Will Iredale @wiredale.bsky.social Author of Sunday Times top ten bestsellers The Kamikaze Hunters and The Pathfinders. My next book — Churchill's Pirates — will be published by Penguin in 2026. 
Edward Shawcross @edwardshawcross.bsky.social Historian. My book, The Last Emperor of Mexico, is out in the US with Basic Books and in the UK with Faber & Faber.
https://edwardshawcross.com/
David Musgrove @djmusgrove.bsky.social Content director BBC History magazine; HistoryExtra web and podcast
Yeganeh Torbati @yjtorbati.bsky.social Reporter at The Washington Post; co-author of forthcoming book on Iran for Doubleday
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
Dr Johnson's House @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social Quirky historic house tucked away in central London. 18th-century interiors & a good supply of dictionaries. Open Tues, Wed, Thurs, Friday & Sat 11am - 5pm
Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social Early medievalist, etc., at the University of Cambridge.
Richard Strachan @richardstrachan.bsky.social Writer, novels 'The Unrecovered' and 'Night Fire' from Raven Books 2025/26. Stories in The Dark, New Writing Scotland, Weird Horror and more. https://linktr.ee/richstrach
Rep'd: @samedenborough.bsky.social
https://richardstrachan.substack.com/
Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Artist. Author of NY Times bestseller HERE WHERE WE LIVE IS OUR COUNTRY: STORY OF THE JEWISH BUND
my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646320/here-where-we-live-is-our-country-by-molly-crabapple/
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Old Street Publishing @oldstpublishing.bsky.social Independent British publisher of non-fiction and fiction. Highlights include James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany and Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother, winner of the 2020 'Crime Fiction in Translation' Dagger.
Anna Silva @silvareader.bsky.social Publicity Manager for books and the Oxford English Dictionary at Oxford University Press. South African/British. Wife of historian, mother of daughters, keeper of cats.
Caroline Sharples @carolinesharples.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton specialising in C20th German history. Author of The Long Death of Adolf Hitler (2026). carolinesharples.com
Sean Cunningham @seanc1509.bsky.social Medieval, Tudor & Legal at UK National Archives. Henry VII's reign. Europe in 1500. Cycling, guitars & piano. Northumbrian. Haudenosaunee history, Selden Society. IHR Late Medieval Seminar
Neil Root @neilrootwriter.bsky.social Writer & Journalist, True Crime Non-fiction, Fiction, Film fan
http://authory.com/NeilRoot https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Neil-Root/author/B003UOZ846?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppin
Marc Mierowsky @mmier.bsky.social 18th C. Literature and poltics @ Melbourne.
New book on Defoe and the Anglo-Scottish Union
Nicholas Walton @npw99.bsky.social Journalist, author, hiker.
Alwyn Turner @alwynturner.bsky.social writer/historian/talker
Michael Calvin @mcalvinbook.bsky.social Award winning sportswriter. Internationally best selling author of 20 books, including a football trilogy that led to three TV documentaries. The scope of my collaborations has widened recently to include a Holocaust survivor & special forces soldier.
Murray Pittock : @murrayp.bsky.social Pro VP U.Glasgow, personal views and evidence-based judgements only. 'You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass'-John Buchan. https://murraypittock.com
Haus Publishing @hauspublishing.bsky.social Publisher of politics, history, biography, memoir and travel writing
Edward Jones Corredera @edjonesc.bsky.social Historian - UNED | New book out: Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (OUP) | FRHistS & FRSA | Past: Max Planck Institute, Cambridge & LSE
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Mikhail Zygar @zygaro.bsky.social Writer, journalist, criminal (according to Putin’s Russia)
Rory Stewart @rory-stewart.bsky.social Author The Middleland linktr.ee/middleland, PlacesinBetween, Jackson/Yale. PoliticsOnTheEdge. @Restispolitics podcast w Alastair Campbell.
Parody
Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Andrew Ross Sorkin @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social @NYTimes Columnist/Editor & @SquawkCNBC Co-Anchor. Author, Too Big To Fail. Founder, @DealBook. Co-Creator, BILLIONS @Showtime.
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…
Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Horror film, Science Fiction. Latest: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (2025). Next 2 books: a taxonomy of the undead and a biography of H P Lovecraft
Dr Simon Elliott FSA @simonelliott20.bsky.social Archaeologist, historian and broadcaster. Author of over 20 best selling and award winning books on the Classical world. Passionate about sharing my love of the ancient world on the tellybox, pods, print and guide lecturing.
