richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social Archaeologist, Mekon, Drinker
Sawston via Devon and Dartford
#aofoto AOfoto.art
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
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
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.
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority.
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
@optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social 
William Arnold @williamarnold.bsky.social BT Payphone ambassador (unofficial) Avian enthusiast.
Not a professional account.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Roots @roots.stefanbohacek.online.ap.brid.gy Posting images from Wageningen University's online archive of 1,180 root system drawings.
"The outcome of 40 years of root system excavations in Europe." […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://stefanbohacek.online/@roots, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social Botanist, mycologist, cyclist and gardener based in Norwich, UK. Wildlife, especially insects and other invertebrates. Author of Jeremy Bartlett's "Let It Grow" blog, https://www.jeremybartlett.co.uk.
Cerys Matthews @cerysmatthews.bsky.social Food.Action.Music.Books. Happy on the end of a rope.
Programme BBC radio shows -write books, make music and get out and about.
Tales from the Mabinogion @mabinogiongame.bsky.social Stevan Anastasoff, former White Dwarf writer, and video game designer: Warhammer Online, For Honor, Assassin's Creed, and many more. Now working on Tales from the Mabinogion, a game about Welsh mythology using Welsh as its principal language.
Josh Baker-Cox @joshbakercox.bsky.social PhD at CCCU researching rebellions in 10th and early 12th century England and Normandy.
Lover of Norman (and Anglo-Norman) History, and general fan of Robert Curthose & Robert de Belleme.
https://medievalhistory.home.blog/
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
You can find us at other places, here: https://linktr.ee/historyofparliament
Joe Egerton @joeegg.bsky.social 
Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social Building conservation university teacher and practitioner.
Historic building materials, construction techniques, and architecture.
Studying Roman construction and writing a book on Historic Floors
UK/Italy
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
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.
Miles King @milesking.bsky.social Winding down long career in UK nature conservation. Always interested in History - and now enjoying archaeology. Running a small urban wildlife project (@poundburynatureproject). Enthusiastic Cellist. Living with Chronic vestibular migraine. Personal a/c
Indikon @indikon.eurosky.social Mainly taking photos of small things that catch my eye while walking with the dog. Was a physicist long ago. Sometimes play with threads and paints. Have a slight book habit.
Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social A nerd at large. Writer of stuff.
Join my sci-fi book club:
http://patreon.com/ellecordova
nerd humor • space & sci fi • books
Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social 🏛Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield 🎓PhD Evolutionary Biology🏝Islands 🐘Elephants🦣Mammoths🦷Teeth ⚒️1/4 of TrowelBlazers 📰EiC Open Quaternary 🎥🎙Presenter. Expcet typos.
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.
Benjamin Simpson @hodomaniasimpson.bsky.social I don’t know.
Why are we here again?
Also, I built a Time Machine out of rubber bands and hope.
So in the future, I travel to the Exoplanets in a rental spaceship and photograph interesting sights.
The journeys help keep the insanity at bay.
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage & culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate ethno & dislike cultural nationalism Servant to a Patterdale,
Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social World leaders in the rescue and rewilding of orphaned elephants and rhinos, working across Kenya to secure a future for all wildlife.
https://links.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org
@SheldrickTrust on Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, Threads & YouTube
Miss Defiance @cybersaff.bsky.social Lecturer ¦ feminist ¦ scribbler ¦ photoArtist ¦ tea drinker ¦ Mother ¦ Prints X @IWasHereArtfor1 IG @cybersaff_photoart. I may not answer DMs.
Ida @private-ida.bsky.social Frames of mind. Somewhere in between days & dreams, light & shadow, awe & wonder. Weather-sensitive. Pedestrian.
TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social Botanist, conservationist, gardener & author. Endlessly curious about green things. Creator of #NoMowMay.
Author of ‘Urban Plants’ (Bloomsbury British Wildlife Collection). Currently with the Species Recovery Trust & BSBI Trustee.
LiberalDespot @druidic.org Likes Photography, Italy, Whisky, The Magnetic Fields, Autonomy, Glasgow, &c
Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.
