Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social I improvise. I open space, I facilitate. I make unforgettable theatre, amongst others. Director My Neighbour Totoro. Tao of Glass
Artistic Director @ www.improbable.co.uk
www.devotedanddisgruntled.com
Simon Guerrier @0tralala.bsky.social Writer and producer. Out now: David Whitaker in an Exciting Adventure with Television, a biography of the first story editor of Doctor Who. Currently working on a biography of Terrance Dicks. www.simonguerrier.com
Jen @juniperlilacs.bsky.social Once compared to a summer’s day and found to be significantly more frigid.
Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA) @modernism-asia.bsky.social A network for scholars of modernist studies in Asia: literature, art, performance, culture
https://www.modernismasia.hku.hk/
Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social This is the official MSA Bluesky account run by @kweingarten.bsky.social. Find us at moderniststudies.org for more information about future conferences and other events.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social Senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law. Co-host of the Amicus podcast. Dad.
Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social Film & theatre maker, PhD candidate, film programmer.
Against: fascism, corporate rule, AI boosting, cynicism. For: old movies, ideas for the future & pretzels.
Tasmanian & citizen of the world.
J Hoberman @jhoberman.bsky.social Occasional film critic, Columbia adjunct, old VV staff writer
📚 Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism, 3 books on Hollywood & the Cold War
🔜Everything is Now: NYC 60s Avantgarde
Ken Bazinet @kenbazinet.bsky.social Longtime DC scribe, covering three presidencies (DC is fine, but I prefer the United States). Reflections on democracy, First Amendment, Boston sports, and jam bands. Simple approach: trusted source intel + research & data + analysis = smart solutions.
Robert Hanks @roberthanks.bsky.social The man who never was but sometimes looked as though he might be. Cultural commentator for hire. Will work for food.
Andy Kesson @andykesson.bsky.social Research, performance, history, creativity, wrestling and a lot of bears.
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
Doron Galili @galili.bsky.social 
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social Bride of Art. Presenter:Front Row, Newswatch, Art of Persia @SquareWindowPod.bsky.social. 20th Century Society Pres. BFI Film Classics Bk on A Hard Day's Night out now: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hard-days-night-9781839029394/
https://samiraahmed.blog/
Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social Journalist & astrophysicist. Host, @dreamingagainstthemachine.com. New book: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER, about broken futures pushed by tech billionaires. Words in the Atlantic, NPR, NYT, the Guardian, BBC, SciAm, Fortune, etc. He/him. Signal: adambecker.84
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social Television historian, writer, artist, 33% of Mulgrave Audio, comic inks and colours. Author of books about Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Robin of Sherwood. Usually found recreating BBC studio sets in CG. Solvitur ambulando. Marra. Durham.
ko-fi.com/andreworton
Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
Dr Andrea Smith @audioandrea.bsky.social Shakespeare, drama, radio. Often all at the same time. Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at University of Suffolk. Formerly BBC producer. My views.
https://linktr.ee/audioandrea
Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social former 2x pie-eating champion of St Olaf College
Geraint Franklin @geraintfranklin.bsky.social Architectural historian with Historic England (opinions own). British architecture after 1945. Post-Modern Buildings in Britain, HKPA, John Outram. High-Tech Britain out March 2026!
Simon Craven @simoncraven.bsky.social Writer/ editor/ photographer/ filmmaker
Producer and general behind-scenes at https://www.youtube.com/@CatherineWarr/videos
Currently no access to DMs on here
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Ralph Darlington @ralphdarlington.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Uni Salford; ‘Labour Revolt in Britain 1910-14’ @PlutoPress; researching for a new political biography of the legendary labour leader Tom Mann https://www.salford.ac.uk/our-staff/ralph-darlington
Nick Kouhi @nkouhi.bsky.social Freelance critic and programmer, based in New York. Can be found in Screen Slate, The Brooklyn Rail, and Journey Into Cinema, among many other places.
