Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
New Leibniz @newleibniz.bsky.social Econophysicist, opera lover, traveler in time and space. The background picture shows Lorin Maazel after conducting "The Girl of The Golden West" at his farm in Castleton, Virginia in 2013.
Debbie Hearn @debbiehearnuk.bsky.social I love genealogy, plants, beach walks and life. I'm a big believer in happiness research and other science-backed ways of making life better.
Queer in Brighton / Queer Heritage South @queerinbrighton.bsky.social Queer Heritage South is a heritage learning project celebrating and promoting the rich cultural life of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Intersex, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQIA+) communities in Brighton & Hove.
linktr.ee/QueerInBrighton
Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
Newbury, Berkshire based - previously Lichfield, South London, Sheffield, Kent, Sussex.
Likes: travel eg Belgium; railways; art; music eg Americana; film eg Noir & beer.
🔸
Elsewhere: @timofnewbury
+ blogger.com/profile/02224647895500543757
davyh @davyh.bsky.social Haunting notes, pizzicato strings
James W @jamesuk.bsky.social Cricket obsessive, music nerd, politics junkie
nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social “Special engagements or first-class companies only”
Sometimes engineers, sometimes DJs, irregularly bakes stuff
Back in Scotland 🏴 the long way round
Will discuss anything with anyone so long we all play nicely
#jazzsky #scotsky
🏴 🇮🇹 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺
Standawhile @standawhile.bsky.social Retired stationery seller, graphic designer. Loves art, books, renaissance and baroque music, typography, theatre, nature, food and drink. Life’s absurdities. Amuse me.
Neil Wholey @neilwholey.bsky.social UK social/market researcher, history and genealogy - Victorian pantomime, animal impersonators, music hall, ballet. Bit of polling and comms. No politics
rosatroupe.co.uk
Colette Townend @colettet.bsky.social Systems librarian at Lambeth Libraries (she/her) 🏴
Paul Rhodes @parhodes.bsky.social Not actually a Pussy-Owl.
Jacqueline Riding @jacriding.bsky.social Film/TV historian; Art Newspaper Lit Ed; Heritage/Exhibition/Curatorial Consultant; Author #Jacobites #Peterloo #Hogarth SundayTimes ArtBook 2021 #HardStreets + Gainsborough & Reynolds: The Art of Rivalry in Georgian London 2027 https://linktr.ee/JacRiding
@photofit.bsky.social @photofit.bsky.social History & heritage
Clapham Park Labour Councillors @claphamparklab.bsky.social 🦋 feed for the Labour & Co-operative councillors for Clapham Park 🌹🐝
Innate Needs @innateneeds.bsky.social We have created a comprehensive free-to-use map of support services for UK residents facing hunger and hardship due to poverty.
https://www.innateneeds.org/
PastRewind @past-rewind.bsky.social History posts by Mark Amies. London manufacturing history contributor on BBC Radio London's Robert Elms Show, author of two books.
https://wordsbymarkamies.com/
@archivistpaul.bsky.social @archivistpaul.bsky.social
Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social Reprinted Old Ordnance Survey Maps across Britain & Ireland introduced by specialist authors.
https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/
USA sales - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/alangodfreymaps?_trksid=p2334524.m570.l113337
#CombatCartography #MatchMap
Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social 💻 Online Courses
📜 Certificate programmes
🕵️♂️ #FamilyHistory
🗺️ #LocalHistory
🌳 #Genealogy
✍️ #DistanceLearning
👩🏼🏫 #OnlineCourses
Professionally recognised by AGRA @agragenealogy.bsky.social
https://www.pharostutors.com/
Tower Hamlets Archives @tharchives.bsky.social Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives • Free public access to collections documenting the histories of London's East End • Related events & exhibitions
LONDON @leolondon8.bsky.social London looks amazing. And living in London is a completely different feeling — those who live there truly understand what London is all about.
George Cecil Linton-Salmon 🇯🇲🇬🇧🇳🇬 @apexalphaoo7.bsky.social Windrush baby, X escapee, Director of a CIC, Writer, Oral historian, Activist, Educator, Anti Brexit, Arsenal supporter who worked on the Emirates. Married, Straight. Jamaican By Luck, British By Choice, African By God.
Waiting For Life AFTER Trump.
⛔️DMS.
Deepak Sardiwal @deepaksardiwal.bsky.social Lambeth resident - Herne Hill and Loughborough Junction. 🎾🌶️☕️☀️🇮🇳🌹
Welcare @welcareuk.bsky.social Southwark Diocesan Welcare is a family support charity working with families and children up to the age of 13 in South London and East Surrey.
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre @redbridgemuseum.bsky.social Redbridge Museum explores the many different people, places & events which are part of the history of Redbridge.
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 17:00
🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/museum
@peetyp.bsky.social @peetyp.bsky.social
Ms Mak @ms-mak.bsky.social #FRSA #Brixton #London
Once upon an Edible Bus Stop
Founder | Creative Director
www.theediblebusstop.com
New here 2026
Sosohumble @1878sosohumble.bsky.social Extremely humble
Waterloo Community Development Group @wcdg.org.uk
London Archaeologist @londonarchaeo.bsky.social London Archaeologist is published 4 times a year, for anyone interested in London's archaeology
James Lauri @jameslauri.bsky.social My ancestors were the Lauri’s familu, actors and actresses of the Victorian period. They began in 1839 in London.
Julia Mariani @seedkeeper.juliamariani.com All my little words.
Champagne in a pint glass.
Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social Free access to 900 years of history - Derbyshire, Britain and beyond: books, archives, maps, prints and photographs. Explore online or visit us in Matlock.
Website: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recordoffice
Maia Blumberg @maiablumberg.bsky.social medievalist | postgraduate research student | @qmul.bsky.social | @ihr.bsky.social | @londonmedieval.bsky.social
writing about museums & medievalism
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
Rhin @orinky.at.app.wafrn.net 💜Tired enby gamer💜[...]
View full profile at https://app.wafrn.net/blog/orinky
SOAS Special Collections @soas-speccoll.bsky.social Archives, manuscripts and rare books from
@SOASLibrary, the UK National Research Library for Asia, Africa and the Middle East | special.collections@soas.ac.uk
Building Conservation @cathedralcomms.bsky.social BCD is the UK's definitive free guide to resources for the conservation and repair of the historic built environment.
Created by Cathedral Communications. Find Historic Churches and the BCD here: www.buildingconservation.com
@mgxrosario.bsky.social @mgxrosario.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher. Key areas: Education, housing, families and young people
AI Film @aifilm.bsky.social AI Enhanced UK Film and Research Company
ML AI R&D
FX, Graphics, Storyboard, Logistics, Editing Film Production
@bodyfour.uk @bodyfour.uk
@s7loan.bsky.social @s7loan.bsky.social
David Bryant @23daves.bsky.social "I don't mean half the things I say/ So just ignore the half that you don't like"
All views expressed are personal, not those of my employer.
Writer of "Everybody's Number 1 to Someone", about NME Indie Chart toppers: https://indienumber1s.blogspot.com
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
Dr Julie Doughty @juliedoughty.bsky.social lawyer (retired solicitor; academic). Live in Wales now, although still Australian. Child law; media law. Legal blogger in family courts for The Transparency Project www.transparencyproject.org.uk (contact me there as I don't receive DMs on Bluesky)
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
Norwood Society @norwoodsociety.co.uk The Norwood Society was established in 1959 and serves the people of West, South & Upper Norwood in south London. The Society aims:
To monitor planning & inform people about the heritage of the area.
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Elizabeth Rabineau @lizrablondon.bsky.social 🖼 art-botherer 🏛 architecture-intelligencer
🇳🇱 Dutch-learner 🙀 I once ate a sea cucumber
Maya SH @msingerhobbs.bsky.social Senior research fellow @ippr.bsky.social - climate, transport, planning | PhD from CSCT Bath | she/her (views my own)
Chingford Historical Society @chingfordhist.bsky.social Promoting the history of Chingford through regular talks, meetings and visits. Non-members welcome.
Family and Community Historical Research Society @fachrs.bsky.social Promoting research in family and community history, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based micro-studies, especially through collaboration. Our annual project for 2026 is on nursing, so expect a few posts supporting the research.
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Harrow Online @harrowonline.org London news and updates. Stay informed with the latest stories, events, and announcements from Harrow and neighbouring boroughs. #London #Harrow #Brent #Barnet #Hillingdon #Hertfordshire
www.harrowonline.org
Londonopia @londonopia.bsky.social Celebrating London. News and history. #London
londonopia.co.uk
The Lambeth Local History Forum @llhf.bsky.social The Lambeth Local History Forum brings together a wide range of societies and institutions in the London Borough of Lambeth who share an interest in researching and publishing local history, whatever else they may also do.
