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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Don McRae @donmcrae.bsky.social Author of 14 books about fighters, surgeons,
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Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
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Always #lufc
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
@cornwallhistory.bsky.social @cornwallhistory.bsky.social 
Ash Paley @ashpaley.bsky.social PhD student at IMS - University of Leeds. Neuroqueering medieval mystics.
Mostly trans stuff.
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He/they
@mianewlandpatton.bsky.social @mianewlandpatton.bsky.social 
Andy Aitchison @andyaitchison.bsky.social Freelance documentary #photographer, working since 1991. Covering most subjects, Climate solutions, Unions, Campaigns, Social & Criminal Justice, specialise in photographing in UK prisons. Visit my website: www.andyaitchison.uk for more. 
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Joel Budd @joelbudd.bsky.social Journalist at the Economist, writing about life in Britain. Author of "Underdogs".
@gob-1.bsky.social @gob-1.bsky.social Jack of all trades.
Crap film enthusiast.
When my dad said "Beware the man in the bowler hat" he was dead right.
Kat Molesworth @thatkat.bsky.social Revolutionary. Event producer. Influencer Marketing Expert & Consultant. Speaker, coach, photographer, quilter. Surfing powers for good. The Oracle.
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour
Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
Richard Kemp @richardmskemp.bsky.social Podcaster for Bristol University Press & Policy Press. Writer. MA: UoG. Bylines: PopMatters & Bristol24/7. Posts about writing, music and pro wrestling. 🍉
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social Deputy Leader, Green Party of England & Wales. co-leader of Wealden District Council, Sussex. Spokesperson: Culture, Sport & Digital Inclusion. Founder of Birds Eye View int'l women's film festival. Friends of River Medway. Ashdown Forest conservator.
Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social Historian of imprisonment, abolition, debt, and radicalism in early modern England. He/him.
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Beth Fuller @bee79.bsky.social Historian (19th century gender & crime) teacher (HOD History NPQSL) food & wine. CCF Royal Navy. Reader. Italy is life. Support teams with bird mascots 🏉🦆 ⚽️🦉🏏🦅. Made in Sheffield. Married a Californian. Now an Essex girl. Wednesday til I die. She/Her
UnHerd @unherd.com Challenging the herd with new and bold thinking in philosophy, politics and culture.
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John Hansard Gallery @johnhansardgallery.bsky.social Contemporary art gallery, part of @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Visit our curious, connected and inclusive world, inspired by art. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am–5pm. Free Entry
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Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social 🎪National Fairground and Circus Archive
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Paul Riddell @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social New project: The Annals of St. Remedius Medical College. What Dallas could have been…if we had teacup hodag breeders, exoparasitic pikas, endurance karaoke competitions, and earwax vampires. http://www.stremedius.com
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Historian: White Flight; New Suburban History; Fog of War; One Nation Under God; Fault Lines; Voter Suppression; Myth America. CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
The Wonderkamer @thewonderkamer.ca A cozy little podcast by three dilettantes about the things that interest them.
www.thewonderkamer.ca
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David Desi Pubs Dason @davidjesudason.bsky.social Michael Jackson Beer Writer of the Year (2023 and 2025). Beer book of the year Desi Pubs (2023). Journalist and Substacker: https://davidjesudason.substack.com
Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social Politics, policy, public attitudes. Work in polling and comms. Director, Persuasion UK. ex- Shelter, civil service and various other things. 🏳️🌈
https://persuasionuk.org/about
https://strongmessagehere.substack.com/
Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social Digital Education at University of Bristol. Digital Accessibility & Students as creators. Views my own.
Sci-Fi n' Horror n' Comics oh my!
Video games on easy mode.
Eclectic music tastes.
He/Him, cishet, jaded.
Punch up, not down. Not American.
Luke Dones @lukemeister.bsky.social The comet is coming.
Fan of SA Spurs and Toronto Blue Jays
Woke, but sleepy
> 67,800 years old
Really leaning into those raccoon protocols
Tomorrow may never come
For you and me, life is not promised
- Yasiin Bey, Umi Says
🎧 https://www.nts.live/
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Pessimists Archive @pessimistsarc.bsky.social We explore and catalog the history of technophobia and moral panic.
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social Freelance Bernard Woolley Impersonator
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social Social/Cultural Historian.
Press/populism/Romani history.
Views are my own
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Marion Messmer @mgmessmer.bsky.social Programme Director for International Security at Chatham House
Former BASIC, King's College London
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.
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Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059 
Dr Beth Johnson @bethjohnsontv.bsky.social Academic, feminist, TV lover, researcher. Interested in the ordinary and the everyday. Prof of TV, film and media at University of Leeds. Opinions my own. 
Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social PhD student researching working class identity, 'deindustrialisation,' & deficit narratives.
Also: writer, photographer, docu producer (@lonelytower.bsky.social), general annoyance.
📍NE England |🤸♀️ she/her | MDANT 🏅| 🔗https://linktr.ee/mariegardiner
Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own
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
Athene Donald @athenedonald.bsky.social Retired professor of physics and former Master of Churchill College Cambridge. Interested in science policy, skills, education and EDI issues; author of Not Just for the Boys; blogging at https://occamstypewriter.org/athenedonald/
HK @hkesvani.bsky.social Journalist who mostly does Dad Posting. talk from time to time on @trashfuture.bsky.social and @10kpostspodcast.bsky.social
Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social Your favorite medievalist's favorite medievalist. Middle English literature and/in early modern books, with a side of textual editing. In progress: Dirtbag Medievalism, Chaucer's Readers: 1400-2000, Lydgate's Shorter Works
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
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.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com FT columnist, writing about work, technology & economics.
