VictoriaQOTD @victoriaqotd.bsky.social A daily quote from the great Victoria Wood. It’s all dobbaly bono fodo.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
pauline kael bot @paulinekaelbot.bsky.social i lost it at the movies
Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social Heritage & conservation professional & enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃
Curator of Properties for English Heritage, & freelance heritage consultant.
Studying p/t for PhD in lime finishes.
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
www.sacredparasite.com
Lost History Books @losthistorybooks.bsky.social Explorer of American textbooks. 🔎
Bibliographic Adventurer 📚
Independent Researcher 📖
Help me find lost books:
http://losthistorybooks.com/help-me/
Sara Georgini @sarageorgini.bsky.social Historian & Series Editor, The Adams Papers, MHS. PhD.📚Household Gods, Our Library in Paris, Oxford Handbook of Family History & Genealogy, Americans in Revolution. Views mine, history for all.
Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social London. Book-related (sells, reads, hoards, writes). Macaroni cheese. Trans rights are human rights. Fix your hearts or die. Redhaired stepchild. Proud slop despiser. Punch up.
https://www.moonflowerbooks.co.uk/news
https://www.thebksagency.com/lucyfisher
Bryan Lee @redshock.bsky.social Music, books and economics
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.
Mike Parker @mikeparker.bsky.social Writer in the damp Welsh hills.
Books include All the Wide Border, Map Addict, On the Red Hill, The Wild Rover, Neighbours from Hell?
"No-one maps the secrets of the UK quite like Mike Parker" - Ayesha Hazarika, Times Radio
The British Broadcasting Century podcast @bbcentury.bsky.social Informing, educating + entertaining re British broadcasting's origin story: the first firsts of radio, early BBC, interwar bits & pieces + occasional pictures of Reith looking grumpy.
By paulkerensa.bsky.social
Podcast/tour/book: paulkerensa.com/oldradio
Aye @chazzersmurf.bsky.social UK based reader, runner, gay. Spend too long in charity shops. Leftish.
David Belbin @davidbelbin.bsky.social Nottingham novelist. Music nerd, movie lover, theatre & gig goer, Dylan nut. My serial novel, 'Greeneland', an account of Graham Greene's four months in Nottingham from 1925-6, is free to read at davidbelbin.substack.com. Website: www.davidbelbin.com
John Williams @worldoftelly.bsky.social I like telly and I talk about it here https://www.youtube.com/@WorldofTelly and write about it here https://www.patreon.com/WorldofTelly
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 …
https://www.adellestripe.co.uk/
Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Judith Mackrell @judithmackrell.bsky.social Former dance writer, author of biographies, currently writing double profile of Gwen and Augustus John. Travel, food ,gardening, arts, jaunts and jokes 
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Tony White @tonywhite.bsky.social London author. Latest novel Phantom at the Feast out now on No Exit Press. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. No DMs. Mailing list etc.👇🏼
https://linktr.ee/author_tonywhite
Kirstin Innes @kirstininnes.bsky.social Author 📕Fishnet (2015) 📙Scabby Queen (2020) 📗Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches (2021) 📘currently writing The Book Of Risk (novel not self-help manual), a screenplay and a musical. Maw of boys. Quite tired, yes.
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
Linda Grant @lindasgrant.bsky.social Writer Latest novel The Story of the Forest
Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social www.philiphoare.co.uk
contact:
irene@georginacapel.com
GreenCorrie @greencorrie.bsky.social Books, mountains, music, running, cycling (Rouvy bore), the usual. Clifton, Nottingham.
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Dan Hancox @danhancox.bsky.social Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/
https://danhancox.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
Pete Brown @petebrownbeer.bsky.social Writer, speaker, consultant, mainly on beer, pubs, food, drink, social history.
http://petebrown.net
http://patreon.com/petebrownbeer
Agent Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates.
Max Cairnduff @maxcairnduff.bsky.social Repairer of Reputations.
Radz Pandit @radzpandit.bsky.social Avid reader, book reviewer & amateur book photographer. I write about books on my blog Radhika’s Reading Retreat. Love art and travel too.
Website: https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com
Also on: linktr.ee/radzpandit
Will Hawkes @willhawkes.bsky.social Writes about food, beer, travel. Author of Telegraph’s 500 Best Pubs in England & @LondonBeerCity, monthly missive on pubs & beer. Fortnum and Mason Drink Writer of the Year 2021 & 2023
Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social THE FUTURE IS STUPID
Clothes in Books @clothesinbooks.bsky.social I am screaming out loud all the time I write which takes off my attention rather and I hope will excuse mistakes. Moira Redmond in another life
Blog at https://clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/ 
The Nightfly @plasllanina.bsky.social To begin at the beginning. Community, Cooperation, Collaboration
...and occasional bollox.
Cynefin / Hiraeth / Ardal / Higna
#LocalGovernment #Landscape #Books #Music
Boak & Bailey (Jess & Ray) @boakandbailey.bsky.social In Bristol. Beer blogging in the UK since 2007. Also wrote some books about beer and pubs. Header image shows a detail from the cover of one. Won't repost if you don't use alt text. Find us at boakandbailey.com
Paul Nash @paul-nash.bsky.social Fan account of Paul Nash, a British surrealist painter and war artist.
