Jo Hutchinson @jojohutchinson.bsky.social Director, SEND and Additional Needs @ Education Policy Institute. Former government statistician. 
Irritated Llama @irritatedllama.bsky.social Yorkshireman
GenX
Bloody Mary
"Unreconstructed piffle" - Peter Hitchens
"He can sing that lad" - Bloke
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Joel @thatjoelfella.bsky.social Furry (but not a furry) gay lefty.
"A blight on society" - Keir Starmer. "parasite" - Isabel Oakeshott. Opposing genocide is not terrorism.
Retro To Go @retrotogo.bsky.social The home of the Retro To Go website on Bluesky.
https://www.retrotogo.com
Renée the Wicked Witch of Woke ✨️ 🇺🇦 ♿️ 🖇 @reneeincarnation.bsky.social Here be witchery. Trespass not! She/witch
I appreciate beauty that is imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.
Radical Cat Lady 😻
Radical Typo Witch 🧙♀️
A Californian відьма, who stands with Ukraine. #CrimeaisUkraine
Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
Matthew Harper-Duffy @matthewharperduffy.bsky.social Primary teacher and founder of Local History Hub. Building a grassroots network for sharing local stories, ideas, and place-based learning in schools.
English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social We're passionate about the English Civil Wars and 17th Century history! We're also reenactors - step into history and have an incredible weekend for just £10! www.earlofmanchesters.co.uk
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Giles Brown @polkapiquee.bsky.social Some people hope for a miracle cure
Some people just accept the world as it is
Abigail Kabaker @akabaker.bsky.social she/ her . museum collections professional. Lifelong Maryland resident. Talks about museums, horror, video games, science, politics, and pop culture. Views are my own.
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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Tuatha @tuatha.ie Explore Ireland with us! Visitor guides, itineraries, courses, events — created by archaeologists for people who really want to get under the skin of Ireland.
Start your Irish archaeological adventure:
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(pics all our own work)
Stewart Parsons @libraryfiend.bsky.social Founder of Get It Loud In Libraries www.loudinlibraries.com cool programme of doorstep library gigs with future BRIT & Grammy winners. Born to live in Scotland. Lover of music, books, libraries, radio, dogs, PNE & wife Elizabeth. A BEM, no less. 
Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social Law professor & author of BIG DIRTY MONEY and OTHER PEOPLE’S HOUSES
Ste Lingard @stelingard.bsky.social History & archaeology, esp. of northern England. Alumnus @ Sheff & Brum history. Freelance researcher in heritage sector, specialising in evaluation @ www.sglingard.com. Chair @StHelensTownAFC.bsky.social.
Terry Gould @terry.tgld.me Lover of a decent book, a strong coffee, a good museum and a loud orchestra. I do technical things for Art UK to fund the above habits.
https://tgld.me
[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social No relation to the dead Scottish poet just enjoy saying “wee beastie”
Always putting the mid in Midwestern Boy
Do these skeets make my brain look fat?
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7kwb76tabhomcmduvulxoz5/feed/top-skeets
Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social Archivist, consultant, genealogist, mentor. If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck
Dr Naomi Paxton @naomipaxton.bsky.social Freelance historian of the Actresses' Franchise League and suffrage theatre and entertainments... does books, talks, walks, radio, games, exhibitions, and workshops.
Also alter ego of award-winning comedy, cabaret & magic act Ada Campe
naomipaxton.co.uk
Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting 🙏
🔗 https://notinourname.org.uk
👏 https://www.gofundme.com/f/notinourname-fundraiser
Kat Brown @katbrownwrites.com Freelance journalist and editor in London, hello! Only Connect Jilly and servant to v entitled animals. My books are on ADHD and infertility, but I’m 99% fuelled by The Archers and horse riding. www.katbrownwrites.com
Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social Germany’s finest neon.
A project of @berlintypography.bsky.social
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Amy Brown @deadsuccexy.bsky.social Collections Registrar for Science Museum Group
Classics and Museum Studies Grad
Running, Sewing, Cooking, Museums, Reading, Wine.
Canadian-born. 🇨🇦🍁
Mum of one lovely little boy ❤️
@kenyettawrites.bsky.social @kenyettawrites.bsky.social Lover of Kit Kats / Human Rights / Socialist / Not religious / Mom first / Flowers / South Carolina slavery descendant / BLM / LGBTQ+ ally / Jaws / Books / Address gun violence NOW! / CUNY alum / Curious about the United Kingdom / #Knicks / VOTE! / MDNI
Katie Flanagan @katiedflanagan.bsky.social Group Head of Archives and Libraries at Science Museum Group. Mum, Aunt, Christian, knitter, gardener, York resident, views my own
Dom @dommgoss.bsky.social Queer personal trainer. Counsellor. Chair of OurStoryScot. Probably on my bike. I have a great bum & stories to tell. Views my own. he/they
Skint https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/JMILLER401?locale.x=en_GB
Timby2 @timby2.bsky.social It's not how much you're given, it's what you do with what you've got. Folk music, archaeology, football and lefty views. Semi-retired, the boss will be furious when she finds out. Looking for hope and laughter.
