London where women's hidden histories are brought to life with theatre and comedy
ORGAN MAGAZINE @organmagazine.bsky.social ORGAN, Art, Music, Underculture - words, links, art galleries, bands, radio, albums, ResonanceFM, in print, on walls, on line, since the photocopied zine days of 1986 - www.organthing.com - this feed brought to you by Sean - @seanworrall-01.bsky.social
@eastlondongroup.bsky.social @eastlondongroup.bsky.social The art of the East London Group. Also on Instagram:- http://instagram.com/eastlondongroup/ & Facebook http://facebook.com/EastLondonGroup. All images: copyrighted. Find out more about the Group here:- https://www.eastlondongroup.co.uk/ 
London Archaeologist @londonarchaeo.bsky.social London Archaeologist is published 4 times a year, for anyone interested in London's archaeology
Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group @claptonponde5.bsky.social Clapton Pond Neighbourhood Action Group was formed to enable improvement of Clapton Pond in Hackney and surrounds.
Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann @benwwk.bsky.social Dr of London's murals & 'the Left', 1975-86; Lecturer; Socialist; OU PSG; UCU; Lambeth TUC
🇵🇸🚩
https://profiles.open.ac.uk/ben-wiedel-kaufmann
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/early-career-network/reading-groups/marxism-culture
Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
Salvation Army International Heritage Centre @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally.
https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
Kylie @netwench.bsky.social Active travel campaigner.
Work in Comms.
New to Cambridge.
Married a Welshman.
Maori/kiwi immigrant.
Love: school streets, low motor-traffic neighbourhoods, cycle/walk infrastructure, parklets, climate action, Kidical Mass, 20mph, people-friendly streets.
Joe Stone @joestone.bsky.social Freelance designer / cartoonist. Organiser of WIP Comics and the Hackney Comic + Zine Fair.
Design » https://www.joe-stone.co.uk/
Comics » https://www.joestonecomics.co.uk/
Social » https://linktr.ee/joe.stone
Corrina Antrobus @corrinaantrobus.bsky.social Culture Lead for Hackney. @BechdelTestFest Founder. Author of ' Love Romcoms & I'm A Feminist'. Film Critic; Empire, Rolling Stone, BBC etc...
@darrensilk3.bsky.social @darrensilk3.bsky.social 
Ian Phillips @wildlifeian.bsky.social Practical Ecologist and Filmmaker who probably spends a bit too much time building deadwood habitat. Currently working to bring reptiles, amphibians and small mammals back to Hackney Marshes.
pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social London radical histories & mysteries. Obsessions: open space, gentrification, strikes, riot, music, drink, spycops.
https://pasttense.co.uk/
Architectual Icons @architecturalicons.bsky.social The largest selection of architectural illustration products on the web https://architectural-icons.com artwork by @anfurman.bsky.social
Hackney Citizen @hackneycitizen.bsky.social Hackney's independent, free monthly newspaper. Got a story? Contact us at editor@hackneycitizen.co.uk
Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social Textile historian🪡 Curator of Textiles and Contextual Studies Lecturer, Royal School of Needlework | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One published by Bloomsbury 9 October. Water news, London history, laundry, ghost pubs etc. Former BBC correspondent…
Sustainable Hackney @sustainhackney.bsky.social A network of groups and individuals in Hackney committed to environmental protection and social justice.
Alan Russell @soxgnasher.bsky.social Born Homerton Hackney London local history mainly Hackney history - has es ven yox rufn eyds antisemetik
Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social Mostly active travel | climate | politics | cycling | environmental-health/pollution | LTNs | union | Occasional ultra-running | Some other random stuff | Chartered EHP, FCIEH | Personal account
Supporting: www.LowTrafficHackney.org
@sketchingheather.bsky.social @sketchingheather.bsky.social I'm an artist living and working in London, UK. I'm making this account a haven of peace and tranquility with examples of my artwork. You can see more of my art at https://www.ko-fi.com/sketchingheather No NFTs. ©Heather James
Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
Anna Minton @annaminton.bsky.social Writer, journalist, UEL academic and trying to have it all mum of two boys. Author of Ground Control and Big Capital. Working on a new book on the global housing crisis, which will be published by Penguin in 2026. Contributor to Guardian & FT
Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com Talking about how cities achieve contentious change with strategic engagement and communications. Consulting and training: https://strategic-cities.com/
Sydney | London 🚲🌳🌈
(Personal thoughts from Mark A - often astride a bicycle.)
