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@financialtimes.com
The best of FT journalism, including breaking news and analysis. https://www.ft.com The users this account follows are verified FT staff or contributors.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Writer, strategist, co-presenter the U.K. No1 podcast The Rest Is Politics … love Britain hate Brexit, loved Twitter loathe Musk n Trump
@owenjones.bsky.social
Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
@stephenfry.bsky.social
Grazer and nibbler at the outer edges of new social media platforms
@janinegibson.ft.com
Editor of Weekend FT • sinkhole tracker • Do not buy crypto from me or anyone who appears to be me
@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
@rafaelbehr.bsky.social
Political columnist, The Guardian Author, Politics, A Survivor's Guide Website: https://rafaelbehr.com/
@arusbridger.bsky.social
Editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk / Former EiC the Guardian/ @reutersinstitute ARusbridger.com/ Speaking: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
@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
@mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social
In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
@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 🧑💻
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social
Chief political commentator and executive Editor, Financial Times
@hugorifkind.bsky.social
Writing in The Times Thursday and Saturday, talking on Times Radio Monday-Thursday. Also, other things. Latest novel, Rabbits, found here: https://amzn.eu/d/hUQTsSW
@ledbydonkeys.org
Art, Activism and Accountability https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@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
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social
Guardian writer, but one time I said something inflammatory to the US right & they called me a Diseased Pitmommy. So that's what I go by now
@bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social
A bot mirroring BBC Breaking News updates. This is an unofficial account with no affiliation to BBC. Sources: - twitter.com/BBCBreaking - BBC app
@richove.bsky.social
Bodley's Librarian, @bodleianlibraries.Bsky.social & Head of Gardens, Libraries & Museums @ox.ac.uk OBE. FSA. FRHistS, FRSE President, DPC. Fellow, @Ballioloxford.Bsky.social. Member, @AmPhilsociety.Bsky.social
@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
@lemoustier.bsky.social
Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy 📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art 🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined 🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool 1/4 TrowelBlazers Rep: PEW Literary
@bsky.app
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@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
@thehistoryguy.bsky.social
Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Editor and CEO, Zeteo Author, ‘Win Every Argument’ British-American
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@anitaanand.bsky.social
I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple.
@privatechand.bsky.social
Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
@edwardluce.bsky.social
FT's US columnist/commentator. Author of several books including forthcoming biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski (Simon & Schuster 2025). People lacking a sense of humour might get muted.
@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/
@questingvole.bsky.social
@spectator lit ed. “Clock-white, still friendly to the earth.” https://bit.ly/TheHauntedWood
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. she/her. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@kimatiwagner.bsky.social
Historian of empire, violence and atrocity photography - currently writing about the My Lai Massacre in 1968. Latest book: 'Massacre in the Clouds - An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History' (PublicAffairs, 2024) London - Wylie Agency
@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
@josephinequinn.bsky.social
Historian at Cambridge. In Search of the Phoenicians (2018) and How the World Made the West (2024). I like cats.
@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
@samirashackle.bsky.social
Freelance journalist (mostly for the Guardian Long Read) and author of Karachi Vice. I am also on Substack @samirashackle. Currently on maternity leave!
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@audreytruschke.bsky.social
Professor of South Asian history Rutgers-Newark | Anti-fascist | pro-education | https://www.audreytruschke.com/ | https://princeton.press/8r8idcye
@petersbeaumont1.bsky.social
Senior international correspondent at The Guardian. Author of the Secret Life of War. Orwell Prize winner.
@stillwatersrandeep.bsky.social
Chief leader writer, The Guardian. @tianran at the other place
@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.
@willdalrymple.bsky.social
Scottish historian & art historian; @EmpirePodUK.bsky.social podcaster & Jaipur Lit Fest co-director. Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford. Writes the occasional book.