Football Heritage @footballheritage.bsky.social Heritage. Identity. Football.
We explore the roots, culture and history of the beautiful game.
https://www.footballheritage.co.uk/
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
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
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Andrew Lawton @andrewlawton.bsky.social Strategic Lead Marketing & Communications (Health) at
Greater Manchester Moving - views my own.
Cuthbert Lab @cuthbertlab.bsky.social Welcome to the official Bluesky account of the Cuthbert Lab at the University of Calgary!
James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk @Psythor on Twitter. Freelance writer covering politics/tech/nerd stuff.
Read my content: takes.jamesomalley.co.uk
Yes, I inevitably have a podcast too: yimbypod.com
Free the Postcode Address File!
Catford parkrun @catfordparkrun.bsky.social A free 5km timed walk or run at 9:00 on Saturday mornings in the beautiful Mountsfield Park, Catford. The #parkrun starts by the bandstand at the top of the hill.
The Grumbler @thegrumbler.bsky.social Tweets on 2017/19/20 🏆, Essex CCC | 📚 Last-Wicket Stand |
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Sport in History @sportinhistory.bsky.social Sport in history is the official academic journal of @bssh.bsky.social, covering sport history from all contexts and eras.
You can also check out our podcast: @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Rich Turner @richturner.bsky.social Plays and teaches Fiddle and Accordion. Interested in politics, history, cricket and trains. @richturnermusic on Instagram, Threads, YouTube and TikTok. Green Socialist. Winchester, England.
Kevin Howells @kevinhowells.bsky.social 🎙️ 📻 🏏 🎵 📚
“Silver Springs is a great old song”
Matt Taylor @matttayl.bsky.social Historian of sport and other things. Director of International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University
Author of Sport and the Home Front (2020) and World of Sport (2024)
Surrey Cricket @kiaoval.com The official account of Surrey County Cricket Club and the Kia Oval 🤎
International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social The International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) is based at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.
We are the world's leading research centre for the study of the history of sport.
Sport in History Podcast @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social The Sport in History Podcast brings you the latest research with interviews, talks & seminars with leading sports scholars, up-and-coming researchers & leading experts.
Find us here: https://linktr.ee/sportinhistorypodcast
Cricket Research Network @cricketacademic.bsky.social The voice of cricket research. Chaired by Raf Nicholson
JennyJ @jennyjwilson.bsky.social Christian, GP + GP trainer, passionate about movement for everyone, walking, running, cold water swimming, RD for Bedford parkrun, EOE ambassador for 5K Your Way Move Charity. Accidental Menopause Specialist
Carolyn Garritt @carolyngarritt.bsky.social 👟Cancer Exercise Specialist Personal Trainer 📖Author ‘Get your oomph back’💪Big Strong Lasses -weight training for breast cancer🧘♀️Hormone Positive for cancer & menopause🥵Menopause coach🏃♀️Wannabe trail runner
Breast cancer survivor.Yorkshire lass, mucky laugh
Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social Associate prof of urban planning. Research on green space equity, green gentrification, climate adaptation, and health equity. Love SLC, my family, and the great outdoors. Opinions (good or bad) are my own 🇮🇹🇺🇸 🌩️👀 rJgnW3igNgz7
Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions, Nuffield & University of Oxford, FBA. http://benansell.substack.com. BBC Reith Lecturer 2023. Host BBC Radio 4 Rethink. Columnist for Prospect. Director, Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM).
The Cricket Society @thecricketsociety.bsky.social Celebrating the best of cricket, past, present and future through events, awards, publications and playing. #80thisyear Become a member today at
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Annie Chave @anniechave.bsky.social Author of Cricket Changed My Life - Eleven Personal Journeys #Fairfieldbooks
Editor of County Cricket Matters magazine
BBC County Cricket Commentator
Guerilla Cricket Commentator
The Cricket Paper Columnist
It Goes Over Your Nose @danielf4rmer.bsky.social Running, slowly. parkrun RD extraordinaire. Occasional swear. Had GIST cancer, not anymore. Lincoln 5k Your Way ambassador. Veggie. Stoma Owner. Couple of Ultras done maybe more to come...
