The Policy Institute @policyatkings.bsky.social Working to solve society’s challenges with evidence and expertise. Based at King's College London 🔗 kcl.ac.uk/policy-institute
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Steven Poole @stevenpoole.bsky.social writer / composer | WSJ, Guardian, Telegraph, Amazon, Spotify, BBC
https://stevenpoole.net
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Marcus Böick @marcboc83.bsky.social Historian of Modern Germany & Europe |
King's College, University of Cambridge |
#postsocialism #security #organization |
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Mary Laven @marylaven.bsky.social Historian of Italy, religion and material culture. Thinking about a more diverse Renaissance.
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
Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social I am a NJ born and Boston-based historian and speaker. Author of numerous books, including A Glorious Fate: The Life and Legacy of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Visit: cwmemory.com
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social Biophysical Chemist. Aerosol scientist. Jew. Likes lipids, nano materials, x-ray / neutron scattering, pretentious coffee. (he/him/his). Twitter @adsquires
Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
Formerly Seattle, now retired and living in London.
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
Syeda @historysyeda.bsky.social Wrote a PhD on the history of Section 28 in schools, 21-25 Cambridge Modern History.
Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). Photos by Sukant Deepak (in Jaipur, 2024) and Carlotta Cardana (at St John's College, Cambridge, 2025).
Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns
Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / 社会科学
Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). tedunderwood.com
Adrienne Ghaly @aghaly.bsky.social Literature Professor UVA | Novel, 19c-21c, theory, environmental humanities, art, biodiversity, extinction (views my own)
Cambridge 2027
Lila O'Leary Chambers @lilachambers.bsky.social Historian of Race, Slavery, Commodification, Consumption, Intoxication in the Early Modern Atlantic | Research Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. Editorial Board @insurrecthistory.bsky.social
Comprehensive Future @compfuture.bsky.social Campaigning for fair school admissions and an end to the 11-plus. UK education & policy.
Russ Friedman @russfriedman.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium. All views my own.
Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
Tom Richmond @tom-richmond.com Education policy analyst. Host of 'Inside Your Ed' podcast (www.insideyoured.com). Former teacher, think tank director and government advisor. Follow my work here: https://linktr.ee/tomrichmond
Jack Deasley @jldeasley.bsky.social 23. He/him. Doing a PhD in notions of success in ‘left behind’ areas at UCL. Wycombe Wanderers enthusiast. Governor at Banovallum School, Horncastle.
Ian Greaves @greavesian.bsky.social Writer, researcher, editor, failed model. N17. Penda's Fen: Scene By Scene out now: https://tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com/product/pendas-fen-scene-by-scene
Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards
Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social Proud Ballymena Professor. Senior Strategic Advisor at RoRI; Emeritus Prof at Imperial. Former DORA Chair. Husband, father, carer - 24/7. Also cares about science & equity. Personal a/c. Writes occasionally at http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/.
ManofHarlech @manofharlech.bsky.social Richard Fisher on publishing/policy/politics/the past. Plus poor putting and very slow bowling. Also Associate Editor (sport) for Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Chris Cook @chriscook.news FT enterprise editor. South London nationalist. Articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report- P Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social I write novels (eg The Power, new novel is The Future), I make games (eg Zombies, Run!), unorthodox Jew. not-getting-into-pointless-arguments-on-the-internet is an act of revolution. However complex you think things are, they're more complex than that
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Katherine Harloe @katherineharloe.bsky.social Classicist, based in UK. Pessimist.
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social 🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.
Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social Environmental campaigner & author, The Lie of the Land (William Collins, 2024), The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022), & Who Owns England? (2019). Forthcoming: The Ghosts of Chalk Country (2027). Agent: @jmlockhart.bsky.social
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social Yelling the truth about Tennessee. 
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Leora Cruddas CBE @leoracruddas.bsky.social Chief executive of the Confederation of School Trusts
Oli de Botton @olidebotton.bsky.social 
Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social Current affairs, politics, education and miscellany. All views my own.
Substack at edrith.co.uk 
Jake Anders @jakeanders.uk Education, evaluation, economics, etc.
Professor of Quantitative Social Science, UCL
Deputy Director, @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
Principal Investigator, COSMO study
Dad to three.
https://jakeanders.uk
Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
Education Policy Institute @edupolicyinst.bsky.social The Education Policy Institute (EPI) is an independent, impartial, and evidence-based research institute that promotes high quality education
Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social Health humanities and history of mental health, psychology, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
Currently at Leeds, formerly LSHTM and Cambridge. Affiliated at Birkbeck.
Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Interested in the history of the British left and futures past. Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy
The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social Championing social mobility through evidence-based programmes, agenda-setting research and policy advocacy: https://linktr.ee/thesuttontrust
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social Senior Digital Editor for MeidasTouch.com
Clips made with SnapStream
Internet Hooligan...
Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social Historical demographer at CAMPOP, Geography Dept Cambridge University. See also http://PopulationsPast.org. Views my own.
Kieron Flanagan @kieronflanagan.bsky.social Prof of Science & Tech Policy @uniofmanchester.bsky.social @mioir.bsky.social. Views own, RTs not. 🐝🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester
http://andrew-seaton.com
Susan J. Smith @sjs1869.bsky.social President,The British Academy.
