RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social Keeping the memory of #WW2 alive by means of #OTDs.
Arnhem author of two *good* books about operation Market Garden, Lost At Nijmegen & Little Sense Of Urgency (Order 😉 via https://pre-jump.nl). Can be hired as Battlefield Guide.
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Iain Moore @iainmoore.bsky.social Interested in libraries, charities and the social sector and how together they can fix everything.
Once & future ultra runner. Macclesfield. Gay adopter. 🏳️🌈
Commercial Director, Libraries Connected
www.librariesconnected.org.uk
He/him
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Hipster Viking Amy @lasrina.bsky.social She/her. Looks like she’d know where the Parmesan cheese is.
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
Dave Doogan @davedooganmp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Angus & Perthshire Glens
Holyrood @holyroodmag.bsky.social Award-winning political journalism from Holyrood magazine. https://www.holyrood.com/
Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social "Estimable" Sir Jonathan Jones KC
Associate Prof in Public Law, Durham Law School. Looks at how legislatures and govt works. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/benjamin-y-yong/
Mastodon: @bymyong@mstdn.social
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social Latest news updates and reviews from the British Fantasy Society Community. Home to readers, writers, artists and gamers. Love SFFH? Come join us! www.britishfantasysociety.org
First Ten Pages Programme: https://british-fantasy-society.vercel.app/welcome
Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴 @dampscot.bsky.social Husband, carer, IT bod, plays & tries to write RPGs & Wargames
RPGs
Chivalry & Sorcery
C&S Essence
Rocket Jocks
Vis Imperium Victoriana
Free RPGs
Essence Core
Straight to Video
With Spell & Blaster
Tales from an Ancient Empire
Conrunner 2042
The Vigil
Andrea Zuvich @17thcenturylady.bsky.social Historian (1603-1714). #Ravenous 💋 (A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress).
Hostess: #StuartSaturdayLive.
Co-founder #StuartHistFest
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King's College London. Russian foreign & security policy, US foreign policy, US-Russia relations, European security. Views are my own.
Scott Mackie @smackie.org Lapsed Ginger. Scottish. Silicon Valley Escapee. Retired Internet Plumber. Old Macs. Splinter Maker. Photography. SF Giants. Snark. MDANT. Santa Cruz. Kendal.
https://glass.photo/smackie
https://optional-extras.org
GMT Games @gmtgames.bsky.social GMT Games is celebrating 35+ years of creating and publishing a broad line of Wargames, Strategy games, Eurogames, and Family games.
Ant Sharman @zeroecho.uk Designs and delivers professional wargames and exercises at @evocatusuk.bsky.social.
Part-time tank soldier, interested in decision-making and finding the middle ground.
https://t.crdtg2.com/331727/5165?aff_sub5=SF_006OG000004lmDN
Evocatus @evocatusuk.bsky.social Based at Dorset Innovation Park:
•Wargaming and Exercises
•Film Content Creation
•Coffee
•Medal Mounting
www.evocatus.co.uk
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.
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
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/
NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social The bluesky social media channel for the University of Aberdeen Northern Picts project @northernpicts on Facebook
All things Pictish/early medieval/Aberdeen/Scotland/Archaeology/Hilforts/Digital
Angela O'Brien / GrecianGirly @greciangirl.bsky.social Avid book collector/Dreamer/ Recent MA graduate. Half-English / Half-Greek
Posts:Archaeology/Ancient History/Classics🏺🏛 Expect typos and photos of sheep 😊🐑
Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social Journalist. Activist. Working for a better tomorrow today.
Political perspectives. Sustainability. Resilience. Food security. Social justice.
Scottish. Irish. Algerian. Kabyl.
There is no Planet B.
Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social Professor of European Prehistory
Vice President, The Prehistoric Society
Archaeologist • digs hillforts, Celts • writes disciplinary history • resolving the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past • radical
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
Paul Gaskell @pgaskell.bsky.social UK civil servant at the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology
Knightly reads @knightlyreads.bsky.social currently writing romance
beta reader✌🤴
book editor💕📚
I read books before it is cool.... and before it make sense🧠
Shaun Gomm @shaungomm.bsky.social Commercial Director @Nexer_Digital. Human-centred design. Accessibility. Host and organiser of #CampDigital Leftie. #NUFC fan
Lauren the Flute @laurentheflute.bsky.social Writes too many words & talks too much. Storyteller, writer, VGM flutist & singer, newbie beader, Twitch affiliate, Texan-Canadian. Leader of the Returners. Marketer by trade, artist at heart. 🏳️🌈
Twitch.tv/LaurentheFlute
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
UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social The UK’s leading research centre on constitutional change. Informing policy-making and public debate about the constitution and democracy.
Sign up to hear about our blog posts, events and publications 👉 https://mailchi.mp/ucl/constitution-unit.
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Old Hobbit🐸 @oldhobbit.bsky.social Ageing hobbit, not eleventy one yet, refugee from that Other Place.
Antony Poveda @tonytoners.bsky.social Some sort of designer/Head of Morale, mainly content. Working for users of government. Stealing all your best ideas since 2014 (reading stuff, not much posting). antonypoveda.design Sheffield.
Citizens Advice Scotland @citizensadvicescot.bsky.social Empowering people across Scotland | Here to help you find a way forward ➡️
Kevin Keith @kevkeith.bsky.social Passionate about building trust. Chair, opengovernment.org.uk; Co-Chair, UK Multi-Stakeholder Forum; Writer, published articles on KevKeith.com; Governor Warrington & Halton NHS Trust; Trustee, homelessness charity, The Papercup Project. LFC #YNWA
fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social Confess your sins anonymously - will the internet absolve you?
Buy show tickets 2025/6: sites.google.com/view/fesshole
Add confession b3ta.com/addfess
Buy book amazon.co.uk/s?k=very+best+of+fesshole&tag=b3ta-21
Run @robmanuel.b3ta.com
@vancitymark.bsky.social @vancitymark.bsky.social 
Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Like my writing? Buy me a ☕ https://ko-fi.com/marybranscombe. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. signal marypcbuk.44
Richard Appleby @rmappleby.uk Ex-IBMer, currently "economically inactive". Interested in science, technology and the environment. Fan of rational thought, citizenship and the common good.
Wes Miller @getwired.com EX-Microsoft - Research analyst at Directions on Microsoft covering identity, security, compliance, management, & Microsoft licensing. Blog: http://getwired.com
@historystudiola.bsky.social @historystudiola.bsky.social 
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Public Historian & #StarWars author. Rep'd Justin Nash of @katenashagent.bsky.social. Visiting Senior Research Fellow @warstudieskcl.bsky.social. Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Historian @blackmillgames.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social Economics writer. Author.
Expect history, economics, finance and other stuff. Some cricket.
Wrote Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through.
Blood and Treasure, on the economics of war, out now.
Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com Political scientist and author of How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. Hosting The Next Best, a politics podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@DrMarcelDirsus
Alexander Rooksmoor @arcrooksmoor.bsky.social Author: 55 'what if?' history; historical crime; fantasy & steampunk books available on Amazon & some published by SeaLionPress too. See also: https://rooksmoor.blogspot.com/
Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com Author. Actor. Observer of everyday life.
https://www.mirandakeeling.com
My new book: https://geni.us/ThePlaceImin
My first book: https://tinyurl.com/ycz2hc94
My podcast: https://StoppingToNotice.lnk.to/podcastho
Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/mrxket5b
Geoffrey Lean @geofflean.bsky.social World’s longest-serving (56 yrs) environment hack. On Yorkshire Post, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Telegraph. Also in Guardian, Daily Mail, ipaper, Sun, BBC, Open Democracy, Evening Standard etc.Happy husband, dad, grandpa. Life measured in dogs.
Kevin Gallant @kevin-gallant.bsky.social Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered historian, folkie & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Director of @baysar.bsky.social
Wire Witch Violet @wirewitchviolet.bsky.social Money goes in here: https://patreon.com/wirewitchviolet
Writing comes out here: https://wirewitchviolet.tumblr.com
Here there's gaming livestreams on mondays, creative projects alternate Fridays, each starting at 8 PM: https://www.twitch.tv/wirewitchviolet
Joe Hill @jo3hill.bsky.social Director of Strategy @re-state.bsky.social, Founder http://greaterlondon.co, Columnist in CityAM. ex Treasury. Views my own
Sean Kemp @seankemp.bsky.social Advised the Lib Dems during coalition. Somehow still able to get work
Miranda Green @greenmirandahere.bsky.social Yakking. Tippy tappy typing. Politics. Education. FT columns, Political Fix podcast and videos here https://www.ft.com/miranda-green - please check out Not Another One https://open.spotify.com/show/7u4nlhVNmzzZrLjmB7z137?si=dcf00d7580444ccb
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Dr Jamie Gallagher @jamiebgall.co.uk Public Engagement trainer & consultant | #SciComm writer/presenter | @rspb.bsky.social & STFC advisor |🏳️🌈🏴
Geek: Star Trek | Doctor Who
I make nerdy rainbow pin badges that have raised £35k for homeless LGBTQ+ people
https://linktr.ee/Jamiebgall
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
Jon Patience @smoulderstoat.bsky.social This profile left intentionally blank.
Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social 'Who would have thought my shriveled heart
Could have recovered greenness?'
Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social Senior videogame tech artist /art director.
Unreal Tournament 04, Dragonage, D&D Online, God of War: Chains of Olympus, Stellaris, Civ IV + more. VFX Where The Wild Things Are.
https://www.delaneyking.com
Law of Fairness @lawoffairness.bsky.social Could life be literally fair for everyone? Learn more about the global research project evaluating if conscious experience obeys a law-like closure condition. Watch the videos on TikTok: https://linktr.ee/LawOfFairness
DEATH PLASTIC @deathplastic.bsky.social A tabletop miniatures publication by @failnaut.bsky.social. Coming in Q2 2026. Website in progress!
