Alex Fergusson @alexfergusson.bsky.social Information and commentary on Dumfries & Galloway’s places, history, and events.
Diya Gupta @diyagupta.bsky.social Literary scholar, cultural historian. Senior Lecturer in Public History, City St George's, University of London. First book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' (Hurst and OUP, 2023; Rupa, 2025) #happyeveryday
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
Daily Novel Writing Festivals @novelfestivals.bsky.social All of these contests give you 3 options to submit: Full Novel; 1st Chapter; Performance video readings.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social Anti-Zionist Free Palestine Ukraine Solidarity Anti-Racist Anti-Carceral Abolitionist Anti-Genocide Anti-Colonial Anti-War Anti-Imperialist Intersectional Feminist Queer LGBTQI+ Green Eco-Socialist People Planet Peace Interfaith Seeker of Beloved Community
The Village with All of the Flash Writers @heyflashvillage.bsky.social The VILLAGE 🏘 is a place where the world 🌍 feels a tiny bit smaller. Founded by SMOKELONG for the Global Flash Community
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Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
Zélia Rafael @zelie84.bsky.social Doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iceland.
Whitman, Race, Cancel Culture. American History and Culture.
Poetry lover, horror fan, reading into the myths we create.
https://theinfamousacademic.com/
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Tom Killingbeck @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social Literary Agent at A.M. Heath specialising in nonfiction.
https://amheath.com/agents/tom-killingbeck
Tracy King @tracyking.bsky.social Author, producer, scicomms, animation. Royal Institution writer-in-residence.
Books:
Learning To Think (Penguin)
The Cost of Trust (Harper Collins)
Tim Minchin's Storm (Orion)
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
WILDsound Feedback Festival @wildsoundfestival.bsky.social Telling stories through film and conversation. WILDsound showcases the best of new films & screenplays from around the world in a daily film festival.
www.wildsound.ca
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Mark Baillie @mbaillie.bsky.social Scottish writer. Debut novel Salvage. Scottish Traveller history, music, books.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
kerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social Reader, writer, runner. No longer flying for work. Son of Portstewart, Co Derry, citizen of the world. Editor of deskboundtraveller.com.
Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social Publisher
Books Made in Berlin since 2023
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jcwilsonauthor.bsky.social @jcwilsonauthor.bsky.social Novelist, London/France. https://jameswilsonauthor.com
Latest novel THE PIECES out now from SENEX PRESS. "I loved it!" Sarah LeFanu. "A detective story with a difference." Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series.
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@Marquinhooficial @marquinhooficial.bsky.social Adoro plantas🌳
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Christopher Lash @chrislashhist.bsky.social Historian of Poland and CEE in the world based in Warsaw, Poland. Might be the odd political skeet here and there. Private views
Gill King @gillonthelizard.bsky.social Londoner in Norfolk for the big skies, garden and creative pottering about.
Fridge Art Fair @fridgeartfair.bsky.social Fridge Art Fair : NYC & Miami
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info soon ....
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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social Former civil servant, enjoying the freedom to speak my mind. Published in Times, Byline Times, Bylines Scotland, West Country Voices. Member of European Movement in Scotland.
Report digital @reportdigital.bsky.social Independent Photo Library depicting society with an alternative view. Editorial, News and an great Archive of struggle and crises that goes back to the 1940s
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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.
ana @ana-lves.bsky.social 29. God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot
Sanjiv Sachdev @sanjivsachdev.bsky.social Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! Don’t look at the news! (Looks at the news). Oh, for fuck’s sake.
David McAllister @davidmcallister.bsky.social Production & Associate Editor at Prospect. Screeds in the RA Magazine, TLS, New Humanist, etc
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Venetia Welby @vvwelby.bsky.social Novelist: DREAMTIME, MOTHER OF DARKNESS Escape artist | Shapeshifter | Cat demon www.venetiawelby.com
Hetty (arty) @indyhetty.bsky.social Artist,pro-Scottish independence. Sometimes I make pictrures abt humans' impact on Earth. Love rocks, animals, walks along local city river to see my cheeky Crow pal. Can't abide cruelty to animals.Vegy, almost vegan.
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Seán Costello @seanjcostello.bsky.social Editor at large
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Kate Connolly @kateconnolly.bsky.social International Correspondent, The Guardian
Elliott & Thompson @eandtbooks.bsky.social 📚 Independent Publisher of creative non-fiction and thrilling crime fiction
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Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Niall Devitt @historyniall.bsky.social Author, tenacious historian and researcher, love all trains-Camelot, QPR, The Fall, opera, film and comedy, Warner Brothers cartoons, Will Hay and importantly, where to find the best doughnut in London and how to make the perfect pot of tea to go with it!
Clover @cloveroverover.bsky.social Here for anything public libraries, early literacy, local government & opportunities-for-young-people related.
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Anna Zanetti @annazanett.bsky.social 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 • Culture PR @midascampaigns.bsky.social • Formerly @classicsatstannes.bsky.social @stannescollege.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk • Libre Penseuse
Historia – the HWA @historia-hwa.bsky.social Historia Magazine is the online magazine of the Historical Writers’ Association
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Unseen Histories @unseenhistories.com The Past, Fully Present. Find out about the very best new history books, read author interviews and long-form pieces by the world’s leading historians.
Editor – Peter Moore
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Michael @michaelsten.bsky.social A books📚, films🎬, photography📸, music🎶, and knowledge📖 lover from Malta (Europe). I’m always happy to follow back and get to know people 😊.
Ninedragonspot @ninedragonspot.bsky.social Chinese opera! 戲曲！Taiwanese opera! 歌仔戲，亂彈戲, 客家戲！And occasionally a bit of the classical stuff.
