Making Time - British Music of the 1960s @makingtime60s.bsky.social The decade life changed from black & white to colour. Making Time is an evolving encyclopedia of 1960s British music from the Action to the Zombies.
Web: http://www.makingtime.co.uk
Twitter: @makingtime60s
CaptionComicFest @captioncomicfest.bsky.social Caption Small Press & Comics Festival returning August 8/9th 2026 at Seacourt Hall, Oxford, OX2 9TH! Advance tickets are on sale now at caption.sumupstore.com
captionfestival.co.uk
Keiron. @keironhiggins.bsky.social +Writer
+Poet
+1/2 of The Actionists
+From Halifax, UK.
+Sometimes depressed/often well-dressed.
My opinions, for the most part are not to be taken seriously.
Books, media and other guff I reside on:-
https://linktr.ee/keironhigginspoet
Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social Things that bring me joy | sometime historian of medicine (vaccination and smallpox) | attempting to navigate a hopeful path amidst the chaos | museums and heritage | folk music | empowered communities | place | climate action | degrowth | he/him
Dr Rachel Souhami @rachelsouhami.bsky.social Museums consultant. Works at the intersection of design, narrative, partnerships and process. Develops and facilitates new approaches to museum practice. Founder of Prospect Heritage Freelancers branch. Producer of @museumsshowoff.bsky.social
She/her
John Paul iGhetti Jr @dannybirchall.bsky.social Capercaillie, lammergeier, cassowary
Matt W @soupdragon2000.bsky.social #Museum, #Arts, #culture and #London enthusiast. Views my own. Formerly at lots of big culture places but that doesn't define me. Freelance designer for museums, theatres and other cultural orgs. Find me at catlips.co.uk
bsky.app/profile/catlips.co.uk
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Hannah McCann @hannahmccann.bsky.social hannah-mccann.co.uk
📝
Tyrone to West Yorkshire 🐌🌳
they/she
Frank Mols (PhD) @fmols.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Queensland, researching leadership, followership, populist parties, voter attitudes and political behaviour.
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=GwUV0YAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Liam Bishop @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social ✍️Writer from Leeds with bylines in Irish Times, LA Review of Books, TLS and many others.
🎧Curating the world’s most interesting writers on the Rippling Pages
Linktr.ee/ripplingpagespod
👨🏻⚕️Elsewhere, health researcher
https://tinyurl.com/Lbhealthbluesky
Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social Silent films and the silent era, same as the birdsite
Sha Nazir @shanazir.bsky.social Event Producer - Fan Frontier | Publishing Consultant | Co-Founder - One Shot Studios @wordspanelsframes.bsky.social
Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social Poetry, prose, publishing, art.
BarefootFi @barefootfi.bsky.social Left like a Socialist, woke like I'm awake. Anti Fascist, anti Capitalist, anti Racist, anti Zionist. Pro Humanism. Green. Looking for knowledge, inspiration and humour. Norfolk, UK 🇬🇧🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
frank: print witch @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social ✨💀✨ I make pictures, many of which are crow-adjacent
ORIGINAL ART & TAROT DECK ➡️ shop.frankduffy.co.uk
ILLUSTRATION & DESIGN ➡️ frankduffy.co.uk
🏴 Caerfyrddin
One of several people on this site who is not American
I block A/I & mansplainers
🏳️⚧️ they/nhw
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
Kate Mosse @katemossewriter.bsky.social Writer of novels, history, plays, ghost stories ~ Interviewer & Performer ~ Founder Director Women’s Prizes ~ Trustee British Library
Find me at www.katemosse.co.uk
Bert the Bookseller @booksellerbert.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Bookseller. Dork.
ABQ, NM
RoyalRoad|Patreon|Bookshop.org
https://linktr.ee/rjflippo
Jill Hayward @frdragonspouse.bsky.social Still all the things I was over at the Other Place. And still angry.
Preoccupations: politics, education, disability and inclusive feminism. Cishet trans ally. Widow. Socialist. She/her.
Andy Oliver @andywpoliver.bsky.social Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief, small press champion, Small Press Day co-organiser, multiple comics awards judge and recreational nihilist He/Him. "Action it off, Andy!" (Art by Francesca Cassavetti).
