Jack Dickens
Historian, journalist and cricket tragic 🏏 Commissioning Editor @engelsbergideas.bsky.social | Please send pitches to: jack@engelsbergideas.com
@philtinline.bsky.social
Author, THE DEATH OF CONSENSUS (The Times' Politics Book of 2022) GHOSTS OF IRON MOUNTAIN ("eye-popping" - Daily Telegraph) https://tinyurl.com/Ghosts-Iron-Mountain Last on Radio 4: Ronald vs Donald https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00274r
@bucsisintel.bsky.social
BUCSIS offers a range of security and intelligence programmes - taught & online including research degrees. #HUMINT #CovertAction. https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/research/bucsis
@helencarr.bsky.social
Times and Sunday Times best-selling author Medieval Historian Mother of Doggos SCEPTRED ISLE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY OUT MAY 2025 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
@hugh-pemberton.bsky.social
Recent British history is my thing (political, governmental, economic); armchair strategic studies my secret vice. Emeritus Prof at Bristol. Sometime historian of the UK civil service, more recently of Thatcherism. But often on my allotment these days
@jonparryhis.bsky.social
Retired university History teacher. Modern British politics. Short history of British Liberalism published by Agenda April 2025. Occasional LRB reviewer. Part-time resident and unofficial chronicler of Sark.
@lrb.co.uk
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of politics, literature, history and ideas, published every fortnight. Read: https://lrb.co.uk Subscribe: https://mylrb.co.uk/QUEXT0225B
@drbradleyhoover.bsky.social
Aesthetics, Theology, Philosophy, and Music History. Author of ‘The Aesthetic System of François Delsarte and Richard Wagner: Catholicism, Romanticism, and Ancient Music,’ Cambridge UP. April 2025. 🇨🇦
@joelherman.bsky.social
Research Fellow @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, Houses of Parliament | Historian of the press, publicity, and popular political action in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
@agnescpoirier.bsky.social
Journalist, writer & broadcaster. 📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury) 📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld) ✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
@thedraftwriters.bsky.social
A writing company founded by former No 10 chief speechwriter Philip Collins. Thoughts on public language here and in our newsletter, First Draft. info@thedraftwriters.com thedraftwriters.com/newsletter
@matthefler.bsky.social
Historian. International History and Intelligence Studies. AJI Postdoctoral Fellow. Former Press Secretary to the Premier of Nova Scotia.
@ronanmainprize.bsky.social
Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication Researching intelligence, statecraft, and strategy • Writing a book on Lyndon Johnson, the CIA, and the Global Cold War • University of Warwick PhD
@herreramilhist.bsky.social
Military historian | Early & 19c America | Author | Professor US Army War College | Lecturer US Naval War College Fleet Seminar | Californian | My views mine alone | https://www.amazon.com/author/raherrera
@smh-historians.bsky.social
The Society for Military History and the Journal of Military History's Official Bluesky Page. Posts by @awilks.bksy.social
@cameronjohnharris.bsky.social
writer at The Draft https://www.thedraftwriters.com/ https://thedraft.substack.com/
@rallaf.bsky.social
Author of It Started in Damascus: How the Long Syrian Revolution Reshaped Our World. https://www.rime-allaf.com Communications Strategist and Consultant.
@edentravels.bsky.social
Writer about places. Red Sands: Reportage & Recipes Through Central Asia, ‘book of the year’ for the Sunday Times, FT and New Yorker. New memoir 'Cold Kitchen' (Bloomsbury) out now www.carolineeden.com
@kyleworton.bsky.social
Write about jihadism, security issues, and foreign policy | Also a lot of history and religion.
@jamesamcloughlin.bsky.social
Film and fiction writing. ✍️ in New Critique, Engelsberg Ideas, DMovies, Penumbra Magazine, Valley Press, 10:10 Press, and more. https://thelinesman.substack.com
@katherineharvey.bsky.social
Historian and writer. https://katherineharveyhistorian.co.uk/
@angusreilly.bsky.social
Writing a book about Henry Kissinger in World War II and a biography of David Owen.
