Claire Cock-Starkey
Writer (Lore of the Wild, Hyphens & Hashtags &c). Big fan of books, libraries, folklore, history. Also studying for part-time PhD on the folklore of death and dying in 19th century England
@rbgkew.bsky.social
The home of Kew Science 👩🔬 🌱Collections 📚Archives 🍄Applied research 🤝Partnerships 🥼Training 👉More: linktr.ee/kewscience
@19thcenturyem.bsky.social
PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts @ehunineteen.bsky.social ⛱️ | Jane Austen nerd and period drama enthusiast | Chronically ill with endometriosis 💛 (she/her)
@madamegilflurt.bsky.social
Creator of #frockingfabulous. I write bestselling WW2 sagas as Ellie Curzon and 18th century history/old Hollywood books as myself! Always gandering.
@jjaron.bsky.social
News editor at New Scientist. I read a lot of books, and recommend the best ones to you
@claudewillan.bsky.social
C18th stuff, DH, dad stuff, ex-pat things, poems, material culture, etc Ex-brit-abroad unsettled to be resettled in a UK I don't recognise; Durham.
@tanjabueltmann.net
Professor University of Strathclyde | migration & diaspora history | history of collective action | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | unapologetically woke | she•her | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
@cambswriters.bsky.social
Cambridge Writers is a friendly and enthusiastic writing group. Some of us are published, some not yet, and some write for fun. Cambridge, UK.
@thekentacorn.bsky.social
Our Oak Trees & their Sweet Chestnut chums in our ancient bluebell woodland in the Weald of Kent. Also pictures and facts about trees twitter.com/TheKentAcorn
@pietersender.bsky.social
@sharonhoward.bsky.social
History, data, pictures, food. Still lazing about. http://sharonhoward.org/ ORCID: 0000-0002-6051-6274
@victorianlondon.bsky.social
Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023)
@marcdavenant.bsky.social
Photographer, writer, two time winner of the Portrait of Britain. My book ‘Outsiders’ documenting homelessness is available from Bluecoat Press. My website is https://marcdavenant.com
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Ex-Guardian & Observer journalist till I got replaced by Nick Clegg. Fighting the Broligarchy since 2016. Please sign up to my (free!) newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/broligarchy
@noreenmasud.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
@drbenjaminperkins.bsky.social
PHD Graduate (University of Lincoln) specialising in Alfred Lord, Tennyson and Celticism | Loves Reading, History, Baking and Gaming | Neurodiverse | Pagan | Currently working for the NHS in Admin | Views my Own | They/Them or He/Him
@chrisroutledge.bsky.social
Writer, photographer, cyanotypist. Undergoing cosmic rearrangement. https://chrisroutledge.pictures
@drmjwarren.bsky.social
Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckoo’s Lea, Bloomsbury, out June 2025: birds in our ancient and modern senses of place. Marshes. Winter. Whisky. https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea www.birdsandplace.co.uk
@boapublishing.bsky.social
Our skilled team curate and digitise unique collections of primary sources that illuminate key historical concepts, events, and themes.
@weratedogs.com
Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹 links.weratedogs.com
@frenchmegaliths.bsky.social
Field work in Iraq for 5 years, 34 years curating ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian American and Prehistoric antiquities. Since retiring have been publishing my collection of old French postcards of Megaliths (see pinned post).
@drjpw.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham: English Reformation; Church music; Decalogue; sin & salvation; puritans; parishes; mental illness; material culture. Husband; cat dad; choral singer; aspiring pianist; nerd.
@lilyehirsch.bsky.social
Writer (often about music). Reluctant book promoter. Ok, I can do this: author of Can’t Stop the Grrrls and Weird Al: Seriously. Sometimes tries to be funny.
@harbottlestores.bsky.social
- Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine/Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Author (as Jennifer Wallis) - Bradford lass -
@drtobydriver.bsky.social
🛩️ Aerial Archaeologist @ Royal Commission, Wales | Trustee: Cambrians & AARG | Author: HILLFORTS OF IRON AGE WALES | Prehistory | Landscape archaeology | Personal account https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-toby-driver-fsa-9394203b
@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
@cambliblife.bsky.social
Local history author and researcher. Local Studies Librarian for Cambridgeshire Libraries - usually found in the Cambridgeshire Collection. Bit deaf 🦻. She/they.
@balhnews.bsky.social
The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
@jdmccafferty.bsky.social
A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
@drhannahlscott.bsky.social
Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
@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
@stuhennigan.bsky.social
Writer, poet, editor, musician. Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022) Keshed (Ortac, Feb 2026) Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, pub. tbc) #MDANT https://stuhennigan.substack.com/ https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/author/4207/stu-hennigan
@sonicscrewup.bsky.social
TV writer, ‘BLOOD’, ‘HOLLINGTON DRIVE’, THE LAST KINGDOM’, ‘MEDICI’, other things you’ve not seen. They gave me a Writers Guild Award once. Mostly post about Arsenal.
@eoldoula.bsky.social
EOL Doula, Thanatologist, Advocate & Educator in palliative care. Course creator for Caregivers, Comprehensive EOL Planning, and Death Cafe facilitator. Former Columnist, Reporter, TV Host. Writer, Speaker and more. I am passionate about what I do!
@mattcrofts.bsky.social
Literature researcher. PhD on #Gothic Tyranny. Interests: Dracula adaptations, the #Flashman papers, rats, apocalyptic wastes & Castlevania. Black cat fan 🐈⬛
@crasshlive.bsky.social
Welcome to the official account of the University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities Visit us at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk Newsletter via tinyurl.com/crasshnews
@jambookshopuk.bsky.social
Made UK's only regular #illustration reportage in @privateeyenews.bsky.social 2011-2020. Created @smallpressday.bsky.social in 2016 & Jam bookshop in 2022-2025. https://linktr.ee/jambookshopuk Still draws stuff:
@juleshoward.bsky.social
Zoology, science/nature writer, author. BBC Radio 4 / Guardian / Observer. Books: 'Infinite Life' / 'Choose Your Own Evolution' / 'The Martian Museum of Earth Animals' and many more.
@bto-gbw.bsky.social
A network of 20,000+ garden birdwatchers and citizen scientists contributing weekly to the Garden BirdWatch survey, which is organised by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). https://www.bto.org/our-science/projects/gbw
@drsarazadrozny.bsky.social
Victorian fiction, medicine and culture. Researching gender, ageing and the Gothic. Departmental Tutor at Oxford University Department of Continuing Education.
@andy-jm.bsky.social
Studying for PhD in Folklore/History. Contemporary and urban folklore, activism and protest. Interested in cultural and physical edge-lands, transgression and magical thinking.
@greenmanmorris.bsky.social
Folklore, folk music & storytelling. Permaculture, deep ecology & biodiversity. A Green councillor, Christian, and part time druid. Tree planter & wildlife gardener. Neo-Luddite. Resist the machine!
@mariekehendriksen.bsky.social
Senior Researcher early modern history of knowledge & head of dept @KNAWHuC | Taste, medicine, identity, performative methods | FRHistS | PI ERC CoG @preservare.bsky.social | author of Het Grote Dropboek
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Powerful citizen journalism in the East of England | Regulated by IMPRESS News from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambs, Herts, Beds (plus national stories) Web: https://eastangliabylines.co.uk Email: [email protected]
@resistlist.bsky.social
Welcome to Resist List. Your online hub of the ongoing resistance to the growth of authoritarianism in the United States. https://choosedemocracy.us/resist-list/
@richlyevocative.bsky.social
Poetry bothering, blog tinkering, place pondering, musically promiscuous, book-loving freelance copywriter. Likely to moan & rail at the unfairness & absurdity of life. Poetry etc. published elsewhere https://linktr.ee/richlyevocative
@russincheshire.bsky.social
Columnist for Byline Times, author of "The Decade In Tory", "Four Chancellors and a Funeral", and "Tories: The End of an Error". Software monkey and slave to an idiot dog. Cheshire, UK https://unbound.com/books?collection=russell-jones
@openthanatology.bsky.social
The Open University's interdisciplinary group for the research, study & education of death, dying, loss & grief across the lifecourse. Co-chaired by Prof Erica Borgstrom and Dr Joanne Jordan.
@privateeyenews.bsky.social
Britain's best-selling news and current affairs magazine with a unique mix of jokes and investigative journalism. Website: https://private-eye.co.uk Subscribe: http://subsonline.co.uk
@slipperyjack.bsky.social
👁️ Occasional Graphic Designer for telly & film 🔥 I also make Spooky Lino Prints that you can buy if you want 💀 My second illustrated Folk Horror anthology Tales Accursed OUT NOW 📍Black Country (middle of the UK) https://linktr.ee/SlipperyJack