Emma Haslett @emmahaslett.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Business, feminism, reproductive rights and lots besides. As seen in: Observer, BBC, Prospect, New Statesman, The Persistent.
Substack: https://bigfatnegative.substack.com/
📍 Coastal Kent
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social A series of one-minute stories of the many people, places, and events that have built our country and remind us of the power of each person to make history. #WeAreAmerica250
Eva Diaz @evadiaz.bsky.social Retired International Educator (University of CA, Harvard, CSU). Language Arts (French, English). Deep Blue. Global Citizen. “Le temps, c’est le seul luxe.”
Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social Ex EU Antitrust Lawyer
Chair: Laura Kinsella Foundation, Law For Change, Clean Up The Internet and Press Justice Project;
Board member: Hacked Off and Reprieve;
Big Issue Top 100 Changemaker 2025
Director, Stroud Book Festival
Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social New York Times Opinion Columnist. The world, especially the global south, migration, inequality, the human future, queer stuff. Reachable via email or on Signal @lpolgreen.39
Dr Simon Ubsdell @simonubsdell.bsky.social Still raging about the abject moral abomination of Brexitism.
Susan Gemmill @sgemmill.bsky.social Swimmer, pluviophile, lover of history, & dogs. Writer/author of award winning Blue Yonder. USAF brat. Democrat. I stand with Ukraine. #cleanenergy #Climate #environment #EPA #SheShed
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Errin Haines @errinhaines.bsky.social 24th @NABJ President | Editor at Large @19thnews | @MSNOW Politics Contributor | @caaspeakers |Subscribe to my FREE newsletter | Proverbs 31:31
Maggie McTernan @maggsmct.bsky.social Episcopal priest, parliamentary staffer, ukulele player.
Jasper Gold @jaspergold.bsky.social Barrister @1CrownOfficeRow – a bit of this a bit of that - medical, inquests, inquiries, data/info/privacy and public law. Comissioning Editor of the UK Human Rights Blog (@ukhumanrightsblog.bsky.social). Drinking myself to oblivion but with coffee.
Keon West @profkeonwest.bsky.social Professor of Psychology, Author of the Science of Racism, Rhodes Scholar, Oxford DPhil, ERC-funded, #BBCExpertVoices. He/him🇯🇲🇹🇹🇬🇧🇺🇸
Zach Boren @zdboren.bsky.social what do i know? do i know things?? let's find out! > grilled.media
Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social Writing in the New Statesman, Liberal Currents, New Socialist, Tribune, Vulture, Aftermath. Host of Death Sentence podcast.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social Former NHS Doctor - Bestselling Substack Writer - Political Commentator. Sign up here! http://Linktr.ee/jujuliagrace
Clémentine Forissier @cforissier.bsky.social Editorial director, co-founder, Contexte (www.contexte.com) - Deep information #journalism #management #EUaffairs #politics #policies 
LibraryKilleen @librarykilleen.bsky.social 
Haringey Community Press @haringeycp.bsky.social An online news publication covering news in the London borough of Haringey. Published by Social Spider Community News. Nine years in print, now online only. Follow for daily Haringey news. Haringeycommunitypress.co.uk
Katharine Khamhaengwong @katharinegk.bsky.social senior editor @bindinghook.bsky.social / freelance editor & writer (eater, eurasianet, moscow times, oc media, oxford analytica, saveur, etc)
based in oegstgeest
also: birds, bikes, georgian, snacks, trains
Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Harvard, Author of, among other books, Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings:An American Controversy,The Hemingses of Monticello,, Vernon Can Read: A Memoir with Vernon Jordan, On Juneteenth
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Broad History @isa.broadhistory.com.ap.brid.gy The history you think you know, and the women who lived it | A podcast by journalist & public historian Isabelle Roughol
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://www.broadhistory.com/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social 'Who would have thought my shriveled heart
Could have recovered greenness?'
Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social Asst. Professor; Security Studies; Extremism; Extremism; AI; Pop Culture;
"An aging, angry woman laying mightily about me with my handbag, fighting hoodlums off." Ursula K Le Guin. And me.
She/her
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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
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
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. My book Wildly Different, about women and nature is now in paperback!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
I don't follow fictional accounts
I Never use AI
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
The Pulitzer Prizes @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social It's our 108th year honoring excellence in journalism and the arts. Visit us at http://pulitzer.org. 
Unbreaking @unbreaking.org How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unbreaking.org/
Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social Author: Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (University of Chicago Press).
Researcher, infolit/misinfo/rhetoric/civic reasoning. Currently researching AI as tool for critical thinking.
Ben L-C @benglc.bsky.social Comedy, storytelling, Buffy, that sort of thing
(he/him)
https://benlundconlon.com/buffy-show
Louise Knights-McCudden @louknightsmccudden.bsky.social Writer, politics & public policy analysis nerd, reproductive justice advocate 🌈 UK Head of External Relations & Advocacy at MSI Reproductive Choices but views my own. I also sometimes use the name Xander.
Tom Dark @darkpublisher.bsky.social Non-fiction Publisher, Manchester University Press.
Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow us to get daily posts on what women have done #OnThisDay. 🗃️
We check replies on weekdays, but not always at weekends.
https://carvehername.org.uk/ and https://linktr.ee/CarveHerName
John Henry Falle @thestorybeast.bsky.social Storyteller. Acting Thing. Beard owner. Expect: Folk Horror. Dolmens. Poetry. Exciting facts about the Island of Jersey.
Raphael Satter @raphae.li Say hi: https://raphae.li or on Signal: raphaelsatter.01
Bram De Ridder @bramderidder.bsky.social History, strategy & communication | game designer | researcher in applied history | PhD early modern history, MPhil international relations | www.branwenadvisors.com, www.sunkentower.be
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social Co-founder and CEO @19thnews, former @TexasTribune EIC/enthusiast. Occasional mom content.
