Literary Listings London @literarylistings.bsky.social The only website listing all London’s book events. Visit literarylistingslondon.substack.com or email literarylistingslondon@gmail.com to join the weekly mailing list
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social Used to be a somebody in the Co-op Party
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, conlangs, cribbage
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social Freelance cybersecurity journalist & writer. Welsh. SE London.
Also likely to post about games, rugby, F1, wrestling & the cat.
I have a Simpsons reference for every occasion.
Tyron @tyron.bsky.social Raise taxes, repair the country. Inspired by joy, Marcel Duchamp, Kelis, Mata Hari, and whatever sticks the landing on the bit.
Norman Records @normanrecords.com UK vinyl specialists. The best music, the best service, the best prices.
https://www.normanrecords.com
Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social Writer, artist, editor, curator
Editor: recessed.space
Teaching: UCL Bartlett
Obviously, everything here is my opinion & not that of my employers, except when I am my employer
Probs won't chat to faceless/anon/troll profiles
Nina Richner @ninarichner.bsky.social Rushed, sloppy, irritated, and alive.
Literary agent at HMLA; they/them
Ninarichner.com
Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social Metropolitan Police lives and stories 1829-now.
Open to researchers and visitors by appointment.
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No bio or posts, no follow back.
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David Audit @awesomewells.bsky.social 
Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social Sir Gaerfyrddin. He/him.
Futurism @futurism.com Welcome to the future. Award-winning reporting on stunning scientific discoveries, wild tech innovations, and more. Sign up for our daily newsletter: trib.al/9aV6iMX
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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social Writer/artist/office worker; openly meddling 🇨🇦; nerd re: superheroes + starships; autistic. He/him/il; Do say "Hi!" (💉 x10) + 😷=Peace of mind!
Ottawa/Adàwe/Odàwàng, Canada
https://web.ncf.ca/ad696/
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
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social Extremely humble legend. Writer of JESUS CHRIST KINSKI, RARE SINGLES, CUDDY, THE OFFING, THE GALLOWS POLE (BBC/Shane Meadows), THE PERFECT GOLDEN CIRCLE etc. Books: https://bio.site/benjaminmyers
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc- K @kerstanmac.bsky.social @kerstanmac.bsky.social
Marc Burrows @20thcenturymarc.marcburrows.co.uk Writer/musician/comic. Pratchett biographer.✏️: Guardian, New Statesman, Big Issue, Independent, Radio Times & more. Used to work at Twitter. Always writing a book. NIRVANA — A detailed guide to the band changed everything OUT NOV 30! He/Him 🏳️🌈
Charlie Connelly @charlieconnelly.bsky.social Stage haunter, writer, Addick in Dundee. Attention All Shipping live show coming to a theatre near you as long as you're near a theatre where it's on.
PrestonFalls @prestonfalls.bsky.social 
Nikki Coates @nikkicoates.bsky.social Currently thinking about London’s reputation for my MA in Applied Imagination (I know!). The nicest thing my husband has ever said about me is that I’m the least cynical person he knows. SE London.
Soccerdonna @soccerdonna.de Women’s football website with focus on news, statistics, facts and transfers!
Part of Transfermarkt
Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social Falling off bikes, fighting men in swimming pools, history and rampant imposer syndrome. PhD at UoGlasgow. Interested in transformations within 20C Britain. Awful spelling all my own. Constantly distracted.
@kundooz2.bsky.social @kundooz2.bsky.social 
Citizen Helene / Galaxy Brain @citizenhelene.bsky.social Boogie bitch (She/her) | DJ @ Soho Radio http://bit.ly/3Ejpoce | Musician @ https://galaxybrainmusic.bandcamp.com
Flowers At The Border is out now: https://objectsforever.bandcamp.com/album/flowers-at-the-border
🌐 London, UK
Tim James @teejtim.bsky.social Between leafy North London and Suffolk
Rodrigo Culagovski @culagovski.net Author, architect, researcher, and developer from the Galactic South.
Published in Escape Pod, Nature Futures, Flash Fiction Online, LeVar Burton Reads, khōréō, among others.
SFWA, Codex.
https://culagovski.net
Wayne Gooderham @wbgooderham.bsky.social Freelance writer. Blog about books (https://bookdedications.co.uk & https://livesinlit.com). Co-run @tpfilmclub.bsky.social. All links to all bits: https://linktr.ee/wbgooderham
Diamond Geezer Blog @diamondgeezerblog.bsky.social Announcing new posts on
@diamondgeezer.bsky.social's blog
Victoria Redfern @victoriaredfern.bsky.social Current location: Plymouth, England
Made in Scotland from girders.
Any pronouns. Gender is a spectrum.
Blocklists are for Nazis.
https://toriaredfern.wordpress.com
(photo: me & Foz Foster @ the 100 Club by Isabelle Adam)
David Timoney @fromarsetoelbow.bsky.social Autonomous vehicle. Self-assembly required. May contain traces of critical theory. Retweets not necessarily a WTF
Blog: fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.co.uk
Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten/AI path.
Nils 🥚 @1wayoranother.bsky.social Disability, accessibility, Higher education. AFC and AWFC fan. Lives with UC and ADHD. Any pronouns 🏳️⚧️
Currently in Lewisham, London.
Languages: 🇬🇧 native, 🇪🇸 B2, 🇳🇴 A2, 🇩🇪 🇨🇳 A1
Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social Cats. Japan. Politics. Sarcasm. Usually very tired. She/her. London-based. Hooman to @parkinkatt.bsky.social.
JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social Ink-stained hack, writer, dad
Politics, cricket, music, food, travel, books… not necessarily in that order
Bird hellsite - @JoelTaylorhack
Substack - https://joelbtaylor.substack.com
stuartrose47 @carefreeblue.bsky.social Left leaning Chelsea, lover of all things Spanish, agnostic tea and beer drinker.
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Allen @pedrohenrif.bsky.social Protect workers' rights, increase wages, and ensure unions and fair treatment
Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast.
Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Hazel A @hazela.bsky.social London, art, history, and… sometimes ringing birds. 
Andy Crofts @andyjcrofts.bsky.social Songwriter • Musician • The Moons • ex Paul Weller band • DEBUT ALBUM “MELODY BOY” OUT NOW! Get a copy here https://linktr.ee/andycrofts
pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social London radical histories & mysteries. Obsessions: open space, gentrification, strikes, riot, music, drink, spycops.
https://pasttense.co.uk/
Liz Buckley @lizbuckley.bsky.social Head of A&R at Ace Records. Resident music guest for Standard Issue podcast. Also a cat owner, so it’s mainly records and cats here, to be fair.
Ronan Fitzgerald @rmkf.bsky.social Fiction writer.
Also content designer.
There Must And Shall Be Aspirin @boscobel1975.bsky.social There’s more to life than books you know…
#MDANT
Jack Sommers @jacksommers.bsky.social Editor and newsroom leader in @cnbc’s London office. Also a runner and tour guide.
@allyce223.bsky.social @allyce223.bsky.social 
Rob Blackie @robblackie.bsky.social Former Lib Dem London Mayoral candidate. Breaking Putin's censorship
Catherine Mayer @mayeroflondon.bsky.social Author, journalist, activist, reluctant music biz participant. DIVIDE & RULE: Royal Women and their Battles out now. Novel TIME/LIFE published 2025.
