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We Own It @weownit.org.uk After 40 years, privatisation of our public services has failed. It's time for public ownership. We use it, we pay for it, We Own It.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social Prime Minister of Canada and Leader of the Liberal Party | Premier ministre du Canada et chef du Parti libéral
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social Award-Winning Multimedia Journalist.
Bylines: CBS, AXS, Yahoo, Examiner, etc.
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Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social Books etc
House of Commons Speaker @commonsspeaker.parliament.uk Sir Lindsay Hoyle | 158th Speaker of the UK House of Commons. Father, grandfather and animal lover.
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk Leader of @LibDems.org.uk, husband, father, carer, and MP for Kingston & Surbiton.
Promoted by Liberal Democrats, 66 Buckingham Gate, SW1E 6AU.
Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social Writer
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LancsPCC @lancspcc.bsky.social Share your views on matters of crime and policing in Lancashire – updates by the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Lancashire.
Jamie Lopez @jamielopez.bsky.social Editor, Southport Lead. Writer, everywhere
Richard Slater 🌹 @richardjslater.bsky.social Founder of Lancashire Business View magazine. Creator of Red Rose Awards, Sub36, LBVhub, Lancashire Business Day, Lancashire Festival of Business, Lancashire Conference series. Side hustles: event host, ghostwriter, weekend rock star.🌹
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Ellie Browning @elliebrowningxo.bsky.social Trainee journalist at UCLan | Radio Presenter at Coastal Radio | 23k TikTok | Blog Preston | Karate 2nd Dan | Podcast presenter and producer
Sophie Swain @sophieswain.bsky.social Journalist at News & Star - Sophie.Swain@newsquest.co.uk. JST 2024 Fellow 🎉 Cumbria📍
UCLan Journalism @uclanjournalism.bsky.social BA (Hons) Journalism course at the University of Central Lancashire.
Action Records @actionrecords.bsky.social Action Records has been established since 1979, starting off on a stall in Blackpool just as the independent music scene was emerging. From there we soon opened a site in Preston in 1981 where we have been ever since stocking a huge collection
Luke Beardsworth @lukebeardsworth.bsky.social Blog Preston co-editor / The Lead’s senior editor (North) posting our best from Blackpool, Lancashire, Southport, Teesside and Calderdale / sometimes lecturer / journalist / consumer of pretentious food
Steve Saul @stevesaul.com Presenter and producer for BBC North West. Formerly BBC Radio Manchester and Leeds - Radio 5 Live and Rock FM.
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Paul Melling @pjmimages.bsky.social Photographer of many things.
Based in West Yorkshire, UK
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George Hodgson @ghodgsonsport.bsky.social Preston North End reporter for the Lancashire Post. #pnefc
Danny Robins @dannyrobins.bsky.social #UncannyAutumn is nearly here…👻🍂🛸 Tickets are on sale NOW at uncannylive.com for the online screening of the Uncanny Live tour on the 25 September!
Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com Since 1768.
Chucklebone @chucklebone.bsky.social Animations every Friday :)
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Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social Medievalist. Pre modern lit & culture across borders, especially all things Arthurian. FRHistS, FHEA. Folkie. 🎵 Mareganlefay.bsky.social 
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
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Ben Stiller @benstiller.redhour.com Artist whose mediums include film, tv, and soda. www.StillersSoda.com
@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social Tan Smith.
Political Commentary.
Pisstaking.
Satire.
Dystopia Warner.
Writer.
Hate Tories? You’ll love me.
Woke as fuck.
YouTube https://youtube.com/@supertanskiii?si=4VUI_s-l7bfc1obT
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Cllr Matthew Tomlinson @cllrmtomlinson.bsky.social Labour Leader of South Ribble District Council. Husband, Dad, PNEFC fan.
Blog Preston @blogpreston.co.uk News, views, culture and information about Preston, Lancashire. We are a Community Interest Company.
Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979.
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social a meditation on videogame (w/ some tech and web) history. donate to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/moshboy/ also find me on mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@moshboy nfaq: https://pastebin.com/vUmrYKx6
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
UK Parliament @ukparliament.parliament.uk Where the House of Commons and the House of Lords scrutinise the work of the Government. Learn more about Parliament, its people and our unique heritage.
