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@simongosden.bsky.social
@calltoactivism.bsky.social
Founded to stand up to Trump and the GOP. Legal analysis & news the media is missing.
@themerl.bsky.social
We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Posting hog on main. Chaotic Good. Website ➡️ https://merl.reading.ac.uk/ Merch ➡️ https://merl-shop.co.uk/ Podcast ➡️ https://merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/absolute-units/
@aiannucci.bsky.social
Words and smiles. BBC Sounds Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Also, Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site. www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
@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 🧑💻
@alisonkilling.bsky.social
Visual investigations at the FT. Architect who won a Pulitzer.
@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 💫
@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.
@whoresofyore.bsky.social
Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
@bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford. Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@zoegrunewald.bsky.social
Freelance political journalist & broadcaster | Westminster Editor at the Lead UK | Presenter on Fubar Radio | Chatting on Oh God What Now | Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
@chriscurtis94.bsky.social
Proud Milton Keynesian and Labour MP for MK North. Can't spell, views 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
@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
@charlotte2153.bsky.social
Labour MP for Warrington North 🌹 Jewish, book worm, happiest outdoors Email: charlotte.nichols.mp@parliament.uk
@laylamoran.bsky.social
Member of Parliament for Oxford West and Abingdon | Chair of the Health & Social Care Select Committee | Here because Musk ruined the ‘other (social) place’ | she/her | Promoted by the Lib Dems, Unit C5 Grange Court, Barton Lane, OX14 3NB
@zarahsultana.bsky.social
Labour MP for Coventry South | coventrysouth@parliament.uk | she/her
@goodlawproject.bsky.social
We use the law to create a better, fairer and greener future. Support us: https://goodlaw.social/donate-bsky Contact us securely: https://goodlaw.social/got-a-tip-off-bsky
@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
@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
@mbarcia24.bsky.social
Professor of Global History and Dean of Global Engagement at University of Leeds. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social
The Trinity College Library in Cambridge comprises the modern student library, the Wren Library, and significant rare books, manuscript and archive collections. https://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/library/home/ https://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/
@thehistoryguy.bsky.social
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
@vaginamuseum.bsky.social
World's first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynae anatomy. Website: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/ Other social links: https://beacons.ai/v_museum
@museumbums.bsky.social
Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑 'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller; 'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣 (curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social) Buy our book here: www.museumbums.com
@lucyrigby.bsky.social
Member of Parliament for Northampton North | Solicitor General | For casework, please contact lucy.rigby.mp@parliament.uk
@tarpits.org
One of the most famous fossil localities, recognized for having the largest and most diverse assemblage of extinct Ice Age plants and animals in the world. Open 9:30am - 5pm daily, closed the first Tuesday of every month. 🌎 https://tarpits.org/earthmonth
@jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social
UK Financial Policy Reporter @POLITICO.eu Australian journo in London, originally from Adelaide/Tarndanya. - views & rants my own - - jfitzgerald@politico.co.uk
@karlykingsley.bsky.social
#NotYourMamasMarthaStewart |Former Chef | Journalism l Politics l Cybersecurity | Legal | Connecticut + Massachusetts I 🇺🇦💙 Not aspiring to be humble 💙
@darrenpjones.bsky.social
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Labour Member of Parliament, Bristol North West
@kateraworth.bsky.social
Author of Doughnut Economics, Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab, Senior Teaching Fellow at Oxford Uni Environmental Change Institute. doughnuteconomics.org
@simonlightwood.org.uk
Labour & Co-operative MP for Wakefield and Rothwell. 🏳️🌈 For constituency casework please email simon.lightwood.mp@parliament.uk
@bho.bsky.social
British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
@billt.bsky.social
Hack and pundit. BBC Research & Development. Formerly Digital Planet.
@drdind.bsky.social
Retired physics prof, forever lefty political nerd. Born at 315 ppm. In a relationship. Reform the Democratic Party!
@dannychambers.bsky.social
MP for Winchester | Liberal Democrat spokesperson for Mental Health | Veterinary Surgeon 🩺 https://dannychambers.org.uk
@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.
@jctheresistance.demcast.com
Political & Partnerships Director - @DemCastUSA 2024 DNC Delegate - Team Kamala We are in the fight of our lives. Stand Up, Fight Back. Democracy dies in darkness.
@cartoonart.bsky.social
Founded in 1984, CAM is a San Francisco-based, educational arts nonprofit that has something for everyone—from comic strips, comic books, and anime to political cartoons, graphic novels, and underground comix. Come visit our galleries: cartoonart.org
@simonforstroud.bsky.social
Labour’s MP for Stroud in Gloucestershire, and GP. Local. Sustainable. Community. Abusive and irrelevant comments may be hidden and those who post them blocked. www.simonopher.org
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
@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. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
@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.
@simongosden.bsky.social
Deep woke, hard centrist, bunny hugger, ❤️ girly swots, mountain biker, SF and Fantasy bookshop owner, anti fascist, EU citizen. I miss David Bowie a lot. 🇪🇺🇨🇦🏴🇬🇧🇺🇦