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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social Ollamh Sinsearach le Léann Ceilteach, BARE / Senior Professor in Celtic Studies, MRIA
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Revels Office @revelsoffice.bsky.social The Revels Office is a friendly and supportive virtual academic network for PGR and ECR scholars of all things early modern! Head to our website for more info on what we do: https://revelsoffice.com
Early Modern Conflict, War and Violence Network @earlymodernwar.bsky.social Conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World at the University of Exeter 📜🗡️ 1-3 September 2026
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Patrick Sturgis @patricksturg.bsky.social social science methodology, sport etc.
Laura Robson-Mainwaring @laurarobmains.bsky.social Historian of Medicine working in archives. Interests/Projects:
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Civil Service World @civilserviceworld.bsky.social News, comment & analysis from the only independent professional publication available to every senior official in the UK
Lucy Razzall @lucyrazzall.bsky.social Collections Research at The National Archives, UK
PI, AHRC-funded project *The Many Lives of Cardboard* (2026-27)
literature, material culture, book history, textiles
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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
History Hub at UCD @historyhub.bsky.social History Hub is based at the School of History, University College Dublin. Our ambition is to make the most recent academic research available on-line to everyone who loves history.
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
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Miguel Delaney @migueldelaney.bsky.social Chief football writer at the Independent. Author of 'States of Play'
Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social The myths of Ancient Greece still echo and shape the modern world. This is their story.
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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social Mediamedia comms boss, Quiet Riot podcast bod, media trainer, PR adviser ... you'll find me anywhere I can play with words and pictures. Cars, whisky, mountains, cats also welcome
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social I write, act, sing, broadcast and cook. Occasionally, even for money. One third of the @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
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Clodagh Murphy @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social early modern letters ~ royal authorship ~ collaboration ~ manuscripts ~ scribal culture
Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social Historian | Medieval and early modern Ireland and its women | Writing a new biography of Gráinne O Malley/Granuaile aka the Pirate Queen | Adjunct assoc prof @ucd | Repped by Watson Little
Anna Isaac @annaisaac.bsky.social City Editor, The Guardian - aka poking about in the money/power mix
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Caolán Scully @caolanscully.bsky.social Freelance sports journalist | As read on RTÉ Sport, Irish Examiner, The42, Balls .ie & more | Open to new opportunities
Peter Frankopan @peterfrankopan.bsky.social Historian. Coffee drinker
Guy De Launey @guydelauney.bsky.social Balkans Correspondent
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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social UK Editor & Presenter, ITV News. Host of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner. *Author, Fight to the Death, out Oct ‘26.* https://geni.us/FighttotheDeath
Fintan Smith (Mac Gabhann) @fintan-smith.bsky.social Previously: Polling things at YouGov, Labour
Now: Co-founder of polling and market research company @convergent-opinion.bsky.social
Often confused with a dog called Fenton https://youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society @ecisociety.bsky.social The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society serves to promote original, multidisciplinary research into Ireland in the long eighteenth century. Founded in 1985, it has members across Ireland and internationally. ECIS is open to all.
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social Chief political commentator and executive
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social Ukrainian patriot. Advisor to Internal Affairs Minister (2021-2023). Support my team of volunteer translators: http://patreon.com/TwitterAG
Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
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James O’Sullivan @jamesosullivan.bsky.social Professor of Digital Culture & Cultural Analytics at University College Cork. Researcher, educator, essayist, and small-time publisher. Curmudgeonly Corkonian with malfunctioning heart.
Foyles @foylesforbooks.bsky.social The UK's iconic bookseller since 1903, with shops in London, Bristol, Birmingham & Chelmsford.
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk Official UK Met Office account. Get the weather in your hand with our app: http://linktr.ee/MOContent
Sara Wolfson @sjwolfson.bsky.social Early modern historian, The Open University, formerly Canterbury, who specialises in the court of Charles I, Queen Henrietta Maria, queenship, gender, exile and diplomacy. Proponent of innovative teaching methodologies within the Humanities at HE Level.
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social Campaigning for freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people. R/T does not equal endorsement
ihta_ria.bsky.social @ihtaria.bsky.social The IHTA is a research programme of the Royal Irish Academy & produces historic atlases of towns on the island of Ireland from earliest times to 1900
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
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Chris Haughton @chrishaughton.bsky.social Author / illustrator
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Dublin Literary Award @dublinlitaward.bsky.social #DublinLitAward #DLA2026 - Celebrating excellence in world literature.
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Dr. Niall Allsopp @niallallsopp.bsky.social Early Modern English literature, English Civil Wars, Restoration, literature and political, social, local history.
