James Kneale
Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Journal of Victorian Culture co-editor @jofvictculture.bsky.social
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Members of the academic Drinking Studies Network - "an interdisciplinary and international research group that connects scholars working on drink and drinking culture across different societies and time periods" - who also happen to be on Bluesky https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/
@headpress.com
Independent non-fiction publisher since 1991. We publish the stuff you love. Film. Music. Strangeness. Headpress is @davidkerekes.bsky.social and @harbottlestores.bsky.social. web: headpress.com
@markbould.bsky.social
Professor of Film, Literature and Poor Life Choices. Full-time duck chaperone. Part-time author of things about films and books.
@carladenyer.bsky.social
Green MP for Bristol Central. Co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Engineer. Bi 🏳🌈. She/Her. Need to get in touch? 📧 carla.denyer.mp@parliament.uk
@tyron.bsky.social
Raise taxes, repair the country. Inspired by joy, sobriety, Marcel Duchamp, Kelis, Mata Hari, and those hallucinations I used to have.
@dannybirchall.bsky.social
I was brought up to the sound of the synthesiser, I learned to dance to the beat of electronic drums
@plyushteva.bsky.social
Migrant, geographer, public transport enthusiast. Current research and teaching: mobilities, economies, inequalities, everyday urban life & futures. Lecturer at @oxfordgeography.bsky.social and @tsuoxford.bsky.social She/her
@gregjenner.bsky.social
~Public Historian 📜🤓 ~Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐📻📜🏛️ ~Hon. Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓 ~ Author of 7 funny history books ✍️📚 ~ CBBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV (series 1-9) 🎭🤣 ~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️ www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@danhicks.bsky.social
philosopher turned data scientist turned philosopher. enviro policy, data science, phil sci/STS, lefty stuff. UC Merced. they/them. Signal: danhicks.50
@onnigust.bsky.social
Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. Jewish. Parent. They/them.
@vivdunstan.bsky.social
Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. https://vivdunstan.co.uk
@mbaillie.bsky.social
Scottish writer. Debut novel Salvage. Scottish Traveller history, music, books.
@memoryplace.bsky.social
Led by Professor John Sutton and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
@rrrjournal.bsky.social
Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages. www.rrrjournal.com EiC Sophie Thompson | Dep Ed @katiemacleann
@markstewart2001.bsky.social
Editor of the British Interplanetary Society's Odyssey magazine. Learning to live with cancer.
@pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social
Magpie architectural writer and image maker. 'Botanical Architecture: Plants, Buildings and Us' out now with Reaktion Books. www.ragpickinghistory.co.uk
@tessosborne.bsky.social
Lecturer @ University of Leicester Chair of the DGRG H. Fellow @ @unibirmingham.bsky.social & @frw-rug.bsky.social An undisciplined geographer interested in the digital, embodiment, methods and health & wellbeing. Web: https://www.tess-osborne.co.uk
@samwetherell.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out in 2025: https://www.waterstones.com/book/liverpool-and-the-unmaking-of-britain/sam-wetherell//9781801
@wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy
I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections. My main project at the moment is the #GLAMWorkbench […] [bridged from https://hcommons.social/@wragge on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
@antigenocideuni.bsky.social
Creating an autonomous space to host and support intellectual interchange that addresses colonial violence, experiences of war and the ongoing repercussions of genocide
@gftu.org.uk
Founded 1899. A federation of trade unions. Delivering trade union education through @gftuet.org.uk. Building solidarity. The home of @strikemap.org #GFTU. All our links: beacons.ai/gftu
@profelainechalus.bsky.social
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
@susanzieger.bsky.social
Writer, professor, chess player. Obsessed with supply chains. Powered by iced green tea. Book LOGISTICS AND POWER is out in September from UC Press.
