Willerby @welcometowillerby.bsky.social Welcome to Willerby, a village where the supernatural is as everyday as the weather. Free short stories about the weird things that happen in our village on our website and substack.
https://willerby.substack.com
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk
Matthew Bannister @matthewbannister.bsky.social Broadcaster. Host of Last Word on BBC Radio 4 and my own multi award winning Folk on Foot podcast (@folkonfoot.com). Posts all personal.
Wiltshire Museum @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social The Best Bronze Age collection in Britain
featuring gold from the time of Stonehenge
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Sidmouth Folk Festival @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social A week-long annual folk festival, held in August (30 Jul - 6 Aug 2027), featuring concerts, ceilidhs, workshops, top bands, late-night dancing, sessions & more!
Cecil Sharp House @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social Award-winning arts centre at the heart of folk, home to efdss.bsky.social since 1930.
linktr.ee/cecilsharphouse
Hastings Traditional Jack in the Green @jackinthegreen.bsky.social
Hastings Traditional Jack in the Green is an annual May Day Bank Holiday event revived in 1983 with unique characters, morris dancers, drummers and more!
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Richard Lewington @rlewington2.bsky.social Wildlife illustrator, photographer and invertebrate enthusiast - A Curious Bug-er from Oxfordshire. F.R.E.S. - President of Abingdon Naturalists’ Society
www.richardlewington.co.uk
Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
Clifton Suspension Bridge @brunelsbridge.bsky.social Official museum for Bristol’s most photographed landmark! 📷
FREE museum open 10:00-17:00 daily.
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/
Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social New VBP quiz book bit.ly/3DkBcgi: VBP books, tops, cards, calendars & contact: bit.ly/3mWIF9S. Buy me a tea: ko-fi.com/robtemple
Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social Hello from Medievalists.net, the leading online resource for the Middle Ages - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Matt Lewis @mattlewishistory.bsky.social Medievalist, co-host Gone Medieval podcast(https://podfollow.com/gone-medieval/view), host Echoes of History (https://podfollow.com/1615075257/view), fascinated by Richard III & the Princes in the Tower.
Substack: https://mattlewishistory.substack.com
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Shrewsbury Town FC @shrewsburytown.com The official Bluesky account of Shrewsbury Town Football Club | #Salop 🔷🔶
Folk Inspiration @folkinspiration.bsky.social We organise live music and dance events on a not-for-profit basis for the benefit of musicians, fans, local charities and the local community. Love Instrumental Folk, Balfolk, Flamenco. Based in Guildford, Surrey.
Magpie Lane @magpielane-oxford.bsky.social Traditional folk band based in Oxfordshire, England. Delighting folk club, concert and festival audiences for over 30 years.
https://www.magpielane.co.uk/
Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com The multi-award-winning all walking, talking and singing podcast, presented by @matthewbannister.bsky.social
Find out more at www.folkonfoot.com.
Jez Lowe @jezlowe.bsky.social Musician, singer, songwriter and occasional novelist from the County of Durham in North East England.
@genevievetudor.bsky.social @genevievetudor.bsky.social Living with my partner in Shropshire, working for local BBC radio and presenting my own folk programme on Mixcloud. Enjoying my unruly garden and equally unruly cats while trying to achieve perfect 5* for our Airbnb!
Tim van Eyken @tinmanicon.bsky.social
In The Roud - A Folk Song Podcast @intheroud.bsky.social A weekly podcast exploring the world of traditional folk song hosted by @mattquinnmusic.bsky.social.
Season 7 out now!!
Support us at www.patreon.com/intheroud
All links: https://linktr.ee/intheroud
Oxfolk Ceilidhs @oxfolkceilidhs.bsky.social Energetic dancing excellent live music, a caller to explain the dances, friendly atmosphere. A top night out! Kennington Village Centre, near Oxford, UK
buytickets.at/oxfolkceilidhs
#ceilidh #BarnDance #FolkDance
Tom Kitching @tom-kitching.bsky.social Fiddle player, author, tarboater.
Salford rugby league fan, very average chess player, grower of vegetables.
Gigs, shop, more info at,
http://www.tomkitching.co.uk
@jackieoates.bsky.social @jackieoates.bsky.social
Melodeonplayer @melodeonplayer.bsky.social Professional Squeezer with Banter, Edward II, Albion Xmas Band and anyone else who will have me.
James Fagan @jamesfagan.bsky.social Aussie, now Yorkshire. Folk musician (Nancy Kerr/Melrose Quartet), Music Teacher, Photographer, Presenter of Thank Goodness it’s Folk (Sheffield Live Radio). I love singing, and playing strummy things. Mainly here for art.
David Eagle @thedavideagle.bsky.social Multi award winning comedian and musician. So there! Member of @theyounguns
Hobgoblin Music @hobgoblin.com The UK's first choice for folk and acoustic musical instruments since 1976. Visit our nine UK music shops or find us online at hobgoblin.com
Matt Quinn @mattquinnmusic.bsky.social Folk singer, multi-instrumentalist. Host of In The Roud - A Folk Song Podcast, 1/2 of George Sansome & Matt Quinn, 1/3 of Culverake.
Pete Flood @floodenheim.bsky.social Musician and field botanist
Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
Andy Turner @audinarymusic.bsky.social Singer and anglo-concertina player with Magpie Lane.
He/Him. Lefty, Remainer.
Former librarian, recently retired from the University of Reading TEL team.
http://afolksongaweek.wordpress.com
UK Butterflies @ukbutterflies.bsky.social UK Butterflies is a community website providing comprehensive information on all butterfly species in Britain & Ireland. Posts by Pete Eeles. https://linktr.ee/ukbutterflies
daily moths!! @dailymoths.bsky.social Moths, daily!!
♡
Feel free to request moths!!! ^_^
Bellowhead Official @bellowhead.bsky.social Legendary 11 piece folk big band … follow for tour news and individual member updates.
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social Award-winning not-for-profit org fighting for nature conservation in the UK via legal challenges, public campaigns & focused research.
Led by CEO @bobelliot.bsky.social & Directors @chrisgpackham.bsky.social & @ruthtingay.bsky.social
wildjustice.org.
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.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk
Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social Guardian Natural History Writer, author of The Swimmer – the Wild Life of Roger Deakin, Wild Child, Islander, Badgerlands, The Butterfly Isles and a few others. President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Special interests: butterflies, trees, restoring nature.
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Sam Sweeney @samsweeney.bsky.social Fiddle player with Bellowhead and Leveret. NYFE Artistic Director 2016-19. BBC Folk Musician Of The Year 2015. Folkophobe. Inadvisably vocal with my opinions.
Squeezy John @johnspiers.co.uk John Spiers. Squeezebox player with Gigspanner Big Band, Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden, Peter Knight & John Spiers, Jackie Oates & John Spiers …
I'm English ... not an American.
Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social Conservationist, campaigner, author, columnist, blogger, grandpa
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Lewis Wood @lewiswoodmusic.bsky.social Musician and composer. Folk/Trad plus occasional weird stuff.
Plays in Granny’s Attic, Helen Gentile & Lewis Wood, solo, and other projects.
Neurodivergent, queer, he/they, 30.
https://linktr.ee/lewiswoodmusic
@christineowen.bsky.social @christineowen.bsky.social
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
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