Alex Tobin 🎷 @shhhpeaceful.bsky.social Dutch / American in the Netherlands • I work in communications (ex-The Ocean Cleanup, ex-Fastned) • scribblings about music for @aquariumdrunkard.com
Simon Love @simonloverules.bsky.social New album “THE ONE TRUE PRINCE OF WALES (in exile after abdication)” out now on Hurrah Musica
"Knowingly ridiculous, but tightly executed"
https://linktr.ee/SimonLoveRules
Bob Stanley @rockingbob.bsky.social The Bee Gees: Children of the World. Penderyn Prize winner 2023. Let's Do It. Yeah Yeah Yeah. Excavate. Ace Records. Saint Etienne. Non league, soft rock. Also in the Record Room at patreon.com/bobstanley
Darryl @darryl1974.bsky.social "journalist". Editor, reporter, sub-editor, social media manager, finance manager, complaints manager, dogsbody at @greenwichwire.bsky.social (follow that, not me!) / greenwichwire.co.uk. Freelance sub-editor elsewhere. Tired. #cafc #dhfc #fcsp #altona93
Liam Twomey @liamtwomey.bsky.social Chelsea and more for The Athletic
Neil Root @neilrootwriter.bsky.social Writer & Journalist, True Crime Non-fiction, Fiction, Film fan
http://authory.com/NeilRoot https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Neil-Root/author/B003UOZ846?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppin
♫·¯·♪J𝕒𝐦𝕖𝓈 B𝓻Δⓓ𝐋€𝕐 ♫·¯·♪ @jimibradley.bsky.social MD ANT🏅Born in the Norn, sleep deprived, record nut, music lawyer, europhile, sleep deprived, dead head, tofu-eating wokerati (South London branch). In Mancuso we trust.
Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social FT features writer, focus on work/workplace/whatevs
Insta @emmajacobsfinancialtimes
Matthew Hirtes @matthewhirtes.bsky.social 👨🔧AI aftercare specialist, comms pro, and Personal Licence Holder. Does your prompt-generated content lack character and colour? I can fix. Plus I’m adept at filling gaps in geopolitical, sports, and travel coverage. I'm licensed to run a pub too.
David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social Archivist at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London, UK. Going out to steal a movie. All poorly thought out views his own, don't blame his peers/employers. Contact at 'archives' on https://tinyurl.com/58tkxrb7
He/him.
We Made This @wemadethis.co.uk Alistair Hall’s graphic design studio in London: thoughtful, simple, beautiful, sustainable communication. 🏳️🌈
wemadethis.co.uk
Also 👉🏻
Book: londonstreetsigns.info
Monsters: monstersupplies.org
Guardian Sport @sport.theguardian.com Sport news, comment, video and more from @theguardian.com
Ira @thejazzsoul.bsky.social Curating Jazz Music from the 50’s, 60’s, & 70’s
•Literary Fiction•Photography-Art
"Jazz has always been the music of protest, equality, and inclusion"
💙💙💙
#JazzSky #Music #BookSky #ArtLover #Photography #BlueCrew #Resist
Sean Hannam @seanhannam.bsky.social Freelance journo:music,retail,tech.Digs retro specs,'60s spy stuff, James Bond, old TV,The Smiths,Dylan,country/Americana,'60s pop,’90s indie. Loathes summer.
Gideon Coe @gidcoe.bsky.social Ptennisnet
Kevsta @kevsta.me Football mostly. Mostly Chelsea. CPO shareholder.
🔵 #CFCW × #CFC ★★ • #F1 🏁
Geoff St Louis 🎗️ @geoffstlouis.bsky.social Londoner, journalist, Gooner (STH/Block 6)
The meaning of life? Football, music, clothes.
Miles Davis: The original mod
Peter Tosh: The original rudeboy
Sarf London, innit! 🤜🏾 #BLM ¡No Pasarán!
Arsenal: The Culture Club
Clay Harris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇵🇸💉💉💉💉💉💉💉💉 😷 @mudlarklives.bsky.social Something new comes in on each daily tide, and who knows what digging will turn up? Native Tampeño. Vanderbilt and Financial Times alumnus. European. Londoner. Opera. Figs.
M@ @mattfromlondon.bsky.social London explorer. Chief pilot of Londonist: Time Machine, a Substack about London History. Follow for lots of geeky observations about London.
Needle Mythology @needlemythology.bsky.social It's a label which exists to give albums the release they deserve. Some classic, some brand new. It's also an occasional podcast about great records.
David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.
Mike Hall @thisismikehall.com Award-winning mapmaker and illustrator in Valencia, Spain | My first book THE BOROUGHS OF LONDON is now available! https://www.batsfordbooks.com/book/the-boroughs-of-london | More info: linktr.ee/thisismikehall
Dan Waddell @danwaddell.bsky.social Last of the gang to do time 
Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social Author, nonfiction writing tutor, editor, proofreader. Out now in paperback, Endless Flight: the Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth (Granta). Agent: @thehamiltonagency.bsky.social 
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Dan @danielorton.bsky.social 
Peter Fiennes @pfiennes.bsky.social New book, out in May 2026! 'En Route: A Journey Round France in the Company of Great Writers'.
Author of 'Oak and Ash and Thorn', 'Footnotes' and 'A Thing of Beauty'.
#books #nature #climate
oneworld-publications.com/contributor/peter-fiennes
Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/ 
Alison Young @youngalison.bsky.social Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing…
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
Looking For The Magic Records @lookingforthemagic.bsky.social Selling pre-loved vinyl and cool stuff in Beynon Parade, Carshalton! We buy records/CDs/tapes/band merch, guitars, HiFi and interesting things!
Music Venue Trust @musicvenuetrust.bsky.social UK registered charity which acts to protect, secure and improve Grassroots Music Venues.
https://linktr.ee/MusicVenueTrust
Glen Wilson @glenglenglen.bsky.social Gogledd-based writer | Senior Digital Editor at the Southbank Centre | popular STAND | Views not completely those of my employer, but we’ve time yet
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Susan Ropp @susanropp.bsky.social Arts grants writer. Bookish knitter who doesn't post often. Interested in history, cooking & baking, art, architecture, travel, etc. she/her
Dr Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social C19th historian fascinated by philanthropy & charity. Latest book examines Lord Overstone's philanthropy in period 1843-83. Oh and I’m a fundraiser as well! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/charitable-giving-in-victorian-britain-9781350424593/
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
Sharon O'Connell @messyectomorph.bsky.social Music writer (dCS Audio, Electronic Sound, Metro, Uncut). Ex staffer at Melody Maker and Time Out. Coastal dweller. Art, film, books etc. 
Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social I helped make Moon, Source Code, Warcraft, Mute and just finished making ROGUE TROOPER, out in 2026!
Also made the graphic novel MADI and the kids Stenton & Zowie.
Andrew Burke @aaburke.bsky.social Mostly posts about film and television, architecture and design, music and photography. Professor. Dept. of English, U of Winnipeg. he/him.
Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk News about the world of news.
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Mister Slang @misterslang.bsky.social Slang Lexicographer.
https://greensdictofslang.com
https://thetimelinesofslang.tumblr.com
https://jonathongreen.substack.com
Skionar @skionar.bsky.social Roger Clarke. Author of A Natural History of Ghosts, published by Penguin Books (2012). Former writer for the Independent Newspaper, Sunday TimesUK, Sight & Sound. In it for the long haul with severe chronic illness, dealing with NHS on a weekly basis
Streatham Rovers Football Club @streathamrovers.bsky.social Non-league football club in South London. Proud founder members of the Xtermin8 Rat Poison Football League. #SRFC #UpTheGreyhounds #NeverStopNotGivingUp #TurboMotivation #WhatAClubWhatAnEthos #COYBIPAG #AubergineArmy #ThinkAboutGoals #FootballFamily
Paul Kindred @paulkindred.bsky.social European. Beatles/solo, Stones, Brian W, Tom, Kate, Bob, Bruce, David, Debbie, Marc, Chrissie, Alex, TFC. Dad/singer/guitar/songwriter/veggie/Labour/Humanism/science.
https://thecloudminders.bandcamp.com/follow_me
Karen Buck @queensparkkaren.bsky.social Chair, Generation Rent. Play England. Paddington, South Kilburn and OPDC. Former MP for Westminster North. Labour. Housing, Sondheim, Springsteen and other passions. Views entirely personal..
Peter Ormerod @bowiegod.bsky.social Author of David Bowie and the Search for Life, Death and God, out on January 15 2026 and published by Bloomsbury. Also entertainments editor for NationalWorld. Also a bit too keen on porridge, toast, Swindon, Noel Edmonds etc
Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social Historian, researcher, author, tutor,
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
misssarahwise.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/misssarahwise
Latest book: The Undesirables
https://www.stanfords.co.uk/the-undesirables-the-law-that-locked-away-a-generation