Andrew Fox Ⓥ @foxphorescence.bsky.social Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
Paul Hamer @paulhamer1.bsky.social Based in Hampshire UK.
I life sci-fi, humour, D&D and end up getting annoyed by politics. I enjoy food and travel.
Andrew Parnall from Derby @dontbrexitfixit.bsky.social I am @dontbrexitfixit on Twitter. Still furious about Brexit and the impact it's having on our country.
Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social Proud to be a Yorkshireman of Scottish descent. Lefty Humanist. Green Party member. Dislikes Tories. Hates racism, bigotry, misogyny, Putin, Trump and Farage. Loves music - Alan Hull/Lindisfarne, Runrig, Springsteen, Dylan, Cohen, Al Stewart. #FBPE. 🏴. 🇺🇦.
Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast 
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Somerset Vernacular Building Research Group (SVBRG) @svbrg.bsky.social We record and study historic buildings in the county of Somerset, UK. Events, surveys, research, publications. Established 1979. https://svbrg.org.uk/
Snigdha @snig.bsky.social Food, music, politics. Views mine, don't threaten to email my boss. (She/her).
Mini blog http://snigskitchen.tumblr.com
Main blog https://snigskitchen.blogspot.com
@piers-allan.bsky.social @piers-allan.bsky.social Between dogs, but always a springer. Engaged with the land. Sing a bit.
Sylvia Milne📚 @libmoggy.bsky.social Retired librarian. Bookworm/KindleWorm Likes Victorian literature, music and nature . Started listening to #TheArchers when it replaced Dick Barton. Like many born before or during WWII I was firmly against Brexit
sylviamilne.co.uk
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Miranda Davies/Emmerson @mirandaemmerson.bsky.social Novelist (4th Estate); dramatist (BBC TV/Radio); and academic looking at British national identities, myth narratives & women's boxing. Welsh Agatha Christie coming to R4 12/10/26. 🏴🏴🇫🇷🇵🇱
Rogelio. Porfirio @rogelioporfirio71.bsky.social “Built from long days, honest work, and lessons learned the hard way. I value presence over noise, character over show, and respect above all. I still believe a gentleman’s strength shows in how he treats others and I laugh easily along the way.”
Cathy Johnson @dadslibrary.bsky.social Writing YA and teen. Northern Writers Debut Fiction Award 2019, Guppy YA SL 2022. #SCBWI, #MAWFYP Bath Spa. Lupus warrior. Former GP.
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the early modern Atlantic World, specializing in Bermuda, slavery and the slave trade, maritime history, maritime emancipation, Caribbean history, sensory history. Dept of History, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
Malty but nice 🥃😻🐧 @artbookreview.bsky.social Editor of Artbookreview.net, the independent blog for art book reviews. Mostly harmless. Easily mistaken for an owl.
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Nate @natusm.bsky.social Incurable bibliophile
Progressive berserker
Anti-racist & anti-fascist
Once and future director
🇵🇸FREE PALESTINE🇵🇸
White belt energy
Epic level ADHD
Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social Bodley's Librarian, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE. President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social Hon. Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Zsaffryn Terra @zsaffrynterra.bsky.social Climber 🧗🏻♀️ Writer 🪶 Reader 📚Organic Gardener 🐝 Fur Mama 🐕 Yogi 🧘🏻♀️ Happily Married ❤️ Curious ✨
#amquerying
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social @briandunn.bsky.social Semi-retired, but still kicking. MA/History. Lifelong Californian. Lifelong Democrat. Naval and Maritime History aficionado. Servant to two cats. Reasonably articulate, but becoming more acerbic as time goes on.
Clint Davis @clintrdavis.bsky.social 
Dan Herbert @danherb10.bsky.social Me?
Prehistory. Normans. Recently Vikings. New Model Army. Asterix. Old Gods. Arsenal. Corinthian Casuals.
University Library Buildings Development Manager.
Neurodivergent. Cursed by MECFS.
