Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Felicia Day @felicia.day Actor. Writer. Producer. Internet Native. “Lost Daughter of Sparta” out March 17, preorder now! https://bit.ly/LostDaughterOfSparta
Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social Retiree. Cis. Pan. He/him. CatFather. Photographer & printmaker. 20yr Navy Veteran. Join your union. // Gunditjmara people's land.
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
Alice Bennett @aliceponderland.bsky.social Digital accessibility in HE library person. Fan of animals, accessibility, gardening, making things and whimsical nonsense. She/her.
Rosie Niven @rosieniven.bsky.social Originally from north east England, now in north east London. I work in comms when not retracing lost ferry routes. Previously a journalist for digital, print & broadcast media. Views all my own.
Work: UCL | Ferry project: www.rosieniven.com
COPP Survey @coppsurvey.uk Dedicated to Combined Operations Pilotage Parties (COPP), a top-secret unit that carried out covert reconnaissance of enemy-held beaches during the Second World War. Website: coppsurvey.uk
Adam Watkinson @adamwatkinson1.bsky.social Scale modelling, reader of travel literature, crime fiction, military & social history. Player of proper records on a turntable. CCFC & FRSC 🤷♂️
@vesselspotter.eurosky.social @vesselspotter.eurosky.social Maritime / Shipping / Politics / Defense
Focus on Baltic Sea, North Sea and Arctic
Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social Icelandic writer.
The Night Guest // Dead Weight // Down Where Monsters Dwell coming in March 2027!
HMS Tern Living Museum @hmstern61.bsky.social We are creating a Living Museum at HMS Tern in Orkney. The team of volunteers and paid staff are recreating the look, smell and feel of a training airfield in World War II on Orkney. The site is open to the public, see our website for opening times.
Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social Author of the Rivers of London Series
Ben Skipper @benskipper.bsky.social Active User, communicator and consumer of cake.
Hey Jude @judew.bsky.social #ChildlessCatLady #SaveTheTricorn Solicitor/TOG/Former Wren/sparkly crafter/gardener/angry feminist/parkrunner/loves history, country music, cream teas & Mr W
Catherine Roberts @alwaystotheside.bsky.social I like ponies🐎, books📚, archaeology🏺. Mediocre rider, unfocused reader and currently studying for MA Archaeology at University of Reading (p/t mature).
🇬🇧
Also @adventuresintheoutback on Insta and @woman_much_missed on Insta(Bookstagram).
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77
Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social Historian specialising in seaside, architecture & design. I write books, give talks and do a bit of telly.
Chair @seasidenetwork.bsky.social
Fellow @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
Media agent @pastpreservers.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/kathrynferry
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
For all enquiries/brand partnerships: info@gagreflex.co.uk
she/her
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
Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office. 17 year old tabby. Living with my seventh Prime Minister. Unofficial.
https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Number10cat
Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social Saarf-Londoner. Cat Dad. Assoc Prof at the Swedish Defence University. PhD from KCL. Associate, IWM Institute. Senior fellow at Global & National Security Institute, Uni of South Florida. ex-West Point fellow. FRHistS. Series editor @Hurst Publishers
The Slides @theslides.bsky.social Bot posting 4x daily from Sam Biddle's curated collection of US military slides from the Cold War era.
Sam's intro essay: https://www.patreon.com/MaxRead/posts/true-life-for-i-155014876
Slides courtesy @sambiddle.com
Bot by @brian.gawalt.com
Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social Molecular Biologist. Debunker of myths. Proud European. 🇩🇰🇪🇺🇬🇧
www.emmamonk.co.uk
https://monkdebunks.substack.com
www.linkedin.com/in/emma-monk-780686190
https://medium.com/@info_28174
Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com 40+ yrs in print, 50+ novels, asst'd TV/film, NYT B'seller List every now & then, blah blah blah. Ireland-resident. Ebook store: https://ebooks.direct. Now with added Ko-Fi! (https://ko-fi.com/dianeduane) I miss @peter.petermorwood.com.