Glasgow, Yr Hen Ogledd
Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social I celebrate Shropshire with my photographs, books, jigsaws, calendars, greetings cards and more.
www.shropshireandbeyond.com
Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation.
stoneclub.rocks
#MDANT
Ruins of Despair @ruinsofdespair.bsky.social A weary pilgrim on the grave of the Romantic Hero, a forlorn eulogist cast upon the desolate shore of the exquisite agony that is The Gothic.
#books #art #gothic #romanticism
'Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' (P.B. Shelley)
Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social Artist. Osteoarchaeologist. Canadian. Doing creative things with heritage in the NW (UK). Multi-passionate person. Can expect knitting, gardening, ttrpg, nerdery. Aprendiendo español! she/her
Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc.
https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it. 
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Lycoreia @lycoreia.bsky.social amateur photographer, bookworm, ponderer. 🌿
into nature, birdwatching & fountain pens
german living in spain (she/her)
Winderful @winderful.uk Realtime automated updates of UK wind energy. Posts whenever the level is 10%+. Lovingly made by @diascreative.bsky.social. Human responses by @stevecurati.bsky.social
https://winderful.uk
People of 1381 @peopleof1381.bsky.social 'The People of 1381' is a major AHRC-funded project investigating participants in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England. It has compiled a comprehensive database of rebels, victims and places affected by the revolt: www.1381.online.
Ancuta Hansen @ancutahansen.bsky.social Cinematographer. Photographer. Artcrafter
Ex tenebris, ad lucem @galleriaobscura
I write here in Ro, Fr and Eng.🌻
📍Paris, Fr
https://linktr.ee/ancutahansen
https://galleriaobscura.shop/
David Crouch 🏳️🌈 @dbcrouch.bsky.social Medieval social history. VCH Editor East Yorkshire. Academician. Cardiffian exile. Hwntw Falch. Cymro yn Sir Efrog.
Andy Adams @flakphoto.news Culture guy in Madison, Wisconsin. I run media at Outrider.org. In my free time, I publish https://www.flakphoto.news/. Do you like pictures? Read my newsletter!
📬 https://www.flakphoto.news
📸 https://linktr.ee/flakphoto
Dr Ross Barnett @deepfrieddna.bsky.social Invernessian palaeogeneticist and stay-at-home dad. Knows a thing or two about the aDNA of extinct lions, sabretooths and megafauna. Author of The Missing Lynx.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Missing-Lynx-Future-Britains-Mammals/dp/1472957350
Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Portland Bird Observatory @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social 
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
The Bee Guy @thebeeguy.bsky.social https://worldbeesanctuary.org
Founder of World Bee Sanctuary the expanded ambition of The Bee Sanctuary of Ireland. - the first native wild bee sanctuary on the planet The only certified vegan organic land in Ireland. Disruptive.
Lovable. Unfiltered. 🐝🌍
Friends of the Centre for English Local History @fcelh.bsky.social Our aim is to promote, support, and assist in the study of Local History as taught and practised in the Centre for Regional and Local History (formerly the Centre for English Local History) at the University of Leicester
Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Author, journalist, activist, reluctant music biz participant. DIVIDE & RULE: Royal Women and their Battles out now. Novel TIME/LIFE published 2025.
Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social Birds, Moths (Vc58) and Wildlife around Marbury nr Whitchurch Cheshire
@FaerylandGrasmere @faerylandgrasmere.bsky.social The world famous Faeryland Grasmere.
Tea garden, rowing boat hire & Faery magic in the Lake District since 1875.
DannyVE @dannyve.bsky.social Reader, Europhile, gardener, stargazer, painter, foolish fashionista, determined optimist, lifelong vegetarian & Olympian daydreamer
@maryfrancesness @maryfrancesness.bsky.social 
Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social Keep Your Head Up ☀️
https://buymeacoffee.com/arealmofwonder
Eurosky Social @eurosky.social Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation.
App: mu.social
Accounts: move.eurosky.tech
Discover: portal.eurosky.tech
Web: eurosky.tech
Help: eurosky.tech/help
Fund: fund.eurosky.tech
Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org Project Gutenberg, founded in 1971, is the oldest producer and distributor of free ebooks.