@britishfuture.bsky.social
The conversations we need on integration and migration, identity and race.Contact: info@britishfuture.org Director: @sundersays.bsky.social
@tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social
Author, Keeping Their Marbles (OUP)| presenter, The History of Secrecy (Radio 4) | Trustee, British Museum. Coming in May: Strangers & Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life (Picador). https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com/
@jamescrossland.bsky.social
Professor of History. Author of "Rogue Agent" and "The Rise of Devils". #History #spies, #terrorism, extremism, propaganda, weird people and things that are not real Substack - https://jamescrossland.substack.com/
@soniapurnell.bsky.social
Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s astonishing life of power, seduction & intrigue. Described as ‘triumph’ by William Boyd. New York Times bestselling author. A Woman of No Importance. Tried to warn you about Johnson. Plutarch Prize winner www.soniapurnell.com
@midcenturycinema.bsky.social
60s & 70s films + affiliates. Also Influences, origins, legacies, social-cultural context. Books incl Hollywood's Last Golden Age; Novel: Urban Flight [NB: Antifascist] Much more here: https://midcenturycinema.org/
@sandbaggerone.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Nottingham. Writes on 🇬🇧 intelligence. Remains an opinionated Northerner & Mancunian. ✍ Vetting, 'Friends' & UK intelligence 📚 🇺🇦 Views my own. 🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/politics/people/daniel.lomas
@stuartackland.bsky.social
From crazy cartouches, wonderful beasts or general carto-frippery, a site that highlights the non-map part of maps! From the Map team at the Bodleian Library
@jrovner.bsky.social
Associate Professor of International Relations, American University Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
@sundersays.bsky.social
Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694 Evertonian
@mijrahman.bsky.social
Managing Director, Europe and co-head of London office, Eurasia Group. Formerly HM Treasury and European Commission. Senior Research Fellow, LSE European Institute. ECFR Council Member. My views. Seeking analytical truth https://www.eurasiagroup.net
@maxbergmann.bsky.social
Director of the Europe, Russia, Eurasia Program at CSIS. Podcasts EuroFile and Russian Roulette. Fmr State Department official. DC sports, Tottenham
@sbeverts.bsky.social
Thoughts on Europe and the world. Director of @EUISS.bsky.social - the EU think tank on foreign and security policy. Views here are strictly personal - but we can share them.
@euiss.bsky.social
The EUISS is the EU’s foreign & security policy think tank. We provide critical analysis and insights to inform the EU’s strategic choices.
@munsecconf.bsky.social
The Munich Security Conference (MSC) is the world’s leading forum for debate on international security. #MSC2025: February 14-16, 2025
@ccaryl.bsky.social
Writing, insomnia, birds. Frequenter of diners. Ex-WaPo, ex-Newsweek. Own worst enemy. Book: Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
@ljukic.bsky.social
Reading and writing https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/central-europe/
@jacobware.bsky.social
Research fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement. https://www.amazon.com/God-Guns-Sedition-Far-Right-Terrorism/dp/0231
@jamesgrahamwilson.bsky.social
@rikefranke.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD UniofOxford, previously Sciences Po. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
@delong.social
Author of "Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century". Too online since 1995. Sometime Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. UC Berkeley Professor.
@george17.bsky.social
China watcher, ex Chief Economist UBS, now at China Centre, Oxford and at SOAS, London. Rock&Indie music lover. Also golden retriever owner and fan.
@tombhamilton.bsky.social
Historian of early modern France and Europe; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
@diderotesque.bsky.social
Historian of ideas and culture, hovering between the 18th century and the 21st - and between Oxford, Berlin and London. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/associate-professor-avi-lifschitz
@keohanedan.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in International Relations at Dublin City University (DCU) - mostly focused on European security, national strategic cultures in Europe (i.e. France, Germany, UK), European military cooperation, EU, NATO, US strategy
@radchenko.bsky.social
Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”
@branfriedman.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow, The Moshe Dayan Center (MDC), Tel Aviv University
@drchrisharding.bsky.social
Cultural historian & broadcaster based at the University of Edinburgh. Writing about Japan, India & East-West encounter. Author of the IlluminAsia substack 👉 IlluminAsia.substack.com 👉 http://christopher-harding.com
@katjabego.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House | international security, geopolitics and geoeconomics of tech, Europe | Currently ✍️ a book on subsea cables (Polity '25) | Amsterdammer in London 🇪🇺