Just looking for some peace, quiet, arts, culture and nature.
Exploring Scotland's historical places
indie bookshop in Sydenham, SE London | open since 1966
| new books | second hand books | children's books | gifts |
Mon-Sat 9:30-5 Sun 12-4 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
De Montfort University Special Collections, part of Library and Student Services. Explore our collections on our catalogue: http://specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk
Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
Fat, fluffy, middle-aged. She/her. Woke snowflake seeking avalanche. BSL user. All views expressed are mine alone, not my employer’s, not my family’s, not even the squirrels that live in my garden 🐿️
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Antifa. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare. Erstwhile Prof. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Current librarian, former classicist, perpetual nerd. Expect special collections, book history, yarn.
“Is there anything you aren’t interested in??”
Mostly UK wildlife and prehistory. A drinker of real ale, real cider & real coffee. Wolves FC supporter. All 📸 my own.
32 // Berneray, Outer Hebrides. Van adventures, drone photography, prosecco & otters 🚐🦦🥂 Owner of a little gift shop, Coralbox 🏴
Generally floundering. Yogi, knitter, walker, sci fi nerd, occasionally sweary, Scottish, retired engineer, frequent user of the block button, rehomed Elsie the German Shepherd. She/her
Amateur photographer, shooting nature, animals and culinary subjects.
All photos are my own.
I paint, create and curate vintage delights! Watercolour, acrylic paintings and crafts can be found at twibellarts.etsy.com and vintage and antiques at Unit 52, Canberra Antiques, Hemswell, Lincolnshire UK (with specially curated pieces on Etsy too!)
Lover of good things to eat and drink, good company, old things, good manners. Despiser of emails.
Writer/journalist and pre-history lover. Professional Southerner living in Yorkshire.
London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Lefty London bloke fuelled by painting, coffee, photography, trees and buns. “An awkward mix of the very serious and the very silly, but he gives it to you straight” - Stewart Lee. I also make up quotes and can’t see direct messages. #freepalestine
Head of Subject Area - Education @londonmetuni #Edusky #UKHE #EAP #TNE #InternationalEd
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clairebradshaw2007
I❤️: 🏊♀️ 🇪🇸💃🎶🌳📚📺🎬👩🌾🏡🧑🧑🧒🧒🧶🪡📸🍰🥗
Rare book librarian in DC
London lady of leisure, culture, travel. Things Ancient 🏛️ Deutsch 🇩🇪 Nordisk 🇫🇮🇸🇪 Not forgetting 🍰📚 & First World War
Once upon a time @ British Library @National Lottery Heritage Fund
Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Knowledge Transfer Facilitator at the Bennett School of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.
Horticulture 🌱 Gigs 🎶 History 🏰 The Shots 🔴🔵
writer, editor - wild & visual stories mostly, for adults & children, incl. illustrated folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: https://shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins. PhD, Goldsmiths (literature, 2018).
The Brooking houses the largest collection of British architectural detail in the world. https://thebrooking.org.uk
CTO, gardener, former historian, sometime artist, lives in Old York. Really just here to read interesting threads and articles!
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/
Continental European, living continuously on the island of São Miguel, Açores since 2017. Musician and holiday apartment host. My pics are simply intended to document the beauty and diversity of my home island. No Chat. https://casa.sillanova.pt
Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
Bassoonist, cat wrangler, a bit of a mess. Also into genealogy, boats, knitting.
Cultural historian of modern Britain. PhD researcher in First World War studies. Interests including film and TV, gender, emotions, country houses. Teaching museum studies this semester.
Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
Architect, often working on old buildings or new buildings near old buildings.
Superannuated consultant, energy co-op director, lapsed politician, recidivist old house restorer, reader, food, wine, arts, humanitarian wokerato, fulminateur
My Portfolio: https://portfolio.pixelfed.social/JoeGarrity
Fun and informative award-nominated history podcast. Listen at www.storiesofbritain.com
Classicist with an MA in Preventive Conservation, currently researching 'Preservation of degrading plastic objects in a small underfunded museums'
In no particular order...birder, novice botanist, Gashead, art, film and book lover, husband, dad etc.