Sarah Fry @drsfry.bsky.social Medieval historian: a focus on charters, the 11th century, and Normandy. Working to reveal unseen histories. May also be found writing about giants. IHR Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Book on Norman charters: routledge.com; Cerne giant writing: oxbow.com.
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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Monisha Rajesh @monisharajesh.bsky.social Author of Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train, Around the World in 80 Trains and Around India in 80 Trains
Kevin Passmore @passmorek.bsky.social Fitness fanatic and historian of the extreme right and the Maginot Line
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
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Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
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Tracy Borman OBE @tracyborman.bsky.social Historian, author and joint chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces. A Lincolnshire lass and chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University.
Dr Alison Ray @liber-ray.bsky.social Collections and Archives Manager @ria.ie 📖
Medievalist 📜
I like big books and cannot lie! (she/her) 📕
Tim Queeney @timqueeney.bsky.social Writer w/nonfiction book “Rope” from St. Martin’s Press. Order
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& from Icon Books in the UK
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Painting dilettante. That annoying night sky fan always pointing out the Big Dipper.
Gulf of Mexico.
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Shafik Meghji @shafikmeghji.bsky.social Journalist, travel writer, author
📖 Small Earthquakes (BGTW Travel Narrative Book of the Year 2025), Crossed Off the Map
✍🏽 BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust, Geographical
🌎 Latin America / Ex-porteño
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Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social 
Lally MacBeth @lallymacbeth.bsky.social Writer, artist and curator based in Cornwall.
Oliver Basciano @olibasciano.bsky.social Writing, reporting, criticising. Mostly in south of the world.
OUTCAST: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World is out now. You can buy it here: https://linktr.ee/oliverbasciano
Judith Mackrell @judithmackrell.bsky.social Former dance writer, author of biographies, currently writing double profile of Gwen and Augustus John. Travel, food ,gardening, arts, jaunts and jokes 
David Rooney @rooneyvision.bsky.social Writer and curator. THE BIG HOP (Chatto & Windus/W. W. Norton) out now.
https://www.davidrooney.uk/the-big-hop
Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social Host C4N Fourcast Indicators pod, writing @Sunday Times, ex-BBC guy covering war & peace + sometime Newsnight presenter 1990-2024, IWM trustee, author Big Boys Rules, Generals, Rifles, Task Force Black, The Tank War, Skripal Files, Red Devils, Tank & more!
Mark Bridgeman Author ✍️ @markbridgeman.bsky.social Best selling author of The Scottish Murder Book, ERASED, and The Nearly Man.
Alan Cleaver @postalpathsguy.bsky.social Author of books on UK footpaths. My book, Postal Paths, is due out April 2025 detailing the route used by rural postmen and women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. I live in Cumbria, UK. Follow me if you love walking footpaths. https://linktr.ee/postalpaths
Laura Spinney @laurainparis.bsky.social 
ROB COWEN @robcowen.bsky.social Author of THE NORTH ROAD (2025) // COMMON GROUND (2015) // THE HEEDING (2021) // and others...
Writer // journalist // poet
Ian Leslie @ianleslie.bsky.social Author. Latest book: 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs'. Available now: https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/introducing-john-and-paul-a-love
Tim Grady @tlgrady68.bsky.social Historian of Central Europe & the First World War, based in the north west of England
Sophie Haydock @sophiehaydock.bsky.social Author, journalist, marathon runner, mudlark | Curator Folkestone Book Festival | debut The Flames @DoubledayUK #EgonSchiele | agent Juliet Mushens | Madame Matisse coming in March 2025
Frances Quinn @franquinn.bsky.social Author of The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman & The Lost Passenger, agent Alice Lutyens, Curtis Brown. Keen on cats.
Max Leonard @maxleonard.bsky.social Writer. Mountain Style (Isola 2024), A Cold Spell (Bloomsbury 2023). Previous inc. Higher Calling, Bunker Research, Lanterne Rouge etc. I also run Isola Press.
https://linktr.ee/m_xl
Brad Meltzer @bradmeltzer.com Fight hate. Read books. I believe ordinary people change the world — and in the power of stories. Will this account make you a better person? Obviously.
Vintage Books @vintagebooks.bsky.social Read boldly. Think differently.