Kristen Jeanveau @kjeanveau.bsky.social This year, get them English Muffins™️
Non-binary PhD student in History @ Western University. Research areas: London tube shelter newspapers in the Second World War, Canada in the First World War & Alternative/Community Press. Header LTM 1991/79
ComicScene @comicscene.bsky.social News and features supporting small press, indie and comics from the UK and beyond. Follow the ComicScene Culture Review on substack https://open.substack.com/pub/comicscene
Andy-Luke @andy-luke.bsky.social Northern Ireland work-horse writing lots of words
YouTube TV: https://youtube.com/@andrewluke
Discworld podcast @discworldgnu.bsky.social
Comics Fest: https://captionfestival.co.uk/
Patreon needs: https://patreon.com/andyluke
Huckleberry Films @huckleberryfilms.bsky.social Creative film company, experienced at bringing projects to life through live action & animation.
Based in Lancashire, UK
The Life of Sharks @thelifeofsharks.com To see weekly new comics, daily comics from our archive and subscriber videos - patreon.com/lifeofsharks. Merchandise from - thelifeofsharks.com
Puffin Books pre-order: https://tinyurl.com/mwdnusyy
Jenny (Kowalczuk) Sanders @jennysanders.bsky.social On a quest for joy.
Mother of #psychosis experiencing adult child - Writer and #poet - living with #ME/CFS/LC.
Creative work shared on https://rewritepsychosis.org
Neon Genesis Ewangelion @ewacat.bsky.social Massive human raccoon, broad spectrum nerd, 6ft 1 of ADHD chaos, a cishet she/her of mayhem, used to be a SFF bookseller.
'Ever'.
carcosa-based lifeform. UK.
@EwaSR on twitter
Danielle Tute @danielletute.bsky.social The ‘Surly Goth’ that runs the OK Comics website and manages the mail order subscriptions.
OK Comics @okcomics.bsky.social Twenty Three Year Old, Eisner Award Losing Comic Book Shop in the beating heart of Leeds City Centre, UK.
Visit us in real life, or online.
shop@okcomics.co.uk okcomics.co.uk
Anna F. Walker @spyglassart.bsky.social • Artist/Illustrator
My art and prints 👉 http://spyglassillustration.com
• Opening a children’s bookshop in Edinburgh @spyglassbooks.bsky.social
• Co-owner of McNaughtan’s Bookshop
• Non-fiction book club runner
Art, books, history, politics
John Patrick Green @johngreenart.bsky.social NYTimes-bestselling and Eisner-nominated cartoonist. INVESTIGATORS, HIPPOPOTAMISTER, and more.
http://www.johnpatrickgreen.com/
http://www.InvestiGatorsBooks.com/
Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social Writer of SFF in TV, books, comics, audio and games! (Doctor Who, I Walk With Monsters, Lychford.) Editor-in-Chief: Cosmic Lighthouse Comics. https://www.cosmiclighthouse.co.uk/ He/him. #comics #sciencefiction #doctorwho
Miranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com Author. Actor. Observer of everyday life.
https://www.mirandakeeling.com
My new book: https://geni.us/ThePlaceImin
My first book: https://tinyurl.com/ycz2hc94
My podcast: https://StoppingToNotice.lnk.to/podcastho
Patreon: https://tinyurl.com/mrxket5b
Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Simon Birch @delargebc.bsky.social Comic book writer from Brighton for Iron Circus, Paganini Stories, Warden Comics, Very Big Comics and others.
I also write about Leicester City Women for The Fosse Way.
Links to my comics, music and other writing below:
https://linktr.ee/delargebc
Leonard Sultana (An Englishman In San Diego) @englishmansdcc.bsky.social Comics and comic con fanatic. I can't write, I can't draw, I can't colour, I can't edit. Therefore, *of course* I have a podcast, are you crazy??
@eastcombe.bsky.social @eastcombe.bsky.social Spinner and weaver
Alice @starinthetitle.bsky.social Nerd, artist, absolute homosexual. High femme, low stress. Books, baking, and Babylon 5. Milf-obsessed, dissociating weirdo.
Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
Jan Hicks @dustystacks.bsky.social Archivist. Book reader. Persistent.
I write down my thoughts about books here https://thinkaboutreading.wordpress.com/
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social senior editor (ralph magazine)
writer (lots of places)
vibes (everywhere)
bensmoke.com
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.
https://weownit.org.uk/people-not-profit
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/donate
Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com graceblakeley.substack.com/subscribe
The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social Disrupting power since 2015
Novara Media @novaramedia.com 📺 📰🎙🚩 People-powered media. https://linktr.ee/novaramedia
Aaron Bastani @aaronjbastani.bsky.social Co-Founder @novaramedia / Author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism. Next book on politics and economics of an ageing planet.
Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social Comedian/award-winning game maker/writer/voice artist #AuDHD (he/him)
Photos: http://hyperfocus.photography
Stream: http://Twitch.tv/brainmage
Tips: http://ko-fi.com/guy
VO reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04UiLVl6n0I
https://www.guykelly.co.uk
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social BAFTA for best writer lol.
Marcus Brigstocke @marcusbrig.bsky.social An absolute thundering great berk.
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine- C Comics Youth @comicsyouth.bsky.social
Folkestone Dispatch @folkestonedispatch.substack.com Stories about life in Folkestone. A weekly newsletter of independent journalism, direct to your inbox every Wednesday. Sign up now, it only takes a minute
folkestonedispatch.substack.com/subscribe
Randy @ydnar024.bsky.social Registered Democrat
Let's make EVERYBODY EQUAL!!!
Tax the wealthy and help us all.
We are the economy; we need to wield that power (Boycotts)
7 million is a good start; we need 40
Ask for DM.
I follow back
The School for Moral Ambition @moralambition.bsky.social The world’s biggest problems won’t solve themselves. That’s why we’re building a movement of idealists to take them on. Learn more in our manifesto: https://www.moralambition.org/book
Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social The only English-language socialist daily newspaper in the world, published six days a week.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk
Caveat Frogs @caveatfrogs.bsky.social With Caveat Frogs, it’s important to read the small print.
Made by Jaunty Art
https://www.jaunty.art
@slaughterhslive.bsky.social @slaughterhslive.bsky.social 
Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social Radio astronomy observatory, research centre, UNESCO World Heritage site, beautiful visitor galleries, free parking, and great coffee 😀📡🌟
🔗 https://www.jodrellbank.net/
Banner © Dr Anthony Holloway
Dr Penny Bradshaw @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Cumbria. Latest book is ‘An A-Z of Beatrix Potter’ (Bloomsbury Academic). Programme Leader for ‘MA Literature, Romanticism, and the Lake District’ at Ambleside.
James Alistair Henry @jamesbluecat.bsky.social Surrounded by yowling, nebulous forms. Writer: Smack The Pony, Green Wing, Piglets, my first novel Pagans now available in paperback: https://www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/james-alistair-henry/2928377365622
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Hugh Raine @hughraine.bsky.social Cartoonist and writer. Illustrator, actor, photographer, biscuit baker, dad. Not in that order. Betty & The Yeti: Friends at First Fart and A Monstrous Mess from The Beano and Farshore OUT NOW!
Seána @grantsana.bsky.social Interested in law, human rights, healthcare policy, shiny things, millinery and the occasional crown.
Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social Author of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (an FT Best Book of 2025). Resident economic historian on BBC Radio 4 #UnderstandTheEconomy. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & RSA.
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social We're an economics podcast that delves into the lives & ideas of famous economists. Once won the Independent Podcast of the Year in the PodBible Awards. Featured on Radio 2 & in The Times/Observer/City AM https://open.spotify.com/show/44pI1bcAKbrA2fLZpwJF4
Amii Illustrates @amiiillustrates.bsky.social Illustrator & funny comic strip maker ✍️
Get my book, calendar, prints & more 👇
www.amiiillustrates.com
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
Agatha Cakalogika 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @acakalogika.bsky.social DV Survivor. Prone to missing nuance, and saying the wrong thing. I do stuff about the atrocities happening in world in irl, but this is where I come to talk nonsense about things that make me happy to restock my spoons. Trans Rights are Human Rights.
LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @lsepress.bsky.social and proudly #PartOfLSE.
lse.ac.uk/library
Queer Britain Museum @queerbritain.bsky.social The UK's first national LGBTQ+ museum.
Registered charity. Let's make history!
2 Granary Sq, Kings Cross, N1C 4BH.
Open Wed-Sun 12pm-6pm.
Brian Cutts @briancutts.bsky.social South Yorkshire to Catalonia. ELO fan. Failing Mediterranean diet. Once a physicist. Permanently perplexed. Uhtceare. Frantumaglia. Memorial Device MDANT. Woke AF. Rants on Tannu Tuva blog if you can find it.
Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social Socialist since 1937. 🌹
Jackie Goode @jackiegoode.bsky.social ‘Clever Girls: autoethnographies of class, gender and ethnicity’; Crafting Autoethnography: Processes and Practices of Making Self and Culture'. Currently writing (non-academically!) about doing later life solo. Querying.
Lucia Osborne-Crowley @luciaoc.bsky.social Award-winning writer and journalist. Author of I Choose Elena (2019), My Body Keeps Your Secrets (2021) and The Lasting Harm (2024).
𝕎𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨 @salix.bsky.social “You’d be a Hedge-witch”, apparently. I draw stuff, think about stuff, & listen to folk. Infinitely curious & completely enchanted by a scallywag on a boat.
#parentcarer to some complex kids. Psych, specialist counsellor & illustrator.
🏳️🌈 Ally she/her
Murder Of A Famous Bastard @murderbastard.bsky.social A weekly murder mystery podcast, written and narrated by Mark Watson and featuring many guest stars. TV star Stevie Chase was murdered on his 60th birthday. Can we help?
Join the investigation: https://discord.gg/2eD3ZJ5UGN
Etherington Brothers @etheringtonbros.bsky.social Creators of the WORLD'S MOST SUCCESSFUL ART BOOKS of ALL TIME on Kickstarter. To get the FREE Monthly How to THINK When You Draw Magazine, GO HERE: www.HowToThinkWhenYouDraw.com
Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com Writer. Comics include Bananaman for the Beano and various for 2000 AD. Books include Create Your Own Comics, Peaches’ Creatures, Science of Marvel Superheroes & Ladybird Big Book of Dead Things.
Pic by Wayne Thompson.
Website: www.nedhartley.com
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Kate Evans @cartoonkate.bsky.social Cartoonist, artist, author, activist
webcomic name [Unofficial] @webcomicname.com.web.brid.gy the same joke every time by alex norris
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://webcomicname.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/webcomicname.com
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Chris Gravell @chrisg43.bsky.social Retired, reads a lot, doesn't dust, vague lefty. Bikes, e-bikes, cargo bikes, disability rights, trans rights, Palestine, etc.
The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk 💚 Real hope. Real change.
greenparty.org.uk
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party London SE1P 6YL
BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social Author, book http://Amazon.co.uk/dp/B08KR127TN?
Preview here https://archiveofourown.org/works/47902108/chapters/120770212
I #followback
Johnny Biscuits @johnnybiscuits.bsky.social Bisexual, LFC-supporting, intolerant lefty artist.
Stuart Dillon @smdillon1975.bsky.social Democratic socialist, likes films, comics, especially Batman and DC related, tv, football West Ham especially.
From Suffolk in the UK.
My profile on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/3dUsz
Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social Change won’t happen by itself. We need fresh voices, disciplined organising, and a spirit of solidarity. Join us in this crucial effort.
greensorganise.uk/your-green-role/
Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social Bold Politics is the podcast making hope normal again with Zack Polanski.
https://linktr.ee/boldpolitics
Jane C @jane23c.bsky.social Escaping into: books, big stones, kdrama, margaritas, mystery, scifi.
Reality: capitalism is shite, ILC BC.
Fun: #commonerschoir + a bit of DIY ritual, art n shouting oi! at squirrel on birdfeeders.
That'll do.
Leeds UK.
#mumu #kdrama #booksky