Fan of books, history, geography, sports and more. 📚🏴🌍
2026 📚 goal update - 12/60
queerness, art, pot, freedom,
drown it all out with color
#noAI
#noNFTs
#myownimagination
#nothingisforsale
#myartisfree
#stealwhatyoucan
#repostwhatyouwant
#endcapitalism
#creationisresistance
Music, books, nature and vintage fashion…
Yorkshire lass in Shropshire.
Bookseller
On Creative Writing podcast interviews with writers about all things creative writing. From Sheelagh Caygill 🇨🇦 in Amiskwaciwâskahikan-Edmonton. OnCreativeWriting.com and https://ko-fi.com/oncreativewriting
Writing, books, dogs and history!
The Prendergast Watch, Holand Press, 2025
Mary, Queen of the Forty, Havisham & Webb 2025
Simple Twists of Fate, Holand Press 2025
Screw it, let's do it.
Proof it's the real me: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rbranson_richard-branson-richardbransonbskysocial-activity-7267516793689124864--I14
Here's my blog: https://www.virgin.com/branson-
Author: “STRANGERS & INTIMATES: the rise and fall of private life” Out Now! @picadorbooks. (Also: “Keeping Their Marbles” @ouphistory) Trustee,
@britishmuseum https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com/
'National organisation supporting excellence in short fiction' - The Guardian.News & events https://thewordfactory.tv/
Location: Cornwall + London
By day: enabler of research & cheerleader of people. By night: sweary embroidery, speedcubing, books, parkrun. University of Bath (ex-UKRI). She/her
"Atlantic Furies" coming soon, Scribe UK - early women who flew the ocean. Existing Books: biogs of Amy Johnson, Marie Lloyd, Piccadilly Circus, #POWs ("The Barbed-Wire University") etc. #WW2 Creative writing tutor Cambridge. https://midgegillies.com/
We are the official community foundation for Staffordshire & Shropshire. This is the Shropshire branch.
Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing…
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a fairer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training https://linktr.ee/societyofauthors
Independent booksellers
Ross on Wye, Monmouth, Leominster, Cheltenham, Malvern, Hereford
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/rossiterbooks
https://linktr.ee/rossiterbooks
At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Food and Culinary Historian, Cook, Researcher, Writer. Specialising in the ancient world c.3000BCE - 476CE. Dabbling in Neolithic, Chalcolithic, EBA, and Medieval. Founder of www.myhistoricaltable.com
Detective fiction, Victorian literature, UK Higher Ed @ucl, and other things in those general spheres!
Stokie scribbler spinning yarns.
Writer & programmer, here for books books books and more books..
Events at BL, chair of Wollstonecraft Society
Fret Tickler and Guitar Botherer. Twitter refugee.
Lecturer in Lit & Gender, Uni of Bristol
📚Author: Life Writing & the End of Empire (24) https://bit.ly/4aoZrru
📝Co-editor: Janet Frame at 100 (25), British Culture After Empire (23) https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159748/
Views my own
The CWA promotes, supports and celebrates crime writing and writers of crime fiction and non-fiction 🔪🩸👮🏽♀️📚
linktr.ee/crimewritersassociation
I'm Maria, and I run walking tours of London where women's hidden histories are brought to life with theatre and comedy
Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance
British, mostly Scottish, poet in education + community projects / The Poetry Wire online courses / 3rd collection HIGH NOWHERE from IDP / out walking / plagued by the cat / www.jeanatkin.com
House of Shakespeare's Old Sir Rowland, built in renaissance code. Historic manor - venue, centre for theatre & the arts. Hidden in Shropshire, revealed on our website www.soultonhall.co.uk
King's Mother, Times Book of the Month July 2024.
@VikingBooksUK Agent @immmy @marjacqscripts
http://linktr.ee/AnnieGarthwaite
Appearance: Writer, interviewer, events chair.
Reality: Permanently drowning, waves occasionally.
Writer and editor, based in Bristol.
