Matt Rose @mattroselibrary.bsky.social Rebel Library www.rebellibrary.com
Climate change book reviews. Environmental Humanities. Bath, UK.
Kat Lister @katlister.bsky.social Stay afraid, but do it anyway / words: Guardian, Observer, i paper, the Quietus / lecturing: City University / agent: http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/kat-lister / book: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/kat-lister-fragile-bodies-auction-weidenfeld
Karen Lloyd @karenllo.bsky.social Author, essayist, activist. The Gathering Tide, Abundance: Nature in Recovery. Academic, Senior Researcher and writer in residence with Lancaster University’s Future places Centre.
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Luke Haines @lukehaines.bsky.social Currently - Luke Haines and Peter Buck. Black Box Recorder. Minus 5 (when called into service) Swell Maps (occasionally)
Formerley - The Auteurs,
Writes a bit, paints a bit. Strums guitar.
Sam @samkarlharrison.bsky.social Sporadic writer & editor at Lion & Unicorn
https://thelionandunicorn.com/
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social writer/historian/talker
Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social Writer of Gods Behaving Badly, Warhorses of Letters and more. This American Life contributor.
Free newsletter (dormant) at mariephillips.beehiiv.com
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social Journalist, travel writer, author
📖 Small Earthquakes (BGTW Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025), Crossed Off the Map
✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Geographical
🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño
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Désespérer @decervelage.bsky.social Exorcizamus te, omnis immunde spiritus, omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica...
Robert Webb @arobert.bsky.social Peep Show, Mitchell & Webb, that kind of thing
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Susan Reed @susanreed.bsky.social British Library German collections curator. Tiny translation sideline. Reader, bellringer, Wagner & Archers fan. Comprehensive educated & proud. Views my own.
James Duffy @jamespd.bsky.social Into books, films, music, football, science, politics.
Messums West @messumswest.bsky.social MESSUMS ORG is an art gallery and a collaborative environment for artists, collectors and thinkers.
@writersreview 📚 @writersreview.bsky.social Reviews of fiction and non-fiction by an impressive line-up of author and bookseller guests, hosted by Adele Geras, Linda Newbery and Celia Rees. Q&As with authors. Writers Review Publishing launching in 2025. www.reviewsbywriters.blogspot.com
Lydia Gray @lydiajgray.bsky.social Historian of the British empire, political activism and the Cold War. PhD researcher, University of Southampton.
Curator Rob @curatorrob.bsky.social Museums, Archaeology, Romans, Corduroy
All views are my wife's
#SundayHuxley
Johnnie Johnstone @johnniejohnstone.bsky.social Football schmootball; Robert Bresson; Milton Nascimento; Dreyer; Debussy; Sun Ra; Can.
Record Collector, Shindig! Through The Crack In The Wall: The Secret History of Josef K (Jawbone).
Coming 2026 - The Clientele (J-Card)
Mike Efstathiou @mikeef.bsky.social PhD Researcher into prehistoric British avenues. A lover of landscapes and all things Mesolithic and Neolithic.
Formerly a live music Sound Engineer and Studio/Live Outside Broadcast Producer with an additional career as an IT Service Architect
David Soulscorch @david-soulscorch.bsky.social Outdoorsy Music Geek, gardening in Sussex, with a love of radio, books, and anything Fortean
Making field recording based Pound Shop hauntronica & electronic music as
Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project
👇
ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com
Voltage Poetry Project @voltagepoetry.bsky.social Songs on synths, sometimes with geographical settings. #lofi production. Albums ‘Home Sounds’ and ‘Further Verses’ out via #MonochromeMotif https://voltagepoetryproject.bandcamp.com/
Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social The diaries of Samuel Pepys in real time, 1660-69. Currently posting 1663. Run by @philgyford.bsky.social.
More at https://www.pepysdiary.com
Daily emails at buttondown.com/pepysdiary
Support at https://ko-fi.com/pepysdiary
Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social Writes and sings for Josimar, The Guardian and Tapete Records
James Dalrymple @jamesewand.bsky.social Teaching/lecturing in France. Occasional academic.
Cinema, books, music, vintage television, podcasts (usually while cooking for the family), teaching, life in France etc.
Film reviews at: letterboxd.com/jamesewand/
Neil Redfern @neilredfern.bsky.social Executive Director of Council for British Archaeology - Wandering with curiosity and all things archaeology.
#OutAndAboutArchaeology #WalkingandTalkingYourWay
Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social Military Historian, author and Battlefield Guide. Occasional wargamer. Host of the Old Front Line #WW1 #podcast.
www.oldfrontline.co.uk
Old Front Line Podcast @oldfrontline.bsky.social A First World War #podcast hosted by Military Historian, Paul Reed.
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.
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Ravilious @ravilious1942.bsky.social A tribute to the British artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942).
Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social Ph.D. Lecturer at the University of Bath, Architectural History and Conservation. Author, HENI presenter, Arts Society speaker. Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages, gardens. Etc
Mostly Books @mostly-books.bsky.social Award-winning independent bookshop in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. Friendly and knowledgable booksellers, book clubs, author events, school visits and more! Order online, via email, phone and social media. Sister bookshop: Borzoi Bookshop in Stow-on-the-Wold.
Fi @ficooper.bsky.social Ceramic artist/Uni admin person, when not with nose in a book/wandering the landscape/knitting.
The Bookery, Crediton @thebookery.bsky.social Non-profit organisation
Award-winning, not-for-profit community-owned indie bookshop in Crediton, Devon.
Schools, community outreach & events
Open 9.30-5 Mon-Fri and 10-2 Saturday
21 High Street, Crediton, EX17 3AH
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Robbie Millen @robbiemillen.bsky.social Literary Editor of The Times/Sunday Times. thetimes.com/culture/books
Charlotte Northedge @charnorth.bsky.social Head of Books for the Guardian, author of The People Before and The House Guest (HarperCollins)
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Will Hawkes @willhawkes.bsky.social Writes about food, beer, travel. Author of Telegraph’s 500 Best Pubs in England & @LondonBeerCity, monthly missive on pubs & beer. Fortnum and Mason Drink Writer of the Year 2021 & 2023
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
JT Lindroos @oivas.com Finnish-American designer / writer. Sleep-walking cheetah. Once a book publisher. Married to kat330. Posts in English ja Suomeksi. Born 326 ppm #climatecrisis #BookSky #fortean he/him
oivas.com
Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social Writer, archaeologist, wild swimmer, wild gardener. New book ECHOLANDS -A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF BOUDICA out now from @Hodderbooks.bsky.social https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/duncan-mackay/echolands/9781399714143/ Rep. Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates
ambrosen @ambrosen.eurosky.social It’s all just rather a lot lately. Tell me to post some nice pictures if I’m getting boring.
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social Writing, reporting, criticising. Mostly in south of the world.
OUTCAST: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is out now. You can buy it here: https://linktr.ee/oliverbasciano
Philip Strange @philipswriting.bsky.social Scientist, naturalist and writer, passionate about the natural world.
Henry Rothwell @henryrothwell.bsky.social Lapsed archaeologist. Entranced by ponds. Still working on 4th debut novel.
Chooser of images at @rathergoodart.bsky.social
Curious Notes collected here - https://notesforthecurious.com/
Erik @kirebooks.bsky.social Flotsam and Jetsam. Folklore, customs and odd guilds, gangs and groups.
Eleanor Anstruther @eanstruther.bsky.social Writer. Latest novel, FALLOUT, available for preorder now https://linktr.ee/eleanoranstruther
KDS 📖 🎲 🎮 @kdsbooks.bsky.social Reader, gamer: Personal library of Classic SFF/Pulp/Gothic/Weird/Classic Crime/Noir/Kaiju/World SFF/Lost World Fiction. UK
No to AI. No DMs
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@blackwells.bsky.social @blackwells.bsky.social 
Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social She paints, she draws, she rarely talks about herself in the third person. Stone botherer. Oil painter. Costume maker. No Gen AI. No DMs.
Andy Whitmore @more-whit.bsky.social International man of mystery .. oh no, sorry - campaigning on indigenous peoples and extractive industries (& not enough on music, UK politics & nonsense)
Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social Excited to announce A NEW LIVE TOUR!
The End of The World According to Jonathan Pie
Tickets ON SALE NOW from JonathanPie.com
Lee Farley @allownstunts.bsky.social Books, music, film…
Making theatre and general arts stuff in the Shire🕺🏿
Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social Prehistory & landscape
Also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnnythinsta/
Anne Elliot @pyramidorchid1.bsky.social 
WinchesterLunch 🇺🇦 @winchesterlunch.bsky.social Work in IT but also write historical novels. #1 bestseller debut published by Harper Collins - https://amzn.eu/d/ceHuLT7
London Irish. You can take the girl out of Cricklewood but you can't etc
Nicholas Royle @nicholasroyle.bsky.social Writer. Latest: Paris Fantastique from @confingopublishing.bsky.social and Finders, Keepers from @saltpublishing.com
Also runs @nightjarpress.bsky.social nightjarpress.weebly.com
XTCfan @xtcfan.bsky.social Writer, editor, musician, avid cyclist, proud libtard, survivor. Father of two great kids, stepdad to one. Lover of a beautiful woman. Memento mori.
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Mark Fisher @markffisher.bsky.social Guardian theatre critic and presenter of What Do You Call That Noise? The XTC Podcast https://www.xtclimelight.com/ All kinds of stuff here: https://linktr.ee/markffisher
John @johnrt.bsky.social 
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Mark @peelacres.bsky.social Quiz. Trains. Indie Beer. Vegan food. Nature. Cats. Views. Folklore. Adventures. Typefaces. Trig pillars. Parkrun. Armchair cyclist. Bridges. Liverpool resident. Green socialist. Seadog.
Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social "Natalie, HR is just concerned. We can't have a renegade jumping into bins and trying to solve crimes."
Currently working in research & scholarly technology.
I write things sometimes. https://substack.com/@unfortunatalie
HistoryExtra @historyextra.bsky.social Posts from HistoryExtra, Britain’s bestselling history magazine and award-winning podcast.
www.historyextra.com
Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Literature at the University of Glasgow's School of Social & Environmental Sustainability: ecopoetry, walking, place - environmental humanities
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Alicia Clegg @aliciamargclegg.bsky.social Journalist, workplace, culture, ideas, history
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social Naturalist, ecologist, writer.
“How pleasant it would be each day to think, Today I have done something that will render future generations more happy." Richard Jefferies, 1883.
Location: east Northamptonshire, UK.
Robin Baker @robinalexbaker.bsky.social Film. TV. Archaeology. Pottery. Photography. Novels and short stories. Design. India. London. West Dorset 🌻 🍉
Linktree: https://t.co/YEqJmhdXY0
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social Writer and independent scholar.
Used to be a vicar.
Writing in Spelt, Black Bough Poetry, BB journal, Frost Magazine, The Clearing,The Pilgrim, Landlines for Nature ,The Church Times.
Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Zoological Society of London,
Cosey Fanni Tutti @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social My Art is my Life My Life is my Art - Artist, Musician & Author of Art Sex Music & Re-Sisters. Co Founder & member of Throbbing Gristle / Industrial Music / Chris & Cosey / Carter Tutti / Carter Tutti Void
Matt Rosser @matt.cymru 🏴📺 Welsh media functionary
💜📻 Care Radio presenter
🟩👂🏻 Samaritans listening volunteer
Adam Tinworth @adders.blog Journalist, blogger, lecturer in audience strategy at City St George’s, University of London. Tired Dad and a good egg (mostly)
Work blog: https://onemanandhisblog.com
Personal blog: https://adders.blog
@harrysword.bsky.social @harrysword.bsky.social Writer.
Guardian. The Quietus. Vice. Record Collector.
Author of Monolithic Undertow.
Dr. Uncle Beard 🦊 🌈 @unclebeard1978.bsky.social Doctor, author, podcaster, bear in Yorkshire. Dr Who crossword blog #CrypticWho https://crypticwho.com/, Podcast https://www.doctordilf.co.uk/(He/Him/His) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Kate ✨🐱 @magickitten.bsky.social ⛓️ https://linktr.ee/kate.neilan
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🏴 Cymru am byth 📝 Stories or death
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Erin Green 🖖 @erin-o-green.bsky.social A bookish, menopausal, gardening misanthrope — she/her
I know the world’s on fire in the US and I’m doing my bit as best I can, but I also can’t absorb all the bile. Star Trek & Books are keeping me alive.
John Finnemore @johnfinnemore.bsky.social Writer, comedian, actor, puzzle-maker. I'm not really sure what the right word for that last one is.
For now, I'm only here to bags my name in case this one takes off. But I hope it does. 
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social Then: archaeologist, art historian, editor. Now: lover of music, admirer of creatures. Essentially stateless.🌵
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
Stephen Byrne @stephengbyrne.bsky.social Gardener
at @bluebellcottage.bsky.social & others. Wildlife (ooh, look, geese!). Books (by the yard). Beer (strong, not too many).
Dara McAnulty @naturalistdara.bsky.social 20 ~ autistic ~ award winning author of ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ and the ‘Wild Child’ series ~ Nature Nerd and biology student ~ University of Cambridge. He/him
📍Co Down / Cambridge
https://daramcanulty.com/
Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the skeets
Author. she/her https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury
D H Fowles @danielharveyfowles.bsky.social Artist, naturalist and social scientist
East Anglia
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social Reader, writer, runner. No longer flying for work. Son of Portstewart, Co Derry, citizen of the world. Editor of deskboundtraveller.com.
Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social Author/editor/'cultural historian'/carer, S Wales, probably autistic:
NEW BOOK!: Into the Groove, OUT NOW.
Textcast archive: https://firstlastanything.co.uk/about/
Email: whenisbirths@yahoo.com
ko-fi.com/firstlastanything
Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social Historic site photographer, podcaster, wild camping YouTuber, Heathrow's IT Operations Manager. Scared of fish.
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Nicholas Carter @neacarter.bsky.social Lecturer, researcher, University of Oxford
‘Living Stone’ out on Penguin Viking Books in 2028
linktr.ee/neacarter
Shelly Dennison @dennisonshelly.bsky.social I help not-for-profits write things. I also write other stuff.
https://shellydennison.co.uk/