Claire orourke @claireor1.bsky.social Leading GM Cancer alliance with a positive mindset! Ex Nurse but love the NHS, my family are everything & bobby our cheeky cocker spaniel is the star of the show! 
Paul S-H @pauls-h.bsky.social Founder of parkrun
Northala Fields parkrun @nfparkrun.bsky.social A free, weekly, timed 5K event. 9AM Saturday mornings. You can run, walk, jog, Volunteer, complete it your way. All we ask is you bring your barcode.
Andrew Samson @awsstats.bsky.social Cricket statistician
http://andrewsamson.substack.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
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/
David Pendleton @davidpendleton.bsky.social Dr David Pendleton. Author, editor and historian, interested in the long 19th Century (1789-1914). Career defining moment was organising an open top vintage bus trip around a sewage works.
Urbanisation | Sport & Leisure | Maritime | Seaside
@lucygossage.bsky.social @lucygossage.bsky.social 
Matt Roller @mattrollercricket.bsky.social Sports journalist at ESPNcricinfo
Nick Lowles @nicklowles.bsky.social Antifascist with @hopenothate. Will post about politics, cricket, travel and food
Dr Chris Whitaker @christheowl.bsky.social Works in disability with my own company Purple Advantage www.purpleadvantage.com. Particularly interested in making the world a more inclusive place for everyone. Loves studying (now: Exec MBA:writing publications on disability employment) sport and music.
Cormac Moore @cormacmoorehist.bsky.social Founder and director of history consulting company, History Link, http://historylink.ie. Columnist and editor of 'On this Day' with
The Irish News.
Jordan Curry @drjordancurry.bsky.social PhD & RA | HullYorkMed| Exercise Physiologist | Interests: Exercise Oncology, Digital Tech, & ImpSci | Coffee Geek | 5KYW Ambassador | Runner | Views are my own | He/Him
About: https://www.hyms.ac.uk/about/people/jordan-curry
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social Writer - urbanism, place, football, buildings, music | Published by Pitch Publishing | Appears in Tribune, Football Heritage, Brum Dispatch, & others | Socialist | #MDANT | LM ♥️ | Dad to Dylan
'King of obscurity' - KFC
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
Martin Polley @historymartin.bsky.social Professor Emeritus @dmuleicester and former Director of @icshc_sports_history. Sport, arts, music, places, statues, plaques, heritage, and more. Member of Historic England's National Blue Plaque Panel
https://martinpolley.co.uk/
Dr Victoria Dawson @vsdawson.bsky.social Freelance historian and interdisciplinary researcher for hire. Working class. Radical materialist feminist. Socialist. Anti-fascist. Northern powerhouse. Learning German. PhD: Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community 1880-1970.
Tony Collins @collinstony.bsky.social Historian
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
Cycling Historian 🚴♂️ @cyclinghistorian.bsky.social I am Dr. Rick Woten - a sport & environmental historian & professor, former nonprofit director & bike racer.
In development. (looking for publisher): "Two-Wheeled Outlaws: Sport, Athlete, Celebrity, & Unionization in American Cycling's Golden Age"
📌 #iowa
Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social Ex-D1 swimmer, historian, ADHDer, @endofsportpod.bsky.social. A sportsperson for life who critiques it to make it better for others. Writing slowly on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her.
Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway 
Max Portman @whuhistorian.bsky.social West Ham historian & PhD candidate.
@bssh.bsky.social Membership Sec.
@sportinhistorypod.bsky.social & thewesthamsyndrome.bsky.social Host.
Co-Convenor of Sports & Leisure History Seminar at @ihr.bsky.social
@footycon.bsky.social co-organiser
He/Him.
Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social Associate Professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. History, ethics, epidemiology, sports, injury prevention.
