Hutch @hutchinlondon.bsky.social Always wanted to be Starsky as a kid. Minis, metal and all things Welsh. Lover of all things involving meat and flame. Passionate youth rugby coach, aspiring judoka. The outdoors soothes my soul. Currently exiled in Llundain. #lardfanatic
Shana Gadarian @sgadarian.bsky.social Professor, Political Science | Syracuse University, Maxwell School | American politics, political psychology | Co-author of Anxious Politics and Pandemic Politics
Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Car Boot Vinyl Diaries @vinylcarbooty.bsky.social Jaded car boot sale vinyl nut. CD enthusiast. Lapsed chazzaholic.
mixcloud.com/CarBootVinylDiaries
mixcloud.com/librarylady23
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Sam @samkarlharrison.bsky.social Sporadic writer & editor at Lion & Unicorn
https://thelionandunicorn.com/
Dan Lockton @danlockton.com Utrecht, NL + Norwich, UK
Prof of Design & Imagination, Norwich University of the Arts ⦿ Director, Institute for Sustainable Worlds https://sustainableworlds.org.uk ⦿ Design⸻imagination⸻climate⸻futures ⦿ http://imaginari.es ⦿ he/him ⦿ Not employer's views
Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social Political Ideologies, 20th Century Centre-Right, Neoliberalisms, Thought in Political Parties of UK & DE, Transnational discourses and the conjuncture
benjaminjthomas.net
Finlay McLaren @finlay24.bsky.social Wites about modern British politics and pop culture. Featured in UnHerd, Lion & Unicorn, the Daily Sceptic and the Critic. Also available on Substack.
William Sheehan @willsheehan.bsky.social Historian of Empire, War, and Crime. Passing interest in public policy and politics. A few books! May possibly like Sci-Fi.
DisMember @dismember.co.uk http://dismember.co.uk/
Hansard: Cheat Mode Activated
Everything interesting MPs said since 2010, easily searchable, sortable, sliceable.
We also uncover interesting moments from the entirety of parliamentary history and share them regularly here.
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
David Horrell @davidhorrell.bsky.social
Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social London-Born Saxophonist and Composer living in Stockholm.
www.petefrasermusic.com
“One of the better fried-egg accounts on this website”
Pete Morgan @mobymooby.bsky.social Football, politics, bad jokes, music. Welsh person who has ended up calling Norwich home. NCFC💚💛
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Reader in 18th and 19th Century Literature at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social World-renowned playwright and exotic dancer. http://www.danrebellato.co.uk
Ian Lumley @ianlumley.bsky.social Interested in Socialist Politics, Former Labour Party Member, Science, Atheism, Space Exploration, Type A Aortic Dissection Survivor
Allen Dace @allendace.bsky.social Watching, listening, reading
Bill Edwards @chromebaby70.bsky.social Graphic Designer : Art and Design Lover : Culture Vulture : Traveller : High Fat Low Carb Lifestyle Practitioner and Advocate
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
THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org The Far Side, near at hand
Account by @cowtools.org
Davis Eastwood @davis-eastwood.bsky.social History, reading, writing, and role-playing games
He/Him
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Andrew @generalising.bsky.social Not another one to try and remember. We'll see.
Librarian. Scholarly communications, historic MPs, Wikipedia, inter alia other things. Misplaced Scot.
George Nixon @georgenixon97.bsky.social Financial journalist at Bloomberg News. Wincott Foundation Young journalist of the year nominee 2023. Posts mostly mortgage rates and meltdowns about sports teams. Views own.
Steven Swinford @stevenswinford.bsky.social Political Editor, The Times
John Scott @winstonscott.bsky.social The Beatles, Doctor Who, Steptoe, Tony Hancock and the Sopranos. Not necessarily in that order. And mainly The Beatles if truth be told.
Ben Worthy @benworthy.bsky.social
Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social Medieval historian. 'If it works for Marc Morris, it works for me.' (Scarlett Johansson)
Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social "an already elusive subject is considered here from a variety of oblique angles"
Richard Baker @bakerart.bsky.social http://www.cambridgeartstudio.com/ https://www.flickr.com/people/bakerart/
Lifelong artist. Not actively looking for sales at present. Posting mostly older work and some new. Images copyright except for limited personal use. 🚫AI
Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com He of the eponymous law. FRSA. Good at writing and sums. Degrowther, and not a fan of capitalism. Your pal. The Eye of Sauron, but for headlines. Made by socialism and immigration, which seems to annoy people. Come for the headlines, stay for the Gramsci.
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Lecturer in Defence Studies at the UK Defence Academy, King’s College, London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.- M Martin Sandbu @martinsandbu.ft.com www.ft.com/martin-sandbu
Ian Jones @ian-jones.bsky.social nearertotheend.co.uk
@annasophiegross.bsky.social @annasophiegross.bsky.social
Euen Herbert-Small @lasermike33.bsky.social Editor @ JamRadio.uk covering Policy and Human Rights, investigating how the British state treats minority communities, with a focus on Windrush and wider accountability around systems that fail them. My focus is on clarity, truth and pressure.
Lotte Hargrave @lottehargrave.bsky.social Lecturer in Quantitative Political Science at The University of Manchester. Research gender, political behaviour, elections, and representation
https://www.lottehargrave.com/
Otherwise lover of:
- Hiking 🥾
- Wild swimming 🌊
- Pub going 🍺
- Football ⚽️
Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social Financial Opinion Editor at the FT. I have views. A spotter of things in markets, companies, world affairs. Also interested in food and climbing.
