Samantha Ward-Smith Writer
Bestselling Author. Historian. Raven lover.
PhD in early modern letters.
Debut novel 'Tower of Vengeance' out now on Amazon. 13th Century historical fiction set in The Tower of London.
Currently working on 'Ravenscourt' Victorian Gothic.
@avateedro.bsky.social
🚫DMs - I write novels and short stories. I also provide editing services to help fellow writers refine and elevate their work.
@keefy1.bsky.social
Left Twitter a few months ago - hello BlueSky 👍 love books and reading, family and Pepper Sproodle
@rosannamcglone.bsky.social
Writer, mum, journalist. Feisty Females Medieval short stories: https://rosanna-mcglone.sumupstore.com/product/feisty-females The Process of Poetry, Amazon no.1. The Making of a Poem. Journalist The Guardian, SMH, The Australian and Salon.com
@andrewrokey.bsky.social
Historical novelist, winner of the 2025 Paris Prize for Fiction. Landscape photographer, Hull City fan, #t1d
@luisaajones.bsky.social
(She/her) Welsh author of emotional historical and contemporary fiction. Storm Publishing, RNA, SOA, HWA. Loves books, cats, dogs, VW campers, cakes and cwtches. www.luisaajones.com
@margo-writing.bsky.social
Scribbler, history lover, fan of old Hollywood. RNA member. 📚💃🍰 🎬 #writingcommunity #historicalfiction
@jpreedman.bsky.social
Author of historical fiction on Medieval Women, the Wars of the Roses, Stonehenge and Robin Hood
@annachantwriter.bsky.social
Writer, reader, lover of history & folklore. Medieval historical fiction author.
@euantaylorauthor.bsky.social
The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
@kevin-gallant.bsky.social
Canadian Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️ https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9 Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤 https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
@laurasrobinson.bsky.social
Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling author. Amazon #1 bestseller. 🇬🇧 Mantle, Pan-Macmillan 🇺🇸 Atria, Simon & Schuster Agent: Antony Topping @greeneandheaton.bsky.social https://www.laurashepherdrobinson.com/
@speakingbipolar.bsky.social
Author, blogger, and tax preparer fighting bipolar 1 disorder and Familial Mediterranean Fever. I want to help you do the same.
@rebootrenaissance.bsky.social
Welcome to Reboot the Renaissance by HumanistFreeAudio for the curious, the cunning, and the culturally caffeinated. We’re restoring MediciOS. Ideas reborn. Influence retooled. Principles reprogrammed. reboottherenaissance.substack.com | #bskystorians
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
@stephenmcgann.uk
Doctor Thingy in Whatsitsname. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @cambridgeup.bsky.social
@historianmemory.bsky.social
Historian Memory scholar Research Prof. SOAS University of London Sankofa Ubuntu Yoga Oceans & accidental gardener Agent: https://georginacapel.com/
@thatnatt.bsky.social
Terrible news, chums... Gleeful Beast, head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose! He-flapper.
@helenking.bsky.social
Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
@rmathematicus.bsky.social
Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social
Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
@carolinepennock.bsky.social
Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
@nigelwarburton.bsky.social
Philosopher, writer, podcaster. Co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Author of A Little History of Philosophy and many other books. Weekly column Everyday Philosophy in The New European. Consultant editor Aeon.co and Five Books.
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
@k8lister.bsky.social
Blonde Bombsite. Sex Historian. Author of A Curious History of Sex & Harlot, Whores, & Hackabouts. Host of Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. Consider this your fair dos warning.
@lottelydia.bsky.social
Historian. Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024). Work stuff here: https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley repped by Carrie Plitt @ FBA pronouns are she/her and views are my own 💫
@hpsvanessa.bsky.social
historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@emilyncock.bsky.social
Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens. https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
@rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social
News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
@rachelbynoth.bsky.social
Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety,distant communications and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
@andrewkenrick.bsky.social
Former editor of White Dwarf, current editor of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. Life writing PhD from UEA. Mostly writing about Romans. Nothing if not varied.
@mbarcia24.bsky.social
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
@rhiggitt.bsky.social
Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland & Honorary Fellow at STIS, University of Edinburgh. Views own. Formerly known as @beckyfh #histsci #histSTM #museums 📜🗃️ https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
@elsadevienne.bsky.social
Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
@luciejones83.bsky.social
Victorian historian at a UK post-92. Usually lost in the past & admin. Slowly writing book on British settlement houses 1880-1920. Looks at home, & gender. Interested in pedagogy, & disability in higher education. Dyslexic/dyspraxic. Her/she.
@justinepick.bsky.social
Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
@hdichter.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management 📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports 🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
@ctimmermann.bsky.social
Historian of Science, Technology & Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Rheinländer. Cyclist. Gen X. Owned by dog. Unhealthily online. Posts personal. He/him. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
@purseigle.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Warwick Writing a global history of urban disasters for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
@colmuseums.bsky.social
We're renowned for Romans, cuckoo about clocks and wild for animals! Custodians of Colchester Castle, Hollytrees Museum and Colchester's Natural History Museum.
@webstermedieval.bsky.social
Medieval historian (esp. kingship, religion, saints, King John & Thomas Becket). Mature students & lifelong learning. Carer. Occasional gardener. He/him. 🌈 Ace, Genderfluid
@rjhammond215.bsky.social
Historian. Senior Lecturer. Vice-President and Founder Member of the Second World War Research Group: https://www.swwresearch.com/. Co-Editor of War in History journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/WIH
@simonjones.bsky.social
Writes about the First World War. FRHistS. Late museum curator. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
@sarakbarker.bsky.social
Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
@kieranconnell.bsky.social
Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast. MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY out now with Hurst: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/multicultural-britain/ Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
@kateteltscher.bsky.social
Cultural historian and writer. Author of Palace of Palms, a Times and New Statesman Book of the Year. https://kateteltscher.com/
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com