Rwany Sibaja @rwanysibaja.bsky.social Professor and cultural historian of Latin America (sports: 🇦🇷⚽️) | Orígen 🇨🇷y 🇺🇸| History Education | Enjoy ☕️+🧉| https://rwanysibaja.com [Opinions are my own]
Roger Kittleson @rogerkittleson.bsky.social Historian of Brazil, race, space, futebol. Cook, cyclist, Arsenal and Brasil fanatic.
Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council.
Class - Culture - Environment
https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff @lempika7.bsky.social 🏀📚Author Basketball Empire ⚽️📚#MakingOfLesBleus. Historian 🇫🇷 sports & sports diplomacy, director FranceAndUS
🎓Clinical Assistant Prof at NYU Tisch Institute for Global Sports. Fmr HistoryAtState. Views=my own
https://linktr.ee/lkrasnoff
Petra @cliomz.bsky.social Historian, Playwright, Singer
Currently writing: Martha (Regency Amélie Poulain with Wollstonecraftian ideals on the Romantic Rhine)
🌈 Ally • ADHD
Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social Husband. Dad. History prof at MSU (F25). Author of I Fight for a Living, We Will Win the Day, and The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback.
profloumoore.com
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Brian D. Bunk @brianbunk.bsky.social I study the early history of soccer in the United States. My new book "The Shortest History of Soccer" is out now.
Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere
www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
Andy Carter @andykerrcarter.bsky.social Historian of classical reception, nationalism & class in 19th c sport. Author of Beyond the Pale. New book - Games, Greek & Pluck - published by Peter Lang. Bassist. Partick Thistle & Dulwich Hamlet fan.
Andy Linden @andrewdlinden.bsky.social Sport studies @ csunorthridge he/him/his
Conor Heffernan @physcstudy.bsky.social Lecturer At Ulster University. Historian of health, fitness and physical culture. Co-host of Boys We've Seen podcast. I also run history of fitness website, physicalculturestudy.com
Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social Husband
Puppy papa
Former pro cook
Unapologetically profane sport historian
Teaching professor at Penn State Kinesiology
@ussoccerhistory.org secretary
@hk-shr.bsky.social book review editor
NSHOF voter
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Stuart Gibbs @stu68.bsky.social Sports historian studying at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.co.uk The curious fan’s football Substack and podcast by Chris Lee, author of 📕 Origin Stories (2021), 📘 The Defiant (2022), and 📗 Shades of Green (2025). DM to commission me
Groundhopping and football culture and history.
More 👉 https://linktr.ee/outsidewrite
BSSH @bssh.bsky.social British Society of Sports History promotes the study of sport history and physical education
Daniel Norcross @norcrosscricket.bsky.social Freelance cricket commentator largely to be found on TMS and general grifter. The least capable co host on @zeroduckspod Will work, not very hard, for money and/or fine wine. 
Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social Women’s cricket historian & journalist. Sports Journalism lecturer at Bournemouth University & writer for Guardian Sport. Vice Chair of The Cricket Society.
Matt McDowell @handle.invalid Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @morayhouse.bsky.social. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. Not an athlete. Very unfashionable. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
Kit Harris @cricketkit.bsky.social Cricket writer, broadcaster and scorecard artist. Assistant Editor of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack. Commentator for BBC Sport since 2017. Former international cricketer.
Jeremy Lonsdale @jeremylonsdale.bsky.social Author of books on cricket history. 'An Unusual Celebrity: The Many Cricketing Lives of Bill Bowes'. Shortlisted for the Cricket Writers' Club Book of the Year Award 2024. New book 'Patsy Hendren: A Different Kind of English Hero' (Pitch) out June 2026.
Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social A mix of rare, unusual, spectacular, personal, and historic pictures from the earliest days of cricket to modern times
Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @acscricket.bsky.social ACS is the leading authority on cricket statistics worldwide. We enjoy, interpret & publish research on cricket statistics & history. Join the ACS https://acscricket.com
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