For more information, visit our website at:
https://www.gutenberg.org/
Elle @centristmum.bsky.social Mum, Lib Dem and naturalised Yorkshire citizen
Frock Flicks @frockflicks.bsky.social A trio of costumers from the SF Bay Area who have OPINIONS about historical costume movies & TV shows.
c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social Molecular biologist from Texas, here to share my meanderings on nature, science, history, politics, and zombies. Long threads a specialty.
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Rather Good Art @rathergoodart.bsky.social Publishers of rather good greetings cards, postcards & prints by Ravilious, Nash, Klimt, Simon Palmer and many more.
https://www.rathergoodart.co.uk
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
nomoth @nomoth.bsky.social 🇵🇸
Film and digital photography
A bit of a photo diary.
Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social Writer, beachcomber, all at sea. Founder of the award-winning Lego Lost At Sea project. Current Archaeology Rescue Project of the Year. Author of Adrift, The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost At Sea. Cornwall. MD ANT.
simon blackbourn @simonblackbourn.net plymouth // photographer // serial wanderer // ancient stone botherer // co-founder + zine designer at dartmoor collective // job: freelance wordpress developer // https://simonblackbourn.offprint.app/
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Susan Howe @dancingsue.bsky.social Retired Graphic designer, Swing dancer and teacher, animal advocate, left wing but not dogmatic, occasional writer of short fiction, vegetarian, fungus-fanatic, climate-change believer, no flat-earthers or DMs please.
@jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social And the Oscar goes to Paddington in Peru
Twitter Refugees Welcome!
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social Celebrate literature every Saturday with BookWormSat. Hosted by @signemaene.com and @racheldeering.bsky.social
Weekly themes: https://signemaene.com/bookwormsaturday/
Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
Motorway Services Online @motorwayservices.uk Actual, real posts about motorway service stations. There's 97, by the way.
Roads.org.uk 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @roads.org.uk I write about UK road infrastructure and history! Join me for updates and other stuff from the UK's favourite roads website, www.roads.org.uk
SABRE Maps @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk The largest freely available online archive of twentieth century georeferenced OS maps of Great Britain and Ireland at "road map" scales from 1:25k to 1:633k including One Inch, Half Inch and Quarter Inch mapping.
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps
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
Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well.
Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
Hiking Historian @hikinghistorian.bsky.social Hiker. Historian. Writer. Photographer. General dogsbody.
Jane E. Hall @clothofnature.bsky.social Artist–author creating nature-rooted art and wild tales from her Dorset studio.
Exploring creativity as a healing practice while tending land, story and well-being.
clothofnature.com
Allan T Adams @allantadams.bsky.social A semi-retired architectural illustrator, drawing buildings & old stuff to relieve stress. Illustration, art, archaeology, conservation, reading. FSA, Fellow Society of Architectural Illustrators (FSAI). No NFTs.
Cat Frampton @catframpton.bsky.social Dartmoor based artist and Farmer who believes land layering is possible - She/her - Team waxcap/dung beetle/nature - it’s always more complicated than that!
Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social Welcome to my head. Please excuse the mess.
https://ko-fi.com/pandamoanimum
Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social #Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
Listen here > https://radiolento.podbean.com
Support here > https://ko-fi.com/radiolento
Richard Geraint Evans @gpstrees.bsky.social I find a tree, I draw it. I include its GPS coordinates – so you can visit it.
All content originated by RGE. Emphatically no AI.
http://gpstrees.com
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
Germander Speedwell @germanderspeedwell.bsky.social Gatherer of lost knowledge
Explorer of Thames foreshores
Assembler of obscure collections
And observer of flora and fauna.
London, England
www.germanderspeedwell.org.uk
No direct messages sorry - I can't access them; please email me (see my website).
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social Weather / nature lover , snow , ice and landscapes . Living on The Wolds Way. East Yorks
EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social We are the quiet unnoticed Heron, inspiring Heroneers all over Planet Earth, as you encounter Heronkind for 1st or 1000th time.
"Nature is reported in the fullness of life... To the full heart she is all but a figure of speech"-Thoreau www.everyheron.com