@davedawn.bsky.social @davedawn.bsky.social 
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
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Nathalie @nathalie87.bsky.social Anti-imperialism.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
@christiandorlach71.bsky.social @christiandorlach71.bsky.social 
Hackney History Festival @hackney-hist-fest.bsky.social Hackney Society, Hackney Archives, Sutton House & many more host Hackney History Festival each May. Get in touch to help shape future events!
David O'Flaherty @doflaherty.bsky.social Transcribing English inquest records with some annotations, 1888-89 North East Middlesex coroner's district. Pals with Emma and Molly. Learning astrophotography for the peace and quiet of it. Views are my own.
Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social Parody account. Here to take the piss out of the full time grifter and part time MP who leads Reform UK. Enjoy – and feel free to encourage my coffee habit: ⬇️
https://ko-fi.com/:parody_pm
J Simpson @forestpunk.bsky.social J Simpson is a prolific academic writer, journalist, creative and critic, specializing in "dark," experimental, and avant-garde art, idealistically believing that good art makes the world a better place.
https://linktr.ee/for3stpunk
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Jaq W @kardomah.bsky.social
Likes: Art, Design, History, Archaeology, Architecture, Egyptology, Tiles, Doors. Muso.
Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social Mostly active travel | climate | politics | cycling | environmental-health/pollution | LTNs | union | Occasional ultra-running | Some other random stuff | Chartered EHP, FCIEH | Personal account
Supporting: www.LowTrafficHackney.org
Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social Eco-socialist, 75+ disabled MH survivor
Anti-Reform Green+Your Party electoral pact
#FreePalestine #TaxTheRich #BLM #Feminist
Songwriter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AGDJDrklwM&list=
TryingMyBest @tryingmybestuk.bsky.social Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🇱🇧Tax the rich
Climate justice now 🌍
She/her 🏳️⚧️ ally
Blocked by James O’Brien ✅
Join.greenparty.org.uk 💚
Can’t see DMs bcs I won’t give my info. So don’t DM me, sorry.
Peter Carlyon @petercarlyon.bsky.social Freelance journalist living in London. Words in The Fence, Fieldfare Press, The Hackney Mixer
Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social Seamus Heaney
it’s time to swim/out on your own & fill the element /with signatures on your own frequency/echosoundings,searches, probes, allurements/elver-gleams in the dark of the whole sea
Socialist
☆no gods☆no kings☆no fascists☆
#whatwoulddollydo
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
Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social No wealthy ❌ No poor ❌ Just everyone living comfortably ✅
For all things #inequality related, plus a bit of politics and current affairs. #TaxTheRich #VoteTacticallyToStopReform
Find us also @radicalscribe.bsky.social
Supporting the charity #MissingPeople
Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social A better tax system that benefits everyone in the UK. Sister organisation of @taxjusticenet.bsky.social
https://taxjustice.uk/
Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk We are a trade union & professional body with over half a million nurse, midwife, HCA, AP & student members.
For membership and workplace queries: https://www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Help
Page monitored Monday-Friday 8am-6pm
John Henry @priveteye.bsky.social I'm on Substack :- @johnhenry362661
Life is what happens while you're making other plans
Einstein believed socialism was the way to progress beyond our predatory phase.
Ulster Rugby . Stand Up For The Ulstermen🤚
Pamela Shields Author @pamela-shields.com Pamela Shields - Freelance writer with over 35 years experience. Author of 'Islington the first 2000 years', 'Leonardo da Vinci: The Amboise Connection.' and many more https://bit.ly/Pamela-Shields
#nonfiction #indieauthor #History #Islington #Amboise
@christypd.bsky.social @christypd.bsky.social 
PeteWell @pt3point14.bsky.social 
Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social Unofficial Kneecap account that I hope the lads will come and claim. Let's build a following here in advance, folks! GRMA
Charlie Bavington @cbavington.bsky.social Translation (Fr-Eng) and teaching English for a living.
Music (rock/metal), sport (football), history (ignorant dabbling) for fun.
Politics if I feel my mood dropping below incandescent & I need a fury booster.
Seldom, if ever, actually gruntled.
Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
I tend to tweet at night ....mostly
Follows Back Like Buffalo Bill With A Tub Of Lotion
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.
Janet Chapman @janetchapman.bsky.social Chair of Tanzania Development Trust and Hackney Society, founder of Hackney History Festival. 
Keith Taylor @thedarkprints.bsky.social London-born, Minneapolis-based.
Prefers film, the darkroom, and the silver, platinum and polymergravure processes.
Studio account: @keithtaylorstudio.bsky.social
www.keithtaylorphoto.com
www.keithtaylorstudio.com
Marco @marcomarcos88.bsky.social London, Alicante, Music, Film, Cycling, Food, Drink, Sports
Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk Be sure to subscribe to the finest satirical newsletter on the internet at the link below. Nothing is more effective at correcting your thoughts.
