Jack Kirby @jdk653.bsky.social Associate Director of Collections Services at Science Museum Group, walker, fan: maps, culture, heritage, local distinctiveness. Gay, use hearing aids. Views own
Nicky @nickysee.bsky.social 📍/actual/ northerner living in Nottingham🇬🇧
🌈
https://flickr.com/photos/200618705@N03
I’m here for photography, tech & nonsense.
Scottish Roads Archive @scotroadsarchive.bsky.social Sharing items from our collection to chronicle the history of Scotland’s postwar roads, bridges and motorways. Nonprofit, volunteer organisation.
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
an|to|ny @anto.im Consuming unhealthy amounts of coffee, beer and cast iron brake dust
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Glen Wilson @glenglenglen.bsky.social Gogledd-based writer | Senior Digital Editor at the Southbank Centre | popular STAND | Views not completely those of my employer, but we’ve time yet
SELNEC Preservation Society @selnecps.bsky.social Preserving the buses of Greater Manchester since 1987.
A small band helping to restore the development of Manchesters own "Standard" buses for future generations.
We also have a Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/selnecpreservationsociety
Bauhausian @bauhausian.bsky.social Exploring the world of Bauhaus—where form follows function. Join to delve into modern art, design, and architecture. Celebrating simplicity, functionality, and geometric beauty. #Bauhaus #Design #Art #Architecture
https://www.bauhausian.com
Adam Payne @adampayne26.bsky.social Editor of PoliticsHome. Sometimes heard on our weekly podcast, The Rundown. Contact me: adam.payne@politicshome.com & DMs.
Nick Gray @path-dependent.bsky.social Political economy & place‑based policy
Fellow of things at Teesside University
That's not Teesside in the banner photo
https://research.tees.ac.uk/en/persons/nicholas-gray
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.
Tom Bolton @drtombolton.bsky.social tombolton.co.uk
📖Atomic Albion
📖London's Lost Rivers Vols 1 & 2
📖Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhoods
📖Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
📖Camden Town: Dreams of Another London
✍️Theatre for Plays International
✍️Music for The Quietus
Kieran Mc 🚟 @kjmci.me Australian digital product strategist in London. Lover of tech, craft beer, urbanism, and Cities: Skylines - I help run @cslmodd.ing. He/him, 🏳️🌈
Philip Butler @artdecomagpie.bsky.social English photographer documenting Britain’s surviving interwar architecture.
Books:
226 Garages out on FUEL
Trackside Transformation - British Railway Stations 1923-1947 out on ADM
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Tim Shields @ttshields.bsky.social Curator, transport manager and occasional writer. Snapshot of vehicles, heritage & other interests. Views my own.
Now Then magazine @nowthenmag.bsky.social A magazine for #Sheffield by Opus. Local news and culture. Online only (for now). Got a tip-off or want to write? Get in touch.
👉 nowthenmagazine.com
British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social An educational charity working to map the urban histories of 🏴🏴🏴 in partnership with local historians & communities.
Nat @coastconductor.bsky.social Former train dispatcher turned Train Conductor Based at Southern Region’s 74D Depot, Voice actor. No tweets during safety critical work, All views are my own🚂
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
Train Songs Central @trainsongscentral.bsky.social Where the parallel lines of trains & music meet. Home of 'The Train Kept A-Rollin' - How The Train Song Changed The Face Of Popular Music' by @SpencerVignes.bsky.social - visit http://www.spencervignes.co.uk/ to find out more.
New Nottingham Journal @nottinghamjournal.bsky.social An annual print literary journal featuring short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from around the world.
Richard Price @richardprice.bsky.social Cultural wing. Amusement without vulgarity.
A London Inheritance @alondoninheritance.bsky.social Exploring London's history starting with my father's photos from 1946, to the present day.
https://alondoninheritance.com/
Anthony Kay @linesidesoutheast.bsky.social Photographer and YouTuber with a passion for railways and transport subjects. Please check out my YouTube channel if you get a chance www.youtube.com/@LinesideSouthEast
Alistair @aebaldwin.bsky.social Transport policy wonk in the North of England. Own views.
Cares too much about assurance frameworks, devolution and cats.
Tim M @muchofamuchness.bsky.social Cars for work, trains for leisure. I like good bread and good butter. I make pizzas and take pictures. Occasional rugby-goer and prolific selfie-poster. Secretary of a rugby club. Partnered. 🏳️🌈
Views my own. He/him.
Kieran - North East Heritage Library @neheritagelib.bsky.social exploring and documenting the North East, one brick at a time (among other things) / Newcastle
northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk / linktr.ee/nehl
Simon Phipps @new-brutalism.bsky.social Books: Brutal Wales / Cymru Friwtalaidd. Brutal North. Concrete Poetry. Finding Brutalism. Brutal London. Brutal Outer London
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All photographs by Simon Phipps
Jim Leaviss @jimleaviss.bsky.social No bond content here. Modernism only.😘
Factory Records, Toxteth Day of the Dead, art history between the wars. He do the police in different voices.
Precious historical record only via Spotify: Uncle Jim’s World of Bonds
Dave McCormick @railwaydave.insanity.tube Consultant at WSP, lapsed mathematician, transport connoisseur. Been on almost every UK rail line. Knows too much about postcodes. All opinions my own. He/him.
Martin Coles @mcolesrailways.bsky.social Railway enthusiast and photographer, trying on both. Also geeks about Planes and Buses occasionally
Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social Smile Scotland ... you're on camera
Paul Prentice @paulprentice.bsky.social Railway media type | Councillor for Barton on @canterburycc | Chair, Planning Committee | TSSA Union | Dog dad 🚄 🏳️🌈 🌹🐝 🐕
Luke @lukepad.bsky.social Small town dude, with a big city attitude
Nottingham 👨🏻🏫🌈
Paul Sweeney @paulsweeney.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow
Roads.org.uk 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @roads.org.uk I write about UK road infrastructure and history! Join me for updates and other stuff from the UK's favourite roads website, www.roads.org.uk
Joel Ashton @joelashton.bsky.social #WildlifeGarden Designer & Installer for 20yrs | #HouseMartin & #Butterfly admirer | Once rescued a Cuckoo | https://bsky.app/profile/wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social ~ Book & Online Shop #NoMowSummer #WildYourGarden
Aye @chazzersmurf.bsky.social UK based reader, runner, gay. Spend too long in charity shops. Leftish.
Team Green Photography @teamgreen70020.bsky.social UK southern region railway worker. #TeamGreen 🟨🟩🟩🟩🟨 and a casual driver for #TeamBeachball 🟦🟧⬜️🟧🟥
(Cover photo by MJDs Photography)
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
crecyrail.bsky.social @crecyrail.bsky.social Focusing on the railway titles of one of Britain's leading special interest publishers, covering Crecy's large range of railway books including the OPC, abc and Southern Way imprints, as well as sharing occasional images from our archives. Crecy.co.uk
Hugh Pearman @hughpearman.bsky.social Writer and editor on architecture. Bit of a thing for industrial archaeology and historic modernism. Book "About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings" published by Yale.
Dr Claire Markham @culturalclare.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, social harms, sustainability, co-production. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Stuart Jones @owenthesignal.bsky.social Trains, boats and planes. And music. And wildlife, geology, genealogy, astronomy...
All the right things, just not necessarily in the right order
Flickr: owenthesignal (rail & transport) wildspaces (photography)
West Country Modernism @westcountrymodern.bsky.social A journey around mid century modernist buildings in the West Country. By @magslhalliday.bsky.social
Subscribe to the newsletter:
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@jeremyinlondon.bsky.social @jeremyinlondon.bsky.social 
Effie Gee @k8iosk.bsky.social Urban Planner. Lover of modernist architecture and the K8 kiosk. Currently researching the history of the BT's disappearing range of KX Phoneboxes. Woke. Whovian. Dad.