@seventydys.bsky.social
the sea is completely written for me https://www.transitbooks.org/books/darker
@apetrossiants.bsky.social
writer and editor; PhD candidate at NYU writing about tenants' movements and the production of social space; co-editor of Diversity of Aesthetics https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/diversity-of-aesthetics-looting-volume-3
@meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social
Food Historian and Cook. Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Europe. Archaeological Researcher. Writer. Organic Vegetarian. Experimental Archaeology | Historical Archaeology insta: @meganfoodhistorian
@drinksmaven.bsky.social
Drinks journalist. Likes drinks. Loves pubs. Contact jessica.mason@thedrinksbusiness.com
@rfrost1.bsky.social
Historical Geographer and historian of ideas, esp on history of Egyptology. Researching how Egyptologists use maps. Leverhulme Fellow at University of Leicester. Moving from Twitter > Bluesky.
@demonicgrounds.bsky.social
lovesick audiophile + heartbroken reader + book maker most of my writing can be accessed free: www.katherinemckittrick.com we established a working group at: www.revolutionarydemandforhappiness.com
@ursulakleguin.com
Official account for the celebrated author of novels, short stories, poetry, children’s books and essays. https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
@theprofrog.bsky.social
academic/freelance writer, on Gothic, Science Fiction. Next up: Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead (October 2025). Research fellow at Heidelberg Uni, May to Sept 25
@lukelukeluke.bsky.social
I’m not here to post my THOUGHTS. I’m not here to share IDEAS. I’m here to post PICTURES OF MUSHROOMS and BE AN IDIOT Sign up for mushie-mail: cheerful letters filled with stickers, prints, and other goodies > Patreon.com/luke_venechuk
@jahduran.bsky.social
Co-founder/Editor of theQuietus Co-founder of Acid Horse Writer/Editor Anti-Fascist Emile thanks you
@jmacleavy.bsky.social
Economic Geographer at University of Bristol; co-Editor-in-Chief Geoforum. Research interests: Work; Welfare; Care; Austerity; Gender; Class; Neoliberalism; Inequality.
@davidmwhitford.bsky.social
European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
@historybeagle.bsky.social
Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. Faculty Dean PG, Arts & Humanities, Uni of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
@nicolaking.bsky.social
Fellow of the Society of Indexers, ex-archaeologist, also family historian, mum, bell ringer, knitter and learning the cornet. Easily found elsewhere. https://abookindexer.com/
@paullashmar.bsky.social
Dr Paul Lashmar, Journalist and Reader at CityStGs UoL. HoD (2019-2021) Book: Drax of Drax Hall: Landed Gentry, Sugar and Slavery (Pluto March 2025). I RT when interested not necessarily because I agree.
@baindex.org
Book indexer, editor, boss at baindex.org | Society of Indexers Chair, Conference Director and Fellow | CIEP APM | See also cryptic crosswords, Cymraeg, #IndexSky | Stockport, UK Society of Indexers 👉 @indexers.bsky.social www.indexers.org.uk
@sophiebwaterman.bsky.social
Late medieval and Tudor historian. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Special Collections Photographer at St John's College, Oxford. Book History MA graduate from the Institute of English Studies. Writing a book on Elizabeth Boleyn.
@francesryan.bsky.social
Guardian columnist and journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? and Crippled. E: frances.ryan.freelance@guardian.co.uk
@insideoutprexpr.bsky.social
Bringing together incarcerated & campus-based students for mutual learning and dialogue. Founded by Lori Pompa @ Temple University. To learn more about trainings, contact us at inside-out.trainings@temple.edu.
@historygriffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
@phghaslam.bsky.social
PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social | Queer and gender historian | Researching confirmed bachelorhood in England 1880–1960 | they/he
@dremmadavies.bsky.social
Reader in Psychology at Oxford Brookes University. My research explores thoughts, feelings, and behaviours related to alcohol consumption and works towards helping people who would like to drink less. I am a parkrun volunteer and enthusiast at weekends.
@nikolaysarkisyan.bsky.social
Scholar of Russian/Soviet history/culture and beyond. Marie Curie postdoc at Oxford. Working on museums of revolution in early Soviet Union and revolutionary tradition in the Russian Empire.
@nitin-bathla.bsky.social
Urban Studies Lecturer @ETH, Human Geog Postdoc @UZH. Debates and Interventions Editor @urbangeography.bsky.social Reviews Editor @urbanpolitical.bsky.social #politicalecology #infrastructure #transdisciplinarity #extendedurbanisation www.nitinbathla.com