Rufus Hound @rufushound.com He/him/us/ours/lovely/jubbly
Dr Alex Clarke @dralexclarke.bsky.social Historian of Navys, Naval Diplomacy, Maritime & Engineering http://patreon.com/ACNavalHistory & http://alexanderclarke.academia.edu Agent @Pastpreservers #academicsky #navalhistory
Drachinifel @drachinifel.bsky.social 
Seeadler @seeadler.bsky.social Ex-RM from NI. Author and professional editor. "Bluesky elder," apparently. #BSMRGUK
To my Ukrainian friends: вдачi і вдалого полювання
Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social Award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat.
🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈
https://buttondown.email/matociquala
THE FOLDED SKY https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
ANGEL MAKER https://books2read.com/u/3kzy2W
Caroline Hack @carolinehack.bsky.social UK based artist making things about Moby-Dick, British Arctic Whaling, S Atlantic whaling research & other museumy shenanigans. Projects with museums a speciality - DM me if you’ve got an idea! Current obsession - the Continuous Plankton Recorder. She/Her
Leo Lindberg @postmanden1.bsky.social Hobby Historian, author Amazon Kindle, X-twitter @Postmanden1, Redbubble #WW2Nerd, humor, WW2 armour French, Czech, German, softskins too. German, English, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian. Onelegged, running is over, 🎶I stand my ground🎶
Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk The world's first publishing label dedicated to the world of counterfactual history (Est. 2015)
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
The Up Front @theupfront.media In-depth, independent aviation journalism for the digital age, at the heart of the passenger experience — up front with what we write, how we write it, and the way we operate.
Read and subscribe for more: https://theupfront.media
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Tad Fitch @tadfitch.bsky.social School Administrator. AFRHistS Royal Historical Society. Researcher & Author.
https://linktr.ee/tadfitch
Ryan Wadle @rdwadle.bsky.social Pronounced wad-lee
US naval history, OEF, and things that amuse me
Author of Selling Sea Power: Public Relations and the U.S. Navy, 1917-1941 from University of Oklahoma Press
Trent Hone @honer.bsky.social MCUF Chair of Strategic Studies at MCU and Management Consultant. Author of Learning War, Battle Line, & Mastering the Art of Command. Opinions my own.
JR1SSP @jr1ssp.bsky.social AI学習禁止 | IJN 艦艇写真を日付で紹介(JST正午発信)、それ以外はRP多目です。 | ついったーもよろしく
I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social Uni, Minuet cat born on March 27, 2020🇯🇵
https://youni.store
Richard Hammond @rjhammond215.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. Vice-President and Founder Member of the Second World War Research Group: https://www.swwresearch.com/. Co-Editor of War in History journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/WIH
Italian Military Archives @ima-naval-history.bsky.social 📚 History of the Italian Navy on YouTube
📺 https://youtube.com/@italianmilitaryarchives_navalh?si=RcUvQWFDDHRsCcoO
Roger Litwiller -Canadian Naval Author/Historian @rogerlitwiller.bsky.social Official Twitter page of Roger Litwiller -historian/lecturer of Canada’s Maritime & Naval heritage. Author of several books. Follow for daily history posts.
de Havilland Aircraft Museum @dehavmuseum.bsky.social The UK's First Aviation Museum. The de Havilland Aircraft Museum’s mission is to preserve and communicate the de Havilland Heritage
Mikołaj Kirschke @mikolajkirschke.bsky.social 🌹 Łysy mądrala z Bluskaja, czepia się. Wyłącznie prywatne opinie.
HaT Miniatures @hatminis.bsky.social 1/72, 28mm and 1/32 mini figs.
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 💫
Steve Cook @steviecook1975.bsky.social Proud member of the Independent Company, CWGC Volunteer and Part-time MA History student at Wolverhampton University. Lover of books, sport, music and travel. Hater of Fascism.
Monochrome Warships @monochromewarships.bsky.social Posting naval images from the 20th century that I accumulated from auction sites during lockdown.
Tim Grubb @gubb71.bsky.social Jaded archaeologist who doesn't dig holes. Between gardening, fixing & caring, likes music, genealogy & makes models to keep the voices out. (All views definitely not those of my employer or, indeed, my very reasonable wife)
Rams and Hoosiers @ramsandhoosiers.bsky.social Come here for a weird nexus of sports fandom, history, especially naval history, and various forms of traditional nerdity.