1889-1946
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Dr Neil Buttery @neilbuttery.bsky.social Award-winning* author, podcaster & cook of British food from the past.
*Guild Food Writers Awards: 2023 Best First Book (A Dark History of Sugar); 2024 Best Food Book (Before Mrs Beeton)
👽☄️CJ De Barra 💀👻 @cjdebarra.bsky.social Author of Neuroqueer: a neurodivergent guide to love, sex and everything in between & the Notts Queer History Archive 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 Queer non binary journalist with adhd 🇵🇸
Dr Laura Varnam @drlauravarnam.bsky.social Tutor in English Lit at Univ, Oxford. Medievalist. Poet. She/her. Co-founder @guildmedmak.bsky.social.
Church as Sacred Space (2018). Encountering Margery Kempe (2021). Primers 7: Grendel’s Mother Bites Back (2024).
Next books on Du Maurier, & Beowulf.
Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social Cultural Archaeologist, Wanderer, Ponderer.
Practises Make Places: Artists’ Responses to ‘Prehistoric’ Monuments - Manchester Metropolitan University & English Heritage.
Surprised, but very proud #MDANT
Neurodivergent person
Nussaibah Younis @nussaibah.bsky.social Author of FUNDAMENTALLY (Feb 2025) W&N (UK) Dutton (US)
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
Rebecca Jennings @rebeccajennings.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality - Modern British and Australian lesbian history; transnational networks; oral history. Associate Professor at UCL. Cake baker.
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Joanna Pocock @joannapocock.bsky.social • Author of SURRENDER (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2018) & GREYHOUND (Fitzcarraldo Editions & Soft Skull Press, 2025).
• Words in Guardian, Spectator, New Statesman, TLS, The Nation, etc...
• Creative Writing tutor at the University of the Arts, London.
Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
Max Richter @maxrichtermusic.bsky.social European composer and activist. Co-director of Studio Richter Mahr with Yulia Mahr
Posts by Max & SRM team
https://linktr.ee/MaxRichter
Jon Dennis @jondennis.bsky.social Never have a motto — that’s what I always say.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz Vapid Response Unit. Tired dad. Writer, not always about tech. Gadget editor at ft.com/htsi
Also, multi-faceted musical human. Perform with Scritti Politti, Cardiacs, Lost Crowns, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Spearmint, others. More info at rhodri.biz
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
Miles Glendinning @milesglendinning.bsky.social historian of mass housing (global + HK). New HK housing history: https://www.routledge.com/Hong-Kong-Public-Housing-An-Architectural-and-Policy-History/Glendinning/p/book/9781138680227. Global housing archive: https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/2927
Hattie Kennedy @hattiek.bsky.social Chief Data Officer at MHCLG, sometimes comics.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social New book coming next year. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Reading: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/meandmybigmouth
Writing: https://meandmybigmouth.medium.com/
Selling: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/meandmybigmouth
He/him.
Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social Genealogist & Family Historian for 22 years.
AGRA Associate, Wakefield, West Yorks
Pharos Intermediate & Advanced Certificate
One Place Study: St. John's Square, Wakefield
www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#LocalHistory
#Yorkshire
Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social Walking artist-academic-activist The LRM (Loiterers Resistance Movement). #Psychogeography, Vegan, Crip, #OurIrwell. Maker of Creative Mischief. Lover of public space, sad songs, DIY maps + Doctor Who. She/they The Feminist Art of Walking 20/10/25 (Pluto)
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social We offer a focus for those with an interest in church monuments of all types and periods. Posts by @heritagepilgrim.bsky.social
Pictish Trail @pictishtrail.bsky.social https://www.threads.net/@pictishtrail
John Self @john-self.bsky.social Book jockey
TnmntTiles @tnmnttiles.bsky.social An archive of historical design. Discoveries from Scottish tenements & beyond. Originally a Twitter project, est 2015. Now found on Instagram, FB, & here! No Ai!
Images taken by myself, unless otherwise credited. Happy to share your finds? Give us a tag.
Universal Turing Machine @universalturing.bsky.social A new direction for memoir. Everyone welcome.
https://www.universalturingmachine.org
https://universalturingmachine.co.uk
Christie Time @christietime.com The #SwingingChristies and #Westmapod. Agatha Christie podcasts produced & presented by @markaldridge.info and Gray Robert Brown. YOU CAN PRE-ORDER OUR BOOK NOW! 📚🦋
Jamie Bernthal-Hooker @jcbernthal.com Agatha Christie, queer theory, and offshore wind in one strange mix. I write crime fiction and books about crime fiction. Think of an awkward, once-high-achieving millennial Brit. Hello!
Michele one L @michelehowarth.com Bridge burning grudge bearer.
BuyMyFuckingBook™ direct from www.michelehowarth.com
Instagram @wernerherzogmeets
Lily Greenan @randmhousekpr.bsky.social Reads fast, writes slow, grows things. Consultant/researcher on VAW. Unpaid carer. She/her.
Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social books, book chat, wildflowers, pond plants
Claire @thechesilbeach.bsky.social Love visiting Chesil Beach and reading books. In fact, I’ve probably got my head in a book while you’re reading this.
⬆️And yes, this is my Backlisted bookshelf. ⬆️
Louise @louisebrown.bsky.social Lurcher feeder, allotmenteer, niche reader (Japan, Mitfords, crime), record buyer, Wycombe Wanderers STH. Not a test tube baby. I used to be a Maths HoD but now I manage university courses. Was @loumeracy on the other place. Photo by Paul Clarke.
Rachel Malik @rachelmalik.bsky.social Writes, reads, watches, worries. 1st novel Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves - SL for Walter Scott prize. LL for V S Pritchett Short Story. Second novel, Belvedere, coming soon.
https://linktr.ee/rachel.malik99
Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social Short horror stories written for Bluesky directly inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles. Created by @scsheil.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/
Footwork @footworktrust.bsky.social Footwork supports community innovators to turn their bold ideas into lasting positive change for people and places
https://www.footwork.org.uk/
linktr.ee/footworktrust
Lang Rabbie @langrabbie.bsky.social Hydronyms: Gulf of Mexico/Lake Ontario
Not an architect but prone to concrete fetishism
Palimpsestian
Scot with a Nottinghamshire childhood now residing in London SW2's debatable lands
C19th Liberalism tempered by teenage Marxism Today habit
Jonathan Foyle @jonathanfoyle.bsky.social Ph.D. Lecturer at the University of Bath, Architectural History and Conservation. Author, HENI presenter, Arts Society speaker. Immersed in the arts of the late Middle Ages, gardens. Etc
Bea Martinez-Gatell @beamg.bsky.social 📚 History
🎸 Pop culture
💕 Optimism
Frances Evangelista @nonsuchbook.bsky.social Print junkie. Librarian. Educator. Podcaster.
https://onebrightbook.com/
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
The Sylvia Townsend Warner Society @stwsociety.bsky.social An account dedicated to the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner, and for news from the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society https://townsendwarner.com/
Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social This iconic 1934 apartment block was once home to emigré Bauhaus masters, Agatha Christie, Soviet spies, and more. Open from March to the end of November, 11 am - 4 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, and on the last Friday of each month. https://isokongallery.org/
Platform Places @platformplaces.bsky.social Unlocking town centre buildings for amazing ideas 🔑
Co-founding partners: High Streets Task Force, Power to Change, British Property Federation, New Local, Radix, Shoosmiths
https://www.platformplaces.com/
Neil Forsyth @neilforsyth.bsky.social Dundonian Writer.
New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social An annual print literary journal featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
Dermot Kennedy @dermotkennedy1.bsky.social Posting about pubs; website is a photographic guide to classic British pubs; occasional blogger; photography, cycling, architecture.
pubgallery.co.uk
pubgallery.co.uk/blog
The Bee @beelitmag.bsky.social A home for working-class readers and writers
https://thebeemagazine.com
Greenpeace Notts @greenpeacenotts.bsky.social Nottingham local Greenpeace group. We participate in local, national and international environmental campaigns.
https://linktr.ee/greenpeacenotts?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=ee05837a-b359-4bd1-a910-995e6bf512b9
NathanToSeeHere 🇺🇦 🌱🌻 🏳️🌈 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 @ioweyounathan.bsky.social Lego, Steve Reich, the volunteering world, District heating, Transformers, T1D, plantbased cooking, Nottingham, saving the planet, baking, and Strictly. #ChubbyUnicorn #Nottingham #Vegan #veganism #fta
Sharon Fisher @slfisher.bsky.social Digital nomad. I explain stuff. 
Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social Writer, collagist, memoirist, essayist. Scavenger. Ex-Radio Dramatist, Ex-Playwright.
Author of:
Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay (Little Toller)
Deliria (Rough Trade Books)
Wild Twin (Little Toller)
Latchkey (Sacred Parasite)
Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social Jon Link and Mick Bunnage
London exhibition 14 Aug - 6 Sept
Tickets here:
https://trk.email.moderntoss.com/l/01KWRXD733ECG51A6RXZF81E13_10
www.moderntoss.com
Colin Greenwood @colingreenwood.bsky.social plays in Radiohead, learning classical guitar, author of 'How To Disappear - A Portrait of Radiohead'
https://wasteheadquarters.com/links/colin-greenwood
@pgwsocietyuk.bsky.social @pgwsocietyuk.bsky.social 
Scottish Society for Art History @ssahistory.bsky.social The SSAH promotes & supports the study and enjoyment of art and art history in Scotland. Registered Scottish Charity (SCO35621)
Roy Manterfield @mumblingnerd.bsky.social Love, equality and tolerance; reject hate.
Humour, social media, humanism, politics, cats, chocolate and Nottingham.
John Medd @johnmedd.bsky.social Are we there yet?
http://www.johnmedd.com
Neal Shepperson @nealshepperson.bsky.social Vigilante Etymologist, Petty Dabbler, will work for coffee.
30 years sober.
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor