Rootless Cosmopolitan @brennick.bsky.social books, films, music, politics, history. "this is a stupid conversation, and I'm not going to continue it".
Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social Writer (on science, travel & curiosity), Yorkshireman, tedious enthusiast, professional overthinker, Megathreader. Now: Scotland.
Writes Everything Is Amazing: https://everythingisamazing.substack.com/
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Environmental Film & Screenplay Festival @environmentalfest.bsky.social A festival designed to showcase the best of new environmentally themed films (shorts, features) and screenplays (shorts, features, TV pilots) from around the world. We accept any genre.
https://filmfreeway.com/EnvironmentalFestival
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
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk Labour MP for Sittingbourne & Sheppey and former nurse. For help & support please email kevin.mckenna.mp@parliament.uk with your name and address.
Promoted by Lee Griffiths on behalf of Kevin McKenna, both at 29 Park Rd, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 1DR.
Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social 📎2023 NJLA Librarian of the Year📎Lemony Snicket Prize for Noble Librarians📎NCAC Outstanding Librarian📎AASL, NJLA & NJASL Intellectual Freedom Awards📎InsiderNJ 2025 Policy Makers Power List📎2026 MLK Spirit Hall of Fame📎Ban book banners!
Ian Musgrave @ianmusgrave.bsky.social Cheshire-based Arsenal, culture and politics fan. Occasional tennis, pickleball and ukulele player
Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Not in the Epstein Files, but in Alan Bennett's Diaries
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
This account mutes killjoys.
Anne O'Brien @anneobrienauthor.bsky.social Writer of historical novels celebrating often invisible and silent medieval women who deserve a face and a voice.
Sunday Times Best Seller
New Novel for February 2025: The Queen and the Countess
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com Oatmeal socialist, pocketed dress enthusiast, chaos goblin, food stylist, insufferable dog mom, spoonie tattooed librarian. She/Her
https://www.feistywaters.com/
The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social In admiration of the greatest and cosiest of fictitious detectives, inspectors, sleuths and investigators ☕️ 🔍📺 📚 Poirot, Miss Marple, Jessica Fletcher, Morse, Sherlock and the rest!
Miles and Chains @miles-and-chains.bsky.social Railway worker👨🏼🔧 and enthusiast. All views expressed are personal, and not those of my employer. All images posted are my own and subject to copyright.
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Hannah Howe @hannahhowe.bsky.social Mother, Welsh, European. Author of bestselling novels. Mainly posts about social and family history.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Hannah-Howe/author/B00OK7E24E
Ian McClellan @ianmac.bsky.social TV addict, nerdy fan of Dystopian drama. Love a bit of ScandiNoir, Science-Fiction, Aviation, Military History and Cold War Radars & Bunkers.
Wellbeing Walks Leader and Community Volunteer in Barrow-in-Furness with Active Cumbria. #ParkRun #LoveParkRun
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
Kevin Mottram @mott73.bsky.social Qualified archivist. Half decent club runner (when fit). Postwar history 1945-82. Old Minis. Music. Dogs. Footy/#StokeCity. Photography. I’ve got nothing to say but it’s OK.
Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social The tweeter formerly known as @jxb101 at the previous place
Brexit is shite
🇨🇦🇬🇧🇿🇦🇨🇿☸️🔸
Maeve @mehmettilki.bsky.social Mother, lives in California
I love life and also enjoy quiet time alone
I love the seaside, nature, photography, and the occasional spontaneous trip
Having walked some paths in life, I now cherish sincere and interesting conversations even more
She/Her
Margaret @benregis.bsky.social Music librarian, sometime musician and music teacher. Loves books, music (particularly classical), dogs, film, theatre, travel, and history. Living in the Fens, originally from dragon country in Wales
Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social 26+ years at @CNBC and @NBCNews / @WSJ alum / Peabody, DuPont, Murrow & Emmy winner
Stephen Oram @stephenoram.bsky.social Writing near-future fiction. Working & speaking on #AppliedSciFi & #SciComm.
"We Are Not Anonymous" - latest novel
"Brain Fruit" - latest novella
NUDGE THE FUTURE: it's ours and it's up for grabs...
https://linktr.ee/stephen_oram
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social Dress and design historian | Curator.
Views my own.
