The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
@iand1878.bsky.social @iand1878.bsky.social Still working, Evertonian, various sports enthusiast. Photography. Pro EU. I do suffer fools, but not gladly, I think that comes from having teenagers in the house. Black Sabbath, Led Zep, Wham, Eagles, Outlaws, Bowie, Doobies, Santana, Texas.
NO DM.
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
Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Interested in digital preservation, archives and public engagement. Also random public transport content. Views my own unless a repost. She/her.
Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social 'That bloke that does stiles'; also clouds and general nonsense.
'gradually the sense of disappointment wears away'
Shap, this account, etc
'Diplomatically tight-lipped about fluvial processes'
Maid Mercian @maid-mercian.bsky.social "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane, by those who couldn't hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche
Matthew Blake @matthew-blake.bsky.social This week: Commonplace book of James Whitehall, Poaching, Orkney, Churchwardens, Early Medieval stuff, Cider, Mercia, Orchards, little people
Mary B @beesincampanula.bsky.social I should have been a pair of ragged clawsโฆ
Reads ๐Writes ๐Haunts museums, art galleries, ancient sites, woodland and marshes. Thrilled to be in top 5% of entrants for 2026 Bridport Novel prize #amquerying
Jayne Wilson @oneofthewilsons.bsky.social Retired graphic designer. Mum and grandma. Devotee of collage and assemblage art. Collector of ephemera and miniatura. Random photography at https://myphotographicmiscellany.wordpress.com.
Staffordshire @staffordshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Staffordshire (Staffs), UK - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Baz To The Bone @baztothebonecast.bsky.social Horror and cult film podcast with Baz Bishop. Deep dives, dark humor, and bad taste done properly. The kind of show your mother warned you about. Check it out at beacons.ai/baztothebonecast
Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social History & archaeology, esp. of northern England. Alumnus @ Sheff & Brum history. Freelance researcher & project manager in heritage sector @ www.sglingard.com. Chair @StHelensTownAFC.bsky.social.
Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckooโs Lea, Bloomsbury, paperback out now. At work on a new book about winter: Hibernal. Marshes. Winter. Whisky.
https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea
www.birdsandplace.co.uk
Skulls and Sheets @skullsandsheets.bsky.social I am the flogger of undead horses. Specifically Welsh, undead, yuletide ones that eat cake, toast and cider. Otherwise known as the mari lwyd! Everyone is welcome here!
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
Chris @schurke8112.bsky.social Urban explorer and blogger
Philip Larkin Society @plsoc.bsky.social Official account for the Philip Larkin Society at PhilipLarkin.com, promoting the work of Philip Larkin.
Des @desdelboy.bsky.social basic (L) eu 43.
โThis groove is out of fashion, These beats are 20 years oldโ
@memorialdevice.bsky.social
#MDANT
Charlotte Houldcroft @virologyhouldcroft.bsky.social Virology with a side-order of human evolution.
The Midnight Library Podcast @themidnightlibrary.bsky.social Not just a show, but a place you can go. For dark hearts, black sheep, & lovers of Halloween. We ๐ you! Join us!๐ป(Please stay within the cordoned-off areas of the library ... for your safety๐)Managed by Irma the Elf (totally not a demon) no politics
11 Bus @11bus.bsky.social Ride Birmingham's 11 in bot form. From @paradisecircus.com
Posts about every 30 mins for the full Outer Circle experience.
Like the current route, we're stopping and starting, not very fun and not completing the journey. Unlike TWM we are working on it.
Les Pellicules @mrdaveconroy0.bsky.social Woke he/him. Retired. LFC, photography, design, music, vintage hifi, travel, food, beverages, current affairs, East Asian movies, Green, socialist, very sweary, Cat friendly!
Neil Coley @neilcoley.bsky.social Author of many fact-filled and fun-filled non-fiction books and novels. Lives in Lichfield in Staffordshire.
Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social Adviser @aqaeducation.bsky.social, MAT and @RSPH.bsky.social trustee, ex-senior civil servant; classical music, #LCFC ๐ฆ, Englandโฝ๏ธ๐, walks, photos, words; husband, father, generally curious
https://substack.com/@jembenson
๐ Leicestershire, UK
Court Above The Cut @courtabovethecut.bsky.social Love Canals? Love Industrial History? Then you are in the right place!
Proud Ambassador for the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust and the Wilts and Berks Canal Trust
Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social PhD student researching working class identity, 'deindustrialisation,' & deficit narratives.
Also: writer, photographer, docu producer (@lonelytower.bsky.social), general annoyance.
