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@mrbwteach.bsky.social
@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
@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
@jim.londoncentric.media
Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
Chief political commentator and executive Editor, Financial Times
@sathnam.bsky.social
Writer @thetimes. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. Join me on my Empireworld tour in 2025. Pre-order my book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador in 2026. www.sathnam.com
@drjaninaramirez.bsky.social
Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. Gotta lotta love to share.
@edusky.bsky.social
Update - as Bluesky and #EduSky rapidly expand, Alice has created a team to best support the community! > Please now go follow @Eduskyteam.com
@shippersunbound.bsky.social
Chief Political Commentator, Sunday Times. Author of All Out War, Fall Out and Out (coming soon)
@gabyhinsliff.bsky.social
Guardian columnist & writer, author of Half a Wife, sometimes on telly/Guardian Politics Weekly podcast. No, I didn't write the headline. Event host & speaker https://www.specialistspeakers.com/?p=2705
@evanhd.bsky.social
The bloke who presents the BBC Radio 4 PM programme as well as the Bottom Line. And Dragons Den on BBC1. I try to be reasonable, but it is sometimes a struggle.
@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
@freereed59.net
Teacher Education. History. Trad music. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing 📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl. https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/ https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@tombennett71.bsky.social
Behaviour advisor to the UK Department of Education. Founder of researchED. Professor of School Behaviour. Academica University of Applied Science.
@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!)
@alexjquigley.bsky.social
Education, education, education. Work at the Education Endowment Foundation. Write books, write for TES, and blog: https://alexquigley.co.uk/
@dtwuva.bsky.social
Professor @UVa who's puttin' the funk back in functional brain imaging and the psycho in psychometrics. One study is just one study, folks.
@musingsofadr.bsky.social
Head of Secondary, St George's British International School Düsseldorf. https://musingsofadr.wordpress.com/
@daisychristo.bsky.social
Director of Education at No More Marking, an ed tech start-up. Author of 3 books about education & 1 about football. West Ham & cricket fan. Subscribe to our free newsletter: https://substack.nomoremarking.com
@bennewmark.bsky.social
Teacher, parent, school governor. Occasional blogger. https://bennewmark.wordpress.com/
@michaelfordham.bsky.social
Headteacher of Thetford Academy (UK). Trustee of Diocese of Ely MAT. Interested in history, school music, and educational philosophy. All views my own.
@clairestoneman.bsky.social
Principal, Lift Schools▫️English teacher▫️Brum▫️organiser researchED Birmingham & researchED Leicester▫️Visiting Professor, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aston University▫️views own▫️blog here: https://birminghamteacher.wordpress.com
@samfr.bsky.social
Writes the most popular UK politics Substack (samf.substack.com) Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State" out now. (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Senior fellow: Institute for Government
@edfinch.bsky.social
Thinking about primary education, Big Education Conversation, storytelling, strumming, singing, linocutting.
@gregashman.bsky.social
School leader who teaches a bit. PhD in Instructional Design. Writer. Podcasted for a bit. Part-time Professor. Honorary Fellow. Views entirely my own. Ballarat. fillingthepail.substack.com
@jameshandscombe.bsky.social
Executive Principal, Mathematician, Teacher, Wordsmith not necessarily in that order.
@nikkisullivan.bsky.social
Professionally, a Bradford-based Deputy always looking to better life chances. Personally, an optimist always looking for the next adventure. All views my own. https://lovetotalktandl.wordpress.com/
@clairehill.bsky.social
Executive Director @Steplab_co | Expert Advisor for Ambition Institute | Standards Officer @LitdriveUK | NPQEL I Co-author of Symbiosis
@katejonesteach.bsky.social
Teacher. Senior associate for Teaching & Learning at Evidence Based Education. Author. Mum.
@suchmo83.bsky.social
Experienced primary teacher, school leader and author. Feel free to DM if you are looking for professional development relating to reading or just free advice.
@jonhutchinson.bsky.social
Director at the Reach Foundation. Previously primary teacher, A Level Religious Studies teacher and senior leader at an all-through school. Chair of governors of a primary cluster board. Collect all the other bits and pieces at www.jonhutchinson.com
@oldandrewuk.bsky.social
Teacher and blogger. My blog can be found at https://andrewold.substack.com/ #ukteaching
@moderncassie.bsky.social
Education | Inclusion Executive Officer (IEO) | Trustee | Music | Infrequent blogger | Runner #NPQH #NPQEL #RunningPunks
@danlyndon.bsky.social
Director of the Schools History Project; Teacher, Writer, Gooner.
@edpodesta.bsky.social
#AssociateProf at #Leeds Trinity University - #Education academic, crap #saxophonist, deficient in the attention department. I'll follow if you've got a bio or real-world descriptor. Not here for Edu-Culture Wars. I wear hats now. Hats are cool.
@arthurjchapman.bsky.social
Prof History Ed & Head of Department Curriculum, Pedagogy & Assessment @ IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education & Society. Ed, Hist Ed Research Journal, Teaching Hist & International Rev of Hist Ed. OHTE SAC. FRHistS. FHA. Blog: thecamelsback.org Own views, etc.
@nimishlad.bsky.social
Trust Head of Curriculum Development | Assessment | Physics | Author: MARGE model of learning in Action | UCL grad | Primary school governor | Views are my own | All typos owned and apologised for in advance https://researcherteacher.home.blog/
@claireharley.bsky.social
I’m a senior leader/history teacher in the East Midlands and part-time EdD student. Currently on mat leave so probably posting from soft play. Can we bridge the gap between research and practice? I blog here: www.researchtoclassroom.com Typo Queen
@drcastelino.bsky.social
Secondary Science teacher. Curriculum Leader of Science. Author of 'The Homework Conundrum' https://shorturl.at/E1njc Blogger: https://drcastelino.wordpress.com/ #CogSciSci Homework Guru
@funkypedagogy.bsky.social
Trust Director of English and Literacy at Carlton Academy Trust | Author | Speaker | CPD | Mum | Wife | ADHD | Founder: The Literacy Community | #EduSky | #UKTeaching | 🇬🇧 🇰🇳 www.funkypedagogy.com
@claresealy.bsky.social
Head of Education Improvement for the States of Guernsey. Blogs at primarytimery.com #UKteaching
@mrbwteach.bsky.social
Head of History & Politics based in SW London. Interested in all aspects of curriculum, practice and assessment.