18th c. social networks, abolition and history of education | Trustee Hannah More Trust hannahmoreletters.org | President NDLHS | Chair of Trustees Nailsea Tithe Barn | Continuing Education Tutor and examiner.
Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Architectural historian with a passion for early to mid 20th century Irish architecture. Read my series 100 Buildings for Culture section of @rte.ie website
Teesside / TeesValley Branch of the Royal Institute of British Architects
Promoting architecture, architects and supporting our members
First and foremost, biodiversity: Frogs; Snakes; Bees but the wild kinds; Birds but not a birder. Occasional politics, of the woke, pro-Rejoin kind. Si j'avais le choix, je serais à Toulouse. SW London. Crepuscular.
Professor at Cambridge University, Fellow of St Edmund's College, Student of Everything Else. Posting in a personal capacity; opinions and photographs my own.
www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/sjj24
orcid.org/0000-0001-9362-9665
I read books and paint watercolours.
An outdoorsy photoshoppy mole- likes National Trust scones & Dartmoor. A bookish mole in a hole seeking the return of integrity. Not sure this account adds much. Exceedingly good in parts. #AltText - no AI🚫
Erstwhile early modern historian, now professional services at the University of Sheffield. Likes: intoxicants; the supernatural, folklore, folk horror; KE/impact; project management; 📷; 🥾; 🏋️. My photography portfolio: https://darkframes.squarespace.com/
Heritage Building Surveyor & Technical Specialist • Master Carpenter • Questionable Pianist & Mountaineer • Full-Time Hobbit Wrangler.
Author of historical sagas, lover of the countryside, often to be found on my North Devon allotment.
Julia’s War - the first book in my new WW2 trilogy - is now published by Penguin Michael Joseph.
Find out more at rosiemeddon.com
#Earlymodern historian | FRHistS | IHR Fellow
📚James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) | James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (2025) | Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ Lost Letters (forthcoming, Routledge)
https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
Mum, buildings geek, beloved daughter of the Father
Historical and applied linguist by training, but I have a soft spot for letters, queens, and Tudor history. Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics and AI@NTU.
NEW BOOK: https://tinyurl.com/tvnt9fyr
Mostly here to listen. Medieval literature, music, politics if I can bear it. Should be reading or writing a book instead.
Moderately crumbly English local history freak. A Yorkshireman researching early modern social structures and networks in Bedfordshire. Kellogg College, Oxford. I’m here for fun, knowledge and respectful debate, so be nice. Keyboard warriors get blocked.
Animation, art & design
Québécois based in London, UK
Co-founder of Eastend Western
RCA MA 2014
eastendwestern.com
nicolasmenard.com
Writer of food histories and The Curry House website. My new book - How to Get a Curry in Victorian London - is out now in paperback and on Kindle.
Nuts about geology and history, the arts and the natural world especially animals. 💙
No pornography, nor do I wish to date anyone. I believe cryptocurrencies are a con and an abhorrence to the environment.
Please no DMs.
Opinions are my own.
Economist. Now Senior Advisor at Oxford Economics, previously BoE MPC 2016-22, economist at Citi and Salomon Brothers 1990-2016.
Director of Giving Evidence: helping donors make decisions based on sound evidence. (www.giving-evidence.com)
"Charmingly disruptive" - Nobel laureate Richard Thaler.
U.Cambridge visiting fellow. Former FT columnist.
Irrationally exuberant.
Church nerd.
Historian of early modern England at the Open University. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
CBE FREng. Chief Executive of the Met Office. Weather, climate, physics, digital & data, with a scatter of wildlife, Dartmoor, old churches and choral music
Text editor at the Associated Press, London. Previously BBC News website and BBC na srpskom. Oxford Climate Journalism Network 2024. Ukraine, Balkans, climate change, bicycles and the rest.
Non profit dedicated to restoring and conserving land and water across the United States - over 7,000 acres protected to date!
https://uniqueplacestosave.org
Family and local history researcher, teacher, author, Toronto. Trying hard to make planet-friendly decisions. https://wherethestorytakesme.ca
FORMER gas jockey, stage hand, musician, photographer, geologist, software engineer, manager, musician again, astronomer, drinker, tweeter – now I do nothing. I like history.
Filmmaker / Photographer / Creative / Founder / ADHD
Found in: LDN / LA / BCN 🇪🇺🏴☠️
📺 Sub my: youtube.com/neilevansrocks
👾 Studio: @neilevans.agency
🛹 Merch: @2fiftyunderground.com
🎙️ On Air: @weareomgradio.bsky.social
🏴☠️ Everything else: http://liinks.co/neil
FRHistS. Independent scholar.Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Currently researching the life of Charles Francis Greville (1749-1809).
Here to share pics. All photos (see "media") are mine, except reposts. I post on cemeteries & memorials at @recuerdalo.bsky.social. Thank you to all who like & repost. Galleries at #anzbnw (black & white), #anzotd (outdoors) & #anzaa (art & architecture).
Fan of history and family histories, 'intermediate' genealogist, a liberal from central Texas
Eventually Consistent.
Pretending to be a Northerner whilst stealthily seeking asylum in Cumbria.
Soft left socialist bookworm, still occasionally hobbling over the fells and around a squash court.
Very happily partnered btw.
Author of 'Forbidden Wife', biography of Lady Augusta Murray (1761-1830), previous Duchess of Sussex.
Paintings & sculpture; Georgian buildings; hatchments & monuments; Essex, Suffolk, Cambridge & Scotland.
Author, editor, historian. Bibliophile.
Former radio professional, fast becoming a grumpy old mam.
Londoner who's spent his life building timber framed homes in the countryside, so best of both worlds.
On the flip side.
Absolutely horrified that my government are participating in a genocide and the only reason is profit, can't wait for the reckoning 🇵🇸
Historical food website, dedicated to bringing delicious recipes back from the past to the present. Join me at my table. www.myhistoricaltable.com
Founder @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social
Gargoyle Press. Supporting the heritage and conservation sector with clear, reliable and well-crafted marketing and publishing services.
All things Natural History Wild Flowers Plants Birds Butterflies Moths Insects and Photography
Boy mom, college history teacher, Nebraska history writer. Author of Murder in the Land of Broken Promises: The 1884 Tragedy in Nance County, Nebraska.
Scottish conservation architect - posts mostly about old books and old buildings…
Walking and exploring the glorious north of England, and the borderlands. Works for English Heritage. All views my own. #Walking #Reading #BookSky #Northumberland #Hadrianswall and #AverageGolfing.
Climate comms and all things German/ ex BBC/CNN/DWTV Journo. Currently clean on OPSEC
Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Author of books with Yale University Press & of 'Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000' @corkup.bsky.social ... Board Member @nmireland.bsky.social ... @ria.ie ... green optimist
Author and expert in human-centered public historic preservation policy, the psychological value of place, and collaborative governance.
Antiquarian and secondhand bookshop 30,000+ books in stock in Whitehaven West Cumbria. Est. 1970 BIBLIOPHILE!
Ordinary cat loving person who also loves art, music and wildlife. Dislikes cruelty to animals and injustice to people.
Historian @uni-goettingen.de
The medieval maritime, pre-modern transport and urban history. 🗃️ And Banthas. ❤️project: @viabundus.bsky.social
Zooarchaeologist, medievalist, re-enactor. PhD on parchment production in Scandinavia (in progress).
🌱 #History, #Botany, #Plants, #Gardening, #Art, #Allotment, Economic & Social History, Small-scale food production, Cricket. Mending old things and restoring old houses. Location 🇬🇧
I reply to comments on my posts, but not often to DMs
Love books, bookshops and libraries.
Professor, Archaeologist, Egyptologist, Award-winning writer of books, Dad joke lover, mom, rabble-rouser academic. Owned by cats. she/her
Reformed performer.
Arts journalist/ Creative Writer.
(I can rename bodies of water too.)
Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Community Manager, UK Education at Oxford University Press 📚 Oxford Children’s, OUP Primary, OUP Secondary #UKEd #EduSky
Mum • TechPixie • Sea swimmer • Beach cleaner • Book lover • Charity shop forager • Archaeology & History grad • Views are mine
Art Photographer, mostly influenced by the natural world, often leaning toward the abstract.
All images are my own, none are AI generated.
50% of Green and Bailey Photography.
Please contact for print / exhibition enquiries.
Family History Researcher from Kent now living in Shropshire via Gloucestershire.