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
Pedro Viaja por todo el mundo @pedrotravels.bsky.social Me: Atheïst Retired
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Annie Bennett @anniebennett.bsky.social Travel writer. Spain and Wales
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Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social Journalist, travel writer, author
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Department of Historical Studies at CEU @historicalstudies.bsky.social History, literature, art history, philosophy, cultural heritage, museum studies, languages, and much more at CEU! A global department with students and faculty from more than 30 countries: https://www.ceu.edu/departments/historical-studies
I Quit Smoking 🚭 📚 🐕 @iquitcigs.bsky.social Anti-Smoker My Website campralquitsmoking.net See How I Quit 20 Years Ago Fought Nicotine 35 Years Supporting others who Quit 🚭 STL MO ❤️To Promote Authors 📚 & Ozarks 🌄 Photographer 📷 Pez Add @piperformissouri.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social 💙
Open Borders Press @openborderspress.bsky.social Founded by Christopher MacLehose, OBP specialises in publishing literary fiction, non fiction and crime fiction from around the world exclusively in English translation.
Dublin Lunar New Year @dublinlunarnewyear.bsky.social Dublin Lunar New Year welcomes the Year of the Horse 🐎 | 14 - 22 February 2026 #DublinLunarNY #YearOfTheHorse
Tom Murphy @tomeenmurphy.bsky.social Prole art threat. Something to do with @colossive.com. Guerrilla historian of Croydon Spaceport. Writing a memoir on class and culture.
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Colossive.com
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Conduit Books @conduitbooks.bsky.social A new independent press publishing literary fiction and memoir of the highest quality.
conduitbooks.co.uk
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(Conduit Books UK are not affiliated with Conduit Books & Ephemera in the USA)
Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social I read books, write books (Mothers, A Lonely Man) and write about books (Observer, LRB, Guardian etc)
midshipnews.org @midshipnews.org MASKIROVKA my first novel is out !
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TinJar @tinjar.bsky.social #Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. #Author of uplifting #climatefiction novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social The first and largest open-access university press in the world. Based at ANU, we publish academic monographs and journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
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Londonopia @londonopia.bsky.social Celebrating London. News and history. #London
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Jo Malone @not-candles.bsky.social Edugeek. ExecTeam http://fed.education https:// Snr Adviser www.operationspitfire4schools.com Education consultant, adviser & coach. Formerly http://institute.global. 17 yrs a teacher 👩🏼🏫. Concerned citizen. Ally.
Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social 
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Book: 'Something: The Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027.
https://rcwlitagency.com/clients/helen-barrett
Cranky Old Man 🏴 🇪🇦 @crankyoldman.bsky.social I can write cursive, tell the time on a clock with hands, and balance a checkbook! I rode a bike with no helmet, played outside all day, and ran around barefoot. I received all of my childhood vaccines, too! Yet, here I am. No DMs, please!
Vev @minivev.bsky.social Bookseller 📚📖 , flâneur (flâneuse?) 🌃🚶♀️passionate about art, travel and nature. 🖼🌎 🌳Occasionally sensible, luckily never for very long. 🎠🌠
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Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation @daiwafoundation.bsky.social Supporting people and projects to connect the UK & Japan since 1988. Grants • Scholarships • Events.
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Facebook🔵: https://www.facebook.com/DaiwaFoundation/
Black Rat Books @blackratbooks.bsky.social Indie publisher of crime fiction.
Stench: The Axe in The Head Murder by G.M. BARDEN released Jan 2026
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Waterstones Gower Street @gowerst-books.bsky.social Europe's biggest new & secondhand bookshop, home to Gower Records, Art Supplies Shop, Fillongley Café and an award-winning events programme. London's local bookshop.
Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social Historian and Wu Tang affiliate, among other things | Usual disclaimers | My pronouns are ze/zir or they/them
Sapere Books @saperebooks.bsky.social Digital first publisher of Historical Fiction, Crime Fiction, Mysteries, Sagas and History. https://saperebooks.com/
Derek Birks @derekbirks.bsky.social #Bestselling action thriller author of #HistoricalFiction #TheLastoftheRomans #TheWarsoftheRoses #Podcasts: Co-hosts A Slice of #Medieval Podcast. And now, non-fiction history!
Chris Young @squarepegsuk.bsky.social There’s Nothing About us Without us
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Literary Fiction Publisher. Top 10 (Chill Subs) LitMag 2023-2024, books, & podcasts. $ subscriptions (& Patreon) pay writers.
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Damion @damionmatthews.bsky.social Publisher of The Notable (coming soon.)
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@britishartjournal.bsky.social @britishartjournal.bsky.social 
Zhenting He @zhentinghe.bsky.social MA Student in Sociocultural Anthropology @ Heidelberg University. Background in Media & Communication. My research examines how media and cultural practices intervene in and continually shape affect and social relations.
Adriana Janaína Poeta @adrianajanainapoet.bsky.social Adriana Janaína Poeta, CPF.:01233034782/ Adriana Janaína Alves de Oliveira. Escritora, editora, casada com Marcelo Bernardo de Oliveira. Criadora/ fundadora e proprietária do Clube de Leitura dos Poetas.
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Paula Hammond @writerpaula.bsky.social Feature editor (filmjuice), author, artist, vegan, she/her. #sherlockian #whovian. Also on:
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Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Where have we gone. @kreigist.bsky.social Healthcare worker who’s fed up with the whole system.
John Hacking @hacking4chorlton.bsky.social Governor Chorlton CofE Primary & @EndeavourFeder1. @unisonmcr. A director of the Edge Theatre in Chorlton
Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com