Colossal @thisiscolossal.com Art & visual culture since 2010. https://www.thisiscolossal.com
The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas. Featuring 300+ essays — ✍️ submissions welcome. We also have a mighty fine prints shop.
https://publicdomainreview.org
Manu S Pillai @waatcoconut.bsky.social Historian and author of five books. Latest: "Gods, Guns & Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity"
Agnes Callard @agcallard.bsky.social Philosopher, UChicago
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Julian D Richards @juliandrichards.bsky.social Director, Archaeology Data Service & Heritage Science Data Service; interested in Vikings and Computers, but rarely at the same time
Dawn Hadley @danelawdawn.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Archaeology. President of the Medieval Settlement Research Group. Research on Vikings, gender, childhood, digital heritage
Hacker News Bot @newsycombinator.bsky.social not affiliated with Y Combinator, running on a pi in my basement
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Elizabeth Beattie @elizabethbeattie.bsky.social Early Modern Historian | Women, Education, and Intellectualism in 17th Century Europe
👩🎓 MA, MLitt, University of St Andrews
📸 https://www.instagram.com/secret_historian/
Alice Hunt @alicehunt.bsky.social Professor at the University of Southampton. Author of Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade (Faber, 2024). Co-I on 'The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean'. Represented by Felicity Bryan Associates. Reviews for the LRB and The Times.
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.
Daisy Dunn @daisydunn.bsky.social Author and Classicist. Catullus' Bedspread; In the Shadow of Vesuvius; Homer; Of Gods and Men; Not Far From Brideshead; and most recently The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
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Ben Spencer @ben-spencer.bsky.social Science Editor at The Sunday Times
Tom Calver @tomcalver.bsky.social Data Editor, @thetimes.com
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Will Lloyd @willoyd.bsky.social Senior Writer, FT Weekend
Joshua Lowe @joshualowe.bsky.social US Audience editor @thetimes.com - I live in NYC now
Neil Fisher @neilfisher81.bsky.social Exec culture and books editor of The Times 
Duncan Geddes @geddesduncan.bsky.social Associate head of news production at The Times and The Sunday Times, previously the Hampshire Chronicle and southern Daily Echo. Sleeping is my nine to five
Geri Scott @geraldinescott.co.uk Assistant political editor at The Times.
Charlotte Ivers @charlotteivers.bsky.social Sunday Times restaurant critic and staff writer
Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social Health Editor at The Sunday Times. Health Journalist of the Year 2023. Helped expose #MidStaffs. Public interest journalism matters #E17 #patientsafety
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Laura Silver @laurasilver.bsky.social Journalist.
I like sad soup and rocks.
Tim Shipman @shippersunbound.bsky.social Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
Elizabeth Ammon @elizabethammon.bsky.social Cricket reporter at the Times and Sunday Times. Hockey player. Tea drinker. Vice President Sheff collegiate CC and Barnes CC. Single mum. Insomniac. These are my Personal views etc etc. I think that just about covers it all.
Kieran Andrews @kieranandrews.bsky.social Political Editor for ITV Border; co-author of Break-Up/agent Northbank Talent; prev The Times, The Courier, Sunday Post, Brechin Advertiser
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Mick Hodgkin @mickhodgkin.bsky.social Puzzles Editor, cryptic crossword setter, limerick writer, former TV news producer. Only Connect semi-finalist 2015-16. 
George Greenwood @georgegreenwood.bsky.social "Ever active" investigations reporter at The Times.
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Ben Jackson @benjackson.com The wordst.
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Richard Fletcher @fletcherr.bsky.social Former newspaper delivery boy. Now Business editor of The Times (and proud south Londoner)
Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social Political cartoonist
Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social Environment Editor at The Times. Clean it Up water campaign. When not working, usually running. Previously New Scientist and Guardian.
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Kaya Burgess | 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 @kayaburgess.bsky.social Science Correspondent & Religious Affairs Correspondent at The Times of London | Shortlisted for Specialist Journalist of the Year for religion work at the 2024 Press Awards and Science Journalist of the Year at the 2025 and 2026 Press Awards | My account
Paul Morgan-Bentley @paulmorganbentley.bsky.social Head of Investigations at The Times in London and author. Occasional undercover reporter. 2X winner of the Cudlipp Award for investigative reporting. Dad (with husband, Robin) to two very jumpy boys (one poodle, one human) 🏳️🌈
Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social News reporter at The Times. Migration, security and all things maritime.
Prior winner, Paul Foot Award, 30Under30 etc.
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Charlie Parker @charliehparker.bsky.social News Reporter at The Times 🖋️
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