Dean Kirby @manchesterhistory.uk I’m a historian and author keeping people's history alive. Orwell Prize nominated journalist, PhD and tour guide. Rep: @litagencygmc.bsky.social.
📕Pre-order my new book The Scuttlers: https://linktr.ee/TheScuttlers
Read my writing: www.manchesterhistory.uk
Lauren Starkey @laurenhstarkey.bsky.social Social Worker | Anti-Trafficking campaigner | Socialist
Angry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social Angry People in Local Newspapers - Weird news - Bizarre headlines - Wild animals and ghosts which are actually cats - Bonkers billboards. Regret to report that people are still taking this account seriously. Avatar image by @tpneenan.bsky.social.
Dr Amy Hall @amyvhall.bsky.social Assistant Professor and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Chemistry at Durham University. Interested in all things crystalline (and some things not-so!).
Billy Bell @billybell99.bsky.social Sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.
Music | TV | Food | #nufc | etc
https://open.spotify.com/user/bbell99?si=qjFItZx_TXGK62wvzepj7A
1981 / 1986 News @40yearsago.bsky.social An account that covers the 1980s in real time. DM for contact. Ran by 2 people.
Also see：
@200yearsago.bsky.social
@100yearsago.bsky.social
@80yearsago.bsky.social
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social Animation tidbits from around the world, including rare and underappreciated material you won't find elsewhere.
Newsletter: http://animationobsessive.substack.com
Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social Radio astronomy observatory, research centre, UNESCO World Heritage site, beautiful visitor galleries, free parking, and great coffee 😀📡🌟
🔗 https://www.jodrellbank.net/
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Jon Chadwick @jonchadwick.bsky.social MD at Durham Distillery, craft spirits/food and drink. Durham City, England. Blogs at Jon-Chadwick.com.
Anne-Frances Hayes @anne-frances.bsky.social 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗲-𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗛𝗮𝘆𝗲𝘀, Public speaker, writer, political commentator, activist, socialist, trade unionist, gobby northerner, former county councillor.
Ben Sellers @mrbensellers.bsky.social “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”
Ellie Harrison @ellieharrison.com Artist, activist & author of 'The Glasgow Effect: A Tale of Class, Capitalism & Carbon Footprint' 📚 Resisting the urge to tweet since 2008
ellieharrison.com/book
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
JIMBO-SOLAR @jimbo-solar.bsky.social Modelmaker, cat dad, biker and massive Sci-Fi , Star Wars and Gerry Anderson nut. 😀 Born and raised in ENGLAND. 🇬🇧
No religious stuff please, total non-believer in imaginary sky wizards. No Bitcoin or MAGA crap either.
Chris Thompson @chrisxl5.bsky.social He/him. Aro.Author of fictional tech manuals and graphic novels, filmmaker and special effects artist.🪐 Most known for Thunderbirds, Space 1999, Doctor Who and Blake’s 7 related things…
Based in Belfast.
HMS Tern Living Museum @hmstern61.bsky.social We are creating a Living Museum at HMS Tern in Orkney. The team of volunteers and paid staff are recreating the look, smell and feel of a training airfield in World War II on Orkney. The site is open to the public, see our website for opening times.
Rosie Niven @rosieniven.bsky.social Originally from north east England, now in north east London. I work in comms when not retracing lost ferry routes. Previously a journalist for digital, print & broadcast media. Views all my own.
Work: UCL | Ferry project: www.rosieniven.com
James Perry @perryjims.bsky.social Architect and planner. Housing and urbanism. Will draw things for money. 
Portalrealm @portalrealm.bsky.social Star Trek Fan who archives blueprints of the star trek sets as well as other references.
I also reverse engineers the dimensions of Star Trek sets and release them.
Archive : http://archive.frogland.co.uk/
(he/him)
Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social Once was an architect.
Wangal land. DOB 329.43 ppm CO2. #GenXClub 🤞#NoDickheads.
I receive DMs from mates. Any others will be deleted without response.
I can’t send you money. Refusal may offend.
I HATE MICROSOFT.
They’re skeets.
SAVE Britain's Heritage @savetoreuse.bsky.social New Life for Remarkable Buildings
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Mary Kelly Foy MP @marykfoymp.bsky.social Labour MP City of Durham. Trade Unionist. Socialist. Promoted by Kate Bolger, on behalf of Mary Kelly Foy, both at Labour North, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6PA.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social freelance labor journalist & author. big on heavy metal, workers, tattoos, cold places, and Philly. do no harm, take no shit 🏴
my books/email: www.kim-kelly.com
my lefty metal newsletter: salvo.ghost.io
Talking Northeast @talkingnortheast.bsky.social Interview-based journalist from Northeast England's cultural scene. Check it out at https://talkingnortheast.substack.com/
duckrabbit @benduckrabbit.bsky.social 
Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social Baroness/Actress/Writer/Campaigner. Best known as iconic presenter of Playschool and Play Away
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!