Alison Brinkworth @writeralison.bsky.social Freelance journalist/writer✍️📚 in Birmingham. News, reviews, theatre.♥️ Wild swimming, museums🏛️. Bylines: Scotsman, Birmingham World, The Mirror, Weekend Notes YouTube: Best Museums In The World https://youtube.com/@bestmuseumsintheworld?si=3NhhN87GO7nhCpCO
Small Sites London @smallsites.london RCKa's directory of small site housing projects in London, intended as a resource for architects, policymakers and anyone interested housing design excellence.
The interactive directory is available at https://smallsites.london.
Public Record Office Victoria @vicarchives.bsky.social Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) is the #archive of the State Government of Victoria, Australia. We hold records from the mid-1830s to today. Visit our website at prov.vic.gov.au
Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social Emeritus Prof, Co-Chair @TBIJ, previously Director BBC News. Also photography and LFC
Nation of Stupids @warwickh.bsky.social Yeah I helped take down that Rees-Mogg (you’re welcome). A human rhythm machine. Always fighting with those parking enforcement companies (https://parkingenforcementforum.com). Rejoiner. Mostly worried about climate collapse.
Emily Webb @emilywebbcrime.bsky.social True crime writer. Advocacy and Comms work ♥️ Wales Cymru thanks to Welsh husband. Late-diagnosed ADHD. Love old time radio drama, archives. Living on Wurundjeri Country she/her https://linktr.ee/emilywebbcrime
World Travel Posters @worldtravelposters.bsky.social Visualize World Peace
Helen Baggott | Editor ~ Author ~ Speaker @postedinthepast.bsky.social Author of the #PostedInThePast series – revealing the true stories from postcards sent in the early 20th century, and #MemoriesFromTheFuture. Books ~ Talks ~ Freelance Editor (working with indie authors).
https://linktr.ee/helenbaggott
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
@weecat85.bsky.social @weecat85.bsky.social Nature and social justice nut, free Palestine 🇵🇸 , proud exiled Scot🏴, public sector and Trade Unionist to my core. Stand by Ukraine 🇺🇦 and it's diaspora and all the people suffering under the US administration. Green Party member. 🏳️⚧️ ally
@warwickfolkfest.bsky.social @warwickfolkfest.bsky.social 
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Sandy Stevenson @tourscotland.bsky.social Tour Guide and videographer https://youtube.com/tourscotland and you are welcome to visit and subscribe
My Blog https://tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/
On Pinterest https://uk.pinterest.com/tourofscotland
All photographs and videos are mine
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
StephenTravels @stephentravels.bsky.social Editor/writer addicted to #travel ✈️: 43 countries & 48 U.S. states so far. Check out the interesting & helpful travel stories at my blog, stephentravels.com. #architecture🏦 #nature🌲 #animals🦒 #history🌎 #photography📸 #food🍴#accommodations
@mjmnys.bsky.social @mjmnys.bsky.social Climate action, environmental justice, voting rights - it's all the same movement. We CAN save the future - if we act together now!
Alice Risely @alice-risely.bsky.social Ecologist with broad interests studying gulls, pathogens, and microbiomes. Love and teach R. Dangerously close to becoming microbiologist. Gulls Eating Stuff citizen science project. https://linktr.ee/alice_risely
Dave @daveacoley.bsky.social Brummie pedigree 150 years, Blues since 1900/ ip Man lineage / runner
Survivor / Ambassador at www.safeline.org.uk
NHS Acute Director Rtd| UoB MBA Alumni
European Movement-Rejoin.
Excuse typos / glaucoma / epiretinal membranes.
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
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
Lesley Watts @ljwattswales.bsky.social Retired librarian with 27 years in the rip-roaring world of libraries (last 13 years in a school library) Books, films, gardens, nature and fretting about climate emergency.
https://mrswatts101.edublogs.org/
Tom Vause @cheese12233.bsky.social Business, Computing and Partnerships Librarian in HE
Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social Poet/Performer/Author. Winner - People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. MA Writing & Education. Loves lemurs. Support my work, buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/joshuaseigal
@tanyalandman.bsky.social @tanyalandman.bsky.social 
Books for Keeps, the children's books review journal @booksforkeeps.bsky.social Launched in 1980, we review hundreds of new children’s books each year and publish articles on every aspect of writing for children. Explore new issues and our 40 year archive for free on our website www.booksforkeeps.co.uk
BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.