Michelle Hogan @michellehogan.bsky.social 🇨🇦Not buying or selling but hope to help Seniors where I can. 🚫No DMs.🚫
Professional Retiree, Musician, 33rd Degree Cat Herder, one Mensa candidate that knows better.🇨🇦
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
A Few Forgotten Women @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social A group of ladies preserving the stories of forgotten women of the past.
https://www.fewforgottenwomen.com
Royal Berkshire Archives @berksarchives.bsky.social The Royal Berkshire Archives holds the archives of the Royal County of Berkshire. We look after nearly nine hundred years of the County's history.
Website: royalberkshirearchives.org.uk
LJ4D - Loughborough Junction's Built History @lj4d.bsky.social A project to model the built form of Loughborough Junction in 3D, to understand its development from the mid 1800s onwards.
Website: https://colin-m.com/lj4d/
Penny Duggan @pennyduggan.bsky.social Archives | Local History | Family History
Bexley, Blackfen, Kent, London, Ireland
Archives Officer @BexleyArchives
Chair of Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society
http://blackfenpastandpresent.com
Bexley Archives @bexleyarchives.bsky.social Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre holds historic materials for the London Borough of Bexley
London SE1 community website @se1.news Sign up to our free newsletter: www.se1.news
News, events & trivia for Bankside, Borough, Bermondsey, Elephant & Castle, South Bank and Waterloo since 1998.
Covering the northernmost bits of Southwark and Lambeth.
LONDON's HowToEnjoy @howtoenjoylondon.bsky.social 2026: LONDON's TECH (Sept) BOOKFAIR (July) CRAFT/ART FAIRs (May) AUTHORs/BOOKs (April) linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyLDN: WANDSWORTH SOUTHWARK LAMBETH GREENWICH Camden Ealing Hackney Hammersmith/Fulham Islington Kensington/Chelsea Lewisham Tower Hamlets Westminster
Sue from SE5 @suefromse5.bsky.social Retired, knitter, reader, volunteer,returning runner, walker (hate driving), and trying to keep fit for old age in the gym. Tracing family tree and trying to undertake a one place study of the street I grew up on, in London SE5.
Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social The Library of London History.
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/libraries/guildhall-library
Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
Justine Crow @swimble.bsky.social South London born, still learning the job after years at the Bookseller Crow on the Hill in Crystal Palace, chippy
Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social Celebrate the amazing mostly historic women with a connection to South London. Meet suffragettes, actresses, activists, writers, pioneering HCPs, politicians, sportswomen & many more women from all walks of life. Includes some reposts from the other place
M@ @mattfromlondon.bsky.social London explorer. Chief pilot of Londonist: Time Machine, a Substack about London History. Follow for lots of geeky observations about London.
Dulwich Local History @history.dulwichsociety.com Bringing you Dulwich's local history. Part of the Dulwich Society
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059
Friends of Streatham Hill Theatre @streathamhillt.bsky.social The Friends of Streatham Hill Theatre (FoSHT) are campaigning to save this "sleeping beauty" theatre for the community. Find more at http://streathamhilltheatre.org
Jess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social 📚Historian of early modern London
📜 Apprentice Archivist at The London Archives
🖋️Research interests in women, the City of London, and record keeping in C17th
🎓 PhD on women in the Court of Orphans
👩💻 https://jessica-ayres.co.uk
Waltham Forest Archives @lbwfarchives.bsky.social Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library, Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, London E4 7EN. Collections documenting history of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Research visits by prior appointment. Email wfa.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk
Friends of West Norwood Cemetery (FOWNC) @fownc1837.bsky.social Increasing knowledge of WNC - resting place of Sir Henry Doulton, Paul Julius Reuter, Sir Henry Tate, Sir Henry Bessemer, Charles Spurgeon, Mrs Beeton, Dr Marsden, Paul Cinquevalli, Thomas Cubitt, Gideon Mantell, Charles W Alcock, Sir Hiram Maxim
British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social 🎭 Home of Music Hall & Variety
Celebrating the acts who built popular entertainment
Registered charity · Est. 1963 · President: Su Pollard
🔗 britishmusichallsociety.com
Alison Young @youngalison.bsky.social Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing…
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
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
Loughborough Road Histories @roadsw9.bsky.social History of the people, places and events on this south London street and the surrounding neighbourhood