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social I am a Colorado-born and raised, Boston-based writer, historian, and Pulitzer Prize Finalist. I am the author of "The Westerners" (2026), “Saving Yellowstone” (2022) and “The Three-Cornered War” (2020). More details at https://megankatenelson.com
@silentsweeney.bsky.social @silentsweeney.bsky.social Pianist for dance and silent film. Citizen of Aotearoa 
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530
HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Women's writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee
Reviewer for Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Hester L-J @starcrossed2018.bsky.social Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare (just done: #MoonMad); editing (2GV for Arden, ongoing), introducing (R&J, Cambridge, 2023), writing (Textile Shakespeare, Oxford, 2025) & Very Short Intro to the Histories (currently). Teaching in Cambridge (Catz) 🇳🇿
Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social NYT bestselling and BSFA & Scribe award-winning writer. Cardassia’s resident anarchist. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. Chiefest and greatest of calamities.
https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
Jenny O @msyellowhat.bsky.social I’ll probably talk to your dog first
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
Graham Davis @agendaforreform.bsky.social Atheist, skeptic, contrarian, progressive, republican, grandad, worried about the future. Loves beer, nosh and satire. Runner (slow) UK. Also has AMD hence often typos.
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Tanika Gupta @tanikagupta.bsky.social Playwright UK recent play ‘The Empress’ @RSC, ‘A Tupperware of Ashes’ @National Theatre 'Hedda' @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social website: tanikagupta.com
Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in US History @ljmuofficial.bsky.social, historian of games, the Cold War, nuclear stuff, researching #ColdWar era post-apocalypse roleplaying games. #TTRPG designer. You may remember me from such games as #astaterpg, #ColdCity, and #HotWar
Michael Witt @mjewitt.bsky.social Professor of Cinema History at University of Roehampton, London. Author of Jean-Luc Godard’s Unmade and Abandoned Projects (2025) and Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian (2013). https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/michael-witt
Dr Harriet Fletcher @harrietfletcher.bsky.social Writer & academic | Senior Lecturer in Media & Communication @ ARU | 💀⭐ #GothicCelebrity (Bloomsbury) | pop culture | horror | feminism | bimbo-ologist 💅 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/harrietfletcher
PHRC @phrc-dmu.bsky.social The Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) is a hub for innovative research into photography and its broader social and cultural significance based at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Emily Truelove @originalemily.bsky.social A mixture of lovely things that other people have posted, plus news I think is important, and little thoughts I have, or photos I take for my own pleasure. If you don't like it, please feel free to jog on.
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
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/
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland.
Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on deborah.mason@archives.org.uk (quicker than a DM).
Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
The British Broadcasting Century podcast @bbcentury.bsky.social Informing, educating + entertaining re British broadcasting's origin story: the first firsts of radio, early BBC, interwar bits & pieces + occasional pictures of Reith looking grumpy.
By paulkerensa.bsky.social
Podcast/tour/book: paulkerensa.com/oldradio
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Simon Rooks @archivorus.bsky.social Archivist, Researcher, aspiring biographer of a forgotten BBC pioneer. BBC Archivist 1989–2022. Radio, books, any History esp C20th, military, gay & everything! 📚📻 🏳️🌈🇺🇦
Kate Dixon @katefdixon.bsky.social Founder, Good Egg Productions | Creator of Roger Bolton's Beeb Watch Podcast (@BeebRoger) | views my own
Michael Seely @mpseely.bsky.social michaelseely.substack.com Classic BBC TV researcher, biographer of Kit Pedler, Douglas Camfield and Doomwatch.
Gary Naylor @garynaylor85.bsky.social Theatre www.broadwayworld.com/author/Gary-Naylor and theartsdesk.com/users/gary-naylor
Films https://letterboxd.com/garynaylor999/
Cricket www.theguardian.com/profile/gary-naylor
Football https://open.spotify.com/show/2TDgsixzCFC4cfAPdIU0V5
Christian Drury @cjdrury.bsky.social Historian of empire, travel and modernity in the Arctic. DurhamARCTIC PhD. He could never help reading about cricket. He/him. Personal academic website: https://www.christiandrury.co.uk/
Susan Murray @murraysd.bsky.social Professor, Media historian, New Yorker, author of Bright Signals: A History of Color Television.
Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social 100% pure nuance.
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathan-liew
Sarah Street @sarahstreet.bsky.social Film Historian
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social Subverter of the dominant paradigm
BAFTSS Colour and Film Research Group @baftsscolorfilmsig.bsky.social The BAFTSS Special Interest Group on Colour and Film, connecting scholars, filmmakers, archivists and film conservation specialists: http://colourandfilm.com
Jason Archer @jsnrchr.bsky.social Scholar of technology, touch, media and communication
Asst Prof @ MTU: https://shorturl.at/n11An
Human Machine Culture: https://shorturl.at/Q6TTL
https://jasonearcher.com/
Wandering/Wondering
Noam Maggor @maggor.bsky.social Historian of capitalism
Ariel Ron @arielron.bsky.social ag, energy, econ & political history @ SMU // director Clements Center for Southwest Studies // web: arielron.net // book: Grassroots Leviathan (Johns Hopkins UP 2020) http://bit.ly/2CjHK1G // review: http://bit.ly/3xiKlja
@glgerstle.bsky.social @glgerstle.bsky.social 
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
Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social Film is Fabulous! is an initiative to preserve vulnerable film collections held privately in the United Kingdom.