Crispin Truman @crispintru.bsky.social Director of The Rayne Foundation, London cyclist, formerly CEO @CPRE; @TheCCT and @revdoors; former chair of @londoncyclingcampaign and @stokeyschool OBE; he/him
London Historic Buildings Trust @lhbt.bsky.social We protect and regenerate London's historic buildings.
30 years of saving the City's Heritage at Risk 🏛️
https://linktr.ee/londonhistoricbuildings
Barbican City of London @barbicangreyscape.bsky.social Fans of brutalism, modernism & our home in the Barbican at http://www.instagram.com/barbican_city_of_London & at http://Greyscape.com
The Hackney Mixer @themixer.bsky.social A new magazine for Hackney. A mixed bag of features, news and writing at https://thehackneymixer.substack.com/?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2F%2522the%2520hackney%2520mixer%2522&utm_medium=reader2&utm_campaign=reader2 
Henry Long @henrylong9.bsky.social Postboxes | London | urban architecture and streets | parks and gardens | urban rivers | theatre | opera | art | churches | cricket | Norfolk Terriers | decent beer | RNLI supporter. AI sceptic. All views personal.
Philip Wilkinson @philipwilkinson.bsky.social Author: historic architecture, places, history. Here I post English buildings in their variety: churches but also cafés, gazebos but also garages, public houses but also public loos. Plus occasional books, art, carvings, and other stuff.
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
Delphine Jasmin-Belisle @delphinejb.bsky.social Development & Membership at the Heritage Alliance. Trustee at The Maritime Heritage Trust. Director at Hild. Nichiren Buddhist and SGI Member. Talk in footnotes. Views my own.
Sonia Solicari @soniasolicari.bsky.social Director, Museum of the Home.
Trustee, Bethlem Gallery.
Crystal Palace local.
Lesley Thompson @lesleywalks.bsky.social Guided history walks in Islington, Camden and Hackney by qualified local London guide. Lived in these boroughs all my adult life and love sharing their secrets https://lesleythompson.co.uk
Building Conservation @cathedralcomms.bsky.social BCD is the UK's definitive free guide to resources for the conservation and repair of the historic built environment.
Created by Cathedral Communications. Find Historic Churches and the BCD here: www.buildingconservation.com
Waltham Forest Archives @lbwfarchives.bsky.social Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library, Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, London E4 7EN. Collections documenting history of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Research visits by prior appointment. Email wfa.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk
Kevin Trickett MBE @mrtrickett.bsky.social Writer, Speaker, President of Wakefield Civic Society
| 🏳️🌈 | Books | Philosophy | Art Deco | Travel| etc, etc, etc.
Janet Chapman @janetchapman.bsky.social Chair of Tanzania Development Trust and Hackney Society, founder of Hackney History Festival. 
Adam Dennett @adamdennett.bsky.social Professor of Urban Analytics @ CASA UCL -
@casauc.bsky.social. Lover of drum & bass, beer and tattoos. Drummer. Dad. Run a bit. Live in Brighton.
Duncan Wilson @djdunc.bsky.social “90’s AI”, sensing and emerging tech in the built and natural environment - Prof of Connected Environments @casaucl.bsky.social www.iot.io
Save Lea Marshes @saveleamarshes.bsky.social Follow our campaign to protect the Lower Lea Valley (Leyton, Walthamstow & Hackney Marshes) from inappropriate use and development.
https://www.saveleamarshes.org.uk
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Hackney History Festival @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social Hackney Society, Hackney Archives, Sutton House & many more host Hackney History Festival each May. Get in touch to help shape future events!
House Historian @househistorian.bsky.social Historian • author • speaker • TV consultant • presenter. Specialist in researching the history of houses. Otherwise known as Mel Backe-Hansen. Books incl. #AHouseThroughTime and #HouseHistories Rep #PastPreservers http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com