Writes about housing and economic inequality.
Life Fellow at Girton College, Emerita Honorary Professor in the Dept of Geography, Cambridge University, UK.
(Views my own).
Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social editing @lrb (again), after years as Guardian non-fic editor. Writing book for Penguin/Norton on sandals, sunbaths, muesli, 'bearded fruit-juice drinkers' etc. Campaigner for Martha's Rule in NHS.
Ed Hodgson @edhodgsoned.bsky.social Researcher
Clarisse Berthezène @clarisseberthezene.bsky.social 
Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian.
Rebecca Goldsmith @beccagold.bsky.social Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
PhD on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her
Mike Savage @mikesavagelse.bsky.social Sociologist of inequality.
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
Chris Havergal @chrishavergal.bsky.social Editor, @timeshighered.bsky.social
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Sammy Wright @sammywright.bsky.social Teacher, writer, school leader, lives and works in North East: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163/exam-nation-by-wright-sammy/9781847927521
#edusky #Teaching #UKEd http://substack.com/@sammywright
Gail Savage @savagegl.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain with interests including family, law, gender.
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social i work for persuasion uk and i edit the journal "renewal"
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Nicholas Harris @nickpaulharris.bsky.social Ideas Editor @newstatesman.com Pitches to: nicholas.harris@newstatesman.co.uk
Johnny Rich @johnnyrich.com Director, ResearchPlus
Also: CEO, PushTalks | Author (The Human Script and other works) | Speaker | #HigherEd Specialist
Personal account - any views are all my own fault.
Web: johnnyrich.com- E Emma Hunter @emma-edin.bsky.social
Ambreena Manji @ambreenamanji.bsky.social Prof, Cardiff Law School & Africa Dean, Cardiff University
Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social Historian, esp. 19c press, talk, book history. Author “Googling the Victorians,” “Punch Brotherhood,” etc. Co-founder SHARP, mgr VICTORIA. Fond of Old Time Radio, 60s Top 40, tennis, London. Liberal Texan in self-imposed Midwest exile. FRHistS
Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures.
https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/
Evgeny Morozov @evgenymorozov.bsky.social Hater of solutionism. Books: The Net Delusion; To Save Everything Click Here. Podcasts: The Santiago Boys. A Sense of Rebellion. Founder: The Syllabus. 
@jimdtomlinson.bsky.social @jimdtomlinson.bsky.social 
Marybeth Hamilton @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social Writer, historian, podcaster.
Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
History of Social Science @histsocialscience.bsky.social The official—and just-launched—journal of the Society for the History of Recent Social Science (HISRESS), published by Penn Press: hss.pennpress.org
Eleanor Lowe @eleanorlowe.bsky.social History and politics teacher in Essex. Previously PhD on love, marriage and politics in modern Britain.
Rose Dryzek @rosedryzek.bsky.social Historian researching activism around home-based work
Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social A public history blog from the Cambridge History Faculty 🪶
@adelenebuckland.bsky.social @adelenebuckland.bsky.social Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Science at King's College London. Lots of stuff on rocks and books. Currently (slowly) writing Baby Machines: Or, How to Hold Your Infant in the Industrial Age. Many, many children.
She/her.
@lizlunbeck.bsky.social @lizlunbeck.bsky.social 
Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social 'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
Luke Sibieta @lukesibieta.bsky.social Research Fellow at IFS, independent consultant, posts about about school funding, education, inequalities and cycling
21 Group @21group.bsky.social The 21 Group campaigns against the complaisant acceptance of bullying by UK Universities. We provide support for those experiencing bullying in academia.
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social Professor of Sociology at the #EUI, Florence. Works on education & social stratification. Posts r personal.
@eui-sps.bsky.social
Substack/blogs: https://hermwerf.substack.com/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=amYIKXQAAAAJ&hl=nl
Jon Parry @jonparryhis.bsky.social Retired university History teacher. Modern British politics. Short history of British Liberalism published by Agenda April 2025. Occasional LRB reviewer. Part-time resident and unofficial chronicler of Sark.
Joshua Ehrlich @drjehrlich.bsky.social Historian of knowledge, books, political thought, British Empire, South Asia, Indian Ocean World | Assoc Prof @ UMacau | Assoc Scholar @ Harvard | Book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367967 | Webpage: fah.um.edu.mo/joshua-ehrlich/
Jeff Pooley @jpooley.bsky.social A media scholar - jeffpooley.com/about
lAwReNcE bLaCk @lawrenceblack.bsky.social https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/black/ - or the history of where, when and how politics and culture met. Or didn’t. Likes flawed red things.
Ariadna Acevedo-Rodrigo @ariadnaacevedo.bsky.social Historiadora en Cinvestav, Ciudad de México
De sabático en @camhistory.bsky.social
En Comité editorial de @revistacomun.bsky.social
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https://cinvestav.academia.edu/AriadnaAcevedo/Papers
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social Historian of the intelligentsia. Odi profanum vulgus et arceo. Deputy Editor @NoemaMag.com. Check out "Children of a Modest Star": https://www.sup.org/books/politics/children-modest-star. Posts my own
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
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