#MDANT
Amy Swift @aswiftceramics.bsky.social Ceramic artist & maker.
Norwegian Farm Life.
UPF free cooking that my kids tolerate.
YA Fantasy writer
I love to play with dirt and stuff my face with good food.
ASwiftCeramics@hotmail.com
Kate Watson @loreandordure.com Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, lexicographer, ADHD+ & alleged Pratchett witch.
Letterpress, bookbinding, (alt-process) photography.
Long Covid victim. She/they.
🖋️ https://loreandordure.com/
🖼️ https://ko-fi.com/loreandordure/shop/- A Azure Sentry @azuresentry.bsky.social Naval engineer. AOE2 enthusiast. Amateur SciFi writer.
Gerard Fitzgerald @gfitz.bsky.social Military-Environmental History, #envhist Department of Engineering and Society, UVA, Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities U. Stavanger, History of Airborne Disease, Technology, Chemistry, Biology, Senses, CW & BW… and ships and railroads.
Austen @austenpaulh.bsky.social Gibbous loon writing and researching 
Erbury Old Boy @erburyoldboy.bsky.social Son of Suffolk,
iPhone snapper, leisurely cyclist, watcher of wildlife & drinker of beer.
Still figuring out what I want to be when I grow up.
Occasionally foreswunk.
Not so much mainstream, more ox-bow lake.
Not entirely serious.
Life huh?
En France
Mark Harris @markharrisauthor.bsky.social I am an author of naval history, with a special interest in the First World War. I look to reveal new insights through my writing and am a member of the Society for Nautical Research:
https://markharrisauthor.wordpress.com
Louise Oldfield @louiseoldfield.bsky.social Northerner, researcher. 2025-26 MA Naval, Maritime Coastal History University of Portsmouth. B&B landlady in an 18th c. house in Margate. Interests: lives of working class people, 20th century Britain, Special Operation Forces, WWII
Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
Rhianna Levi-Burton @rhiannalevi98.bsky.social Former Worcestershire Poet Laureate. Cover teacher. Youth worker. Social media manager. Published writer. Mental health advocate.
Coffee, cats, tattoos, movie fanatic. Tolkien enthusiast. 🖤
Worcester, UK
Daisy May Johnson @chaletfan.bsky.social Author of How To Be Free, How To Be Brave & How To Be True. I also research school stories, juvenilia, and girlhood in children's literature.
didyoueverstoptothink.com
Susie Morello @susie-morello.bsky.social Historian at heart. Independent scholar. Currently researching & writing about the C19th Royal Navy in the Arctic & Antarctic.
The Arthur Ransome Society @tarsociety.bsky.social Arthur was born in 1884 in Leeds. The Society was set up to popularise his many books (not just for children) and encourage research into his life and work.
https://arthur-ransome.org/
UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social UKDHHH is a network to allow those interested in Disabled, Neurodiverse, & D/deaf histories, from the ancient world to the modern era, to connect & collaborate. We are open to researchers, archivists, museum professionals, activists & everyone in-between.
SMH Historians @smh-historians.bsky.social The Society for Military History and the Journal of Military History's Official Bluesky Page.
Navy Records Society @navyrecords.bsky.social Publishing British naval documents and history since 1893. Discover more:
https://linktr.ee/navyrecords
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social 
Tom Shakespeare @tomshakespeare.bsky.social Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
Journey Plotter @journeyplotter.nl Visualize hundreds of journeys of Royal Navy vessels of the World War 1-era, or Arctic voyages of United States vessels from the mid 19th century onwards.
https://www.journeyplotter.nl
#NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #History #Maritime #CitizenScience
Andrew Bruce-Lockhart @andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk UK, Kent-based author of Pandora's Secret
www.andrewbrucelockhart.co.uk
Film Director
https://sendcake.net/
Photographer
https://drewhartphotography.com/
Cake Eater
SendCake Films @sendcake.net Writer. Director. Cake Eater.
sendcake.net
Author website: www.ajlockhart.co.uk
Bsky: @ajlockhart.co.uk
Riding Lights Theatre Company @ridinglights.bsky.social York based, internationally renowned touring theatre company.
