pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social London radical histories & mysteries. Obsessions: open space, gentrification, strikes, riot, music, drink, spycops.
https://pasttense.co.uk/
Johnny Campbell @johnnycampbell.bsky.social Folk musician, freelance writer at Country Walking Magazine, Right to Roam Sheffield
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ MOJO
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Songlines
www.johnnycampbell.co.uk
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
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
Jane Samuels @janesamuels.bsky.social Mancunian artist and writer. Geography, ecology, place and politics, prolific drinker of cheap whiskeys. Inventive dancer.
PhD Candidate at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Never AI.
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme. Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Expect Typos
Neil Kingsnorth @neilkingsnorth.bsky.social Sharing stories and thoughts on place, ecology, land & the local. My nonfiction book, 'Finding the Ape', is out in April 2027.
Nicola Pitchford @npitchford.bsky.social Immigrant. Winner of the inaugural Nature Chronicles Prize (2022). She/her. In Northern California on unceded Coast Miwok land.
Jade Angeles Fitton @jadeafitton.bsky.social Writer
Martha Henson @marthasadie.bsky.social Digital producer/consultant/product manager/mentor/user researcher/game mechanic. Eclectic. Nature nerd. Proto yoga studies scholar. Isle of Wight Biosphere. Old Internet Person (the title of my newsletter) www.marthahenson.com
Running Past @runningpast.bsky.social SE London history & landscape, paused blogger, socialist, green, runner, #goodgym member, #greenrunner, acting curator of #TidesOutTuesday, views mine, poor proof reader - he/him/me duck, real name Paul
Jean McEwan @jeanmmcewanartist.bsky.social UK-based visual + participatory artist.
Collage zines + creative research with @thebinkshub @changingrealities + others. Care, justice, interconnection. Human & more than human worlds
Online shop for zines + prints https://jeanmcewanartist.bigcartel.com/
Callum James @callum-james.bsky.social Callum James: poet, writer and bookseller.
'The South Downs. Paths of the Dead' (Broken Sleep Books)
Queer. Story. Landscape. Magic.
wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social The home of #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday.
Wild Flowers you find across Britain & Ireland in the last week.
The biggest cheerleader for our wild plants!
Posts by @botanybeck.bsky.social
https://wildflowerhouruk.weebly.com/
Alexa Wilson @alexadwilson.bsky.social Fugitive carer.
Clare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social poet; trees, radical hope, fairness, equality, Herefordshire, arthritis mental health, disability, anarchism. Join a union!
Alastair McIntosh @alastairmci.bsky.social Human ecologist and Quaker, I share on social justice, environment, land reform, nonviolence and spirituality. Books include Soil and Soul, Poacher's Pilgrimage & Riders on the Storm. Honorary prof Glasgow Uni.
Hebrides and Govan.
www.AlastairMcIntosh.com
David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social Professor of Environmental Humanities at the University of Leeds, UK. Working on culture and environmental crisis. Writing a book about birds, loss, and restoration. Worried parent. Luddite. Opinions my own. Reposts ≠ endorsement.
Dave Borthwick @borthwickdave.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Literature at the University of Glasgow's School of Social & Environmental Sustainability: ecopoetry, walking, place - environmental humanities
Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social Creating where art and research meet. @blooloop.bsky.social top 50 int’l museum influencer.
‘The New Eden’ out with Gaia Books @hachetteuk.bsky.social 12 March 2026
https://linktr.ee/TheNewEden_JC?utm_source=linktree_profile_share
www.jcniala.com
Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social Rewilding pioneers, working with nature for a sustainable future.
https://knepp.co.uk/
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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
Rebecca Tamás @rebeccatamas.bsky.social 🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins.
(https://makinabooks.com/product/strangers/)
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.
Jon Woolcott @jonwoolcott.bsky.social Author Real Dorset (Seren), The Tattooed Hills (Aurum, April 2026), editor Going to Ground, works Little Toller, editor The Clearing. Events/writing/buy: linktr.ee/jonwoolcott
Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Forward-shortlisted debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, out now. Magma Selected Poet.
https://linktr.ee/catherine_redford
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
Clare Shaw @clareshawpoet.bsky.social Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.
Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64
https://canceralleyproject.com
https://thebookofhours.org
Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social Aka hpsvanessa - here for beachcombing and drift archaeology. Find me as @shorelarking on insta. 🏳️⚧️
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Hannah Wickes @hannahwickes.bsky.social Studying History & Archaeology of the Highlands & Islands at UHI. Non-Exec Director for Fair Tax Foundation, UK Community Foundations and Impress: the media regulator. Advisor @ Creatives for Climate. She/Her.
Wort Journal @wortjournal.com Print journal · Folk Herbalism · Plant Kin · Health Ecologies · Traditional Knowledges · Radical Holism · Earth Tending · www.wortjournal.com
Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social Poet living in Withernsea.
Founder of Pebble Of The Day.
