Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social An independent publisher of innovative non-fiction.
www.reaktionbooks.co.uk
Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing, co-editor of New Walk Editions. www.rorywaterman.com https://rorywaterman.substack.com/. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
Rob Spence @spencro.bsky.social Former Eng Lit academic. Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian.
robspence.org.uk shinynewbooks.co.uk
victorcrabbe on Insta
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/rob611
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social Poet and translator in a bad time for Lyrik
Lover of lurchers and other thieving dogs
The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
LiberalDespot @druidic.org Likes Photography, Italy, Whisky, The Magnetic Fields, Autonomy, Glasgow, &c
Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.
Glasgow, Yr Hen Ogledd
Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
Emma Bastin @emmabastin.bsky.social Historian of the early twentieth century; mum; crafter; bibliophile; lover of all things 1930s. Treasurer of Art Deco Soc UK. Founder of the Independent Historians Network Represented by Past Preservers.
www.emmabastin.com
Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social Writer, presenter and consultant
researching the unexpected places where science, culture and consumerism meet. Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (Aug 2026)
https://linktr.ee/lucyjanesantos_
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
siân pattenden @sian-superman.bsky.social stuff
Alice Leonard @wanderlanderr.bsky.social Book historian and early modernist, thinking about error
Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social Early modernist at the University of York | A GOLDEN WORLD (Faber, 2026) | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
Prof Bob Davis @rokewood.bsky.social Prof of Religious & Cultural Education, University of Glasgow. Chair of Philosophy of Education Soc. Religion, Myth, Arts, Humanities, Music, Education, football, birds. We’ve 3 sons—‘the crow makes wing to the rooky wood’—all posts etc personal
John Williams @johnwilliams.bsky.social I write about books and edit others’ writing about books, previously for NY Times and Washington Post. Apollonian/Order Muppet. Highly sociable misanthrope. (Photo: Larry McMurtry's Booked Up, 2018.)
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
Dr. Hilary Lennon @hilarylennon.bsky.social Literary historian, teacher of literature, working on a cultural history of Irish letter writing.
Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social Blogger at Liberal England. Expect Dickens, politics, Steve Winwood, canals, British films, Richard Jefferies, Shropshire, Englishness, chess, social history, Malcolm Saville, philosophy, Leicestershire and Rutland, comedy, railways... That sort of thing.
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Jo Kendall @jothekendall.bsky.social Hengemaker, cake eater, uke destroyer, Associate Ed Prog Mag, contrib for Classic Rock, Record Collector and Electronic Sound, lecturer at BIMM London. Mixtape elf, Radio 5 Live-er, infiltrator to Woman's Hour, she/her. More on linktr.ee/jokendall 
Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she 
Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
Katherine Harvey @katherineharvey.bsky.social Historian and writer.
https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/
Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social My new book - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - is out now. A Radio Four pick of the week.
Order details and live events - https://linktr.ee/4hundredblows
Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social Endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof French & Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
Edward's Boys @edwardsboys.bsky.social King Edward VI School, Stratford-upon-Avon
Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social In Another World: The Four Seasons of Talk Talk out now, published by New Modern.
Also: Under The Ivy; Small Hours; Themes For Great Cities &tc.
Web: www.graemethomson.net
Pádhraic Quinn @quinnpadhraic.bsky.social 2025 Irish Book Awards Winner for New Irish Writing Best Short Story
2025/26 London Library Emerging Writer
https://m.independent.ie/entertainment/new-irish-writing/new-irish-writing-all-the-birch-trees-were-waving-by-padhraic-quinn/a1765826609.html
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social Slang Lexicographer.
https://greensdictofslang.com
https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com
https://jonathongreen.substack.com
Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social Official account of all things Malachi Whitaker, Yorkshire author, b. Bradford (1895-1976). Moderated by Whitaker's Literary Executor, Valerie Waterhouse (PhD researcher, Salford University. Winner of Biographers Intl Org Kitty Kelley Fellowship, 2025)
Adam Higginbotham @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social Writer. Author of New York Times bestsellers Midnight in Chernobyl and Challenger. www.adamhigginbotham.com
Sally Oliphant @sallytalksbooks.bsky.social Book and arts PR (non-fiction and kid's books focus). Reader, traveller, parent. Likes a cup of tea and a chat, especially about books.