Lucy Hyde @lucyformaldehyde.bsky.social Chaos maker, Anatomy Lecturer and Medical Artist at Bristol University
With a keen fondness for inside jokes, the facial nerve, and cheese of all shapes and sizes.....
Opinions sadly all my own doing
Mile End Institute @mileendinstitute.bsky.social We are @qmul.bsky.social's leading institute for British politics, political history and policymaking. Keep updated with news about our latest events, opinion polling and research by signing up to our mailing list!
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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
ZSL @zslofficial.bsky.social A science-driven conservation charity, creating a future where nature and wildlife thrive together.
https://www.zsl.org/
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Mark Monro | He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social Father, husband, carer. Occasional music attempter. Green party member, but all views my own. Trans rights are human rights. AI twats and bigots get blocked without debate. Mastodon: https://mendeddrum.org/@ThatIdiotMonro
Chalke History Festival @chalkefestival.bsky.social UK's Largest History Festival
22 - 28 June 2026 in partnership with Evelyn Partners
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Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social Socialism's orphan child
Love, music, wine, and revolution
Alice Woolley @alicewoolley.bsky.social Journalist, now with my feet up. Ex-editor of Education Guardian. Also ex-Indie. Feminist. European. Labrador lover. Beetroot hater. Born in Chipping Norton. Surrey, West Oxon, Arizona.
WartimeNI | Northern Ireland during the Second World War @wartimeni.com Stories and sights from the Second World War in Northern Ireland from 1939-1945. Posts by Belfast-based Scott Edgar.
Natalie Litofsky @positivelynatalie.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Pop Culture Nonfiction Publisher | Horror Podcaster
Mainly comprised of coffee, cheese, and zombie movie hot takes.
📚 atbpublishing.com
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Martin O'Leary @strangetea.bsky.social London based filmmaker working on folk horror, weird shit, punk sci-fi satire and stuff that exudes a cosmic darkness. Progressive humane human. Obsessed with phantasmagoria, perpetually dreich. Sometimes a numpty, always the odd one out. He/him.
@robbyroberto15.bsky.social @robbyroberto15.bsky.social Boxing Historian, Musician, Storyteller and Poet 👊🎸🤘😈
Perp Culture @perpculture.bsky.social Are you a ‘true crime’ fiction buff? But uneasy about the genre & what it can do? │ Perp Culture, a mixed format podcast from @srwride.bsky.social, explores the history & ethics of adapting historical crime cases │ perpculture.co.uk
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social Independent Historians Working Group
. . . a collaboration between independent historians for mutual support.
www.bit.ly/INDY_HIST
Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com https://trustfnd.com/isabelle.roughol
Founder & host, Broad History | Publisher, Democracy for Sale | Storyteller, journalist & public historian
🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, almost 🇺🇸, once 🇦🇺 & 🇰🇭, forever MIZ 🐯
KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com She/her. British European. Purveyor of opinions, rude words, and romance novels, historical and fantasy. USA Today bestselling author of How To Fake It In Society. "Erotically charged"--Good Housekeeping. Death to GenAI. http://kjcharleswriter.com
Tendring Greens @tendringgreens.bsky.social Based in the Tendring District Council area of North Essex, we aim to spread awareness of Social Justice & Green ideas. Let’s make hope normal again!
Loreno Heer @lorenoheer.bsky.social Scientist: PhD in mathematics. Working in hyperbolic geometry, analysis in metric spaces and mathematical physics (gravitational waves and general relativity), various other scientific interests.
Here mostly to connect with researchers.
he/him
born@344 ppm
Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com Maker of stuff that makes you laugh.
www.ifycomedy.com
Vicky Spratt @vickyspratt.bsky.social Housing & Society Correspondent at The i Paper
Author of TENANTS (2022) & We Were Prommised The Moon (2026)
Subscribe to my newsletter - The State We're In, here: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/taxes-better-public-services-vicky-spratt-4035842
William Simpson @williamsimpson.bsky.social Head of Content at Airship. We make podcasts like American Scandal and History Daily.
British but work with Americans so I've basically forgotten the way round dates go, which is unfortunate for someone writing about history all day.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Becky @notthatbecky.bsky.social Just an English witch currently rerooting herself in Germany.
Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social Author, filmmaker, book dealer. New York and Dallas. Bookstore: mzs.press. RogerEbert.com editor-at-large. Next book: Jack Nicholson: Leading Man
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Francesca Steele @francescasteele.bsky.social Freelance journalist with a focus on film. Former Senior Writer @thetimes.com Host of the writing podcast Write-Off. Agent: Laura Macdougall at UA, Insta @francescasteelewrites Recovered from #longcovid
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Vanessa McKean @nessmckean.bsky.social All things culture, equity, diversity and inclusion at the Francis Crick Institute. Social scientist in the life sciences
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social Comedian'n'writer'n'podcaster. TED Speaker. Take my coffee like I take my power.
SophieChapmanTalent / SueTerryVoices
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Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php
Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social Sociologist at Loughborough University researching sport, environmental sustainability, antiracism & refugees. Member of @fanseurope & @britsoci
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Philosophy Playdate @philosophyplaydate.bsky.social Kids' impossible questions addressed with serious philosophy from ancient history to current research. As a podcast.
Brought to you by @drstevex.bsky.social and Christabel Cane
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https://drstevecross.squarespace.com/podcast
Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social CEO of @taso.org.uk, Chair of Trust for London, Executive Committee of Political Studies Association. The usual disclaimers.
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Ron Charles @roncharles.bsky.social I write about books at https://roncharles.substack.com/