Author and editor. Interests in the Visual Arts, Poetry, Theology, Science, Folklore and the English thoroughbred.
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I’ve reviewed ‘The Exeter Companion to Changeling Lore’ for this winter’s edition of The Journal of American Folklore (JAF). @DrBeachcombing @chiollagh @UExeterPress 👍
The Katharine Briggs Award 2026 Shortlist: folklore-society.com/blog/po…. The winner will be announced on 10 Nov, 18:30-20:30, after The Katharine Briggs Lecture by Yinka Olusoga at The Warburg Institute, London. Tickets £10: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-katha…
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For Michaelmas Day, one from my recent travels. Medieval wall painting from St James, South Leigh (Oxfordshire) featuring St Michael weighing souls and the Virgin Mary dropping rosary beads onto the scales to weigh it in her (and the soul's) favour.
The third of the quarter days and beginning of autumn, of darker nights and colder days. Happy #Michaelmas! My goose has been fattened on the stubble from the fields after harvest: ‘Eat a goose on Michaelmas Day, want not for money all the year’, or so they say! #AllAngels
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From 18 October there will be a new exhibition at @MuseumofCamb devoted to folklore (and supported, among others, by the @FolkloreSociety)
Memory of Kenya (10 years ago): Making fire, instructed by a Maasai elder and participating in the adumu or enkipaata, also known as the Maasai jumping dance, practiced by the Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania.
Polity Books: My review of Francis Young's 'Fairies: A History'...
"The history of fairies is also our history and connected to the emergence of a foundational aspect of what it is to be human. Fairies have emerged from the deep past of human history and are walking with us now, ‘in all likelihood shadowing our steps into the uncertain future of our species’"
Fairies: A History by Francis Young reviewed in Folklore journal by @Miller_flash
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#folklore #fairies
My review of ‘Fairies: A History’ is now up on the Taylor&Francis website ‘… a sure-footed guide across the shifting and treacherous terrain of an enchanted otherworld’ (see link) @FolkloreSociety @politybooks @DrFrancisYoung @tandfonline @routledgebooks
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But what is clear is that our collective pride in three British institutions has collapsed since 2011: parliament, the monarchy, and the BBC.
Debates over the quality of BBC output aside, it also reveals a deeper fragmentation..
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La photo extraordinaire de Mathieu Rivrin de l'éclipse au Mont-Saint-Michel.
(@mathieurivrin)
Stunning before and after images of the solar eclipse seen through a colander! (Only 64 years to wait until the next one!) 😂
All flesh may well be grass, but my one designated area of the garden is thriving… take that Isaiah! 🌱
Compilation of recent visits to the Met, Frick, Guggenheim and Eugene O'Neill Theatre on Broadway. @frickcollection @metmuseum @Guggenheim
Back from my trip to NYC where I was invited to view Romney’s painting of my x3 great grandfather Thomas C. Carwardine (1772-1822), at owner’s residence. This on the back of my paper for the Romney Society’s annual publication, ‘Transactions...' @romney_society @artist_romney
Although my review of @DrFrancisYoung ‘Silence of the Gods’ for @FolkloreSociety has been available online, it now appears in the newly-released edition of the journal itself. A veritable cornucopia of research articles & reviews also available! @CambUP_Religion @cambUP_History
#RoyalAscot 2026, Gold Cup: The 4-year-old, Scandinavia, got up (just) to take this year’s renewal for Aidan O’Brien from the admirable front-running Trawlerman (last year’s winner) in a pulsating finish.