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
Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social Sinn Féin. PhD from Queens University Belfast. Book: Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Donegal. Email: drrichiegallagher@gmail.com
Peter Collins @liberaldreamer93.bsky.social California Living ☀️. Respiratory Therapist. Lifetime Democrat in an all Republican family. Love life, saving lives and coffee. CA-05 volunteer 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Will work as hard as I can to ensure a blue wave in 2026!
https://buymeacoffee.com/petercollins
Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social Writer & Political Commentator | Making ground-level documentaries on the people, movements and events reshaping Britain & beyond.
Who are Britain’s new far right? Watch our first film 👇
https://youtu.be/ii7UIibLYW4?si=mWxs14s8Ol1T1dMN
Nick Hillman @nickhillmanuk.bsky.social Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, Dad
Julian Jessop @julianhjessop.bsky.social Independent economist. Likes charts. IEA Economics Fellow. Schools speaker. Diploma in Law. FRSA. COYG. Views here mine only. More on website at www.julianhjessop.com. Also on substack at https://substack.com/@julianhjessop
Rajiv Shah @rajivshah.bsky.social Interested in law, politics, the constitution, and policy. Former special adviser in MOJ, AGO, and No 10.
@RajivShah90 at the other place
Robert Colvile @rcolvile.bsky.social Former boss of CPS think tank and CapX, Sunday columnist for The Times, author of 'The Great Acceleration'. Politics, policy and parenting.
Ben Southwood @bswud.bsky.social Founder and editor of Works in Progress magazine.
Callum Price @callumtprice.bsky.social Director of Communications at the Institute of Economic Affairs. Former Special Adviser at Home Office, Justice, DLUHC. Geordie Evertonian. Views my own.
Nicky Morgan @nickymorgan.bsky.social Baroness Morgan of Cotes, House of Lords & Portfolio Career in private, public & charity sectors
Gavin Rice @gavinantonyrice.bsky.social Project Director, Future of Conservatism at Onward. Former Brexit SpAd. Teddy Roosevelt enthusiast. Sometimes in @telegraphnews.bsky.social, The Critic, ConHome. Redefining One Nation. Views my own.
Ben Obese-Jecty MP @benobesejecty.bsky.social Conservative Member of Parliament for Huntingdon | Former British Army Officer
Henry Newman @henrynewman.bsky.social Runs TheWhitehallProject on Substack, former Uk Government adviser, ran think tank Open Europe
Sign up at https://whitehallproject.substack.com/
Sam Bowman @sambowman.co Editor of www.worksinprogress.co and head of publishing at Stripe. Just here to have fun.
Sebastian Payne @sebastianpayne.bsky.social Leader writer and columnist @thetimes.com
Previously seen at Onward and FT. Author of Broken Heartlands and The Fall of Boris Johnson.
Alicia Kearns @aliciakearns.bsky.social Conservative MP for Rutland, Stamford, and the South Kesteven and Harborough villages
Promoted by Michael Rickman on behalf of Alicia Kearns, both at 6 Market Street, Oakham, LE15 6DY
Dr Luke Evans MP @drlukeevans.org.uk Conservative Member of Parliament for Hinckley & Bosworth.
Doctor (GP) and Shadow Health Minister
Promoted by John Brown, both of 10A Priory Walk, Hinckley, LE10 1HU
www.drlukeevans.org.uk
Saqib Bhatti MP @saqibbhattimp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Meriden and Solihull East
Shadow Minister for Education
Sarah Bool MP @sarahbool.bsky.social Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire | Former Real Estate lawyer | T1D | For Parliamentary or Constituency Matters please email sarah.bool.mp@parliament.uk
John Cooper MP @john-cooper-mp.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Dumfries and Galloway.
Casework: john.cooper.mp@parliament.uk
Garvan Walshe @garvanwalshe.org Civic entrepreneur building broadsheet social media at kronkite.social. Lobbyist for electric planes.
I chair Unhack Democracy, do green libertarianism @ epicenternetwork.eu
My substackSurvival & Success on liberalism and globalisation: garvanwalshe.org
UnHerd @unherd.com Challenging the herd with new and bold thinking in philosophy, politics and culture.
Dare to think for yourself, subscribe to UnHerd here: http://unherd.com/join
The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social Nothing but #fintwitter headlines to get you started on blue sky.
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
No Score Draws ✍🏻⚽ @noscoredraws.com 👨🏻🎨 Wonky football doodles since 2014, by Alex & Sian
🛒 SHOP: noscoredraws.com
📕 BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/njnvr4hz
✊🏻 No Pasarán
JoelTaylorhack @joeltaylorhack.bsky.social Ink-stained hack, writer, dad
Politics, cricket, music, food, travel, books… not necessarily in that order
Bird hellsite - @JoelTaylorhack
Substack - https://joelbtaylor.substack.com
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
War Movie Theatre @warmovietheatre.com Join @RobertHutton.co.uk and @DuncanWeldon.bsky.social as they watch classic war films and make a podcast about why they love them. WarMovieTheatre@gmail.com https://warmovietheatre.com
Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social Terrible news, chums. Head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose!
Helen King @helenking.bsky.social Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
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
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
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 ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social Former editor of White Dwarf, current editor of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. Life writing PhD from UEA. Mostly writing about Romans. REX JUBA, out 2026 from Penguin.
https://linktr.ee/andrewkenrick
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Paul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social Medieval historian (esp. kingship, religion, saints, King John & Thomas Becket). Mature students & lifelong learning. Carer. Occasional gardener. He/him. 🌈 Ace, Genderfluid
Richard Hammond @rjhammond215.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. Vice-President and Founder Member of the Second World War Research Group: https://www.swwresearch.com/. Co-Editor of War in History journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/WIH
Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social Professor of History. Historian of Science.
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Barry Doyle @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running!
Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/