@rodsdad.bsky.social @rodsdad.bsky.social Blue to my soul. Happily married, father, Papa,
Retired teacher, Veteran 🇺🇸, Avowed anti Nazi, fully WOKE, animal lover, member of Blur Revolution 🇺🇸🌈☮️
Leigh 🏴 @leighmarshall.bsky.social Emergency Nurse Practitioner • Former Royal Navy Nurse • Empty Nester • Scottish
Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social I’m that guy that looks just like this that did that tweet that made you laugh that one time. UK based.
Rosie White @drrosalindwhite.bsky.social Aspiring Time-traveller⏳ #SloaneLab 🔬🌿 Community Research Fellow @UCL, & Collections Assistant at Strawberry Hill House 🏰
Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social America's Copy Editor®
author of the New York Times/IndieBound bestseller Dreyer's English and Stet! (the game!) • Random House copy chief/managing editor (ret.) • he/him/his
benjamindreyer.com
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
Alice Loxton @historyalice.bsky.social History broadcaster and Sunday Time bestselling author
📚 UPROAR! / Eighteen
🎥 @bbc @channel5_TV @skyarts
🪶 @telegraph @thetimes
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social Registered in Brighouse for tax purposes. He/they. "The man who gave us Fred Dinenage's 3ft long egg" - (@ChinnyVision)
James Tringham @jamestringham.bsky.social Leftish Stax obsessive. Occasional bass, with mental health issues. Real ones. WE NEED MORE HATS. Views only mine if they're any good.
Sheffield, but WWFC.
Tom Nelthorpe @nelthorpe.bsky.social Country stuff. Infrastructure finance stuff. Some metal
Claire @eyfsclaire.bsky.social Teacher. South east London. Proudly the daughter of an immigrant🇮🇷. Get yourself a good car, get out of here.
PermaConfused @permaconfused.bsky.social Journo/analyst covering transnational security, cyber, research. Lives with wife, chickens and ducks.
Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social Historian, researcher, author, tutor,
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
misssarahwise.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/misssarahwise
Latest book: The Undesirables
https://www.stanfords.co.uk/the-undesirables-the-law-that-locked-away-a-generation
Maureen Ogle @maureenogle.bsky.social Historian. Author. Ranter. Idea junkie
Maureenogle.com
Tom Jamieson @tomjam.bsky.social Surprisingly 🇦🇺 Senior writer Private Eye. Co-head writer BBC Dead Ringers. Award losing children’s author. Dog stick wrangler.
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social Writer, director.
NYC / London
Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social Writerer of things, Leg Spinner, Tool. "He's a relentless gag machine" - Al Murray.
Anna H @athenepallas.bsky.social 'Who would have thought my shriveled heart
Could have recovered greenness?'
Andy Dawson @andydawson.bsky.social Participant in @AthleticoMince.bsky.social @TFTimeMachine.bsky.social and @unseriousdarts.bsky.social. My life is well within its usual frame.
Lola Ruiz-Berdun @lolaruizberdun.bsky.social Professor in #Histmed #Histsci 🧪at @uahes.bsky.social; I research in #HistMidwifery and #HistBirth; President of LVCINA, Spanish Society of History of Birth and Secretary of Spanish Society of History of Sciences. Member of @eurohealthhist.bsky.social
Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social Historian and Archaeologist. Author of The Lives of Tudor Women and England’s Queens. Appears on TV. Likes travel.
Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
Bloomsbury Continuum @bloomscontinuum.bsky.social Illuminating non-fiction from Bloomsbury, covering history, politics, culture, religion, and more📚
Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
www.petefrasermusic.com
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social Caricaturist for Spitting Image & other TV. Co-creator of award-winning kids' non-fic. Open for caricature commissions. I will never listen to your podcast. www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TealCartoons 🚫GenAI
Enquiries: Teal.Cartoons@yahoo.com
www.adrianteal.com
Henk Looijesteijn @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social Historian and essayist. Writes about almshouses, philanthropy, the Dutch 17th century, Tulip Fever, tricksters. Posts in Dutch and English. All views are my own. Most recent book: https://verloren.nl/Webshop/Detail/eid/94136
Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social PhD researcher: identity and development in University Service Unit cadets. A bounder, cad, rakehell and villain. Edinburgh.
Trubs @trubshaw.bsky.social Long girl in wrong century. Compromise candidate. Bit of this, bit of the other. I like mustelids and I cannot lie. 🇺🇦- B Bill Ellson @billellson.bsky.social
Lilly Evans 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇷🇸 @alherix.bsky.social Curious, keen follower of current events worldwide, teenager at heart. Multicultural, multinational & multilingual granny/ baba
Recreating community of diverse thinkers and doers. Parish councillor trying her best
She/ her
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Ukraine Cricket @ukrainecricket.bsky.social Since 1993 🇺🇦🏏
——
📚 GETTING OUT: The Ukrainian Cricket Team's Last Stand on the Front Lines of War: https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/getting-out
❤️ Charity XI: https://wp.me/pm4mQ-AI5
👋🏻 Admin: @jonathancampion.com
VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023) ... new book out soon 'Covent Garden: A People's History' (Yale, 2027)
David Child @davidchild.bsky.social In a perpetual search for a beach house.