Make theatre make a difference.
linktr.ee/RidingLights
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
Dave Long @axe99.bsky.social Personal account, all opinions my own and not representative of anyone/thing else. Interested in critical thinking, naval history and raising ME/CFS awareness. Also, random nice photos :)
Iain Ballantyne @iainballantyne.bsky.social Editor Warships IFR mag and its guides to the US Navy and Royal Navy. Author of books, including 'Hunter Killers', 'The Deadly Trade', 'Killing the Bismarck', plus the new novel 'Martin's Eyes' published by Chiselbury. Web site www.iainballantyne.com
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Dr Amy Kavanagh @blondehistorian.bsky.social Blind activist, Mama, accessibility professional and Londoner. Guided by the Diva Retriever. Sharing my blurry world view
Dr Cat Beck @catsbeck.bsky.social Historian of madness and disability among seafarers in the long 18th Century
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
David Underdown @davidunderdown.bsky.social Data Engineer at The National Archives. Digital Preservation/Digital Archiving. Also cycling, bellringing, photography, choral singing, promming and much more
Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social Green Party Member of the House of Lords. Environment, civil liberties, the ocean, and almost anything that interests me ...
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16
Sr Judith @srjudithl.bsky.social Benedictine nun, creativity & prayer, Benedictine spirituality, Lectio Divina, Vatican II, cycling, Ecumenism, spiritual direction, finding God in all things https://www.turveyabbey.org.uk/ https://www.turveyabbey.org.uk/pilgrimage/
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
The Rose Playhouse @roseplayhouse.bsky.social Bankside's first theatre
Built by Philip Henslowe 1587, rediscovered 1989
Original home of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Kyd & many others
Scheduled Monument & Registered Charity
www.roseplayhouse.org.uk
Rose Theatre Trust
56 Park St, London SE1 9AR
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
CYA Conference @cyaconference.com Children, Young Adult, and Adult Writers’ and Illustrators’ Conference, is for writers and illustrators of all ages, all genres.
CYAConference.com
Isabelle Prim @horatioforever.bsky.social Music librarian. Churchcrawling, art, stained glass, Baroque music, manuscripts, ships.
Also #embroidery, mostly cross stitch and blackwork 🪡
Learning Welsh <3 Ych a fi !
Profile picture by glass artist Nancy Sutcliffe + mask by Insta honteuzaikonfu
Poor Frank Raw @poorfrankraw.co.uk Hand carved, often sweary, lettering on stone.
Retired silversmith. Recovering geek. Rude mechanical. Nobody gets out of here alive.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
www.youtube.com/@poorfrankraw
Trustee of salivaryglandcancer.uk
Helen Kemp @drhelenkemp.bsky.social Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social Illustrations and genuine replies from the Girl’s Own Paper 1880-1899. (‘Girls’ at the time meant roughly age 15 to 29 years). Working back to the 33,000 followers I had in the other place! Caption contest every Sunday at 18:00 GMT
Richard Osgood @richardosgood.bsky.social Archaeologist
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Jackie Watson @jackiewatson05.bsky.social Early modern literature: letters, Inns of Court, drama. Somervillian. European.
‘Epistolary Courtiership and Dramatic Letters’ out with EUP June 2024.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-epistolary-courtiership-and-dramatic-letters.html
William the Librarian @williamottens.com Librarian in Kansas City. Creator of librarianproblems.com. Author of LIBRARIAN TALES. Lover of all things cats and books. He/him. williamthelibrarian.com 🏳️🌈📚😺
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Liz Brownlee @lizpoet.bsky.social I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
mightygwyn @mightygwyn.bsky.social @DrillHalls elsewhere
The Vosges and Alsace in occupation and wartime:
thebluelinefrontier.com
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A few snaps on www.mightygwyn.eu
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L.C.Winter @lcwinter.bsky.social Writer of historical gothic. 'Spider, Spider' out now.
