Michael Hall
Theatre Lighting professional. Interested in the arts, growing, cooking and eating vegetarian food. Public transport user, serious about infra structure past and present. A Green, Leftie ,Yorkshireman , still proudly European.
@ppfideas.bsky.social
The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Thursday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts. Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
@nethertonfoundry.bsky.social
Proudly making classic cookware, using sustainable materials and traditional skills and crafts in our rural Shropshire workshops
@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
@annettebellyou.bsky.social
Essex born, East End raised, now 30+ years in Stoke-on-Trent. Missing London and the tube network. Love art, especially vernacular city scenes. Love social history, photography, architecture, post ww2 prefabs, music, rescue dogs and fair politics.
@paulquigs.bsky.social
Interested in democratic control of wealth and power. Trade-unionist. Urban-sketcher (https://instagram.com/paulquigs?ig). Birdlistener. Industrial/urban/landscape archaeology. Irish genealogy.
@yvbsg.bsky.social
The YVBSG was formed in 1972 to study and record the traditional architecture of Yorkshire. We survey buildings; organise conferences, day schools and visits; and produce newsletters and an annual journal. https://www.yvbsg.org.uk
@themadjeff.bsky.social
Photographer and recent stroke survivor from the UK 🇬🇧 I like art, jazz, photography…I’m not interested in cameras, they’re all pretty good these days. Oh…I live on a boat and have done for a long time…if that matters.
@allantadams.bsky.social
I'm a semi-retired architectural illustrator, sketching mainly buildings and old stuff to relieve stress. Illustration, art, archaeology, conservation, reading. No NFTs.
@warandpeas.bsky.social
🌹 Comics by Elizabeth Pich & Jonathan Kunz 🌹 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/warandpeas Shop: https://warandpeas.com/shop/
@internethippo.bsky.social
@weirdbristol.bsky.social
The weird and lesser-known history of Bristol. You can find my books (including the Weird Bristol trilogy) here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B00HBFSRCU
@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.
@elaineamitchell.bsky.social
PhD’er UniBirmingham. Unearthing gardening and horticulture in 18thC Birmingham. Book 📣 Gardens and Green Spaces in West Midlands since 1700, UniHertsPress.
@chilton-bb.bsky.social
Head of Archive & Library at The Red House, http://brittenpearsarts.org. Archives, music, metadata; side orders of architecture, landscape history & electronic noise.
@thewaroncars.bsky.social
A podcast about the fight against car culture. Hosted by Sarah Goodyear & Doug Gordon. Pre-order our new book, "Life After Cars," coming Oct 2025 from Thesis / Penguin Random House. https://www.lifeaftercars.com/ https://www.patreon.com/thewaroncarspod
@hannahcharnock.bsky.social
Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
@janetspog.bsky.social
Retired teacher. An exile Yorkshire lass living in Suffolk. Trekkie. Enjoying living by the sea and the surrounding marshland. Travelling by train and ferry to Europe. No PMs.
@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
@worthvalley.bsky.social
The Keighley & Worth Valley Railway is a unique 5-mile branch line railway set in the heart of West Yorkshire, running heritage steam and diesel trains from the industrial landscape of Keighley to the stunning Brontë Country of Oxenhope.
@gregmorsedphil.bsky.social
Rail history, rail safety, rock etc. Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Railway Operators. Author of 'The Clapham Train Accident: Causes, Context and the Corporate Memory Challenge'.
@greatcentralrly97.bsky.social
Page dedicated to the original Great Central Railway and its lost main line to London and the continent.
@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.
@georgetakei.bsky.social
I’ve boldly gone into the clear blue yonder. Follow for more recipes and tips.
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
Author of Villager, 1983 and 13 other books. LP recommendations. Folklore. Psychedelic countryside pics. Sheep & cattle-based nonsense. Essentially a thinly disguised attempt to persuade you to subscribe to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com
@jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy
Brit who became German and is moving to France. Runs the #CrossBorderRail project and writes about railways and EU politics. Politically green, lives happily without […] [bridged from https://gruene.social/@jon on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
@ninabake2.bsky.social
Independent engineering historian: women in engineering, motoring, aviation, construction. Writing book on women's motoring clubs worldwide. Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE. No profile? I won't follow you https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
@vangogh.bsky.social
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a 19th century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. #artbots by @nuwaves-future.bsky.social 🔗 linktr.ee/vangogh_artbot
@jtransporthist.bsky.social
The Journal of Transport History aims to circulate and promote the best and the widest possible range of peer reviewed analysis and commentary on all facets of transport pasts. More here: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/JTH
@gbptrust.bsky.social
GBPT is a charity that works to rescue, repair and restore historic buildings at risk across Glasgow. Established 1982. Organisers of @Glasgowdodf since 1990.
@signetlibrary.bsky.social
The Signet Library in Edinburgh, the home of the WS Society, is a world class centre of knowledge and learning in law and the history and culture of Scotland.
@johockey.bsky.social
Research and conservation at the @Signetlibrary.bsky.social in Edinburgh since 2019. leithlinkz.wordpress.com Also threads of photography - found/family.
@ia-adventures.bsky.social
No AI here, this is IA - industrial archaeology. Join me as I visit sites around the UK (and occasionally elsewhere). Further information at Industrial History Online (www.industrialhistoryonline.co.uk/yiho/index.php)
@orangetreetheatre.bsky.social
🍊 An award-winning local theatre with a global reputation - experience world-class classics, rediscoveries and new writing in-the-round. 🎟 orangetreetheatre.co.uk • 020 8940 3633
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.
@cle2berne.bsky.social
Explique (et cherche à comprendre) le ferroviaire. Un peu sur YouTube aussi : https://youtube.com/@Cle2Berne
@briandunn.bsky.social
Semi-retired, but still kicking. MA/History. Lifelong Californian. Lifelong Democrat. Naval and Maritime History aficionado. Servant to two cats. Reasonably articulate.
@midlandhistory.bsky.social
We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
@jfredt.bsky.social
Independent historian. 18th & early 19th century history. Birmingham, maps, steam power and anything else that takes me down a random rabbit hole.
@yorksfella59.bsky.social
Proud to be a Yorkshireman of Scottish descent. Lefty Humanist. Green Party member. Dislikes Tories. Hates racism, bigotry, misogyny, Putin, Trump and Farage. Loves music - Alan Hull/Lindisfarne, Runrig, Springsteen, Dylan, Cohen, Al Stewart. #FBPE. 🏴. 🇺🇦.