CR: Honey
Richard Price @paintedspoken.bsky.social Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Matt Eaton @matteatonmedia.bsky.social Author and historian researching troop morale and entertainment, Military History PhD. See https://mattheweaton.co.uk for newsletter and more. Forthcoming book, Madam V's War (https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/madam-v-virginia-vernons-war/).
Deborah Vass @deborahvass.bsky.social Artist and printmaker, sketching in the Norfolk countryside and writing about neglected women artists on Substack.
Terry Stiastny @terrystiastny.bsky.social Author of Believable Lies, a story of wartime propaganda and fake news, out now from WH Allen. Discussing politics and more on Times Radio and Monocle Radio. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/452994/believable-lies-by-stiastny-terry/
Matthew Parker @matthewparker70.bsky.social Historian and writer. www.matthewparker.co.uk. Fellow of Royal Historical Society. Lover of books, gardens, Japanese food. Lives in London with family and annoying dog. Only just got here
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Karen Waring @karenwaring1.bsky.social Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Tom Gatti @tomgatti.bsky.social Literary Editor, the Observer | Formerly New Statesman | Editor, Long Players (Bloomsbury)
Jo Godfrey @jogodfrey.bsky.social Editorial Director, Penguin Press - commissioning history for Allen Lane (views my own)
Mike Pitts @pittsmike.bsky.social Award-winning writer/broadcaster
Editor British Archaeology magazine 2003–23
Editor Society of Antiquaries of London e-newsletter 2015–20
President Sussex Archaeological Society https://mikepitts.wordpress.com/
Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social Medievalist, Latinist, paleographer, Episcopalian, with novel in progress. DC-based, with beagle. Web: ruffnotes.org
Cover image is from the Reichenau Gospels, Walters Art Museum MS W7 fol. 7r.
| Éireann | @rinnywee.bsky.social | History #PhD submitted! | #Librarian | Plumpton College | Priestess | Ceridwen | Lilitu | Inanna | Shāhmārān | #MultipleSclerosis | 🇦🇺🇫🇷 in 🇬🇧 |
Emma Darwin @emmadarwinwriter.bsky.social Writes fiction & non-fiction, teaches, blogs @ This Itch of Writing https://linktr.ee/emmadarwinwriter
North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars.
northseapoets.com
James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social Award-winning buildings archaeologist. FSA. Mediaeval mythbuster. Castles. Old pubs. Theatre. Alan Garner. Cats. Live music. Ex-roadie.
Triskele Heritage
https://triskeleheritage.com
Based in Nottingham, UK
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 
Eleanor J Bailey @mediev-el.bsky.social She/her, fledgling postdoctoral historian & Collections Development Assistant at Lincolnshire Archives
Co-organiser for 'Loyalty in the Medieval World' research group
Summersdale @summersdalebooks.bsky.social Books to inform, entertain and inspire 📚
🎁Gift & humour
🌿Self-help & wellness
🗺️Travel & nature
Find more here: http://linktr.ee/summersdale
Peter Ross @peteralanross.bsky.social Author of Upon A White Horse: Journeys In Ancient Britain & Ireland. Also, Steeple Chasing: Around Britain By Church, & A Tomb With A View: The Stories & Glories of Graveyards. Substack: https://smallfinds.substack.com
Teresa Pearce @tpearce003.bsky.social Canterbury, ex MP, humanist, nanna. 
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Hannah @teaforpterosaur.bsky.social The most scandalocious little fish in the sea
JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/rb-author/jr-moores
Bylines in The Quietus, Record Collector, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Guardian, etc. MD Alternative National Treasure.
Slightly Foxed @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social The magazine for people who love books | We also publish limited-edition memoirs & biographies and produce a well-loved literary podcast.
foxedquarterly.com
Michael Phillips @mrmichaelphillips.bsky.social Past: Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, etc.
Present: Host and co-producer, “The Movie Racket,” part of the “Filmspotting” podcast commune; announcer, Classical WFMT Chicago, and weekly WFMT
“Soundtrack” contributor.
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Jane Kershaw @jk-viking.bsky.social Gad Rausing Assoc Prof. of Viking-Age Archaeology, Oxford
Howard Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social
I can explain
https://howardmittelmark.com/about
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Tim Smith-Laing @timsmith-laing.com Writer, reviewer, listener for @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @apollo-magazine.com, etc.
Senior Lecturer on Maastricht University's Executive Master in Cultural Leadship: https://maastrichtuniversity-emcl.org/
All views my own.
www.tim.smith-laing.com
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Sandeha Lynch @sandehalynch.com #Europa, #Earth
MSc, BA Hons, PGCE - Photographer/Sculptor, Language/Literacy, IT/FR, Atheist, PR. He/they. Images©Copyright
Selfie: http://www.sandehalynch.com/
Video on camera mods and builds: http://youtu.be/Yk6zhCOIrrg
St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney @stmagnuscathedral.bsky.social A twelfth-century cathedral built during Viking times in the beautiful Orkney Islands. https://www.orkneymuseums.co.uk/our-museums/st-magnus-cathedral/#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20St%20Magnus%20Cathedral&text=Built%20from%20local%20red%20and,of%20the%20Kingdom
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
John Mulvey @johnmulvey.bsky.social Editor, MOJO. Ex-Editor, Uncut/Ex-Deputy Editor, NME. Jams etc. http://mojo4music.com
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
David Rooney @rooneyvision.bsky.social Writer and curator. THE BIG HOP (Chatto & Windus/W. W. Norton) out now.
https://www.davidrooney.uk/the-big-hop
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
Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com Philosopher, writer, Ελληνοβρετανός. Hon Professor, Sheffield. Mind, consciousness, illusionism, cog-sci, Ελλάδα. Friend of @philosynthesis.com
Website: https://keithfrankish.com
Manages Philosophy Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/5aps8sbv
Lucy Inglis @lucyinglis.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin. 
Chloë R McKenzie @chloermckenzie.bsky.social Assistant Prof. in Medieval History @northeasternu.bsky.social (NU London) | Visiting Fellow at CMRC @unisouthampton.bsky.social | Book on Ladies of the Garter
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Dr Kelcey Wilson-lee @kwilsonlee.bsky.social Medieval historian & heritage wonk; FSA. Director of Programmes & Deputy CEO @archhfund. Also President Monumental Brass Society; Trustee Cambridge Past, Present & Future.
Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social Historian, Author, Associate Prof, YouTuber, Broadcaster.
Author and editor of 6 books.
Samira Shackle @samirashackle.bsky.social Freelance journalist (mostly for the Guardian Long Read) and author of Karachi Vice. I am also on Substack @samirashackle.
Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
Diane Purkiss @janetanderson.bsky.social I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
Pamela Hutchinson @pamhutch.bsky.social Author, critic, historian | 🖋 Guardian S&S BBC Criterion Empire | 📕 The Curse of Queen Kelly | 📕 The Red Shoes | 📕 Pandora’s Box | ✉️ Weekly Film Bulletin | 💻 silentlondon.co.uk | https://linktr.ee/PamHutch | she/her
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
Josh Mcloughlin @drjoshmcloughlin.bsky.social Writer, editor and scholar ⁍ PhD in early modern literature from UCL ⁍ Words: The Fence, New Statesman, Prospect, The Times, Engelsberg Ideas, The London Magazine &c ⁍ Editor: New Critique ⁍ London via Merseyside
Matthew Steggle @matthewsteggle.bsky.social Prof of Early Modern Eng Lit at @bristoluni.bsky.social. Working on Shakespeare biography and other C16-17 stuff. The rest is silence, mostly. Views own.
@shriekback.bsky.social @shriekback.bsky.social 
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers @stationerscomms.bsky.social City of London Livery Company for the Communications and Content Industries. Broadcasters, Writers, Journalists, Publishing, Printing, Paper, Packaging, Archive, Library & Conservation. Digital Media & Software, Stationery & Greeting cards, Tour Guides
Minoo Dinshaw @minooframroze.bsky.social Author, ‘Outlandish Knight’ & ‘Friends in Youth’. 1066-1746 hist (,) lit & lit hist w/ few forays into ancient world & 20th c writing. Recovering Jacobite, unreconciled Roryite