New Book - https://tinyurl.com/3rhajmz2
New CD - https://tinyurl.com/mpwyh728
DeanWorld.org
Jason Conway @daydreamacademy.bsky.social Professional daydreamer & award-winning creative - designer, poet, writer, artist & mentor - MA Creative Writing Bath Spa - AuDHD - forest bather
Editor Steel Jackdaw Magazine
Director Gloucestershire Poetry Society
https://bio.site/jasonleeconway
Gloucestershire Writers' Network (GWN) @gloswriters.bsky.social The go-to place for writers in Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire
https://gloswriters.org.uk/
Philolithia@bsky.social @philolithia.bsky.social Prehistoric landscapes, skyscapes, cosmology, folklore & nature. Meirionnydd #StandingStones PhD researcher Bournemouth Uni. Cymraes dw i. (She/they).
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Doughnut Economics Action Lab @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social Turning #DoughnutEconomics from a radical idea into transformative action, together.
The Wainwright Prizes @wainwrightprize.bsky.social Stories that connect people & planet 🌱
#WainwrightPrize
🦆 2026 SHORTLISTS ANNOUNCED!
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River Action @riveractionuk.bsky.social River Action is a UK-based environmental campaigning body committed to rescuing the UK's rivers.
http://www.riveractionuk.com/
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/
New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social Change the rules. Share the wealth. Protect the planet.
Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social Managing Director, Bridges for Communities, supporting people to live well together
📍Bristol 🇬🇧
Posts on: Bristol, community cohesion & social inclusion, climate & nature, deliberative democracy, public engagement and positive news.
Views my own.
Jamorobo @jamorobo.bsky.social Perpetual procrastination machine - Tea Addict - Founder & Director of @chelt-hackspace.bsky.social - Founder Member GuildOfMakers
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
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.
Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social Historian of subsistence labour and the rural environment (+ fish). Unlicensed poster on higher ed, elections, devolution, religion, sport and transport.
Advocate for second cities. Antifascist. Christian. Baggie by birth, Jag by the grace of God. He/him.
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
Marianne Heaslip @marianneh.bsky.social Workingtonian in Liverpool(home)/Manchester(work), UK.
Working on tools and processes for better building retrofit, mostly in houses, mostly for coops and community energy orgs. Keen on the need to #stopburningstuff.
Food in Community @foodincommunity.bsky.social Hello 😃👋 🍎
We improve access to ethical, nutritious,organic food. Est. 2012 as one of the UK’s first surplus food hubs #gleaning #paywhatyoucan #workshops #growing
Observer🥇 📍HQ: Totnes
https://linktr.ee/foodincommunity
Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social V. Sackville-West: In Your Garden (1946-61); Some Flowers (1937); Letters to VW (1923-41); Passenger to Teheran (1926); Twelve Days (1928). https://x.com/thegardenvsw?s=11
Vanessa Spedding @vanessaspedding.bsky.social Writer. Envisioning a carefully-placed twist in the tale of humanity.
Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social Early modern historian, writing ‘The Church in Interregnum England c1649-62'.
Illustrator & co-author 'Nature's Calendar' (Granta, 2023). Environmentalist.
Nick Jenkins @nickjhistorian.bsky.social Journalist and historian, specialising in the First World War and its aftermath. Especially its aftermath (book on the way). Yorkshire, France, Craven Cottage. Used to have a cat. Now I have a grandson.
Charlotte Weatherill @ckweatherill.bsky.social Lecturer in Environmental Politics
Climate politics - vulnerability - islands
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xNz9T8sAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Views are mine and represent me
Megan Shersby @meganshersby.bsky.social Naturalist, writer and board gamer. Working at @wildlifebcn.org (views my own). Lead author of Where to Watch Wildlife in Britain By Low-carbon Transport (2026). Owner of a dog/servant to two cats. She/her.
Zena Barrie @zenabarrie.bsky.social Author & co-director of Camden Fringe
Writes things, reads things, goes to watch things
www.zenabarrie.com
netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social Nether Holbrook Farm, Rutland. Shepherd, gosherd, keeper of hens & other livestock. Heritage fruit orchard. Growing & preserving my own organic food. Interested in art, history, landscape, nature, gardening & rural life. Owned by emus. #RoseWednesday 🌹
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
Caught by the River @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007
Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
Claire Nolan @drclairenolan.bsky.social Researcher, archaeologist, heritage & wellbeing, social & ecocultural value of archaeology, prehistory/deep time heritage, landscape………..
Web: https://ucc-ie.academia.edu/ClaireNolan
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social UK project to raise awareness and interest in plants, highlighting species interactions (plants and inverts, galls, fungi etc) & encouraging plant recording during the Big Meadow Search (1st June-31st Aug). All welcome #nature #plants bigmeadowsearch.co.uk
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
Carbon Copy @carboncopyeco.bsky.social Inspiring more big-thinking local action for climate and nature. Visit https://carboncopy.eco.