Links here. https://linktr.ee/LCWinter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=b1799b03-281d-4d43-a3ee-0dbd8abf2d60
Agent - Emily Glenister
Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social Writer. Very small. Books normal size. THE CLOCKWORK GIRL, BOOK OF SECRETS etc. Writes thrillers as Anna Sharpe.
Also a criminal justice lawyer and a dark history geek.
Anna Sayburn Lane @annasayburnlane.bsky.social Author of 1920s murder mysteries and contemporary thrillers. Sometime health journalist
Suzan Griffiths @suzangriffiths.bsky.social Retired librarian, former sailor, East Coaster
Dr Kath @dr-kath.bsky.social PhD, English / comparative and general literature: intertextuality | concept album, bilingual (German / English), creator of the blog #aircraftalbatrossandabeast, (she / her)
Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com Writer naval/aviation history. Words. Art. Photography. Silken Windhounds. He/him. Free Palestine.
Somerville College, Oxford @somervillecollege.bsky.social Come to Somerville and learn to change the world 🌍 Proudly different since 1879 👩 One of the first University Colleges of Sanctuary 🧡 Home to @oxindiacentre.bsky.social
Dave Annal Lifelines Research @davelifelines.bsky.social Family historian, lecturer, author. Former Principal Family History Specialist at The National Archives. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. 42 years in the business. Loves a good map. #Genealogy #FamilyHistory
https://lifelinesresearch.co.uk/
Alexa Price, Ph.D. @downeast-alexa.bsky.social Maritime museum programs and collections manager; artist; beekeeper; historian of memory, masculinity and the Royal Navy; researching the polar career of James Clark Ross.
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Will Beharrell @willbeharrell.bsky.social 📚 Librarian at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest learned society devoted to natural history.
🌿 Secretary of the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH).
🏳️🌈 Proud Trustee of Newbury Pride.
Paula Peters @paulapeters19.bsky.social Disability Rights Activist - DPAC
Co founder of Bromley & Croydon DPAC
Disability Rights Advocate
Trade Unionist - Unite
NHS Activist
Professor Brad Beaven @bradbeaven.bsky.social Professor of History; author of C19 books on Leisure, Citizenship & Working Class Men; Visions of Empire; The Devil's Highway: London's Sailortown,1850-1900. Co-Director of Port Cities & Maritime Cultures Research Centre: port.ac.uk/portcities.
Icona @iconawrites.bsky.social Lover of art and literature.
Iconawrites.substack.com
A. M. Dassu (Az) @amdassu.bsky.social Award-winning, former World Book Day author | Carnegie Nom x3 | Books: BOY,EVERYWHERE | FIGHT BACK |BOOT IT | KICKED OUT and 12 others from pb - teen | PublishersWkly⭐️, ALA Notable Book, a Guardian & Kirkus & Booklist BOOK OF THE YEAR
Instagram: @a.m.dassu
Catherine Johnson @catwrote.bsky.social Boiler suit addict, writer, seasider
Hilary McKay @hilarymckay.bsky.social Children's author since before the internet was invented.
If I've blocked you it's because Can't Argue With Stupid is a fact.
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Ian Eagleton @ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social He/him
Children’s author, dad, former teacher of 13 years 🏳️🌈
Contact: ian@thereadingrealm.co.uk
Agent: Neil Dunnicliffe at Spring Literary
Katherine Langrish @kathlangrish.bsky.social I write children's & YA fantasy novels, and moonlight as a folklorist. I blog at https://steelthistles.blogspot.com/
Diane Purkiss @janetanderson.bsky.social I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
Katherine Soutar @kateartist.bsky.social Traditional Artist/illustrator, specialising in storytelling, folklore and mythology. Lives between two worlds, loves them both