Colin Burt @cdburt4.bsky.social Eclectic, altruistic, music, vinyl, art, poetry, books, stuff, #MDANT, Hibs 💚 Frabbit, My Kids, widow. Occasionally teaches. Occasionally Papa B. All views my own. Edinburgh 🏴
Sam @samsteel68.bsky.social Over 30 years experience in museums and galleries. Based in Ariège France and Northamptonshire UK
Hannah Tyler 🦑 @greenhousehistory.bsky.social Museum learning, art & natural history.
Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social Very concerned that right-wing pluto-populists are degrading our lives and our planet (🌱)
Parkin @parkinkatt.bsky.social HELLOES GOT ANY BISKITS | FOLLOWS CATS | NO D O G S | MITEY HUNTER
16/9/2016-11/3/2026
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Nick Jenkins @nickjhistorian.bsky.social Journalist and historian, specialising in the First World War and its aftermath. Especially its aftermath (book on the way). Yorkshire, France, Craven Cottage. Used to have a cat. Now I have a grandson.
Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc.
https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
Fiona Mossman @fionamossman.bsky.social she/her
📖 Writer | Librarian
📍 Edinburgh | Burntisland | Cairngorms
Gleefully geeky. Writes SFF/literary speculative short stories, among other word-things. Loves books, mountains, my cat Mishka & more. 💗💜💙
Find me at https://www.fionamossman.com
Bob @bobsegel.com Dad | Retired Teacher | Photographer
DMs off. Not buying what you're selling. I'm just here to post nice pictures to hopefully give people a smile and a short break from all the chaos.
Unless noted all photos were taken by me. ©️BobSegel | BobSegel.com
Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social Hi! I’m Molly Hodgdon. I live in Vermont with my beautiful FIV+ cats Francie and Marcel. Banner photo by W. Eugene Smith. Profile pic is a postcard from my collection mailed 1908.
Not a bot. Not selling anything. Just a keeper of forgotten cats.
Jennifer Mosier @jennifermosier.bsky.social Actor, director, artistic multi-hyphenate. Half-Asian since before it was cool. Bring on the cats. And the video games. Newly arrived to Canada.
Side @sidegallery.bsky.social Est. in 1977: Side is dedicated to lens-based documentary. We are home to the UNESCO-listed AmberSide collection, showcasing film and documentary photography on working-class life from the North East and beyond.
Sidegallery.co.uk
Victoria Gallery & Museum @victoriagallery.bsky.social Galleries Tue-Sat, 10am-4pm👋
Café Mon-Fri, 9am-4pm☕️
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🧱 Part of @LiverpoolUni.bsky.social
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social MaddowBlog.com
Rachel: https://bsky.app/profile/maddow.bsky.social
Steve: https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
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The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social Presenter, The Cathy Newman Show, Sky News; Presenter, Times Radio; Insta cathynewmanc4 Agent http://bit.ly/2m6VRis
The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social Read: TheNewWorld.co.uk
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johnsweeneyroar @johnsweeneyroar.bsky.social Old school war reporter: author of 16 books inc Killer In The Kremlin, Murder In The Gulag and novel The Useful Idiot.
Co-host Lucy Letby: Was There Ever A Crime?
Founder: VPDFO! Festivals
johnsweeney.co.uk
https://www.patreon.com/c/JohnSweeneyRoar
Daniel Wittenberg @dannywittenberg.bsky.social Senior field producer @BBCNews | Worked in a dozen countries | Series produced #Americast #BBCNewscast | Speak 🇷🇺🇫🇷🇪🇸 i català | @radioacademy 30 under 30
Beth Rigby @bethrigby.bsky.social Political Editor, Presenter and Podcaster, Sky News. RTS Political Journalist of the Year. Electoral Dysfunction podcast out every Friday 
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) 🏳️🌈
Matthew Thompson @mattuthompson.bsky.social Recovering journalist. Formerly of Sky News, LBC & BBC.
Norn Irish, girl dad, linguist.
DMs open.
Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social Journalist. Presenter of R4's #MoneyBox Live (Weds, 3pm). Also found on #WakeUpToMoney, #R4Today, BBC 5 Live, #GreenMoneyShow. Enthusiast. Humanist.
