John Davies
Old bloke. Now back living in NE London after sojourns in Oxford, Liverpool, Bloomsbury, Boston MA, Cardiff and N Ireland. Reads, sings in choirs, worries about Leyton Orient. Occasionally blogging at https://oldgeezerrereadingblog.wordpress.com/
@orientfriedchicken.bsky.social
Leyton Orient fan, always have fried chicken as my pre-match meal. South Stander. Here for the Orient! 📍Essex, UK 🇬🇧
@shedworking.bsky.social
Writes non-fiction books for British Library, Quarto, Hachette, Haynes, HarperCollins, Thames & Hudson, Calon, National Trust. Online editor at Fine Books magazine, columnist at the Idler. Coined term "shedworking". Half-decent snooker player
@howtoenjoylondon.bsky.social
LONDON joy linktr.ee/HowToEnjoyLDN with art beauty book health history hotel music photo press shop sport events in Camden Greenwich.Hackney Hammersmith/Fulham Islington Kensington/Chelsea Lambeth Lewisham Southwark Tower Hamlets Wandsworth Westminster too
@richardhare.bsky.social
@protestfamily.com
@Protestfamily.com Singalong lefties "Brilliant" - The Levellers protestfamily.com stevewhiteandtheprotestfamily.bandcamp.com facebook.com/protestfamily
@alicharlo.bsky.social
Ali Charlo from Darlo. Dog walker 🐶 Trade union digital nerd. (Houti PC small group)
@leytonstoneculture.bsky.social
Mainly retweeting what is going on culturally around Leytonstone, Forest Gate, Wanstead, Walthamstow
@simonkc.bsky.social
Barrister, lover of the arts, avid cook, amateur pianist, Trustee @britishyouthopera.bsky.social
@davplaysmusic.bsky.social
Music Teacher, Shredder in Chief for some bands you’ve never heard of, Leyton Orient fan, RainbO’s committee member All views my own He/They
@ioanmarcjones.bsky.social
Writer. Books, Culture, Art, Music. Work found in Independent, openDemocracy, New England Review, Essay Review, Litro, etc. Views own. He/him.
@origoldberg.bsky.social
I am an Israeli. That means all sorts of things now. I write about the genocide, about politics and also, one hopes, about other things some day.
@helenbarrett.bsky.social
Features journalist - Financial Times, NYTimes, Telegraph Arts, Guardian, The Critic and others. Arts and culture, mainly. https://www.helenbarrettjournalist.com/ https://open.substack.com/pub/helenbarrett
@derbren.bsky.social
books, bikes, cats, cheese, and cinemas. Non-practising German. Unreliable narrator, ready for my close-up. Probably have a crush on you. For more, go here: https://linktr.ee/DerBren
@greenvia.bsky.social
Interested in environmental issues, community development and politics in general
@patriciastoughton.bsky.social
Mostly writing about the tidal Thames and concentrating on my blog: thetidalthames.com Occasionally writing about Brittany, France and Belgium, and their cultural links with the UK. Was writing for "hidden europe" magazine and others...
@weownit.org.uk
After 40 years, privatisation of our public services has failed. It's time for public ownership. We use it, we pay for it, We Own It. https://weownit.org.uk/people-not-profit https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/donate
@dreamcargoes.bsky.social
Television historian, writing a book about Play for Today (BBC1, 1970-84). Associate Lecturer, Northumbria University. Book Reviews Admin for Critical Studies in Television journal.
@dickensyousay.bsky.social
If these pages contain a great deal about me, I can only suppose it must be because I have really something to do with them and can't be kept out. - Charles Dickens, Bleak House
@lbwfarchives.bsky.social
Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library, Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, London E4 7EN. Collections documenting history of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Research visits by prior appointment. Email [email protected]
@stephenharris1881.bsky.social
Orient supporter, pub-goer, beer drinker, walker, naturalist, traveller, Londoner.
@lookintomyeyespod.bsky.social
A Podcast focussing on the Demon Headmaster books and TV Adaptations. We review each chapter or episode week by week. Link: http://lookintomyeyespodcast.com
@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
@poetclare.bsky.social
Novelist. Poet. Reader. 🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, etc. ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS coming 2025. Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
@fdb.graphics
Retired graphic designer, hobby photographer, former IT professional. INTP, Happily married to @annakc.bsky.social. Founder member of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Apostrophes. Investment offers = block🚫 NO UNINVITED DMs!!! #FBPE
@lordbonkers.bsky.social
Blogger at Liberal England. Expect Dickens, politics, Steve Winwood, canals, British films, Richard Jefferies, Shropshire, Englishness, chess, social history, Malcolm Saville, philosophy, Leicestershire and Rutland, comedy, railways... That sort of thing.
@markcousinsfilm.bsky.social
Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/Bigger than The Shining http://www.markcousins.org
@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
@annasels.bsky.social
'Fierce, intelligent & socially sophisticated' - Dr Alan Grant Welsh in London. Owned by a cat called Alan. Lover of rugby, human rights, gigs, theatre, and nerdy financial regulation. Powered by plants and kindness. 📷🧵: anna_helene1
@jameskennedy.bsky.social
Musician, author & podcaster from Wales 🏴 Album : http://linktr.ee/makeanger Book : http://linktr.ee/noisedamage Podcast : http://linktr.ee/jameskennedypodcast Instagram: http://Instagram.com/jameskennedyUK
@katherinepemberton.bsky.social
I like to read and play with clay, though not necessarily at the same time. NO DM’s!
@kieronconnolly.bsky.social
Commissioning Editor, Old Street Publishing @oldstpublishing Previously Bloomsbury, Mail on Sunday, Amber Books Author of THE HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD and ABANDONED PLACES, among others. Editorial consultancy work at: kieronconnolly.com
@jwdtucker.bsky.social
Torontonian in Birmingham, mostly doing cricket, cycling, and Higher Education.
@meandmybigmouth.bsky.social
He/him. I write books. I also edit them. Used to publish them too. Would rather live in a nation of strangers than a country of cunts.
@515mm.bsky.social
Hello. An eater of foods, taster of wines, rider of bicycles, dispenser of Bespeisungswonne, spectator of rugby, listener to music, watcher of films & reader of books. Not necessarily in that order. Many, many shoes. He/him, cishet, 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 ally.
@gabrielmilland.bsky.social
Mainly research for strategy. Former senior UK government comms official and adviser. Once a journalist. Further back, a historian of the media, war and public opinion. Halberdier. Aggro-centrist. Bristol City FC.
@mookse.bsky.social
Books and Film | The Mookse and the Gripes Podcast with @bibliopaul.bsky.social | 2017 Best Translated Book Award Judge
@ukstoptrump.bsky.social
Stop Trump. Stop Trumpism. No to Trump's state visit to the UK. https://stoptrump.org.uk/
@bookertalk.bsky.social
Love reading and chatting about books. If my head isn't stuck in a book, I'm out Nordic walking or making quilts. Wales. Book chat at www.bookertalk.com
@alisonfisk.bsky.social
Recent Masters in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social. Volunteer at PCA Archaeology @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social and Ham House, Richmond. Here for Archaeology. I often post my own photos of museum artefacts and ancient sites
@premnsikka.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords. If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
@tobyontv.bsky.social
TV critic, Greenlit podcast creator/host, still trying to write a book