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Glynn Stewart @glynnstewart.com Author of Starship's Mage and over 80 other science fiction and fantasy novels.
www.glynnstewart.com
Andrew Middleton @mapcenter.com 'Peddler of Wheres,' job creator, Owner at The Map Center in Pawtucket RI- it's like a hip record store but for maps.
www.mapcenter.com
Cartographer, GIS specialist and educator
Linktr.ee/ecoandrewtrc
RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social Recording ship losses of the Royal Navies of Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand day by day, remembering the fallen and honouring all who served. Corrections and additions welcome. No official affiliations. No AI used here! Also at Twitter/X.
hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social I have created a website called The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com. I am a 67-year-old pensioner living in Japan; I have lived in the blue sky since 18 November 2024.
The Naval Data Base https://hush.web.fc2.com という艦艇の名前のサイトをやってます。
Imperial Japanese Navy History @ijnhistory.bsky.social Documenting the history of the Imperial Japanese Navy 1868-1945.
BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Nor’easter @sabasays.sparkle.blue Anxious optimist. Anti-fascist. Progressive. Dog owner. Book lover. Proud Eph. 🐝💙🇪🇹
Storyteller Fran @storytellerfran.bsky.social ✨✨Lover of folklore, church history, stories, weird saints, cats, magic. Orkney dweller. Author of Folk Tales of Scottish Saints, published by The History Press 2027 ✨✨
Medium Historian At Large @one0nine.bsky.social WWI/WWII air war historian and author (Luftwaffe/USN/USAAF), guitarist/bassist, irrepressible liberal, fluent in sarcasm.
Dashie @dmdash71.bsky.social Author, artist, historian and general nuisance. B. A. English. I like history, naval, space and aviation stuff and don’t get me started on literature. 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇨🇦🇲🇽🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
8647.
Slightly Caddish @jaaaagirr.bsky.social 1/72 scale models: Caddish builder, massive collector.
Host of #TonyTonyTony, #HeaviesGB and #ItaliaGB
The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social “Breaking Rommel” is now available for purchase.
“That's an impressive array of sources, but what are your credentials?"
Long-running research project on the desert war 1940-43, with a specific focus on Operation CRUSADER.
www.rommelsriposte.com
Brian Dunn@briandunn.bsky.social @briandunn.bsky.social Semi-retired, but still kicking. MA/History. Lifelong Californian. Lifelong Democrat. Naval and Maritime History aficionado. Servant to two cats. Reasonably articulate, but becoming more acerbic as time goes on.
Adam @likesmokenoakum.bsky.social all my mome raths are outgrabe
Snapshots of Naval History @ssonh.bsky.social A page dedicated to sharing historical naval photographs, and their stories. If you want the full stories of the photo, please click on the photo or visit our Facebook page.
Please find us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, & YouTube.
Confused Penguin @confusedpenguin.bsky.social Runaway Penguin on the former place. History enthusiast doomed to watch history repeat itself.
Martina Berggren @martinaberggren.bsky.social PhD student in military history at the Swedish Defence University. Human- Animal relations in war and military preparations (Sweden and Finland, 1917-1970)
@naomi-jones.bsky.social @naomi-jones.bsky.social Mushroom forager and left wing politicist
SpitfireAA810.bsky.social @spitfireaa810.bsky.social Restoring Sandy’s Spitfire - the Great Escape Spitfire - to flight.
Incorporating the Photographic Reconnaissance Charity, PRU Archive, National PRU Monument Campaign, and the Reconnaissance Heritage Flight.
www.spitfireaa810.co.uk
The Operations Room @theoperationsroom.bsky.social YouTube channel with 1 million subscribers. Military History Animated Battle Map Videos
On a full social media hiatus for a little while. See you on YouTube!
James Hayes @jameshayes.bsky.social Interested in 2nd World War history. Munster Rugby & Cricket Ireland. Independent Company member of We Have Ways of Making You Talk Podcast. Owner of an ever increasing pile of shame
Steve Marley @stevemarleyphoto.bsky.social Professional Photographer, husband, father. IC member, Tottenham Hotspur season ticket holder. Love History, photography and aviation.