Nick Reed @nickinmasham.bsky.social Southern type happily adopted by Masham (where I programme music and comedy at the Town Hall), by Yorkshire, and by @janrreed. Culture, quizzing, market town life, bit of sport, serendipity. He/him.
Benjamin Strick @bendobrown.bsky.social Investigator | Human Rights | Hybrid Wars
- Makes videos on maps, data & #OSINT
- Director of Investigations at @cen4infores.bsky.social
- Prev at BBC Africa Eye. Bellingcat contributor.
Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social Senior investigator & Trainer @Bellingcat.com
Investigating explicit non-consensual deepfakes/AI and disinfo w/OSINT
"I am a doctor, but not that kind of doctor."
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/
Jane Robinson @janerobinson.bsky.social Social historian; 13 books include 'Bluestockings', 'Ladies Can't Climb Ladders' & 'Trailblazer' (a biog of Barbara Bodichon). FRHistS, FRGS, Arts Society, www.jane-robinson.com
Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult.bsky.social Author/Mom/Wonder Woman/Queen of the North
She/her/hers
Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social Writer, medievalist, co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Writing a book about medieval imperfection.
irinadumitrescu.com
Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer
@UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by
@pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc.bsky.social Author of Witchland (coming 2026) and Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials. History, folklore, books, archives.
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
Tara Puri @victorianthings.bsky.social Researching late 19th-early 20th century women's magazines in Britain and India; Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Lucy Inglis @lucyinglis.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin. 
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR boss
🏖️ Clacton 💚
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… TV & Podcast producer / writer / host. Director of HistFest.
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
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/
Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account of the Women's History Review journal published by Taylor and Francis 
Megan Darby @climatemegan.bsky.social Heat pump appreciation account.
Julien Genestoux @ouvre-boite.com VP of Engineering at @relayProtocol!
Previously, founder @unlock-protocol.com (aqui-hired by Relay in 2025), founder @superfeedr (RSS, websub), sold to @medium.com in 2016!
Also goes by julien51 on the Internet!
https://ouvre-boite.com
Rupert Stubbs @rupertstubbs.bsky.social Proudest of the posts I didn’t send.
Jim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com Journalist, educator and researcher. Student of peace and justice. CMAT superfan. Born in Boston. Shaped by 35 years in Philadelphia and one in Baghdad. Recently relocated to Cork. 🇮🇪
Signal: JRM.353 · JimMacMillan.com · Pax et Lux · #SpeirGorm
Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social Professor and Associate Vice President (Impact) at #LSE | Psychologist | Hon FBPsS | Hon Prof @lborouniversity.bsky.social | @IndependentSage.bsky.social Behaviour Group | Conversation Analyst #EMCA | she/her | own views | #AcademicSky
Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social Economic Historian of early modern world and labour markets and built stuff. Director of LRI. Prof at Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction UCL. Hon Sec of Economic History Society. FRHS
Fiona Sampson @fionasampson.bsky.social Writer, poet, Romanticist, critic, librettist, literary translation. Agent: mail@wylieagency.co.uk
Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.
@skeetcambodia.bsky.social @skeetcambodia.bsky.social 
School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social Official tweets from the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
David Hull 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social Associate Prof of Chinese, gamer, reader of books. Translator of Zhang Tianyi's The Pidgin Warrior and Mao Dun's Waverings among other things. Ex-98G.
He/him
María Ramírez @mariaramirez.bsky.social Journalist, writer. Deputy Managing Editor @eldiario.es. Contributor @theguardian.com. Long story as a reporter in New York, Brussels, Milan, Madrid and now Oxford, UK. @niemanfoundation.bsky.social @uchipolitics.bsky.social @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
Jenna Corderoy @jennacorderoy.bsky.social 
Lucas Amin @lucasamin.bsky.social Award-winning investigative reporter working with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social @ Democracy for Sale.
Sign up for the newsletter: democracyforsale.substack.com
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Emma Flint @emmaflint.bsky.social Writer. Awkward but terribly keen.
LITTLE DEATHS | OTHER WOMEN
Books, history, coffee, cats, stories, gin 🐈⬛
📚 Agent: Antony Topping
Longlisted: Women’s Prize | CWA Gold Dagger | Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year | Guardian Not The Booker
Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social Author of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (an FT Best Book of 2025). Resident economic historian on BBC Radio 4 #UnderstandTheEconomy. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & RSA.
Maitre Eolas @maitreeolas.bsky.social Avocat, praticien de la justice, débatteur public, potache.
Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
Empire: World History @empirepoduk.bsky.social Podcast on empires and world history 🌎
A Goalhanger production with Anita Anand and William Dalrymple
Jonathan Head @pakhead.bsky.social BBC South East Asia Correspondent in Bangkok
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Radio France @radiofrance.fr Radio publique française : France Inter, franceinfo, France Bleu, France Culture, France Musique, FIP, Mouv’
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
London Loop - Capital Ring @ldnloop-capring.bsky.social Ramblers volunteers improving & promoting the #LondonLoop, #CapitalRing & #GreenChainWalk, keeping route guidance & maps updated & making the routes more enjoyable for all to walk. Share your photos with us when out walking the routes!
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk Chief Digital Officer in Media. Manc, leftie, foodie, cook, dad, feminist. Talks tech, science, politics, #mcfc, ADHD, gardening, transport, & data. Orange & natural wine fan. Lives in Hythe near Folkestone, Kent, UK. 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇦Opinions my own.
Daniel Lawler @daniellawler.bsky.social Science and health journalist at AFP
(@en.afp.com), based in Paris