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Becky Holmes hates spinach @deathtospinach.bsky.social I only date celebs (inc. Keanu, Brad, Neeson, Jagger & Prince William), brave US peacekeeping soldiers in Syria or oil rig workers. First book out now 🎉
ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social Scrivener for macOS, Windows and iOS. The best-selling writing app containing everything you need to craft your first draft.
Discover Scrivener and Writing Resources here: https://bit.ly/ScrivenerApp_ResourceHub
CyclingMikey @cyclingmikey.bsky.social Teaching the unwilling - reported 2,075 drivers since 2019. 2,460 penalty points, £150,537 in fines (not all results). YouTube: http://youtube.com/@CyclingMikey
Jeremy Vine @thejeremyvine.bsky.social Writer of crime novels based in Sidmouth | TV | Radio
Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social ✦ writer | reviewer | book blogger | cheerleader of books, poetry and art | all genres RT’d | resident Tolkien fangirl | linktr.ee/rjcrunden ✦
Star Trek Shitposting @startrekshitposti.ng Shitposting our way across the gronpiverse with the best/worst #startrek content in the quadrant! @ for a reskeet if we like your meme.
FB - https://www.facebook.com/groups/StarTrekShitposting/
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Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social Host of daily podcast The News Agents. And author of Strangeland. Available at all good bookshops….
Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social Working class, Glaswegian 🏴, Historian of late 17th century specialising in Scotland, warfare, martial culture, identity and migration. Former HE lecturer.
Publishing on Jacobites, the Highland War (1689-1691) & Scots-Dutch Brigade 🇳🇱
All views my own.
Dr Mark Shearwood @markshearwood.bsky.social Early Modern Historian, looking at loyalty, Identity, and Religion in the late 17th century. Glorious Revolution, Monmouth Rebellion tour guide, Golden Retriever owner,
The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the history of the Lords, Parliament and society across the 'long 18th century'.
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
https://historyofparliament.com/the-georgian-lords/
Nina Lamal @ninalamal.bsky.social Early modern historian ☞ Archive dweller, book lover, coffee-addict ☞ Book: Italian communication on the Revolt in the Low Countries (1566-1648) ☞ Edition: Letters of Suriano, the first Venetian ambassador in The Dutch Republic (1616-1623)
Bríd McGrath @bridmcgrath.bsky.social Historian of #earlyModern #Irish #parliaments and towns & palaeography. #Gaeilge agus fáilte. #Cyclist. Fellow Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
ORCID ID 0000-0003-0636-0499
Jade Scott @huntingrebels.bsky.social Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | PI AHRC Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 @ UofGlasgow History |
https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464
Also: dogs, horses, books
Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social Lecturer in Scottish History. Social and political history of early modern Scotland. Find me via the University of Dundee: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/allan-kennedy
Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
Mark Turnbull Author @1642author.bsky.social British Civil Wars enthusiast from age 10. FRHistS - Royal Historical Society. Author with Pen & Sword. Durham.
📕Biographies: Charles I's Private Life & Prince Rupert of the Rhine
🎬Podcast: CavalierCast - The Civil War in Words
https://tinyurl.com/yvxvmsjk
Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social 17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. interested in all things early modern and boaty - currently writing about women and the navy
Joey Crozier @joeycrozier.bsky.social Historian and musician. Research interests: politics and intelligence in the reign of William III. Project Director: Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500 - 1850.
Juliette Desportes @juliettedesportes.bsky.social Historian of 18th century Scotland. Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Highlands and Islands. PhD from University of Glasgow.
Lloyd Bowen @lloydbowen.bsky.social Early modern historian of Wales and Britain (esp. British Civil Wars) at Cardiff University. Also work on petitioning, duelling, political cultures. Edward Vaughan book free to download: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-trials-of-edward-vaughan/
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees @goodtrees.bsky.social (b. 1635 - d. 1713) Presbyterian, polemicist & politician. Lord Advocate of Scotland, 1692-1709, 1711-1713
Dr Emma Lyons @ehlyons.bsky.social Historian of c17th&c18th Ireland: female inheritance, Catholic landownership & education during the Penal Laws. Also Irish horse racing, and Irishwomen & WWI war effort.
Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of History, TCD.
Website: emmalyons.ie
Lee Raye @leafyhistory.bsky.social Associate Lecturer, Research Officer, studies medieval/early modern wild animals & plants.