Adamski @adamskeeeee.bsky.social Somewhere in Yorkshire. Errol’s dad. Lefty snowflake wokerati member. Mostly gardening, food and Errol pics. 🌈 🏳️🌈
Also catch me at: https://www.instagram.com/adamskeeeeee/
The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
Eli Lewis-Lycett Folklore and History @elilewislycett.bsky.social 'One of the definitive voices on Cheshire & Staffordshire Folklore' - BBC Radio. The Local Mythstorian / Tales From Antiquaria / Cheshire Life Magazine / Haunted Magazine / Inspectre Paranormal.
thelocalmythstorian.com
George Thomas @downrelief.bsky.social Steam enthusiast and all round rail advocate. Steam train driver on the West Somerset and Cholsey & Wallingford. Almshouse trustee and Round Tabler. Worked in radio for 20 years, now a full-time railwayman.
George Marshall @gjmarshy.bsky.social Founder of NorthOnTrack, Director at Enroute CIC - Believer in Authenticity
#Infrastructure #Design #Architecture #Photography #Transport Views my own. 🐝
Jack Railway Secrets @jackrailsecrets.bsky.social 22, Train Content Creator and Enthusiast. 1st class Graphic Design graduate. Creator of Rail Statistics.
Download app on iOS & Android - https://linktr.ee/Railstatistics
YouTube - https://youtube.com/@railwaysecrets
Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social Socialist since 1937. 🌹
When Saturday Comes @wsc.co.uk The half decent football magazine. For order/subscription queries please contact orders@wsc.co.uk https://www.wsc.co.uk/
Mark Ramgoolam-Sinclair @mgs315.bsky.social Proficient at breaking railway things. All views my own.
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
SABRE Maps @maps.sabre-roads.org.uk The largest freely available online archive of twentieth century georeferenced OS maps of Great Britain and Ireland at "road map" scales from 1:25k to 1:633k including One Inch, Half Inch and Quarter Inch mapping.
https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/maps
Peter @gatesheadgeek.bsky.social Yorkshire-raised, Smoggie-born engineer with a penchant for photography, LEGO, travel, food & wine. Based in Tyneside since 2007, but once lived & worked in New Zealand. Servant to Hild the cat & occasionally to her brother Bede. Blood donor.🏳️🌈 he/him/his
Paul ツ @lf-p.bsky.social Interested in Architecture, Cities, Public Realm & Urban Transport. Specialist in none of the above. | All views are my own.
Newcastle Gateshead, UK.
https://www.instagram.com/lf_p30/profilecard/?igsh=MTFtOXlqcGs4bmlhMA==
Oli Marshall @olimarshall.bsky.social London by way of Yorkshire | Campaigns Director at @C20Society.bsky.social
Alex Niven @alexniven.bsky.social 
the modernist @themodernist.bsky.social magazine, bookshop, gallery, publisher, events. 20th century architecture & design. a non profit social enterprise.
https://the-modernist.org/
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/themodernist
Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
Olly Glover, MP 🔶 @ollyglover.bsky.social Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, Didcot and Wantage.
I can be contacted at olly.glover.MP@parliament.uk
Chris Ogilvie @ogilvie.org.uk One time rail- & Yorkshireman. Economic migrant 🇮🇹. Italian heritage rail traveller 🚂
🚢 Discovering cargo ships are the ultimate travel experience.