Substack newsletter: https://www.normalisland.co.uk
EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk EveryDoctor is a not-for-profit campaigning organisation advocating for the safety and well-being of NHS patients and staff members and fighting for the future of the NHS.
Email: campaigns@everydoctor.org.uk
https://linktr.ee/EveryDoctor
Ray Milo @raymilo.bsky.social Spurs Season Ticket Holder. Body double for Kevin McCloud, Russ Abbott and Eric Cantona. Once won a Raleigh Chopper
Clare M @clarem.bsky.social Nature, cats, birds, gin, science, feminism, TV, E17, law, LFC, film, ranting … in no particular order.
Number #256,490 in this place after fleeing the other place.
Caroline Millar @carolinemillar.bsky.social 
David O’Toole @thespectacle.bsky.social Arsenal fan, south Londoner. I really don’t like Thatcher, still. Machine gun socialist. I demand champagne. The profile is me and my good chums the Ambiguous Dance Company. Larger picture is what socialism gets you. 
Dr Felicity Gerry KC @felicitygerry.bsky.social International Defence Counsel specialising in terrorism, war crimes, modern slavery & white collar : https://felicitygerry.com/links/
coyigill.bsky.social @coyigill.bsky.social Leftie East Londoner living in the North but regularly home for West Ham, museums, exhibitions and galleries.
Good trouble.
Libby Whittemore @libbage55.bsky.social Singer/Actress, 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Ally, Lifelong Dem💙 If we don’t save our democracy who will. Working to overcome my white southern heritage every damn day 🚫MAGA
Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social ICE OUT
Sam Oputa @sam-oputa.bsky.social Avid reader. Follow me, I follow you. SiguemeYTeSigo. https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sam-Oputa/author/B00FUP8QEC?ref
Peter @petere1.bsky.social The finer things in life: beer, curry and AFC Wimbledon.
(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding
Wham’th Bam’th @kambanzola.bsky.social 
Aqeel 🦘✨🦕 @aqeelakber.com Exploring the intersection of science, business, tech, and art.
Once a nuclear physicist. Founded and exited an AI company; now building meos labs.
Meos One - your phone made better.. @getmeos.com
Proudly non-binary, expect emojis in replies. 💖🇦🇺🦘
K @slothpotatomash.bsky.social Tech working, bbq eating, whiskey drinking, bike riding, tory hating, partying Rodney-style, mid-life crisis having, person.
WestminsterWalks @westminsterwalks.bsky.social City of Westminster and Clerkenwell & Islington Guide. Social history walks. Walthamstow & Chingford walks too.
Booking details for all my public guided walks and tours are here: https://linktr.ee/joannawestminsterwalks
Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social An accredited Tour Guide providing tours of London by licensed taxi; also bespoke walking tours in the City of London. Liveryman & Past Master Parish Clerk.
1946 News @80yearsago.bsky.social An account that covers the 1940s in real time. DMs open for contact and inquiries.
Also see:
@40yearsago.bsky.social
@100yearsago.bsky.social
@200yearsago.bsky.social
Discord: discord.gg/YkJDDqKVXz
Donations (Support): ko-fi.com/1986news
The Cockney Yiddish Podcast @cockneyyiddish.bsky.social Stories of a forgotten London subculture with Prof Nadia Valman and Dr Vivi Lachs.
cockneyyiddish.org
Supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council.
BEST CULTURE PODCAST, Independent Podcast Awards 2025
BEST INDIE PODCAST, Silver
Lovies Award 2025
Jim Fagan @jimfagan1917.bsky.social Socialist, retired nurse, anti racist. Walthamstow London
Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social Photography, politics (Lib Dem), everyday cyclist, The Archers, British basketball, former Stockport councillor. He/him. LGBTQIA+ ally.
The Old Spotted Dog Ground @oldspotteddog.bsky.social London's oldest senior football ground. Based in the Forest Gate area of Newham.
Owned by @claptoncfc.co.uk members, managed by the OSD Ground Trust.
Web: oldspotted.dog
Conor Muller @conormuller.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social /// c18–19th migration control and border surveillance in France, Britain, colonies
Rebekah is Pro-Choice @rebekahwriter.bsky.social Donate to abortion funds: https://www.baltimoreabortionfund.org/
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.” - Susan B. Anthony
Montclare Campbell Barrister & Author 🇬🇧⚖️💼 @montclarecampbell.bsky.social Barrister, Author Successful Court of Appeal Senior Counsel 0207 867 3744 clerk@montclarecampbell.co.uk www.MontclareCampbellBarrister.co.uk
*Author Enquiries Only
Anthony Goreham @argoreham.bsky.social I will mainly be posting photos 📷 of Greater London, focusing on the less familiar places outside the city centre.
Photos (except reposts) taken by me during my walks and runs, and dedicated to public domain (CC0 license).
He/him/his
footprintsoflondon.com @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social Quality guided London walks by & for those who #LoveLondon delivered with care, professionalism, insight and enthusiasm.