Author, Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife & Creatures of Story and Song.
Secretly a fox? 🦊 Slow worm friend. 🧚🏻🐉 they/them. 🍞🌹
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English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social We're passionate about the English Civil Wars and 17th Century history! We're also reenactors - step into history and have an incredible weekend for just £10! www.earlofmanchesters.co.uk
Serena Jones (ACCOUNT INACTIVE) @serenaj1642.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Author, publisher, independent historian | British Civil Wars: biographer of Col Sir George Lisle | transcribing & publishing the 1640s English newsbooks | 🦋 Est. Sep 2023
As of 24 Apr 2025 account is inactive until/unless Bsky allows follower removal
Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Kristel van Soeren @kristelvansoeren.bsky.social Musicologist | Jacobite songs, British Isles, politics, and (national) identities in 17th and 18th c. popular music.
Karie Schultz @kmschultz24.bsky.social Ex-academic historian | Now a grant-writer for an international development charity | Coloradan 🇺🇸 in the UK
Man who cooks everything on gas mark 7 @lownesandtheifis.bsky.social Deaf social historian, EM Scotland, marginality, crime, poverty, vagrancy.
Random posts on darker side of life in early modern Edinburgh and Canongate
Ola Teige @olateige.bsky.social Norwegian, Early Modern historian. Denmark-Norway c. 1660-1814, especially social networks and elites, but also crime, queer history and other cool stuff. And sometimes I escape to the Great Northern War or WW1.
Hanna de Lange @hanna1.bsky.social Historian. Early Modern Books, News, Print & Manuscript.
Research fellow WidowsPrint, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen
Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social Writer, editor, historian, cricketer and Parkinsonian. YOPD, OED, PhD. Co-author of Spycraft. petelangman.com
Robbie Tree @rdtree.bsky.social Historian of early modern Scotland primarily interested in politics, government & coal mining.
Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.
Jemma Field @jemmafield.bsky.social Associate Director of Research, Yale Center for British Art | Early modern English women | politics of dress and bodily display | 📚Anna of Denmark (MUP, 2020) | currently preoccupied with the wardrobe of Charles I (1600-1649)
Olli Bäckström @ollibackstrom.bsky.social Researcher of the Thirty Years War 1618-1648 and Seventeenth Century Europe. Docent (General History) associated with the University of Eastern Finland. Author Military Revolution and the Thirty Years War: https://hup.fi/site/books/m/10.33134/HUP-21/
Emma Forsberg @emmaforsberg.bsky.social PhD at Lund University writing on the Swedish diplomatic corps 1680 to 1765
Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Jordan S. Sly @jordanssly.bsky.social Historian of Seventeenth Century Europe and the Global Atlantic. My specialisations are the intellectual, religious, and cultural histories of Stuart Britain and the Interregnum with a primary focus on the 1650s.
"Dulce bellum inexpertis" -Erasmus
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Hannah Sparwasser Soroka @hannah-historian.bsky.social PhD Candidate working 17th century intellectual history at McGill | I want to talk on your podcast/write for your publication | she/they
Tryntje Helfferich @tryntje.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Ohio State Lima; Early Modern Europe; Thirty Years War; Reformation; Religion & War; Gardening; Travel. Alaskan at heart.
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Early modernist and Lecturer at Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
Anna Rosensweig @arosensweigbskysoc.bsky.social Prof. of French and Visual Culture. Currently writing a book about early modern Calvinism, contemporary Christian Nationalism, and the soi distant New Right. Views my own.
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Jeanette Greaves @ransomedhearts.bsky.social She / Her / Were
Dark fantasy / horror / sf / urban romance
Author of the Ransomed Hearts series. https://amzn.to/3CsaF0s
Born at 319 ppm
Lancashire, England
www.bloginbasket.com
Sir Michael @sirmichael.bsky.social Creator of the Sturdy Wheelbarrows podcast and the grandson who continues to be persecuted for wearing jean shorts to his grandad's funeral :(
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet 🖖
Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social Political Editor of Byline Times and Online Editor of BylineTimes.com. Lobby journalist in the House of Commons. 📩Adam@bylinetimes.com
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social I write, act, sing, broadcast and cook. Occasionally, even for money. One third of the @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
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