Dr Claire Collins @medpreg.bsky.social Medievalist: pregnancy & childbirth / social history / medicine / magic / folklore | Work: @folkloresociety.bsky.social & @uniofreading.bsky.social | She/they |
Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social Nuisance, writer, publisher - the devil's dandy - poetry & weird fic - tarot - https://linktr.ee/kymdeyn - she/they with MECFS. In books and in bogs.
Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social Megalith geek, writer, editor, author of STONE LANDS
Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social Nature conservation. Low carbon living. Classical music and opera. Theatre and books. Gruesome lefty vegan tree-hugger. 🏳️⚧️ ally. Happiest when muddy.
🦆🌱🚲🏳️🌈📚
themarshtit.com
Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social Medieval manuscript practitioner, bringing the manuscript making process to life. Author of The Medieval Scriptorium. Cat lady.
www.teachingmanuscripts.com
PhD in medieval martyrologies. Editor of Historical Research journal.
Rachel Charlton-Dailey @rachelcdailey.bsky.social Disability rights & sausage pics. Journalist, commentator and DWP botherer. Author of Ramping Up Rights She/they.
https://linktr.ee/rachelcdailey
Kirsten Stevens-Wood PhD @kirsten-s-w.bsky.social Researches Intentional Communities, hippy communes, cohousing, low impact land based lifestyles. Interested in natural building, adobe, dry stone and utopias. Francophile. Failed vegan. Editor and writer for Diggers and Dreamers. Based in Wales. 🏴
Hilary Jennings @hilaryjennings.bsky.social working - playing - making - swimming - wellbeing - Tooting - also shares at @happymuseum @tttooting
The Infectious Dose Podcast @pathogenscribe.bsky.social PhD Virologist turned science writer. She/her. Fighting science misinformation with a podcast/blog. Infectiousdose.com
My views are my own & do not represent any organization
Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
CUSP //: Post Growth Research Centre @cusp.ac.uk What can prosperity possibly mean in a world of environmental, social and economic limits?—We work with people, policy and business to address this question, developing pragmatic steps towards a shared and lasting prosperity.
🌐 cusp.ac.uk
Matt B @mattbernico.bsky.social True freedom lies in the free enjoyment of the earth.
Co-author of Enough is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, and Liberation Theology. (2026)
Listen to me talk every week on @themagnificast.bsky.social
All views expressed are my own
Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social Writer.
https://richarddsmyth.com/
Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social Hat-wearing devourer of chickpeas, Manchester vegan, manager of identities, developer of obscure software, Green inactivist, Elixir & Ruby coder, watcher of K-dramas, daft-apeth.
Alignment: Quixotic-Good
https://binary-ape.org
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
EcoMuseum of Scottish Mining Landscapes @mininglandscapes.bsky.social Posts from Scotland’s first industrial eco-museum commemorating and recording mining landscapes through a series of community created cycling and walking routes.
@translibglos.bsky.social @translibglos.bsky.social
Bethan Catherine Watts @bethanwatts.bsky.social MRHistS. PhD researcher at UWTSD focusing on Medieval English children and childhood.
Author of 3 books. Owner of 3 cats. Loves children’s history, domestic culture, and the history of medicine.
Works for @histchild.bsky.social
Salamander News @salamandernews.org Independent news for Lewisham, SE London. Community, housing, transport, more ... with a climate and nature lens. London's only local news co-op. www.salamandernews.org
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Dr J. M. Wall @cemeteryresearcher.bsky.social Cemetery Researcher. Proud Brummie. Never clocking out of Coffin Works, usually found in the JQ Cemeteries. #BLM🖤 🏳️🌈 🩷💜💙she/her
Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social #Archaeology for a #biodiversitycrisis, #heritage for a #climate positive future. Optimist. #Pleistocene archaeologist, rugby coach, knitter, former public servant, now doing what I can in a large #conservation NGO with #landusechange and IRO research.
Squiddy @dr-squiddy.bsky.social Undercover museum curator, actual certified doctor of museum stuff, accidental catalyst for change, educator, newt botherer, and spooky idiot. She/Her
Alice @armille.bsky.social Yorkshire • ex prison teacher now in HE • a labrador's snack-wench • truly inclusive education, disability, theology, collective liberation, social justice, rugby & good food for all • trans rights are human rights • she/her
Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social Expert citizen, diverse workhorse, viva Wessex - health & justice - she/her
Jess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social 📚Historian of early modern London
📜 Apprentice Archivist at The London Archives
🖋️Research interests in women, the City of London, and record keeping in C17th
🎓 PhD on women in the Court of Orphans
👩💻 https://jessica-ayres.co.uk
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social Tired, archive-themed, occasionally falling over a cat.
Simon Brackenborough @sbrackenborough.bsky.social Londoner and writer on classical music. Interested in the arts, history, nature, reading, coffee, vegetarian food, and active travel infrastructure.
https://mosaicoftheair.substack.com/