Jim'll Paint It @sirpaintalot.bsky.social People ask me to draw pictures on Microsoft Paint and sometimes I do
Des @desdelboy.bsky.social basic (L) eu 43.
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat.
“This groove is out of fashion, These beats are 20 years old”
David Byrne.
“Time is the most valuable commodity”
Mike D
Proud to be a MDANT
Artists' Union England @artistsunioneng.bsky.social An independent union fighting for fair pay, good working conditions and sustainable futures for visual and socially engaged artists. Join for just £48 per year.
Mother Jones @motherjones.com Investigative journalism 🕵️, politics 🗳️, chart-tastic 📊, and sometimes sarcastic 🙄😌🤪
Join our people-powered nonprofit newsroom: motherjones.com/subscribe
Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social Journalist and Historian | Royal Society of Literature award-winning writer and Orwell Prize finalist 2026
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Stephen Railton @stephenrailton.bsky.social Interests include Working-class history, Anglo-Irish history, Social history, 19th & 20th century history.
People's History Museum @phm.org.uk Explore the UK’s national museum of democracy. Open every day (except Tues). Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER.
phm.org.uk
JenOnTheMove 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 @jenonthemove.com Exploring the country using every station as a gateway to lesser known places, sharing my journey via YouTube | parkrun addict | https://youtube.com/@JenOnTheMove | she/her
📷 Grant Swinbourne @grantswinbournephotography.com Photographer & Podcaster from Australia 🇦🇺
Host of Landscape Photography World Podcast
grantswinbournephotography.com
youtube.com/@Grantswinbournephotography.com
Mark 2000 Farinas @mark2000.bsky.social Bay Area artist and animator. Comics, sketches, and articles about Star Trek and Sci-Fi. Co-Host of Ship Full of Jerks podcast.
Chris Mullin @chrismullinexmp.bsky.social Writer, retired politician and amateur gardener. One of a growing number of refugees from Elon Musk's X/Twitter.
Melinda Salisbury @melindasalisbury.com Athos in the streets. Aramis in the sheets. Porthos in the skeets
Author. she/her https://linktr.ee/melsalisbury
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com "One of the great film nerd Twitter accounts" - Vanity Fair
99% space fiction (licenses) and its creation.
Here are all my accounts: http://linktr.ee/thespaceshipper
Philippa Childs @philippachilds.bsky.social Head of Bectu, feminist and Spurs fan. Mellowing in old age and always optimistic
Jeff @themadjeff.bsky.social Photographer,multiple stroke survivor from Oxford UK 🇬🇧 I like art, jazz, photography .I’m not interested in cameras, they’re all pretty good these days. I live on a boat and have done for years. New & old pictures I took. All images copyright.
John Duncan @johntheduncan.bsky.social Started in academia at the same time as youtube. Youtube is more stable | SRT, Neoliberalism, human rights | All my links https://linktr.ee/johntheduncan
he/him
Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign @orgreavejustice.bsky.social otjc.org.uk
Isobel Gray 🏴☠️🏳️⚧️ @isobelsgray.bsky.social She/her. 50. Writer. Aquatramp. Feral trans woman moving very slowly around the inland waterways.
Dan @fraternalwriter.bsky.social Researcher, author, mostly UK & 18th-20thC social history especially friendly societies, banners, the Open University, the Labour Party and the history of local history. Escapes through running.
Land of Iron @landofiron.bsky.social Born of Iron. Made of steel.
Land of Iron is Teesside's industrial heritage museum.
www.landofiron.org.uk
Side @sidegallery.bsky.social Est. in 1977: Side is dedicated to lens-based documentary. We are home to the UNESCO-listed AmberSide collection, showcasing film and documentary photography on working-class life from the North East and beyond.
Sidegallery.co.uk
Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social MP for Islington North
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social He/him. Bristol. Writer, content designer. No alt text = no repost. Not here for politics. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/raynewman Header: Thin Places in Hard Concrete https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DC5PL7T4 Agent: https://blakefriedmann.co.uk/ray-newman
Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com Always fighting for the people.
Wife, Momala, Auntie. She/her.
107 Days, my behind-the-scenes account of the shortest campaign in history, is available now at https://kamalaharris.link/107Days.
ELECTRICITYCLUB.CO.UK @theelectricityclub.bsky.social positive electricity - those who are unable to tell their tape recorders from their drum machines need not apply… 🎤🎹🔌⚡️
Please visit https://www.electricityclub.co.uk/
General Federation of Trade Unions @gftu.org.uk Founded 1899. A federation of trade unions. Delivering trade union education through @gftuet.org.uk. Building solidarity. The home of @strikemap.org #GFTU.
