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@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@godpod.bsky.social
Creator of the Universe. Daily free newsletter & animated podcast here: https://www.thegodpodcast.com
@lewisgoodall.com
Journalist, Reporter, Writer, Presenter @ Britain's biggest news podcast The News Agents (Mon-Fri) and Sunday with Lewis Goodall on LBC 10-12. Website: lewisgoodall.com Email: lewis.goodall@global.com Substack: https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com
@hdevalence.bsky.social
prefigurative politics means building privacy, not just critiquing surveillance
@stephenkb.bsky.social
Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal, wosoc. Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
@drezner.xyz
email me if you’d like to get in touch! nathan@drezner.xyz. currently working at Plotly Graphs, editing Wikipedia, and plenty of other fun activities. https://nathandrezner.com Maintaining @wiki-potd.bsky.social & @potd-context.bsky.social
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Historian at Georgetown - Democracy and Its Discontents - Newsletter: Democracy Americana https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/ - Podcast: Is This Democracy https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/is-this-democracy
@arusbridger.bsky.social
Editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk / Former EiC the Guardian/ @reutersinstitute ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor. Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
@paulbrand.bsky.social
Journalist and broadcaster. UK Editor of ITV News, Presenter of ITV’s flagship Tonight programme, Good Morning Britain, LBC. 6 x Royal Television Society Award winner.
@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
@beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot
@bobmort.bsky.social
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
@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 🧑💻
@aloner.bsky.social
Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | professional indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath.bsky.social | Tutor for Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education
@imlunahey.com
29 years old - she/her/they/them - 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 bluesky's #1 professional yapper checkout my bluesky client: akari.blue running on 6h of sleep
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
@chrislintott.bsky.social
Astronomer, writer and zookeeper. Oxford, Gresham and the Zooniverse. The human half of the Dog Stars podcast. New book: 'Our Accidental Universe' (UK/rest of world) and 'Accidental Astronomy (US) now out.
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
Makes things up. Writes them down. Dreams about growing up but not yet.
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
Author+Historian 🧪🗃️, Mystery Novelist, Host of Peculiar Book Club, as seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE. Nonfiction: THE INTERMEDIARIES #trans rights history. Latest mystery: FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE. @SciAm @WSJ @wired #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her
@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 💫
@friede.bsky.social
Storyteller about storytellers. 18th century to today & beyond. Associate Professor of English Words at Polygon (RIP), LA Review of Books, more. Next book: HOW STORIES ARE PLAYED (on #TTRPG Actual Play & digital storytelling performance) www.ecfriedman.com
@zhirji.bsky.social
Bloomberg News climate reporter. Past BuzzFeed News, InsideClimate News. Mom. She/her. Views are my own. Email: zhirji@bloomberg.net Signal: zhirji.51
@whoresofyore.bsky.social
Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
@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.
@maureenbug.bsky.social
phage biologist at the Joint Genome Institute mostly posting about invertebrate butts she/her https://maureenbug.github.io/
@davidbflower.bsky.social
Astronomer and Astrophotographer. Pictures of space appearing in posts, magazines and on the telly.
@thehistoryguy.bsky.social
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@stephenmcgann.uk
Doctor Thingy in Whatsitsname. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
@grind3h.bsky.social
animator, storyboard revisionist & character designer!!! contact me @ whatsupalz@gmail.com!! she/they icon by puppiesandanime!!! https://linktr.ee/grind3h
@byrobdavies.bsky.social
Guardian reporter. DM me with tips or for Signal/Protonmail/PGP (NO PR PITCHES) Spurs fan (mute #thfc #coys to avoid). Author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain.
@madrigal.bsky.social
I have a shiny, smooth coat and a precise, internal clock for my meal times My Art: whatmaddness.com Posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ld6amztvyqa6dkyfpuw7agz3/feed/aaapf3fwo3rya
@kateclancy.bsky.social
Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Obsessed with the uterus, even when it's being shitty. Author of PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation, now out on paperback. Up next: PREGNANCY, INTERRUPTED. White, settler, queer. 🍉
@ihr.bsky.social
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
@dralun.bsky.social
BBCRadio3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Award-winning historian of early modern medicine, the body & beards! Senior lecturer at Exeter Uni, loves guitars, drums & *good* coffee. Blogs at DrAlun.Wordpress.com. TikTok & Instagram: @dralunwithey