Volko @volko.bsky.social Historical boardgame designer. Ⓥegan.
https://phalanx.co.uk/1943-race-to-rabaul-a-new-game-by-volko-ruhnke/
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1162-drachen.aspx
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1102-coast-watchers.aspx
https://www.fortcircle.com/the-hunt-for-blackbeard/
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
Wulf Sternhammer @tarielcell.bsky.social Be kind. Be cheerful. Be bold.
Sam Gad Jones @samgadjones.bsky.social European Security Correspondent for the Financial Times.
Writer and host of Hot Money Season 3: Agent of Chaos. https://www.ft.com/content/d5f80bc5-a204-472e-921f-c1f08aa83989?shareType=nongift
Formerly doing various things in Mitteleuropa.
Also 🎿🚴♂️📚🏔️
patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social Sweary lefty who opposes Neoliberalism, the Tories, and so called centrists, who are really just more Tories.
Proud socialist & woke as fuck!
Muslim Jew Christian gay or Trans whatever, I don't give a fuck its how you behave that matters!
VOTE GREEN
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
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social Priest, mediaevalist, geek, Scot. All views personal. She/ her
Melissa Ann Singer @masinger.bsky.social freelance book editor specializing in genre fiction, former Senior Editor at Tor; loves theater & art; basically a nerd. has a cat
she/her
demi/ace
Jewish
NYC, HCHS, SMC
(cover image: "59th Street Bridge" by Jeffrey is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.)
Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social Not a mere Device. She/her.
Weather alerts 🌩️👀 HhqZvrGS7B6G
Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social Opinionated heterochromic homosexual hemiglossic. He/him. Cis. Soyboy. Views my own. Tolerance is a social contract; if you're intolerant I don't have to tolerate you. No LGB without the TQ+. Sine homines gaudere rebus. #BLM No hands but ours 👍👎.
Sean Eric Fagan @kithrup.bsky.social UNIXy Guy. He/him. Prone to shouting "PUPPY" in public.
I frequently (almost every day, in fact) give away Kindle genre books using #KindleBookGiveaway hashtag, and wrote a feed named "Kindle Book Giveaway" -- but remember bsky has hashtags now!
Lizzie Bruce @lizziecake.bsky.social Content strategy and management. Fascinated by good design. Offline path fan. UX books and courses author. #UCDFreelancersDirectory creator. Wrote Readability Guidelines. Books, films, hikes, objects. ©️ Photo: Isokon Building by me. cakeconsultancy.com 🍰
@hawksland.bsky.social @hawksland.bsky.social CEnv furious about anthropogenic Climate Change; passionate about wildlife, regeneration, soils and habitats. Love gardening. Hacked off with Labour sacking its environmental pledges, sounding & acting like Tories. Hate Farage & his nasty politics
Amy @amzomac.bsky.social I'm Amy. I spend time running, protesting, asking questions, finding beauty in the mundane and refusing to be neutral in situations of injustice. Socialist.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
📍🏴
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
5.0 out of 5 stars: Page turner, brilliant new Cold War thriller.
👉 https://amzn.eu/d/2IHjNWV
Grey ships, black boats
Once a midship, always a midship!
https://www.midshipnews.org/
Randall Munroe @xkcd.com 
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social Author, book http://Amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KR127TN?
Preview here https://archiveofourown.org/works/47902108/chapters/120770212
I #followback
Rejected Petitions @rejectpetitions.bsky.social Skeeting every UK Parliament petition rejection.
A bot by @jonty.bsky.social.
Fediverse: https://bot.country/@rejectpetitions
Petitions: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=rejected
Sunil @sdvr.bsky.social Erstwhile researcher in human computer interaction/tech, accessible environments, sociology, politics, transport/urbanism and rare diseases: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oSEzsOoAAAAJ&hl=en
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Micah @rincewind.run Recovering forum poster, politics doomer, basketball nerd. I write code for a living. He/him. Views entirely my own.
Deputy Chair of the Ankh-Morpork Posters’ Guild
🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights
War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social Experience. Conflict. Commentary.
Join our community: https://warontherocks.com/membership/
Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough
Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social History person, Army officer, transplanted Buckeye, not really that angry anymore. Writes stuff. Some Star Wars. Refugee from Twitter. Views do not reflect or represent the DoD's. He/him/his. angrystaffofficer.com
Ann (she/her) @agvbergin.net Both newts and housing, please. Whole of society approach to looking after each other. Here to solve problems.
@richardblyth.bsky.social @richardblyth.bsky.social Chartered town planner and trainee theologian
Heather Smith FB99% FBALL FBPE @hs3.bsky.social Campaigner for @99organisation @togetheralliance @AllianceNowUK #governmentforthe99% #climate #FBPE #degrowth #StopRosebank
25 years in corp comms. Feminist. Sailor. Gardener. Mum (not in that order)
Neal Hudson @resi-analyst.bsky.social UK housing market analyst. Personal account.
Analysis and commentary at https://builtplace.com/
Visiting Fellow at Henley Business School.
Columnist for FT Weekend’s Money.
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org