Historian and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also linguist and genealogist. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
Book cheerleader, Bookshop fan, Reader. Often on book tour. UK publishing PR and events 📚 Penguin Random House 🐧
I'm a Welsh writer of two novels about the ancient Numidian King Masinissa set during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage. 🏴
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https://linktr.ee/robedmunds
Writer, #BadGirls, #QueensoftheUnderworld, #PrivateInquiries, historian, swimmer, jumble lover. Thanet, Kent. Rep by Robert Kirby, United Agents. https://www.caitlindavies.co.uk/
Seaside art https://www.instagram.com/7baysbroadstairs
Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
Author Love: A Curious History... (Oct 23), Madman's Library (Times Lit Book of the Year), Phantom Atlas etc. Ex long-serving QI Elf. RGS Fellow. Agent Charlie Campbell @ Greyhound Literary.
Writer. Excitable. 📗FRGS
Getting lost on purpose. ツ
https://linktr.ee/merrynwalters
Professor of Computer Science and Tech Evangelist at Durham University; International Keynote Speaker; #womenintech, #100moments tech #podcast host and so much more… https://linktr.ee/drsueblack
We’re the national library of the UK.
Poetry place-the World's 1st Poetry Pharmacy prescribing poetry & more in Bishop's Castle & Oxford Street, London. Poetry on Prescription since 2012
Www.poetrypharmacy.co.uk
A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
MSc Experimental Archaeology student, University of Exeter. UK. Ex-toymaker. Special interests, pyrotechnologies. Faience, bronze, gold. Currently messing about with granulation.
Giving new life to old books since 2015. Bookshop.org Indie Champion. Find us: backlisted.fm, Apple Podcasts, Spotify. Support us: patreon.com/backlisted.
Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
I'm a good listener. I make Hello You the Shropshire podcast: intelligent, informed, progressive, quirky conversation for Shropshire and the wider world: jimallthetime.substack.com. Ex BBC radio
Photographer, musician, empath, Shrewsbury Folk Festival MC
BEASTLY: The Epic 40,000-Year Story of Animals & Us. (Wainwright SL 2023)
DADLAND. Costa Biog Award 2016.
QUICKSAND TALES. 'a tonic for the tortured and cursed' 2019
keggiecarew.co.uk
Here for the music, synths, film, TV, astronomy, motorcycle and book chat #MDANT
Definitely not a cynic, I’m an optimistic realist and a pragmatic idealist…
Guitarist in a past life
Left wing. Aneurin Bevan was right ✊
@ KevinAdams in “the other place”
Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Author of The #SpyWhoLoved (freedom), #WomenWhoFlewForHitler (but ended their lives on opposite sides of history), #WomanWhoSavedTheChildren (but didn’t like them much). #AgentZo (what a hero).
Book lover. Book reviewer. On the other socials as @JanetEmson
UK
fromfirstpagetolast.wordpress.com
Historian of suffrage theatre. Books, talks, walks, games, exhibitions - and more!
Performer and broadcaster. Former BBCR3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Member of The Magic Circle. Does comedy, cabaret & magic as Ada Campe
www.naomipaxton.co.uk
Landscape archaeologist, prehistorian, and small finds specialist. At home in the Bronze Age, but living in the deep Welsh Marches. HERO for Herefordshire Archaeology.
All views my own
Aspiring gardener, accidental paramedic, lover of all things green 💚. Te Tai Tokerau.
Freelance heritage educator, bringing you objects and inspiration from the past to enrich the future. Experimental archaeologist, HedgeBotherer, string wrangler.
YouTube tutorials: www.YouTube.com/c/sallypointer
Website: www.sallypointer.com
Poe/history blogger. Poster of damn fool nonsense. Enlightened on the subject of Goatology. Crazy Cat Lady. Grouch. Abandon hope, all ye who follow here.
Historian. Researcher and writer - dealer in books and ephemera. European. FRHistS. OBE
Writes fiction & non-fiction, teaches, blogs @ This Itch of Writing https://linktr.ee/emmadarwinwriter
Books, music, films, art, more books. Independent PR.
www.dustymillerpr.com
Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
A feminist rare book business in London. More TK.
Researcher and author, writing about Cambridge women's history 1870-1948. Articles in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today. You can find me at 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com/
Thwarted Madcap Heiress. Free-range book festival programmer, editor, writer, interviewer, reviewer, prize judge. Programmer, Wigtown Book Festival 2026. www.wigtownbookfestival.com
Author of the Murder Most Unladylike series and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. 🏳️🌈
Reader. Writer. Associate Editor & #nonfiction previewer @thebookseller.com. Royal Literary Fund Writing For Life Fellow. Honorary President @indexers.bsky.social. Also on Substack: "What to Read Now"
Swindon based independent bookshop, visit us online or in person! bertsbooks.co.uk - or 54 Godwin Court, Swindon, SN1 4BB
Email us on bert@bertsbooks.co.uk
Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
Author, historian, maker of books and radio - Midnight in Peking, City of Devils, Murders of Old China, Peking Noir, The Defectors, Her Lotus Year. Return to the City of Darkness - Kowloon Walled City now on BBCSounds. Agent - Aitken-Alexander
Historian • author • speaker • TV consultant • presenter. Specialist in researching the history of houses. Otherwise known as Mel Backe-Hansen. Books incl. #AHouseThroughTime and #HouseHistories Rep #PastPreservers http://www.house-historian.co.uk/
Old bag. Still, at least I can now get a ‘flu jab. Plagued by impending sense of doom and a small haughty cat called Daphne Whitethighs.
Crime writer and storyteller. Also Rhiannon Ward. 🏴 13th book, Grave Intent, out in June with Canelo. It’s books, churches, genealogy, knitting & cats.
Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
When not reading, often writing. Represented by @litagentfran.bsky.social
A tribute to the British artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942).
I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Cultural historian and writer. Author of Palace of Palms, a Times and New Statesman Book of the Year.
https://kateteltscher.com/
🚷 Disability History Researcher, Writer, Archivist, Digital Curator.
📚 Founder of Covid Disability Archive. Curator of Disability History Snapshots.
🌈 Clown clothes. Crochet. Medical Mystery.
she/they
A cabaret-style night for people who love museums, libraries, archives and heritage. Masterminded by @RachelSouhami. gigs.museumsshowoff.org.uk
Does what it says on the tin.
Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Spy. Dammit! Ex-spy.
Is it about work? Please contact: Rob Aslett roba@avalonuk.com
Avi pic by Clara Wolden. Background pic designed by Gentleman Jim Gloster.
Former dance writer, author of biographies, currently writing double profile of Gwen and Augustus John. Travel, food ,gardening, arts, jaunts and jokes
Folklorist and Writer,
Rooted in Shropshire's History and Lore. 🌳
Writer of 'The Best Of Men' -A Shropshire folk horror 🦇
- Currently working on a book about The Devil in Shropshire Folklore
Writer, comedian, actor, puzzle-maker. I'm not really sure what the right word for that last one is.
For now, I'm only here to bags my name in case this one takes off. But I hope it does.
Writer and ditch-poker. First novel, Starling, published by @FairlightBooks 2022. Next book, The Many Lives of Rivers, due 2027. Agent Julia Silk/Greyhound. she/her; pwME https://linktr.ee/sarahjanebutler
"Comedian". 2025/2026 TOUR "ANGST" - ON SALE NOW - MORE DATES via angelabarnescomedy.co.uk.
Cold War and Mid Century Modernist nerd.
The Archers obsessive
Prone to inexpert F1 ramblings.
Swims. Naps. Bunkers.
Managing editor at Transformer. Ex-tech editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, also previously Guardian and New Statesman. Sometime media columnist. Signal: jasperjackson.01
Does a podcast called The Memory Palace
Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog, desultory gardener, attention span of a flea.
lissaevans.com
A bookish bear.
https://linktr.ee/SavidgeReads
Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Subscribe for just £1/issue at lrb.me/social
Writer, trained in Archaeology. Author of Medieval 'Arrowsmith Trilogy’ for adults,& historical fantasy/paranormal adventures for young people.
Also latest poetry collection - 'The Matter’.
If it's old, I'm interested.
www.kateinneswriter.com
Labour councillor for Westbourne Ward in Westminster. Former headteacher.
Loves family and friends, books and baking (and dahlias). Lives in Nottingham.
George as in The Famous Five. Books, nice dinners, flowers, cats and rage against the state of things. Erstwhile publishing person.
James Hannah is filmed before a live studio audience