Jacob Jarvis @jacobjarvis.bsky.social Presenter of American Friction @americanfric.bsky.social and The Bunker. Excited to be on Cockwomble MySpace.
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!
Emily Lawford @emilylawford.bsky.social Online editor at the New Statesman
Hannah Jane Parkinson @ladyhaja.bsky.social ✍🏻 Journalist: The Guardian, Observer, elsewhere
📖 Buy: The Joy of Small Things amzn.to/3EBFgqz
🗣️Posting: politics, arts, mental health, media, ⚽️, 🏳️🌈
📧 Your emails can find me well at: hannah.jane.parkinson@theguardian.com
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
Simon Mayo @simonmayo.bsky.social Nil desperandum
🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇬🇧
Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social EX Editor, the Guardian/ prospect magazine. The New World. ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social Everything is Connected.
Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA
Support my work at: https://substack.com/@chadbourn
Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
POLITICO Europe @politico.eu Nobody knows politics and policy like we do.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
links.weratedogs.com
Wowhaus @wowhaus.bsky.social The home of the Wowhaus website and the latest interesting house finds on Bluesky.
https://www.wowhaus.co.uk
Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social Exposing Reform UK.
Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social Technology, Parkinson’s, #sophiefromromania
Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social FIV+ internet cat 🐟animal rescue fan 🐠 spay and neuter your pets
https://linktr.ee/fishtopher
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
The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk Editor of Bearly Politics. Commentator. Former NHS strategist.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
I like the Shipping Forecast @moderatefairgood.bsky.social Reading. SimRacing. Motorbikes. Motorsport. Scale modelling. NFL. Rugby Union. Weird Cars. Depression. Cats. Not necessarily in order of preference.
Sick of US politics.
Caterham owner on English/Welsh border.
Suicide-survivor in self-repair mode.
The Dobson Family and Colin the Dalek @dobbersw.bsky.social A Doctor Who obsessive, his long-suffering wife, their sons and our House Dalek, Colin.
None of our Dalek/family photos use AI
Hidden Britain @hiddenbritain.bsky.social Handmade signs, prints, music & books inspired by British Folk Horror and unsettling TV, film & literature. Based in The Black Country, England.
https://linktr.ee/hiddenbritain
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
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Kate Pelling @katepelling.bsky.social Artist and curator originally from UK and now based in Germany.
*NEW FILM*: do you have something to say? (2026, 01:02 Mins., no sound) now available on my website
www.katepelling.com
Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social Investigative journalist, author, and Yorkshireman. DeSmog’s UK deputy editor.
writesbright.substack.com
Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net Chocolatier. Also into photography, filmmaking, gardening, writing, and too many other things…
Greater London 🇬🇧 | AuDHD
Chocolate shop currently on summer break.
The Golden Age of Witless @joebaldwin.me.uk Person. Admin gonk. Nerd. 80s synthpop idiot. Norwich dweller. Social democrat. Elden Ring obsessive. Semi-talented iOS app dev. Tesco Value satirical poster. Lidl croissant enthusiast. It’s always David Cameron’s fault.
James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social aka Alice Aforethought. Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds, but views my own. Social justice, Law's a Drag, violent protest, Pride and drag, raging lefty 🏳️🌈
https://lawsadrag.org.uk/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7253-9676
Museum Ladders @museumladders.bsky.social Celebrating ladders in museums around the world. Submit beautiful photos of #MuseumLadders (not museum objects) so we can add them to our collection.
Russell Dornan @russelldornan.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 | Dinosaurs | stationery | Britney | design |
🏴 | writing/making/photographing things
John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
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
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Sara @sarniejewell.bsky.social West Yorkshire
Mother, wife, hispanophile, jeweller, and fully paid up member of the Labour Party 🌹
Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social Pen name of Andrew Scott.
Fake History, Fake Heroes and Notorious.
Represented by Pew Literary
Links:
https://linktr.ee/OttoEnglish
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
paul fraser webb @paulfraserwebb.bsky.social Brummie from Daventry. Now in Clitheroe via many stops in the UK.
UNISON @unison.org.uk UNISON - the UK's largest union, representing 1.3 million public service workers. Need support? Call 0800 0857 857 or
http://unsn.uk/Contact
Ay-caramba🇪🇺🇬🇧 @ay-caramba.bsky.social Very pro EU, bus wanker, rail enthusiast, cyclist, trade union steward, bit centrist, just got a GCSE in Spanish. Posh southern softie. #FBPE
Dr Alexandra Woodall @alexandrawoodall.bsky.social Beautiful things, culture, creativity, curiosity, care. Chesterfield Art Foundation course student. Museum and gallery consultant and mentor. Trustee of Create Sheffield. Co-founder of GLAM Cares. She/her. 🇪🇺 💚