Erik Parker @riksbar.bsky.social Northern remainer elite and immigrant, aviation addict, Independent Company and war waffler, Miami Dolphins since superbowl XIX
Roy Seaman @flyroy2.bsky.social Love Aircraft, Football, Cricket, Wine, History & Independent Company
Seán O'Keeffe @seanokeeffe11.bsky.social IC #288. IFS turbo. Got an IRA medal on Good morning Britain.
Colleen Quigley-O'Keeffe @colleen325.bsky.social Cat Mom, ❤️'s WW2, Irish & US history, reading, travel & wine. Dual citizen of 🇺🇸🇮🇪. IC Member-We Have Ways of Making You Talk podcast.
I support Ukraine 🇺🇦
Rob Jardine @jardinerob.bsky.social Reader of history and crime fiction (Ian Rankin!). Love travel (ciao bella Italia!)…retired social studies educator. Curmudgeon-ish. Amateur genealogist. Springsteen/The Band/The Clash/Pogues. Member of the Independent Company. Man Utd.
SalvadorDalek @sdalek.bsky.social Cold War relic from the north east coast of England, into guitars, tanks, sprouts, history and ting. IC #4450.
Ammonyte @ammonyte.com The Ammonyte abides.
A digital fossil in an un-wired world.
Interested in Butterflies, Conservation, Science, History, Photography, Rugby, Cricket, Ales.
Somewhat wary and cynical of politicians.
IC #1335
Joseph Ricci @joseph-ricci.bsky.social Historian, writer, researcher, podcaster, and avid reader
Stuart Major @majorhistory.bsky.social Masters in Military History, working full time, side projects in community history, FRGS, MRHistS
https://www.major-history.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/MajorHistory1
Tony. @krea94.bsky.social Independent company member and ww1/ ww2 history any big gun that goes boom 💥 History bod.Books.Holidays.travel.Veteran of 3 Whw festivals.Also love beer 🍺 food 🥘 and wine 🍷.😂👍Not necessarily in that order.
@1418filmandy.bsky.social @1418filmandy.bsky.social Films, the Great War, films about the Great War.
Justin Plummer 🇦🇺 @ausarsenal.bsky.social Rural Australian, not the bad kind!
Second World War tragic, First World War semi-tragic... always learning! IC Member, Pub manager. Proud Human, dog, horse, cat and chook dad.
SomehowJohn @johnssomeshow.bsky.social I like too many things to mention. History, beer, cricket, rugby, make models badly, play golf even worse. Sometimes ride on two wheels sometimes with an engine sometimes without. Don't take things I say seriously
Rob <=> Orb @orbness.bsky.social Expert Procrastinator. Earth Scientist. Miniaturist. Sketcher. Owned by Whippets. Runner. Suffolk lad. History. Sci-fi. IC member. M4H volunteer. Fledgling sculptor.
Alexa Price, Ph.D. @downeast-alexa.bsky.social Maritime museum programs and collections manager; artist; beekeeper; historian of memory, masculinity and the Royal Navy; researching the polar career of James Clark Ross.
The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social Home of Henry VIII's favourite ship, the Mary Rose, which sank off the English coast in 1545 after a 34 year long career.
#Portsmouth's top visitor attraction on TripAdvisor. Part of Portsmouth Historic Dockyard
Euan Williamson @euanjwilliamson.co.uk Historian and CBT psychotherapist. Incoming AHRC doctoral researcher at the University of Leicester and Imperial War Museums. Writing about 1940. Norfolk.
IndyCat14 @indycat14.bsky.social Hello, my name is India. I came to my furever home from @RSPCA_Hillingdon. I enjoy good food, playtime & sniffing things. I *may* be quite partial to yogurt ❤️
Michael Nelson @mjnelson78.bsky.social Lurking.
Here for the History and Hoops.
Fremantle, WA.
AJ of the Far North IC 🇳🇴 @ajofnog.bsky.social I am no more worth than anyone else. Can be a bit of a twat on occasion, but means no harm. IC member of the Far North.