All our links: beacons.ai/gftu
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Angela Smith @alengasmith.bsky.social Co-editor, Bloomsbury International Library of Gender in Popular Culture. All views are my own :0)
Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social Historian | Head of Collections Research at The National Archives (UK) | Maritime & colonial history | History of science & medicine | Currently researching Royal African Company/Company of Merchants.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
The Crack Magazine @thecrackmagazine.bsky.social THE CRACK is a music, art and culture listings magazine/website that resides in the North-East of England
We Make Culture @wemakeculture.bsky.social We bring people together through music-making and creativity. Developing talent, building community, enhancing creative confidence and wellbeing. Sunderland, UK.
More info: https://linktr.ee/wemakeculture
Building Culture @buildingculture.bsky.social Ground up, practice-led creative organisation. A blend of producing, advisory and strategic placemaking.
#culture #community #placemaking
🔗 https://linktr.ee/build_cultr
Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social 
LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social The LGBTQ+ History Association (formally the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History) founded in 1979, is an affiliate of the American Historical Association. Learn more at clgbthistory.org
BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/ 
The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Social Science History Association @socscihistory.bsky.social Official account of the Social Science History Association. Supporting social science history since 1974, we host an annual meeting and publish a journal. More about us can be found at www.ssha.org
Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social Encouraging the development of young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain | #HlfSupported #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
Irish Historical Society @irishhistsoc.bsky.social https://www.irishhistoricalstudies.ie/irish-historical-society/
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Northern Heartlands @nheartlands.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/NorthernHeartlands
Northern Heartlands is a charity based in County Durham bringing the creativity of artists together with individuals, community groups, schools and partner organisations. 💚
Andy Martin @martintype.bsky.social Takin’ photos in the dark. Mostly film, often tintype. martintype.co.uk
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
The Battleground @battlegroundeu.bsky.social Narratives Matter in Critical Times
https://thebattleground.eu/ > thebattleground.substack.com
The Battleground is a non-profit media to counter false narratives and propaganda that are eroding trust in politics and the media. 
Dr Louise Powell @louisepowell.bsky.social Author of UNDERDOGS (JM Originals: John Murray Press) 2nd July 2026
Sid Chaplin Northern Writers' Award Winner 2023.
#CommonPeople Anthology. PhD in English.
Represented by Elise Middleton (YMU Literary).
Image Credit: Rob Irish
https://louisepowell.co.uk/
Michael Sheen @mchshe.bsky.social Serious Actor.
Jess Hunt @jessjehunt.bsky.social Director of No More Nowt.
Hartlepool heart & East Durham soul.
Advocate for access and leadership of culture and creativity, wherever you live (but especially Co. Durham).
Multicoloured thrifter and beach comber. Culture & general nerd. Opinions my own.
Thompsons Solicitors @thompsons.law We are the UK's most experienced law firm fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated for over 100 years. Call us on 0800 0 224 224. www.thompsons.law
Brian W Lavery PhD @brianwlaverywriter.bsky.social Scottish writer, journalist & university lecturer based in Hull. Author The Headscarf Revolutionaries & The Luckiest Thirteen (barbicanpress.com)
Website: brianwlavery.com
Teaches Univ. of Leeds Lifelong Learning Centre
Features writer Fishing News et al
National Education Union @neunion.bsky.social The National Education Union represents the majority of teachers and education professionals in the UK. It's time to #ValueEducation.
Paul Nowak @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social General Secretary of @the-tuc.bsky.social
Family, unions, politics, canals, Everton FC, music.
The National Union of Journalists @nujofficial.bsky.social The NUJ is the voice for journalists and journalism - an active, campaigning membership organisation promoting media ethics.
https://www.nuj.org.uk/join
Bectu @bectu.bsky.social Official Bectu Union account: linktr.ee/bectu
We're dedicated to supporting staff & freelancers across the creative industries. A sector of Prospect Union.
Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social General Secretary of Unite | https://sharongraham.org/
Unions 21 @unions21.org The leading voice for union best practice and innovation.
We help unions build for tomorrow.
Kate Osborne MP @kateosbornemp.bsky.social Labour MP for Jarrow and Gateshead East.
Proud Trade Unionist, fighting for socialism, equality, LGBTQ+ rights
UNISON Northern @unisonnorthern.bsky.social Sharing news & updates about the northern region of UNISON, the UK's largest union.
Join us today: https://join.unison.org.uk/ - #UNISON. Call 0191 245 0800
https://unsn.uk/NorthernLinks
Shut Out The Light Films @sotl-films.bsky.social Independent film company. Five feature documentaries released in the UK to date. Current project: Iron Ladies.
Northumbria UCU Branch @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social Shy Bairns Get Nowt!
Sean Pertwee @seanpertwee.bsky.social I omnia bona supellectilem
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/