@footprintsoflondon - Where Londoners Walk
Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
Peter Welsh @peterwelsh68.bsky.social Green Party Member. NHS Worker. Wells. Somerset. Green Runner. Late Rosette Adopter. Hot Fuzz Superfan.
Amina @aminifer.eurosky.social 🇦🇺 in London. Nerd for politics, tech, history, sustainability and urbanism. Cat herder and foodie. Big fan of artistic use of alt-text.
Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One published by Bloomsbury 9 October. Water news, London history, laundry, ghost pubs etc. Former BBC correspondent…
John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social Retired NHS worker but critical of former employer. Contemporary History and Politics MA via Birkbeck. Green Party activist. Like football, cats, dogs, travel when not commenting on the crises of now. Image is the remains of the library at Ephesus.
Dr Michelle Johansen @historitage.bsky.social Social historian, researching &
writing about British librarians & #PubLibs in the long nineteenth century. Learning & Outreach Manager at the Society of Antiquaries, London.
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
The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.net 🥾⛺️🌵⛰️🐟 🌊
Dr Greg Roberts @d-profundis.bsky.social Historian of Regency era (1788-1837)
Researching William Long-Wellesley, celebrity, and the fall of Wanstead House
University of Westminster Alumni
Londonist 🔶 Orient Fan 🔶
Eejit 🔶 Irishman
Blog - www.wickedwilliam.com
Louise Brown @eu-lou.bsky.social Co-founder of North East for Europe
#FBPE
#RejoinEU
@1878smigger.bsky.social @1878smigger.bsky.social #FreePalestine
#UTFT
Austerity is a political choice that doesn't work
Granddadbob @granddadbob.bsky.social Retired design engineer that worked in automotive and aerospace fields.
Specialised in the design of military vehicles.
BSc with honours. OU
Guitar and ukulele player (not at the same time)
Into all sorts of music.
Just joined a male voice choir.
No DM’s.
Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social Proudly independent since 1895. Dive into our archives and learn with us online. https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/
Andrew Sanger @andrewsanger.bsky.social Novelist and travel writer.
100s articles for UK media. 40 guidebooks (#France, #Israel...).
6 #novels - The J-Word; The Slave; Love; The Unknown Mrs Rosen; On Romford Road; and [NEW in 2026] Bella's Wish.
Home: NewForest, UK.
https://www.andrewsanger.com
Sally Dobson @sallydobson.bsky.social 
Lyndon Barnes @lyndonbarnes.bsky.social 
Lance Racey (aka CranesfootLance) @cranesfootlance.bsky.social Family historian & genealogist. Wrestles with history. IHGS Student. Background in HR, Wellbeing, Disability, Mentoring & FE. Europhile. Father, son & cousin. Researching New, Cammish, Atkinson, Martin, Gale, Higginbotham and Unknown. Racey by name....
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
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre @redbridgemuseum.bsky.social Redbridge Museum explores the many different people, places & events which are part of the history of Redbridge.
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 17:00
🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/museum- M @marryharr.bsky.social @marryharr.bsky.social
Victorian Turkish Baths @victurk.bsky.social Malcolm Shifrin FRHistS—"Victorian Turkish Baths": 'a major act of historical recovery', 'readable', 'scholarly', 'something in it for everyone'. Profusely illustrated. worldcat.org/title/931082056. Complementary website http://www.victorianturkishbath.org
Pterodactyl Sunset @pterodactylsunset.bsky.social Aye up. Notts born. London based Notts County supporter. Tai-chi, plants, history, broken wheelbarrows, social ecology. Vegan. Don't like Neoliberalism, fascists, ID politics or the Enclosure Acts.Don't let The Bastards Grind You Down. COYP La Luca sigue
@politicaldude.bsky.social @politicaldude.bsky.social Tory Hater, Reform Hater, Trump hater and Labour Supporter, Democrat supporter. #FBPE #Socialist #VoteBlue #BlewCrew #VoteLabour
Steve Bray @stevebraysodem.bsky.social Standing up to BREXIT- B Mark @bsky.ms
Connor @connorward.bsky.social developer
East London Kingfishers @londonkingfishers.bsky.social Enthusiastic wildlife photographer in my spare time. Enjoying life with Peter Revel Walsh. Spotting kingfishers in east London has become a slight obsession!
Alan Finn @alanfinn.bsky.social My own personal diary social media mad love it follow me in my instagram 👉alanfinn_ follow me on TikTok alanfinn16
Fish @fishmcneill.bsky.social Awkward misfit
Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social Serious fun in difficult times * Emerging Lincolnshire * Always thoughtful
TheFirstGirlySwotsToJoinBlueSky @thelastgirlyswots.bsky.social 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡 #FBPE #RejoinEU #Ukraine #Iran #Gaza #MSDStrong #EndGunViolence @TheLastPersont2 on Twitter.
Dedicated to the memory of the victims of gun violence & terrorism.