Mrs Quent @quarkquent.bsky.social
Mike Whalley @mikewhalley.bsky.social 1) I once hosted a football phone-in with no callers
2) Paul Daniels gave me unsolicited dating advice
3) I've had two comedy sketches on Radio 4
4) My grandfather heckled Lord Hailsham during a live TV debate
5) https://mikewhalleyblog.wordpress.com
Marlon Rando @christinamcmc.bsky.social George Costanza in the streets, Pat Butcher in the sheets :: freelance Social Media Consultant :: AWPC World Powerlifting Champion 2022 & 2023 :: She/Her/They
Alex Stewart @afhstewart.bsky.social CEO @analyticsfc.bsky.social
Lego, bats, maps.
Sophie Lawson @lawsonsv.bsky.social Shitposter, persistent typoer, Microsoft Paint user, uncomfortably English | Former journalist once called “The Attenborough of women's football"
https://ko-fi.com/lawsonsv
No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com 👨🏻🎨 Wonky football doodles since 2014, by Alex & Sian
🛒 SHOP: noscoredraws.com
📕 BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/njnvr4hz
✊🏻 No Pasarán
Grace Robertson 🏳️⚧️ @graceonfootball.com Football writer, from the newsletter with the same name and occasionally elsewhere. Non-football stuff @gemofamara.com.
https://www.graceonfootball.com/
Jon Mackenzie @jonmackenzie.bsky.social Writer and presenter at The Athletic. Noticer. Possession is nine tenths of the lore. Buy my book, The Spectre of Pep, here: https://geni.us/TheSpectreOfPep
Rory Smith @rorysmith.bsky.social The Observer, Men In Blazers, the Monday Night Club, Libero. Author of "Mister" and "Expected Goals."
Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social I do standup and also write all manner of things. At the moment I'm very much doing this: @murderbastard.bsky.social
Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social Author, musician. Co-founder and co-host of the Stadio football podcast. musaokwonga.com
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
J Farrers @jfarrers.bsky.social It’s something they use in coal mining, father.
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
Mount St. Helens Archive @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social Ex-SciComms guy Chris here, chronicling Mount St. Helens' history: the mountain before 1980, its eruptive fury, and nature's stunning comeback.
Links/email: https://linktr.ee/mountsthelensarchive
Andrej @tepid.meme The Pokémon Prohibitionist. Opinions and faux pas strictly my own.
PunPages @punpages.com PunPages.com is the internet’s best resource for the punniest businesses and organisations around the world.
Silliness from JimmerUK
BeardedGenius @beardedgenius.bsky.social I am warning you with peace and love
@kmale.bsky.social @kmale.bsky.social Curmudgeon and failed flaneur.
Gargarin @gargarin.bsky.social Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
..Watson, przynieś swój rewolwer!
David Ornstein @david-ornstein.bsky.social Football Correspondent, The Athletic
barney farmer @barneyfarmer.bsky.social Yūgen appreciation society. Writes Drunken bakers etc for Viz. Wrote this http://bit.ly/33iyIe8 this https://bit.ly/2PKjMRI and that https://bit.ly/3v32pj8 so…
World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social The official Bluesky account of the World Bollard Association™️. MERCH STORE - https://worldbollardassociation.team-togs.com/shop/storeorderform.php
Scott Reid @ascottreid.bsky.social At BBC Sport. Bouncing between Glasgow (nearly) and Salford. Will go on about news, sport, Scottish stuff, Eurovision etc. Any rare views are very much my opinion alone.
Laura Marie Brown @laurambrown.bsky.social Arts PR & Producer in Liverpool. Theatre, music and football distract me from politics. Yes, I probably can get you on the guest list. Secret Ninja. Dammit
Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social What if we created the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling and horse-riding network for Britain and Ireland? Up for helping?
linktr.ee/slowwaysuk
www.slowways.org
Hiking Historian @hikinghistorian.bsky.social Hiker. Historian. Writer. Photographer. General dogsbody.
Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social politic_animal from the Musk shop.
Local government policy adviser by day. Timetable wrangler/travel challenge story-teller by day and night. Once branded ‘Twitter’s answer to Phileas Fogg’
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travelling_turtle?si=WGsuH_ffy0bqKr2
Den of Scholes @denofscholes.bsky.social In A World Full Of Adversity We Must Still Dare To Dream, Rob Burrow
Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
Matthew Stephens (Dr) - 19th-century Newshound @c19thnewshound.bsky.social Historian, author, researcher. IHR Applied History Fellow. Specialist in the C19th press. PhD from Edge Hill University & British Library, funded by an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership. Thesis focuses on short-lived nineteenth-century newspapers.
Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social Terrible news, chums. Head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose!
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… TV & Podcast producer / writer / host. Director of HistFest.
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Daniel Sandford @bbcdaniels.bsky.social I am UK/Home Affairs Correspondent for BBC News. Police, prisons, law, crime and terrorism. Before that Moscow Correspondent so still post about Russia/Ukraine.
George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social Journalist.
Bianca Britton @biancabritton.bsky.social Senior Editor, BBC Verify at BBC News. Previously
NBC News and CNN London bureaux.
instagram.com/biancabritton.bbcnews
Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social Campaigner to support the BBC (not a BBC employee). It’s affected by savage UK govt cuts: c40% 2010-2024. BBC costs >49 pence/around 65 US cents a day per UK household. It’s a national public service broadcaster, respected worldwide for accurate reporting.
Tom Symonds @tomsymonds.bsky.social BBC Political and News Correspondent. Particular interests in crime, justice, policing. TV, Radio and Web. tom.symonds@bbc.co.uk
Dominic Casciani @bbcdomc.bsky.social BBC News Home and Legal Correspondent. // Stories // Features // Analysis // Documentaries // The Mafia Man in the Lancashire Caravan: http://bbc.in/2UV2ILv
Linktree and contact details: https://linktr.ee/bbcdomc
Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org Welsh/Dutch bloke who makes games, videos and Photoshoppery. Friday night #TOTP botherer. Former CTO of WeTransfer, now freelancing. I do not have a podcast.
Join me for a pint at bagpuss.org for a selection of my stuff.
YouTube: youtube.com/@bagpuss_org
Xanderl @xanderl.bsky.social Failed the audition for Blockbusters and still bitter about it.
Mostly ranting about films, old TV, Top of the Pops and The Archers. Nearly halfway through the Crossroads box set!
Drivelcast @drivelcast.bsky.social That pillock off of Twitter (and Mastodon, but that didn't really take off)
Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social Writer and producer (mostly Doctor Who-related things).
Winchester City Councillor for St Barnabas ward. 🔶
For council enquiries email: jmorris@winchester.gov.uk
Simon Threadgold @sthreadgold.bsky.social Misunderstandably
Joe Scaramanga @joescaramanga.co.uk I'd offer you a beer but I've only got the six.
All manner of retro pop culture references to baffle anyone under 40 and occasional rants.
May make uninformed comments about the football.
#totp #coys
Hippolyta Loudbasket (she/her) @loudbasket.bsky.social Who in sodomy wrote that?
Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social UK television history and presentation mainly but other things as well, especially on here.
Dan McPainInOneSpecificKnee @danmckee.bsky.social HALF NAKED, GIN IN HAND AND CORONATION STREET LOOMING ON THE HORIZON.
Nostalgic Things @nostalgicthing.bsky.social Internationally known as Snickers
Chris Orton @chriso1.bsky.social Cartographer, full-time north-easterner, SAFC, James the Band, Doctor Who, old telly, beer, football etc. Chairman of a football club, no really. Has a knackered back.
A walking corpse that won’t play dead.
Sarah Millican @sarahmillican.bsky.social Latest special Late Bloomer is on Netflix (not UK & IRE) & Channel4.com (UK & IRE) now.
Also part of the Standard Issue podcast team
Replies ending TSM are by my team.
https://linktr.ee/thesarahmillican
Alistair Green @mralistairgreen.bsky.social
Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social Scottish comic/writer/actor with confusing accent, absolutely not insecure about it. She/her. My book out now! Show for '26: The Mermaid https://linktr.ee/eleanormorton
Eleanor & Alasdair Read That on Spotify
support me: https://ko-fi.com/eleanormorton
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/
Miranda Sawyer @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, host of @papercutsshow and other chatty bits, I HAVE A BOOK OUT! Uncommon People - Britpop and Beyond In 20 Songs here it is https://amzn.eu/d/g2WxjyS
JoannaNeary @joannaneary.bsky.social Bangs on about The Arts. On keeping a sketchbook, putting on comedy shows, doing a book lovers podcast and writing and drawing about dance and music. More at https://linktr.ee/Joannaneary
Angela Barnes @angelabarnes.bsky.social "Comedian"
Mock The Week, QI, Live at The Apollo, HIGNFY
Host of The Archers Live at 75 tour - https://www.fane.co.uk/the-archers
Cold War and Mid Century Modernist nerd.
The Archers obsessive
Prone to inexpert F1 ramblings.
Swims. Naps. Bunkers.
Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk Author, parliamentary sketchwriter and co-host of classic cinema love-in War Movie Theatre. Books about chaotic detectives, sneaky spies, and misleading words.
Pierre Novellie @pierrenovellie.bsky.social Stand up, co-host of BudPod w/ Glenn Moore, BUTTON BOYS w/ Glenn and Sarah Keyworth, read my comedian’s guide to autism book, listen to my Radio 4 show
Tiernan Douieb @tiernandouieb.bsky.social Writer. Comedian. Tired. Rep’d for writing things by @kitsonpresskids.bsky.social and for v/o things by Foxy Tongue Voices
Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social Comedian'n'writer'n'podcaster. TED Speaker. Take my coffee like I take my power.
SophieChapmanTalent / SueTerryVoices
👉🏾 https://linktr.ee/athenakugblenu
📕 Buy History's Most Epic FIBS & FAILS!
🎧 Bust or Trust or PROcrastinate
📺 youtube.com/@innitfactory
Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social Award-winning poltergeist and comedian | Writer of the Montgomery Bonbon mysteries | Pronouns like a butler coughing: he/him | linktr.ee/misterabk
UK TOUR 2026 (Extended!): www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com Comedian, satirist, writer, actor
Andrew R @excelpope.net Shortly to be replaced by Microsoft Co-pilot
Mutable Joe @mutablejoe.bsky.social low flying panic attack
Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.
General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social Former MP, former Supreme Allied Commander #WarOnTheCountryside, above average satirical photoshopper & senior advisor to Sir Keir Starmer before he became unpopular
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social Chief Football Writer, The i newspaper
Doing The 92 in 2024-25
Read all my work: https://inews.co.uk/author/daniel-storey
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
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writer about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
About lore and culture at The Busy Town.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
(Account sometimes deactivated when not in use.)
Roads.org.uk 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @roads.org.uk I write about UK road infrastructure and history! Join me for updates and other stuff from the UK's favourite roads website, www.roads.org.uk
Mary Oz @maryoz.bsky.social Keen walker, especially of Slow Ways.
https://beta.slowways.org/
Occasional volunteer guide for Visually Impaired adventurers. Please use Alt Text!
Also interested in public transport, remnants of the past, beer, prog rock, astronomy and allsorts.
The TV Room @thetvroom.com Est 1999. Broadcast news, opinion, bloopers, insider info, archive clips, talent profiles, graphic design, marketing, studios, transmitters, playout and teletext.
Website: https://thetvroom.com
Forum: https://pres.cafe
Member: https://tvpres.com
Hannah O'Hanrahahanrahan @tedmaul.bsky.social "Currently residing in the 'where are they now' file."
Madeley @madeley.bsky.social Nid doddynt, nid ydynt, nid ŷnt barawt.
He/him/fe.
Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social Video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once talked about cinema on the radio, but now mainly take photos with prisms and pinholes and polaroids. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social he/him
chicken-brained biological disaster
as seen in VT
well knowne a Strumpet lewd
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
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
Humanists UK @humanists.uk We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
Tom Holland @holland-tom.bsky.social New translation of Suetonius out in February! Dinosaur enthusiast. ‘A leading English cricketer’ - The Times. Podcast: theresthistory.bsky.social
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
Everyone’s Favourite Jim @jimmeruk.bsky.social Jack of all trades in digital media, creative, wannabe author, owner of a small human. I sometimes stream my bird feeder. http://linktr.ee/jimmeruk
Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social Music producer, bass player, DJ. Soho Radio presenter. Weller band alumnus. Helped invent Britpop.
Kieran Maguire @priceoffootball.bsky.social Slightly rippled, with a flat underside
HLTCO @hltco.bsky.social Creating podcasts on Crystal Palace FC & football generally every weekday morning by 8:30am, delivered direct to your inbox.
Subscribe to HLTCO: www.Patreon.com/HLTCO
Football Between The Lines: https://podfollow.com/football-between-the-lines
Luke Edwards @lukeedwardstele.bsky.social Northern Football writer for the Daily Telegraph and BBC podcaster. Leyton Orient fan. Natural cynic
Nick Harris @sportingintel.bsky.social Trying to be better.
https://sportingintelligence832.substack.com/
Padraig Reidy @padraigreidy.bsky.social Content Editor, Thomson Reuters Foundation. Dance 10, looks 3
PantoSplaining - The Panto Poster Podcast @pantosplaining.bsky.social We pluck a poster from panto history and look at what we can find out about it for a real deep dive with many diversions into silliness.
Episode 9 ⛱️ SUMMER 🏝️ SPECIAL 🌞 out now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRCsvyEtkkI