Susannah Walker
Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Starter Packs
Created by Susannah Walker (1)
A starter pack of idiosyncratic people
There is no rationale to this other than I like seeing posts from these people. And we could all do with a bit of randomness
@lynneguist.bsky.social
US linguist in UK. University of Sussex. Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/30d0ffd3a48e/separated-by-a-common-newsletter Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist
@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
@halemberg.bsky.social
Books + records + ceramic things+ pencils + Twinkle + les filles + films + people + places
@georgetakei.bsky.social
I’ve boldly gone into the clear blue yonder. Follow for more recipes and tips.
@paulbernal.bsky.social
Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Politics. Wolves. Irish and British.
@towerwizard.bsky.social
bot by @nora.zone. work in progress. art by @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social
@ioanmarcjones.bsky.social
Writer. Essays in The Independent, HuffPost, openDemocracy, New England Review, Litro, etc. Views own. He/him.
@qagggy.bsky.social
📍Seattle/London. Board member at Seattle Neighborhood Greenways. Opinions amirite. Safe, sustainable, equitable, healthy cities. Dongho Chang superfan. (he/him)
@joanavaldez.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Prehistory. Digital Archaeology. Rock Art. Mum of Boys, music, art, nature, animal lover. Avid yogi, veggie. Third Culture Kid
@rachelape.bsky.social
Writer, walker, storyteller, anecdoter, guinea pig scruffler, nature lover. Works with rescued primates. Loves wildlife, music, languages and books. Dorset, UK.
@jonathanhealey.bsky.social
Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. Next book, The Blood in Winter, out 2025. ‘This isn’t the Eighties, Pat!’
@inthesedeserts.bsky.social
pitched into the great fires of our times and being a little bit of a baby about it
@flipchartrick.bsky.social
Nottingham-born West Londoner. Author of Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog. Patient #NFFC supporter.
@jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social
Naturalist, ecologist, writer. “How pleasant it would be each day to think, Today I have done something that will render future generations more happy." Richard Jefferies, 1883. Location: east Northamptonshire, UK.
@mikeprowsestp.bsky.social
COMEDY: SUBSCRIBE TO THE MIKE PROWSE SOLO TRAVEL PODCAST Listen to my tie in with I DON'T LIKE YOUR TIE. NEW INVESTIGATIONS EVERY FRIDAY! https://open.spotify.com/episode/2OrLPSHlyQ85jhdr9mOJxd?si=v5rw16a5RFG9RlX5GfJ6YQ
@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. www.birdsandplace.co.uk (going live soon)
@yukfunwow.bsky.social
Lucy Cheung (she/her) and Patrick Gildersleeves (he/him). Illustration/design duo based in Portslade, on the south coast of England. We just like making stuff. yukfun.co.uk/insta/ It’ll be Patrick posting here usually
@nonstoptom.bsky.social
Hard Quiz host. Taskmaster Australia host. Gold Logie winner. 5 times AACTA winner.
@woolbotherer.bsky.social
Bothers wool. Thinks animals are ok. Reads a lot. Dreams of boats and land trains. Might one day get my shit together. Like some felt art? https://ko-fi.com/woolbotherer She/her
@fjar.bsky.social
Knitter & stitcher 🧶 | Historic sites volunteer 🏰 | Lapsed medievalist 📜 | Genealogy & local history 📖 #OnePlaceStudy | Metal 🎧 | Folklore 🖤 | she/her
@ilkleylitfest.bsky.social
The north of England's longest-running literature festival. Coming in 2025: 3-19 October 2025. #ILF25 | Produced by @thewordupnorth.bsky.social
@paulcallaghan.bsky.social
Culture, economics, regeneration, business, politics & football. #SunderlandMusicCity #SAFC My own views. Retweets are not an endorsement http://MACTrust.org.uk MusicCity.uk https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulcallaghan/
@ggaffa.bsky.social
Writer, Arts Council manager, musician. Concrete Fields (Salt 2023) Out Of The Dark (Confingo 2021) graphic novel Rivers (Top Shelf 2021) www.davidgaffney.org
@suzyhenderson.bsky.social
Writer of historical fiction, fantasy & romance. Lost in the 1940s. Copious tea drinker. Loving Lake District life. Curtis Brown Creative Alumna. Published by DP Books & Northodox Press. Shortlisted for RetreatWest First Chapter Prize 2025.
@kkwiltshire.bsky.social
Reader in Creative Writing, love reading, love writing! Programme Leader for Creative Writing and convenor for the Fiction Writer’s Network research group at EHU, former British Academy Innovation Fellow - but views all my own.
@jennyrichards.bsky.social
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
@liamthorp.bsky.social
Political Editor, Liverpool Echo. 3 x Specialist Regional Journalist of the Year. Orwell Prize and Paul Foot Award nominee. Loves overpriced craft ale.
@stefanstern.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Writes for FT, Guardian, Prospect and The Conversation. New book: Fair or Foul - the Lady Macbeth Guide to Ambition, out now. Visiting Prof at Bayes Business School
@iancarter67.bsky.social
Galloway-based naturalist and author: Rhythms of Nature | Human, Nature | The Red Kite | The Red Kite’s Year | The Hen Harrier’s Year | Wild Galloway https://pelagicpublishing.com/collections/ian-carter https://www.whittlespublishing.com/Wild_Galloway
@missmc.bsky.social
Co-Founder of TeacherTapp, daily poll of 12k teachers. Former editor of Schools Week & Guardian columnist. Once a teacher, always a teacher. SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
@zubhaque.bsky.social
Former Deputy Director and Head of Research at Women’s Budget Group. Former CEO The Equality Trust; Deputy Director of The Runnymede Trust. Member of Independent SAGE. Worked in government and think tanks. Views my own
@theuniversalben.bsky.social
Telling stories about art within the bigger picture of soc, econ and pol. Last Leonardo, Art Bust, Art Safari – Books. Podcasts. Documentaries www.benlewisprojects.com #arthistory
@normalcomposers.bsky.social
🎹 pictures of composers doing normal shit 📸 all photos © their original photographers 📚archived at @librarycongress ❤️ 90k+ on twitter
@newsmansimon.bsky.social
Freelance Journalist with BBC World Service. Previously heard on BBC Asian Network, BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Wiltshire and BBC Somerset. Message me with stories. Available for freelance writing commissions. He/him.
@anna-orridge.bsky.social
Climate crisis, books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. Shabby w/o the chic. Eco-horror novella PHENGARIS out with @nefariousbatpress.bsky.social, May 2025 Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
@anthonyzach.be
Working to make European democracy work. "Refreshingly free of the usual platitudes". Belge par choix, Brits door opvoeding. President of Demsoc.org
@rufusgifford.bsky.social
Six Presidential Campaigns. Ambassador. Husband. Dog Dad. Twitter Refugee. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
@annaalexandrova.bsky.social
Philosophy of science, methodology of social sciences, wellbeing/happiness studies, evidence based policy, measurement/quantification. Professor at Cambridge HPS, Fellow of @kingscollege.bsky.social https://philpeople.org/profiles/anna-alexandrova
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Editor in Chief, MeidasNews. Former Fed & State Prosecutor, Marine, Attorney. Switched parties from R to D in 2020. MeidasPlus.com/subscribe
@agatumilowicz.bsky.social
Scholar & Writer ✍🏻 Ph.D. NYU Comparative Literature I write on archive, nature, memory, and layers of Polish, Jewish and German heritage in my native Lower Silesia. Words in The Brooklyn Rail, Triangle House Review, Apofenie, etc
@overthrowmusk.bsky.social
Fight the oligarchs. Defend democracy. Overthrow Musk. overthrowmusk.com
@brynntannehill.bsky.social
Parent, husky-mom, doomsayer, aviator, general PITA. Views are my own.
@nataliesfergie.bsky.social
Writer. 20th century domestic history. Lover of the nine times table. Veg grower. Never knowingly without a project. New novel, 25 Library Terrace, due in June 2025.
@blogmywiki.bsky.social
You see that sign there? It says 'apple sauce.' Former BBC radio studio manager, former teacher, Bristolian in exile, loves C20th fiction mainly by female writers, writing, classic TV.
@danrhodes.bsky.social
Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta, Sour Grapes, etc.. Toxic brand. https://danrhodes.co.uk
@wacky-world.bsky.social
I have a startup with innovative public toilets 🚽 , a PhD in Economics 👨🏫 and a great fascination for the wonders of the world 💡. He/him