Rachel McCormack @rmccormack.bsky.social r_mccormack@icloud.com
Wrote Chasing The Dram, on Radio 4’s The Kitchen Cabinet.
Have a Substack on art and food and drink https://rmccormack.substack.com/
Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au "Young has nailed it." - Publisher's Weekly
Philosopher & author. Agents: Zeitgeist Agency (nonfiction) & Alex Adsett Literary (fiction)
www.damonyoung.com.au
@crchad.bsky.social @crchad.bsky.social
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social Historian, hack, presenter, runner.
Sometimes wears dodgy trousers.
guy@guywalters.com
Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com Ursine Plenipotentiary. Defrocked astrophysicist. Aire échta for hire.
Official sponsor of the 🐻 emoji
“O fish, are you constant to the old covenant?”
Was @marxculture on Twitter
Brandy O’Briant @brandyo71.bsky.social 54. American in England. Beagle mom. Writer. Literary fiction. MFA. INFJ.
Shortlist, The Virginia Prize for Fiction
Finalist, Wildhouse Fiction Prize
Longlist, Mslexia Novel Award
Honourable Mention, Craft Literary 1st Chapters
brandyobriant.com
Sarah Tregear @sarahlat.bsky.social Lover of gin, yoga, tea and sighthounds, not necessarily in that order. Fond of public displays of dancing and prodding dead things with a stick.
Blouse @superblouse.bsky.social Queen of parallel parking
Alicia @foodycatalicia.bsky.social I like books, and people who like books.
Food, flowers, cat
I've not done the age verification thing yet so I may not be able to DM you even if I know you.
Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social In a library. Most likely just off Queen's Lane. #PrintHistory #Time #Newspapers
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/an-inky-business-a-history-of-newspapers-from-the-english-civil-wars-to-the-american-civil-war-matthew-j-shaw/5911999?ean=9781789143867
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Matt Muir @mattmuir.bsky.social Huge pupils, tiny value
webcurios.co.uk
Sherry Jones @sherryjones.bsky.social Author, JOSEPHINE BAKER’S LAST DANCE and other biofictions. Next: transgender musician Billy Tipton. Ardent feminist. Proud liberal. Mouthy broad. Parisienne. Goddess is love!
Saskia Daniel @saskiadanielceramics.com Austro-Hungarian morse code station in transit. Small-batch potter, occasional Germanist. Former editor and print person in higher ed.
http://linktr.ee/hasenschneck
Andrew Holloway @handronicus.bsky.social Some bloke. Used to play drums a bit.
Childlike Soul Dreamer.
South East London.
Fresco-Le-Raye @frescoleraye.bsky.social Fresco-Le-Raye is a multi-hyphenate, unlike The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, Moby-Dick and Terry-Thomas.
たまねぎなしください
Vivat haec sodalitas
Charlotte James @charlotteejames.bsky.social
Walnut Hulls @walnuthulls.bsky.social Geek & bibliophile. Rebuilding on & off line.
Kavey 😁 @kavey.bsky.social Food, Travel & Life | Greedy Londoner transplanted to Wales – city girl turned country mouse | Writer, Photographer, Potter & Business Analyst | She/her | Lefty Woke Pro-EU | Free 🇵🇸 & 🇺🇦 | 💍@petedrinks.com | Next trip: back to Malta
Writes at kaveyeats.com
Isabel Rogers @isabelrogers.bsky.social Writer. Relatively chirpy. Stockwell Park Orchestra series, and sometimes poetry.
isabelrogers619 on instagram
https://farragobooks.com/book-series/the-stockwell-park-orchestra-series
isabelrogers.org
Professor Katharine Adeney @katadeney.bsky.social Prof Comparative Politics Nottingham. Researches (& loves) S Asia. India Pakistan Sri Lanka. CPEC, Federalism, Majoritarianisms, HE, EDI & SEN.
Mum and wife of Long Covid sufferer.
Cats 🐈⬛, Brompton 🚴, Gardening.
Views expressed my own
horror Ewacui @ewacat.bsky.social Massive human raccoon, broad spectrum nerd, 6ft 1 of ADHD chaos, a cishet she/her of mayhem, used to be a SFF bookseller.
'Ever'.
carcosa-based lifeform. UK.
