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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author: Kicking (Duke UP, 2026); Red Card (OR Books, 2026); What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016) www.julesboykoff.org
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
Peter Hammill @sofasound.bsky.social Singist. Wordstuff. Ranting a speciality.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
James Skelly @jamesskelly.bsky.social In a band.forgive my grammar.
The Coral @thecoral.bsky.social 
The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social Enjoy The Observer journalism in print every Sunday, and digitally, seven days a week 🗞️
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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social Music, architecture, photography, design etc. Sharing my concert photos taken in Birmingham in 81/82 (hence the name). Plus other stuff I've hoarded
Gina @brokenbiros.bsky.social I had to phone someone so I picked on you
David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social Cultural talk and typing. And singing.
Biographer of Stephen Sondheim.
Variety, London theatre critic.
The Stage, Associate writer.
Tristram Hawkshaw in The Archers.
Somewhat gay. 
Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social Gender blurrer, lover of Watership Down, Howards' Way, and Twin Peaks. Please don't tell me how I should do Bluesky
Chris Rand @chrisrand.com Ipswich, England.
"In a Venn Diagram of one" – The Guardian.
• "Chris The Site Owner" at the Half Man Half Biscuit Lyrics Project. #hmhb
• Supporter of Ipswich Town FC. #itfc
• Expect to see mainly stuff that amused me.
https://chrisrand.com
Andrew Screen @andrewscreenbskys.bsky.social Author of The Book of Beasts: Folklore, Popular Culture & Nigel Kneale's ATV Horror Series (Headpress 2023). SEN work by day. Words for Fortean Times, We Are Cult among others.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social Gentleman Sleuth
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
Paul Kirkley @paulkirkley.bsky.social Still writing Stuff for Things.
interestingmedia.blog
Buseum @buseum.bsky.social 
Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social Same name, not *that* one though. 49, Movie lover, lives in the East. (UK) Rarely manages a serious post on any social media platform.
'Drinking Chololate Enthusiast' - Not my words, but the words of Hotel Chocolat
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Emma Pollock @emmaspollock.bsky.social Singer, songwriter, musician, transport fan. Member of The Delgados. Brand new album 'Begging The Night To Take Hold' is out now. Order at https://bio.to/EmmaPollock.
Joan Armatrading @joanarmatrading.bsky.social My brand new album ‘How Did This Happen And What Does It Now Mean’, is out now! Listen here: joan.lnk.to/howdidthishappen
Sam Leith @questingvole.bsky.social @spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
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Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Save the Children UK @savechildrenuk.bsky.social In the UK and around the world, we make sure children keep safe, healthy and learning.
Find out more here: https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/
@chloehadj.bsky.social @chloehadj.bsky.social 
Save the Children International @savechildrenintl.bsky.social Save the Children's official global voice. We work to ensure children across the world survive, learn and are protected.
Find out more about the work we do for children: https://www.savethechildren.net/
Bob Stanley @rockingbob.bsky.social The Bee Gees: Children of the World. Penderyn Prize winner 2023. Let's Do It. Yeah Yeah Yeah. Excavate. Ace Records. Saint Etienne. Non league, soft rock. Also in the Record Room at patreon.com/bobstanley
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Robert Harris @robertharrishome.bsky.social Author of 16 novels — Conclave, Fatherland, Enigma, Act of Oblivion, The Ghost, Pompeii. Precipice, An Officer and a Spy, The Cicero Trilogy, Archangel, Munich, V2, The Second Sleep, The Fear Index.
Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social New Yorker staff writer. Author of Rogues, Empire of Pain, Say Nothing. Podcast: Wind of Change. Producer of FX series Say Nothing, now streaming on Hulu (in the US) and Disney+ (everywhere else).
New book coming April 7, 2026: London Falling.
Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social Writer, comedian, podcaster, stone-clearer, snookerist, ventriloquist
Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social Historian, author, commentator. Author of Homelands: A Personal History of Europe, The File etc. See www.timothygartonash.com
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705 
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Stuart Maconie @stuartmaconie.bsky.social Aluminium Cladding. Attentive. Courteous. Reliable. Also will take on writing/broadcasting
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
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
The Rest Is History @theresthistory.bsky.social History + bad accents, with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook.
