The Venerable Bead
Retired IT geek
Mature OU student studying History
Interests include: Cricket, Rugby, NFL, F1
@northeastbylines.co.uk
We are a not-for-profit citizen journalism publication. Our aim is to publish well-written, fact-based articles and opinion pieces on subjects that are of interest to people in the North East and beyond.
@westenglandbylines.co.uk
Powerful citizen journalism from the west of England https://westenglandbylines.co.uk Part of the @bylinesnetwork.co.uk of independent, not-for-profit newspapers across the UK
@bylinesnetworkpod.bsky.social
The Official Podcast for the Bylines Network, hosted by Chris Davies and Julian Greenbank. Looking at the biggest stories from across the country. Episodes released monthly. https://open.spotify.com/show/3WjbTeTGwFAfiopvvV8pzV
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Powerful citizen journalism from Yorkshire | co-creational media | regulated by IMPRESS https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/ To volunteer as a writer, editor or behind the scenes, email [email protected]
@centralbylines.co.uk
Powerful citizen journalism Part of the @bylinesnetwork of 10 not for profit volunteer led news publications. Regulated by IMPRESS Contact: [email protected]
@bylines.scot
Powerful citizen journalism from Scotland | Regulated by IMPRESS bylines.scot Write for us with stories you feel that matter with our editorial support. Email us at [email protected]
@declassifieduk.org
We investigate Britain’s foreign policy, military & intelligence agencies and corporations. Please support our work - https://www.declassifieduk.org/join/
@westcountryvoices.bsky.social
Progressive, pro-European volunteer-run, citizen journalism for Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset. Human rights, democracy, climate, NHS, corruption... Telling it like it is. Can't let the far-right dictate the narrative! #Resist!
@phplus.bsky.social
Award-winning green building magazine For: comfortable, healthy, low carbon buildings with tiny energy use. 🇮🇪+ 🇬🇧 print editions + projects from whole 🌎. Passive house / Passivhaus Tomato / tom8to www.passivehouseplus.co.uk
@sussexbylines.co.uk
www.sussexbylines.co.uk Powerful citizen journalism: contributing to a connected society, combatting political polarisation [email protected]
@bylinetv.bsky.social
🎙️ Join us in building a better media. 👉 https://www.youtube.com/@BylineTV 👉 byline.tv/join
@tolkiensociety.org
International fan club and educational charity promoting the life and works of J.R.R. #Tolkien, including #Hobbit and #LOTR. https://www.tolkiensociety.org/
@uk.theconversation.com
Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. #weneedexperts Sign-up now for our free newsletter: https://theconversation.com/uk/newsletters/ This account is mostly automated.
@theconversation.com
News by experts. Free, independent and based on evidence. This is a placeholder account - we're active on our national editions, which you can see on our pinned post.
@miverraswriter.bsky.social
Public figure - Artist Author, composer, keyboardist, singer, sketcher, university graduate. REAL author of the THE HIDDEN FACE: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Face-M-I-Verras/dp/B0CBW5MNC2
@canterburyha.bsky.social
The Canterbury branch of the Historical Association.
@sophiemhistory.bsky.social
Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales. Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@stephemmabrown.bsky.social
Historical Criminologist | Legal and social perceptions of violence, 1300-present | Lecturer at Hull | Member of CAMPOP and Cambridge's Violence Research Centre.
@drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social
Lecturer #Criminology ⚖ Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own #Liverpool #YNWA https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
@aliped.bsky.social
Historian: Victorian social history, 19C female criminal insanity and asylums & own family history. Hon Research Fellow Roehampton Uni. Exiled Wirralite/plastic-scouse LFC Mostly happily married!
@henryyeomans.bsky.social
Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
@jessamycarlson.bsky.social
Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
@djrgrey.bsky.social
Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
@drjenniferaston.bsky.social
Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC. York and Newcastle.
@ladyburglar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Reviews Editor for Social History. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
@gracedimeo.bsky.social
Lecturer. Research: historical criminology; women & crime; gangs & organised crime; criminal network analysis. All about cats, fantasy, knitting & jazz.
@craigstafford.bsky.social
British Social History, C19 Crime & Punishment. Co-I: http://www.womenandalcohol.net (@ncn_pl funded project). Teaches @livunihistory
@emilyrosehay.bsky.social
@lizzieseal.bsky.social
Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own
@lrylandepton.bsky.social
Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social. Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies. VF @openuniversity.bsky.social https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
@buxiduan.bsky.social
Academic Coach @Buckinghamshire New University | Honorary Research Fellow; EngLit PhD @University of Birmingham | D. H. Lawrence, modernism, and archives | translator | he/him (phonetics: Bu-She Du-An)
@timhitchcock.bsky.social
Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
@kfduggan.bsky.social
Dog lover | Pasta addict | Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries
@zoejackson.bsky.social
Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
@capnetwork.bsky.social
CaP is an Arts Council England subject specialist network which disseminates information and research to crime and punishment collections. Visit our website at: https://www.capcollections.org.uk/ for more information
@srwride.bsky.social
Historian @york.ac.uk | What ‘culture’ is & does 18thc+ | Now: hows whys & effects of re-imagining historical homicides | Associate Editor @englishassociation.bsky.social journal #YWES | Treasurer @historylabplus.bsky.social | sarahwride.co.uk
@clairehistory.bsky.social
PhD candidate at ARU Cambridge studying the Norman Cross PoW material culture at Peterborough Museum. Author of Exploring the Lives of Victorian Prostitutes. Member of Peterborough Women’s History Group #ME/CFS
@drmatthewthompson.bsky.social
Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media.
@drewdgray.bsky.social
Historian of crime/anarchist/Arsenal fan and co-chair of the Arsenal Advisory Board/occasional photographer/, trying to be green Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social
@hellohistoria.bsky.social
BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️ Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀 Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
@kabcommons.bsky.social
PhD researcher, University of Sheffield. Working on the legal system governing migration in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship. Previously worked in asylum/immigration NfP sector, still trying to keep my hand in
@samfordsaunders.bsky.social
Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
@robertsmartino.bsky.social
Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
@carolinederry.bsky.social
Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history. Early women barristers. Agatha Christie. Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University. 📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025) 📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020) #ActuallyAutistic
@zwhitehistory.bsky.social
Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast Views my own
@judithflanders.co.uk
Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon. She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com