@EwaSR on twitter
DID NOT INTENTIONALLY KILL OPTIMUS PRIME
Trellis @trellis1.bsky.social If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
David Long @writerdavidlong.bsky.social Blue Peter Book of the Year winner. Writes for children and adults, 70+ books translated into more than 30 languages. Occasional ghost. Agent: Penny Holroyde at Holroyde-Cartey.
davidlong.info
Martin Robbins @mjrobbins.com Substack: mjrobbins.com
Podcast: abundancepod.com
Lloyd Shepherd @lloydshepherd.com Books like The English Monster. Podcasts at The Curiously Specific Book Club
Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com The people photographer, working with the world's most interesting humans, dogs and brands. A graceful and melodious ape, fascinated by online identity and trust. Uczę się języka polskiego. paulclarke.com
Kate Bevan @katebevan.com Cat pics, tech, ranting. Sweary. Londoner. Enemy of gerunds in headlines. When I want advice, I'll ask for it.
GMBanks @gmbanks.bsky.social Single. Retired. Owned by a dog. Wide ranging interests including reading, tv & music.
hubbit @hubbit.blog Avuncular curmudgeon. Arrant pedant. Remarkably unremarkable, consequently inconsequential. Never could get the hang of Thursdays. (Scorpio) (✶✶✶✶) https://hubbit.blog
Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social By day a researcher fighting for a better life for the traumatised, by night asleep. Currently writing about a Victorian VIP #CSE scandal. Co-convenor of the BSA Global Histories and Sociology Study Group. she/her
Claire Thirlwall - Thirlwall Associates @thirlwallassoc.bsky.social Landscape architect | Author of RIBA published book "From Idea to Site" | Director of Thirlwall Associates | Expert Adviser to National Lottery Heritage Fund | Runs on tea
lucy pepper @lucypepper.bsky.social illustrator, motion-graphickor, writor, in Portugal for the last 250 years
lucypepper.com
lucypepper.substack.com
Alanna @southlondongirl.bsky.social Wants to know what you had for dinner.
Pete Moxon @petemoxon.bsky.social
Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com Freelance journalist and editor in London, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
hoskas @hoskas.bsky.social Bringing YOU fuckin' sunshine. Capisce?
@sue678.bsky.social @sue678.bsky.social
Dr Rachel Gibbons @rachelgibbons.bsky.social Civil servant by trade, based in Ealing, west London. Medieval historian, #EMCC coach and mentor, lecturer, francophile, cricket fan, high and low-brow culture vulture, epicurean.
Moira Young @moirayoungwriter.bsky.social Writer. Blood Red Road etc. Working on a thing.
Fi KP @curlywurlyfi.bsky.social weirdy little monster (Alanna Lauder, Feb 2026)
@cilla391.bsky.social @cilla391.bsky.social Love animals. Loathe Tories. Bit sweary and getting on a bit!! Ovarian Cancer fighter 👍
Gill Alexander @gillalexander.bsky.social Current affairs, cake baking, comms pro, cats. Hey, see how that worked out! Also plenty of snark but that would’ve ruined the alliteration.
Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
David Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social Crabby, dopey, fussy, grumpy, lazy, messy, nosy, pesky, queasy, rusty, sneezy, teasy, wheezy
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
Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social Words, birds, music. Usual nonsense. South London. linktr.ee/levparikian
Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social Scriptwritist
Sad Eagle @sadeagle.bsky.social Well done
https://www.mixcloud.com/sadeagle/
Laura Brown @laurabrownuk.bsky.social Curator, Photography at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
Come for the photos, stay for the silliness. Views are entirely my own.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurawatsonbrown/
she/her
George Morley @georgeisediting.bsky.social George as in The Famous Five. Books, nice dinners, flowers, cats and rage against the state of things. Erstwhile publishing person.
Essie Fox Writer @essiefox.bsky.social
Catherine: A retelling of Wuthering heights is my latest novel, exploring the classic book through the voice of Cathy's ghost.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catherine-Retelling-Wuthering-Essie-Fox/dp/1917764421/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0
[𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚘𝚣𝚘] 🟡 @carrozo.com 🟡 fiilmmaker and writer based in lisboa.
🟡 www.carrozo.com
🟡 https://buymeacoffee.com/carrozo
Jan Jones @janjonesauthor.bsky.social I write mysteries (contemporary, 1920s), romance (contemporary, Regency), poetry (as the mood takes me). New tag: "Putting the heart into cosy mystery".
Dr. Nina E. Harkrader @nehbuildings.bsky.social Historian, 19thC Architecture of England and USA. Social Housing, Women's History, History of Medicine.
Books, Bicycles, Beaches, Bunnies, and Gardens.
Ann Kempster @annkempster.com Public sector agitator for good. Co-author @transform.wales
Feminist. Cheese. Dachshunds.
Digital. 🏴
She/her.
Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight @canadianerrant.bsky.social Maritime Historian. Chief Mate (150 GT). Dad & Husband. Gardener, Cook & Brewer. Ngāi Tahu & McLean of Duart. Toitū te Tiriti. TCEU 416/CUPE L79. Canadian & Kiwi. Go Blue Jays. Cymru am byth. Alba gu brath. Go All Blacks. He/Him. Likes fashion/style