From Goalhanger Podcasts
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social Berkeley professor, former Secretary of Labor. Co-founder of @inequalitymedia.bsky.social and @imcivicaction.bsky.social.
Substack: http://robertreich.substack.com
Buy my new book: https://sites.prh.com/reich
Visit my website: https://rbreich.com/
TWTD.co.uk @twtdcouk.bsky.social https://TWTD.co.uk has been online since 1995 and is the busiest Ipswich Town website.
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
Visit us at 14 Bury Place, London, WC1A 2JL, or browse at https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk
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Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social Books etc
David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social Professor of Comparative Archaeology at UCL | co-author, New York Times bestseller #TheDawnOfEverything | working on a sequel #TheThirdFreedom | media enquiries: MFlashman@janklow.com
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
@jason-watkins.bsky.social @jason-watkins.bsky.social 
Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social Presenter, Radio Four’s Front Row and Start the Week. 
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
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.
Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12.
Website: lewisgoodall.com
Email: lewis.goodall@global.com
Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
Gary Sheffield @profgsheffield.bsky.social Military History & other stuff. Visiting Prof, Defence Studies Dept, KCL. Husband, father, grandpa. Christian. Arsenal. Labour. Spaniel magnet. All opinions are just mine. Reposts do not = endorsement.
Joe Barton @joebarton.bsky.social Professional writer, amateur speller. Spurs fan. #Amadeus #BlackDoves #TheLazarusProject #GiriHaji #HalfBadTheBastardSonAndTheDevilHimself #TheRitual
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
Half Man Half Biscuit lyrics @hmhblyrics.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy Occasional posting of some of the finest lines from Half Man Half Biscuit songs.
Please like them and/or boost them, I then know I’m not just talking to myself - […]
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times Politics Book of 2022)
GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("riveting" - New Yorker)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1035903857
POWER FAILURE (Future Governance Forum)
Last on Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002styf
Half Man Half Biscuit Information Service @hmhbinfo.bsky.social Irregular info, news, articles, images, vids and lyrics etc re: Wirral's finest musical satirists. Not official.
Frank McCafferty @frankmccafferty.bsky.social HMHB & Celandine
Jonathan Coe @jonathancoe.bsky.social Writer. New novel coming in November: LESSONS IN HARMONY. Previous titles include What a Carve Up!, The Rotters' Club, Middle England, The Proof of My Innocence ...
https://linktr.ee/coelinks
Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social It may look to the untrained eye, I'm sitting on my arse all day.
https://www.patreon.com/c/NeedleMythology
Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social Political columnist, The Guardian
Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide
Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social Scholar of religious violence and apocalypticism from the Crusades to contemporary America, living and teaching on occupied Baxoje, Meskwaki and Sauk land. Joyful swearbear. Amateur cook. He/him.
David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social Former economist and civil servant. Former (age related) national cycling champion. Still a music fan. Sewn up member of the Zipper Club.
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
ProdnoseAsWas @lordshortcake.bsky.social Formerly famous fat head & farceur, inventor of the Zeelman Flay (pat. pending) and one half of Danny Kelly's Performing Rat Wonderland. Sole Ambassador for Threadgold's Thorough-Grip Garterettes
Currently kicking the legs up here: patreon.com/dannybaker
Ava Santina @avasantina.bsky.social Editor and superloop fan @politicsjoe.bsky.social
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Steve Richards @steverichards.bsky.social Political writer, broadcaster, podcaster and host of Rock N Roll Politics live shows. Latest book-Turning Points in Modern Britain
Simon Brotherton @simonbrotherton.bsky.social TV football commentator at home and abroad who also covers cycling at the Olympics etc.
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
www.joanne-harris.co.uk
Iain Martin @iainmartin1.bsky.social Director of the London Defence Conference. Engelsberg Ideas editor. Weekly newsletter at Reaction on Substack. Author.
@davidgauke @davidgauke.bsky.social Recovering politician, writes columns, editor of The Case For The Centre Right.
Danny Kelly @dannykellywords.bsky.social Trans Europe Express (show AND pod!), H&J on @Talksport. @vftlpodcast Spurs pod via @theathleticuk. Ex-editor NME, Q. Fast and bulbous! Located: Kilkenny and the Canyons Of My Mind
Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
Barry Burns @barry.mogwai.scot A Scottish man in a Glasgow band
#MDANT
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.