Book: https://tinyurl.com/NiallPSER
Work: https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/allsopp/
Hatchards @hatchards.bsky.social London's oldest & finest bookshop, since 1797. Remarkable booksellers, signed editions and fascinating author events.
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
David Kenny @dkennytcd.bsky.social Professor in Law and Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, teaching constitutional law, law & lit, & why law is basically nonsense. he/him
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social More passion. Less shouting.
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Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation
Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social Irish Times Investigations Reporter
Author: Is Ireland Neutral? (Gill)
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social I research and write about politics, public policy, public opinion, polls, elections, geography, place, trust. I run on espresso.
Adelle Stripe @adellestripe.bsky.social Average enthusiast. Scribe for hire. Author of Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, Ten Thousand Apologies, Base Notes and all the rest …
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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social Writer, translator, Beiruter. Editor-in-Chief of The Markaz review.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
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Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social ISW is a policy research organization focused on U.S. national security. Email: press@understandingwar.org. For more: https://linktr.ee/understandingwar
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Gareth Gore @garethgore.bsky.social Writing about the money behind Silicon Valley at IFR
Author of OPUS, published by Simon & Schuster
“Vividly told and excellently researched" - Financial Times
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
John Condren @jcondren86.bsky.social 🇮🇪 midlander living in 🇬🇧. Asst prof (U. of Nottingham)
Book: north Italian states & Louis XIV's France (Routledge '24).
Writing another on military finance & Genevan & Swiss bankers in 18th-c. (w/ Palgrave)
Likes running, reading, cooking, horses, and jazz
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Knowledge Orders before Modernity @komldsp.bsky.social A Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme, a partnership between King's College London and the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent. Directors: Prof. Julia Crick and Dr David Rundle.
Website: https://www.komldsp.org.uk/
John Reed @johnreedwrites.ft.com Explainers editor at the Financial Times. Usual caveats apply.
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My bio: https://www.ft.com/john-reed
ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social Prof of Political & Social Theory @ UEA: regularly a political theorist, often a political analyst, always a rhetorician. Sometimes I teach people how to make political speeches; usually they are happy about it. Mostly I study Reactionary Digital Politics.
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
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Penguin Random House @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
FiftyPlusOne.news @fiftyplusone.news polling aggregation and data-driven journalism from the former research team of fivethirtyeight. https://www.FiftyPlusOne.news
Catherine Healy @catherine-healy.bsky.social Historian-in-Residence, EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
Sadhbh Dunne @sadhbhnidhuinn.bsky.social
Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com Professional letter nerd since 2009. Buy the books (https://books.lettersofnote.com), read the newsletter (https://news.lettersofnote.com/), come to the live shows (https://www.youtube.com/@LettersLive). Or don't. It's your choice.
Dublin City Council @dubcitycouncil.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for Dublin City Council.
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Lucy Fisher @lucyfisher.ft.com Whitehall editor at the Financial Times 🗞️
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Kate Armstrong @katejarmstrong.bsky.social Writer. Likes mountains. Bridport Prize runner up ‘24/25. Memoir coming Chatto & Windus Jan ‘27.
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Jenny McHugh @jmmchugh.bsky.social Advocacy & Community Manager at UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association.
Former librarian 📚, also historian of late medieval Scotland 🏰, researching loyalty, identity, ritual & more. HMU for medieval DH projects or open data initiatives. Views my own.
Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social Covering politics, elections and data at The Economist
Bex Sander @bexsander.bsky.social Data and Graphics reporter
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alt-DUP @duponline.eurosky.social Just holding up a mirror to local politics.
Not the real DUP, obviously. Parody.
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
The Inner Temple @innertemple.org.uk We're an Inn of Court.
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social Whitehall Editor for the Observer & chief investigative reporter for BBC R4's The Naked Week. Politics, investigations and taramasalata
Research Data Alliance (RDA) @researchdataall.bsky.social The Research Data Alliance builds the social and technical bridges that enable the global, open sharing and re-use of data.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social Husband of C, Dad of J & L, CEO/Editor-The DSR Network, Host-Deep State Radio, Siliconsciousness, other pods, Columnist-The Daily Beast, author of many books, also see my "Need to Know" Substack (djrothkopf.substack.com)
Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social Freelance journo/researcher.
Bylines: Guardian, Mirror, DeSmog, Byline Times, Computer Weekly, Democracy for Sale, AOAV, The Nerve, Citizens, Good Law Project, Dawn etc.
Email:mcfoiareturns@proton.me
Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
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Brett Igoe @brettrugbyanalyst.bsky.social 👨🎓Lecturer MSc Sports Performance Analysis/PhD candidate - @Worldrugby Coach Educator/ Former International rugby analyst @thecurrency / Coach @LeinsterRugby