YT: https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisOgilvie
Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social New & vintage stationery from around the world, since 2009. Our shop is at 12 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL. https://www.presentandcorrect.com
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Anthony @anthonyf2024.bsky.social I’m a bit of a nobody who lacks self-esteem and has autism. I like trains and i’m studying history at university… I hope to take that somewhere in life. Make of me what you will but I’m pretty boring 🙂
jAy Ph.D. @jayrotoole.bsky.social Cultural and Literary Historian, EM PhD
Analyst-Feminist-actor-massage therapist-cook- @kylieminogue -Nigella-Kate Bush-Dannii-ALL my views-He/They 🌈❄️🕊
Academic Book Out Now: Early Modern Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I (2025).
Tyneside Flashback @tyneflashback.bsky.social Images and videos of Tyneside, past and present.
Also on X: https://x.com/TyneFlashback?t=xTW9uMYinCpMoInLzaMyEg&s=09
ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk London's history, architecture, public transport -- and offbeat events to enjoy.
Dean Kirby @manchesterhistory.uk Author keeping people's history alive. Historian. Orwell Prize nominated journalist. PhD. Tour guide. Rep: @litagencygmc.bsky.social.
📕Pre-order my new book The Scuttlers: https://linktr.ee/TheScuttlers
Substack newsletter: www.manchesterhistory.uk
Sam Jessup @samjessupdesign.bsky.social Brand Designer for LNER. Award-winning transport design and branding guy. Road-trip loving campervanner. Unashamed nerd. samjessupdesign.co.uk
Jonathan English @englishrail.bsky.social 
P.C. Hipsta @pchipsta.bsky.social warning contains graphic content
Mémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social le Logement Collectif* dans tous ses états..Histoire & Mémoire de l'Habitat / Archives ANRU / Rétro Banlieue / Renouvellement Urbain / Urbanisme / HLM 🐈⬛ https://twitter.com/Memoire2cite https://www.facebook.com/memoire.decite
Matt @trainfanmatt.bsky.social Trains | NFFC | 🏳️🌈
Rhys @westmidstrain.bsky.social 
Jack @jackspilo.bsky.social - Cheshire, UK 📍🗺️
- Avid traveller and video gamer 🛫🎮
- 28 🏳️🌈
Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social Historian and writer of the dreams and memories of postwar England: council estates, Radburn layouts, rural modernism, pop music. Trainee A&R man for Asylum Records in my dreams.
Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social Senior Archaeological Investigator @ Historic England. Landscape Archaeologist. Pub Lover. Cricket Tragic. Guitar Hero. BHAFC fan. Husband. Dad. Views my own.
Modern Railways @modernrailways.keypublishing.com Updates from the team at Modern Railways magazine, which has provided news, views and analysis on the UK's railways for 60 years.
Subscribe today at shop.keypublishing.com/mrsubs
@mrjamesgraham.bsky.social @mrjamesgraham.bsky.social 
Officer Wibble @officer-wibble.bsky.social Railway worker since 1994, usually found on a train somewhere between Portsmouth & Waterloo. LGBTQIA Ally. He/Him.
Adam @thegreatadambob.bsky.social Team Railway.
Proud to be a train cleaner.
Danny @longboy428.bsky.social Vietnamese in Melbourne. Public Transport, Walking, Math, Animation, physics, tech, traveling. He/Him.
Matt @mattbunting.bsky.social 26 • Ely • Manager • Husband To Chloe ❤️ • Daddy To Maisie 🩷 •
Goldie Lifts @goldielifts.bsky.social transport planner, sober guy |🚊🚴♂️💻 | 🏞️ 💪🏼🏜️ 🏈 🎾🪴🧱🏳️🌈 | PDX 🏔️
Hevy: https://hevy.com/user/jportnw
Semaphoria @semaphoria.co.uk Just posting my photos of old signals in the modern world. I put more detailed descriptions in the alt text.
George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social London-based designer.
https://www.onepointfivearchitecture.com/
He/him.
Dysgwr Cymraeg.
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
Lea Worrall @leaworrall.bsky.social Coach painter/Bus restorer. Specialist subject: The history of public transport in Greater Manchester 1969-2015.
Manchester, England.