Find out more: booktrust.org.uk
Wonderland Bookshop @wonderlandbookshop.bsky.social An independent bookshop for children and young adults in Retford, North Notts. Quite possibly the cutest little bookshop in the world. British Book Awards Children's Bookseller of the Year 2025.
wonderlandbookshop.co.uk
Owler Nook @owlernook.bsky.social Award-winning active travel campaigner
Stockport and Manchester
KevinMagoo72 @kevinmagoo72.bsky.social Not as miserable as I appear. North Wales via Causeway Coast
Enjoyer of rugby and admirer of beer. Dipping my toe in homebrew. Don't like fennel!
Heidi Siegmund Cuda — Bette Dangerous @heidicuda.bsky.social Emmy award-winning investigative reporter, filmmaker, best-selling author
https://www.bettedangerous.com
Bette Dangerous Substack
Byline Supplement
RADICALIZED
https://ko-fi.com/heidicuda
https://ko-fi.com/heidicuda/shop
Bufkinite @bufkinite.bsky.social ❤️ 📚, 👨🍳, gardens, & Mara.
Not in that order. Pic is me @ 2; Header is my backyard. Retired librarian & book/paper conservator. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈ally but as hetero as they come.
Alakefic J @gizzblue.bsky.social Anti establishment.. Anti genocide, we're all people, run by fools for greed.
No tolerance for racism or bigotry.
Proud of anyone in recovery or sober.
Be a human. Ffs.
UTFT COYB 💙.. Toffee till I die.
globalinterest @globalinteresr.bsky.social Progressive, admirer of Christopher Hitchens , author of God is not Great, rock and blues, classical music and world music.
Deep respect to Scientists and brave Journalists everywhere who work for public good.
AMOC
please take time to read the science.
The Hon Danny Kruger MBE REFORM MP East Wiltshire. Parody. @krugerparody.bsky.social Newly elected Reform MP for East Wiltshire. Shadow Cabinet Minister for Women. Proud to represent traditional British values and fight the Westminster Elite.
Parody, obviously. Magnificent genitals.
Man in a Hat @maninahat.bsky.social EV owner. Loves video games 🎮 Brexit was a massive mistake. Always happy to chat.
Phelim Kelly, London @phelimkellycom.bsky.social 😍: 🇪🇺 HowToEnjoy.eu
✈️ ✍️ 📷 TRAVEL writer linktr.ee/PhelimKellyCom
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cumbria, ealing, faroe, gib, hungary, spain
Marian Burk Wood @climbingfamilytree.bsky.social #Genealogy speaker and author of "Planning a Future for Your Family's Past" - Please visit my long-running #FamilyHistory blog at: https://ClimbingMyFamilyTree.blogspot.com 
Jo Bird @jobirdjobird.bsky.social Cllr for Bromborough.
Birdkonian, Jewess.
Views my own.
@rhinosorcery.bsky.social @rhinosorcery.bsky.social Cricket. Yorkshire.
CILIP @cilip.bsky.social We are the leading professional body for librarians, information specialists and knowledge managers. Our purpose is to unite, support and empower information professionals across all sectors. cilip.org.uk
Matt @mattlibrarian.eurosky.social Library Writer at www.teenlibrarian.co.uk
South African abroad 🇿🇦
No one is free until we are all free!
Signal: mattlibrarian.01
This is a personal account, all views & opinions are my own and do not reflect those of my employer!
ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social art
Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social Editorial Director and Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (@ecfr.eu)
https://ecfr.eu/
The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Read: TheNewWorld.co.uk
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Katherine Hardy @kardyology.bsky.social The Art Newspaper Pictures Editor, RCA.
Editorial Collages https://theartillustrator.com
Illustrations http://katherinehardy.com
D&AD Awards Judge 2021.
Music https://soundcloud.com/kardyandco
Stratford Climate Action @suaclimate.bsky.social A community group in #StratfordUponAvon looking to help residents and visitors act to help tackle #ClimateChange.
John Harris @johnharris1969.bsky.social Guardian. Free Substack pieces at maybeimamazed.substack.com Plus music writing in MOJO. Maybe I'm Amazed, my new memoir about autism & music, out now. Order here https://linktr.ee/maybeimamazed
Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com New book out now! A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE END OF THE F*CKING WORLD – https://linktr.ee/endofthefckingworld Previous books: Humans; Truth; Conspiracy. Formerly BuzzFeed & Full Fact.
Will Cooling @willcooling.bsky.social Writes & Hosts the It Could Be Said substack & podcast; https://itcouldbesaid.substack.com/
Has contributed to a variety of outlets on politics, sport or pop culture
Contact email is w.cooling[at]gmail.com
All opinions his own & not of any employer
James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor at The Spectator
Politics UK @politicsuk.com The Home of UK Political News. Follow for Impartial Coverage.
Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social #FamilyHistory researcher
Trustee @cotswoldarch.bsky.social
Editor @friendlesschurches.bsky.social
OFHS advisor
Singer, baker, occasional mudlarker
Blogging at digupyourancestors.com
Maria W. Norris @mariawnorris.bsky.social Asst. Professor; Security Studies; Human Rights; Terrorism; AI; Pop Culture;
'"An aging, angry woman, laying mightily about me with my handbag, fighting hoodlums off." Ursula K Le Guin. And me.
She/her
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️💓💜💙🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Andy Cooper #backzack @spsblue.bsky.social Green socialist folky IT tech.
Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social Oxford City Councillor and Associate Professor in Law at the University of Warwick. Research: gender, sexuality, law; migration; legal theory; and law and popular culture. Views my own, obviously.
Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5220-0914
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Catherine Evans-Routley @montiedonevans.bsky.social Ex eye nurse
Spend time in Warwickshire/Sussex
Reader/LLM
J'aime Paris @jaimeparis.bsky.social Surely it goes without saying that I love Paris. I also appreciate people, great stories (in books or film), gymnastics, music, and inspiration about Who and what matters.
ADHD librarian @librarianadhd.bsky.social Disorganized librarian. Love reading, if I can find the book I just put down. Knits in random moments. Fascinated by genealogy, archaeology. Cats 🐈 ✡️. Fibromyalgia. ADHD. Map geek. Recreational spreadsheets. Fueled by tea.
Matthew Gibbons @gibbom11.bsky.social Loves Bikes, Architecture, Live Music and Mountains
A cyclist of modest ability with an MA in Architectural History
Helen @helenj64.bsky.social I lived in Manchester for many years but am now back in my home county of Shropshire. History and genealogy are my interests! Family links to Shropshire, Cheshire, North Wales, the Wirral, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, East Yorkshire, Gloucestershire & Devon.
Bernadette Fuller @bernifuller.bsky.social Family history and genealogy enthusiast. 
@anncestories.bsky.social @anncestories.bsky.social Genealogy, Family Research🌳
Irish, Scottish and Dutch.
Legal Research⚖️
Travel✈️
Shamrock Roots @shamrockroots.com Discover the people and places that matter to you. Hire Ciara Chivers, Qualified Genealogist, to research your family tree or house history: http://shamrockroots.com
Patricia @tiairish.bsky.social Genealogist, Artist, Graphic Design, Web Design, Loves History,Actor, Irish genealogy, Cat lover, Baking, Travel
Janet Few @janetfew.bsky.social Family, social and community historian. Author and educator. Writer of #nonfiction & #histfict. #C17th historical interpreter. Part of the A Few Forgotten Women team. Mostly historical and bookish posts. Sometimes stray posts about #travel and #gardening.
Liz @willsmanonename.bsky.social Tracing my #FamilyHistory in 🏴 & 🏴 Passionate about #OnePlaceStudies, #LocalHistory & cats. Practicing my photography skills.
Usually only follow history accounts!
My websites & socials 👉🏻 https://linktr.ee/WillsmanOneNa
Jane Harris Janealogy @janejanealogy.bsky.social Retired pro genealogist, Black Isle dweller (Scotland), Orkney-born, French, Welsh, bit of running, bike & hills, one-place study #NorthWallsAndBrims Orkney, trustee of St John’s Kirk - Walls Heritage
https://janealogy.co.uk
Phil Isherwood @geniephil.bsky.social Genealogist, writer, speaker, pro-am genie, book lover, quizzer , IT guy, ex-rocket scientist (no, really!). Family history specialisms: best practice methods, military ancestors.
Michelle@miningthepast 🌳🧬 @miningthepast.bsky.social Family history researcher/genealogist. Particular areas of interest Northumberland/Scottish borders and genetic genealogy.
This is my #genealogy account. If you want to talk politics, science, education, pets etc follow me at mwells121.bsky.social
Lorna @bluebellfhr.bsky.social Family History Researcher from Kent now living in Shropshire via Gloucestershire.
Suitcase Genealogist @suitcasegen.bsky.social @hjarmstrong.bsky.social's eventual genealogy, heritage, history and preservation travel project. Also building @yoretravel.bsky.social.
Humbled daily by my ancestors. Neurodivergent and a misfit.