๐NE England |๐คธโโ๏ธ she/her | MDANT ๐
| ๐https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner
Claire T @ctallers.bsky.social Author and scriptwriter. Horror and strange stuff. Amateur tarot reader. Views my own, etc.
Peakrill Press @peakrillpress.bsky.social stories - art - magic - surprises
๐ณ๐ชจ๐ฆ๐ธ๏ธ๐ฅ๐น๐๐๐ฒ๐ช๐
An independent publishing company, via Daniel Sumption
Peakrill.com
Rob Tyers @thexclaim6.bsky.social Leeds. Project Manager. Band member. Ex-zine author. ๐ and records. Punk. Cinema. Old stones. The Long Sixties. Modernism. Weird fiction. Noir. JG Ballard. You get the ideaโฆ
Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social We are Enrichment Through Archaeology. We provide school workshops, manage community heritage projects and offer guided tours of the Peak District. Interested in Neolithic, museums & religion and rapidly learning about early medieval agriculture!
Gemma Hollman @gemmahauthor.bsky.social Historian, author, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Runs the Just History Posts blog. Specialises in late medieval women and the English court. Find my links: https://lnk.bio/GemmaHAuthor
Amanda Gareis @agareis.bsky.social Folklore ponderer. German Shepherd botherer. Maker of many useless and beautiful things. Aspiring messenger of wonder. 
Karen Averby ๐ @karenaverby.bsky.social karenaverby.co.uk
Buildings Historian/Consultant
Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights
Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk
FRHistS ACIfA
Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist
Rep PastPreservers
Brum/London
The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career.
#Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social Sometimes I do graphic design stuff for telly and film. Other times I make spooky lino prints and things you can buy if you want...
๐Black Country (middle of the UK)
https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack
Moonlit Myths @moonlitmyths.bsky.social Artist, writer, love the strange, sci-fi, unexplained, mythology, folklore, history, reader and audiobook fan. ๐งโ๐ฆ๐๐ฏโฅ
https://linktr.ee/moonlitmyths
Shropshire / Welsh Marches.
Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social Random views myne owne. Canadian. Seeker of #Hiraeth. A latter-day OOwl fancier (with a good dose of Wren-fancying too). MA in Folklore Studies. #KDrama Addict. Learning ไธญๆ. Spins woolly yarns & story threads
Birds @bybirds.bsky.social I LOBE TYPOS! I like flowers and cats and my dumb hobbies.
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.
Debi M Roberts @debimroberts.bsky.social University of Staffordshire engineering academic and CEng with a passion for transport history, MA Naval, Maritime and Coastal Studies student at University of Portsmouth.
Of Myths and Moors @cherylquine.bsky.social Hedgerow explorer, wildflower reciter, animal protector, camera wielder, paint splatterer, word wrangler, folklore teller, liminal-space dweller. Usually found where the corvids are.
Photos/images - all created or captured by me ยฉ๏ธ
The Grave Muse @thegravemuse.bsky.social Haunted by the beauty of decay. Taphophile, cemetery wanderer, and occasional grave robber of forgotten stories.
Blog: http://thegravemuse.wixsite.com/my-site
Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.
We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
@julietqs.bsky.social @julietqs.bsky.social 
John @postcards2025.bsky.social 
Lifelonghistorylover @thehistorylover.bsky.social Museum worker | 18th century | History blogger & book reviewer
Sean @kohi.bsky.social Bikes, books, drawing badly
SF resident, enthusiast and complainer of long standing
jay @kneesntoess.bsky.social she/they | full time nerd ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ | nsfw | fandom & art | ๐ | 30s
find me other places @ kneesntoess
ao3 @ abbyleaf101
https://ko-fi.com/kneesntoess
Peter Andrews @peteoldtown.bsky.social History music and other stuff
Trying to keep sane in an insane world ๐
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social In 2025 my ex-publishers Unbound imploded, taking many many ยฃ1000s of my earnings, for seven (yes, seven) books, into hell with them. I am here primarily as an attempt to recover from that disaster. if you buy/read/recommend one of my books, it helps.
El @unevendays.bsky.social Has far too many books. Interested in SFF, comics, archaeology, folk music, folklore. Nerd. Crabby old cactus. Adopted Aberdonian.
๐ฉท๐๐
Mastodon: wandering.shop/@unevendays
Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/unevendays
Lost Otter's Pilgrimage of Food 19.12.30.3.22 @lost-otter.bsky.social Food (our aulde enemie) - its appearance, calorific energies, and locations (historic, domestic, sublime & banal); that the shame of it should outlive him.- A @abesoddworld.bsky.social @abesoddworld.bsky.social
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove ๐ดโโ ๏ธ @daveproudlove.bsky.social Writer - urbanism, place, football, buildings, music | Published by Pitch Publishing | Appears in Tribune, Football Heritage, Brum Dispatch, & others | Socialist | #MDANT | LM โฅ๏ธ | Dad to Dylan
'King of obscurity' - KFC
The Horses of the Gods @horsesofthegods.bsky.social Wild wyrd music blending drone folk & experimental soundscapes. Come Join us! http://horsesofthegods.bandcamp.com
ChesterArchSoc @chesterarchsoc.bsky.social Our interests cover archaeology, history & conservation in Cheshire & surrounding areas. Founded 1849. Website www.chesterarchaeolsoc.org.uk
Simon ๐ช๐บ๐ต๐ธ๐บ๐ฆ @mirthematician.bsky.social Book addict, user of recreational maths. Green Party member. Wildlife buff. Plant-based happiness. Not unpartial to the odd dram.
Toby Hall @tobyhallwriter.bsky.social Writer looking for a job and an agent. Likes Doctor Who, reading, birds, steampunk, folklore + lots of other stuff. Eclectic music taste.
CV in pinned post.
Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TobyAJHall
Bronwyn Graves @bronwyng.bsky.social Director and Curator of Canadaโs National Stamp Program โ๏ธ
Professional history nerd. Recovering medievalist. Fool of a Took.๐๏ธ๐
Michรจle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
Ooma Verse UK @oomaverse.bsky.social pwME. Disabled. Slightly anonymous in order to be free.
Midlands, UK
Previously troevs at the other place
Josh Newbury MP @joshnewburymp.bsky.social Serving the towns and villages of Cannock Chase as their Member of Parliament
Shropshire and Beyond @shropshirebeyond.bsky.social I celebrate Shropshire with my photographs, books, jigsaws, calendars, greetings cards and more.
www.shropshireandbeyond.com
Ian Wallace @cannockwanderer.bsky.social Explorer of the U.K. and the world.
MSc student at University of Kent. Research interests include #walrus #wildlifetrade #ivory, connections between #anthropology and #conservation
Supporter of Crystal Palace Football Club ๐ด๐ต
๐ณ๏ธโ๐
All views are my own
Mercian Migrant @mercianmigrant.bsky.social Enthusiast of early medieval insular stone sculpture and natural history. Former teacher of biology. Born in Mercia; lives in Sussex.
James Brown @jamesgabrown.bsky.social Archaeologist working across Hampshire, Sussex & Surrey on protected landscapes. Posts will swing between my passions for heritage, landscapes, dogs & cycling!
Haunted Bench Project @hauntedbench75.bsky.social ๐ชฆ Ghostly & macabre legends of #Harrow & district. #HauntedHarrow #HarrowWeald #HauntedBenches #parkphantoms #cemeteryspectres #gardenshedghosts & c. #pulp #horror & supernatural fiction; stuff like that. #TowerHamlets also features quite a lot. ๐
Dipyaman Bhowmick @handle.invalid MA in English student, Jadavpur University (2025-2027).
Interested in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, Gothic studies, and environmental humanities.
Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social Tired enthusiast. Mostly here to post about old television shows, films, comedy, books, and horror.
Rambles and tangents on culture here: https://arowofopengraves.co.uk/
Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer
@UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by
@pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
Paul H Vigor, BA (Hons) History; MSocSc Industrial Archaeology @paulvigor64.bsky.social Heretic historian (Exeter); maverick industrial archaeologist (Birmingham); archaeological landscape investigator; active researcher in UK Roman western frontier landscapes; dog dad - English Springer Spaniel; countryman born & bred.
Steph Rae Moran @stephraemoran.bsky.social Folklore-inspired writer (fiction, blog, newsletter)
Reader of fantasy, historical fiction, and mystery
Loves nature, museums, and lattes
๐ bi
newsletter: https://stephraemoran.substack.com/
website & folklore blog : https://stephraemoran.com/
Matt @inpoetsshoes.bsky.social
Likes poetry, books, film oh and stuff (he/him) ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
#vss365
Steve @soddit.bsky.social Sweary, inappropriate, perv.
Hi.
Catherine Meissner @catmeise.bsky.social Love to read and travel. Believe in unconventional ways, creativity and the universe.
Clive Wright @clivewright1969.bsky.social Headteacher of St Martin's in Stoke Golding, Leicestershire.
Mark Ellis @mark-ellis.bsky.social Particular fondness for family, friends, sport, music, festivals (see you at Glastonbury), walking, heritage, conservation, and fun.
Sometimes found working at the National Memorial Arboretum, leading Scouts, and talking about Staffordshire.
Allons-y
@paulray.bsky.social @paulray.bsky.social 
Poetry Gal @poetrygal.bsky.social Poetic licence.
Philip Bedford @hkey-root.bsky.social http://aussiefloyd.com/tour-dates
That guy.
Air guitarist. Air drummer. Air brain.
Share birthday with Jodie Foster.
G7BSL
My level of incompetence increases daily.
I love a good moan.
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBCโs A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Heidi Backes @heidibackes1.bsky.social Prof of Spanish lit and cultural history / Gothic fiction / Fascism / Memory & Trauma Studies / Author of SPECTRAL SPAIN (U of Wales Press, 2024), FASCIST FEMALE GOTHIC (Jan. 2027, UWP)
Mark Rees @reviewwales.bsky.social Author | Art Historian | Cultural Adventurer. Arts journalist & PhD researcher in the Gothic & the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social Strange and wonderful events since 2011
Paranormal, psychic, folkloric, fortean events.
Sharing the oddest London-based news.
Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social The journal of strange phenomena
Horror Studies Research Group @ Northumbria @horrorstudies.bsky.social The Horror Studies Research Group at Northumbria University (UK): the Home of Horror Studies
horrorstudies.com
#horrorNU
Paul Stevenson @hauntedmagazine.bsky.social A Dad to teenage twin girls. Joker. Editor of Haunted Magazine: Go to work for rest, peace & quiet. Bumbling, fumbling, stumbling, tumbling & mumbling my way through the paranormal. Email paul@hauntedmagazine.co.uk if you feel the need.
www.hauntedmag.com
Sundeep Braich @sundeepbraich.bsky.social Scatty Seeker | Uncovers | Writes | Talks
History โข Legends โข Heritage โข Light โ๏ธ
Koh-i-Noor diamond: a storied stone ๐
โ๏ธ Is Hadesโฆ historyโs actuary?
๐ธInstagram @SundeepBraich
Dawn @barr3lr1der.bsky.social Gentlewoman with recipes
Mike Clarkson @mikeclarkson.bsky.social Dad of 2 boys ๐จโ๐ฆโ๐ฆ | Stoke-on-Trent ๐ | ๐ฒ Outdoor adventurer | ๐ก Keen gardener | โฝ๏ธ Football fanatic | ๐๏ธ F1 follower |
#TeamPixel ๐ธ Sharing snaps of my garden, family, and adventures in the great outdoors.
I follow back ๐ Let's connect! ๐
Kirsty Hooper @booksonspain.bsky.social Warwickshire-based researcher, writer, linguist, genealogist & trombonist. Just completed: 19th-Century Spanish London: Culture, Commerce, and Community. Also like ๐โโฌ๐ฅพ๐ท๐บ๐ถ www.khgenealogy.co.uk
Olivia @oliviaarmstrong.bsky.social Professional Storyteller. Folklore Lover. Believer in magic.
Michael Nobbs @michaelnobbs.bsky.social Artist and tea drinker living on a hillside in Wales.
Learning to live a gentle creative life and encouraging others to do the same.
Diagnosed with #MECFS in 1997.
www.patreon.com/gogently
https://linktr.ee/michaelnobbs
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Simon Williams @swilliamsauthor.bsky.social Author of dark fantasy. Social outcast. Pronouns: it / that. Lurking in England, pretending to be English. Opinions not my own. Why on earth would I have my own opinions? simonwilliamsauthor.com https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6094097.Simon_Williams
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom ๐โโฌ(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art๐จ, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer๐ชท๐ณ๏ธโ๐yacht rock loverโต๏ธ๐teatime keeper๐ซ www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Matt swindlehurst @mattswindlehurst.bsky.social Lives in Staffordshire Moorlands. Town councillor and chair of events, Leek Town Council. Cabinet Member for Leisue and Tourism, Staffordshire Moorlands District Council. Board member Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Local Visitor Economy Partnership.
Jack Burkinshaw @jackburkinshaw.bsky.social Passionate about all things community.
Chairperson for Brereton Big Local & Vysions youth services a legacy group of Brereton Million / Local Trust.
Councilor for Kings Bromley & Running an electrical company by day!
Moorlands Radio @handle.invalid Local Radio for North Staffordshire and South Cheshire broadcasting from the Staffordshire Moorlands
103.7fm | 97.3fm | DAB | online
Lindsay @lndsy.bsky.social I like to walk & read. Everywhere.
Bookseller at @walbatrossbookshop.bsky.social.