FaceBook Page https://rb.gy/owgxjr
United Kingdom filmisfabulous.org.uk
Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Professor of Shakespeare Studies, University of Oxford
Katie Crosson @katiecrosson.bsky.social Postdoc @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Exeter Film 🌱 Sentimentalist 🌷 PhD in Play for Today 📺 Feminist Screen Theory; Ideology & Aesthetics; Media Histories & Curation; Realism(s) 🌿 [she/her]
Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
Natalie Steed @natalie-steed.bsky.social Audio maker at Rhubarb Rhubarb of podcasts (Folk on Foot, The Cockney Yiddish Podcast, Voices of British Ballet, The Sound of Anger) and radio. Black hearted in Battersea.
@lisacartwright.bsky.social @lisacartwright.bsky.social 
Voices of British Ballet @ballet-voices.bsky.social A website and podcast celebrating the history of dance in Britain through the voices of the people who made it happen.
www.voicesofbritishballet.com
Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social The world viewed from Brockwell Park in South London.
@susanne-greenhalgh.bsky.social @susanne-greenhalgh.bsky.social 
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book coming September 2026.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social Engineering professor. Author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS (on Riverhead in the US+, on Torva in the UK+). Interested in embodiment, materiality, metacognition, and systems. All enthusiasm is 100% genuine. debcha.org
Emma Hyde @emma1616.bsky.social 
The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum @bdcmuseum.bsky.social Welcome and explore with us some of the treasures from the UK's leading moving image museum, based at the University of Exeter.
Free to visit and open 10am to 5pm every day.
www.bdcmuseum.org.uk
#FilmSky #🎥 #cinemahistory
Slow Moving Pictures @lewisbeerblog.bsky.social A film blog: I spent 2025 analysing Red Desert. www.slowmovingpictures.org
David Absalom @britishpictures.bsky.social Trying to stick to posting about British cinema, and not get into moaning about politics.
And I'll fail. 
Toby Hadoke @tobyhadoke.bsky.social Actor, Comedian, Writer, Voice Guy, Professional Anorak.
Arcana is my armour. And my amour. 
Dr Sarah Byrne @sarahbyrne.bsky.social Film & Theatre scholar - Livecasting, remediation, intermediality, medium identity.
Thesis: Both Grand and Intimate - UK Livecasting From 2009 to Now
Actually autistic, sometimes writer, cat person. (She/Her)
London Australian Film Society @londonaustfilm.bsky.social Putting the latest & greatest Aussie films on London screens since 1973.
UP NEXT: ANZ Film Festival - 30 Jan-1 Feb at Finsbury Park Picturehouse.
londonaustfilm.com
linktr.ee/LondonAustFilm
@ProfShakespeare @profshakespeare.bsky.social Professor Emerita, University of Reading; Founder & Director https://henslowe-alleyn.org.uk; Shakespeare, drama, theatre history, literature and manuscripts expert.
@erinsullivan.bsky.social @erinsullivan.bsky.social Shakespeare, emotions, digital, community
Mel Selfe @melselfe.bsky.social Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the University of Glasgow. Media history nerd. Likes archives. Not actually Eve Arden. 
Christina Newland @christinalefou.bsky.social ~old hollywood, crime films, boxing, italian cinema, glamour & beauty ~
Sky Arts talking head. Empire Mag contrib editor. Writing: i Newspaper, the Atlantic, Criterion, BBC, Rolling Stone.
'SOFIA COPPOLA: AN UNOFFICIAL GUIDE'Greenfinch/Quercus 2025.
Mowerbyte @mowerbyte.bsky.social John Burgan. Teach, make, watch and love docs.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Eckart Voigts @ecco0210.bsky.social Prof. English Literatures and Cultures@TU Braunschweig, Germany; Adaptation, Intermediality, Theatre, Neovictorianism, U/Dystopia, "Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana."
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social Prehistory & landscape
Also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnnythinsta/