And here's a job I just saw posted there...presented without comment. ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

The return of UK’s ancient stones as a place of worship www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Did you know I host a Mabinogi Study Group? Each month we come together to explore the themes, characters, magic, and wisdom of Welsh myth and lore. Interactive sessions, not classes! This month we’re exploring the fourth branch of the Mabinogi! December 28th, 9pm GMT Fancy joining us?

New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research. Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

The Society currently invites applications for 6 funding programmes across a broad range of career stages. These include the Society's new Applied History Fellowships, offered jointly with @ihr.bsky.social, providing 6 months training for historians with the publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4iKCwvU 2/2

Luxuriating, toasting, feasting. Picasso captured the spirit of my favourite Saturday nights with friends.

christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)

The spirit on the end of the arm of the Treadwell's shopfloor sofa. He's a sweetie, as is his twin on the other side. Who's a bit more shy, so I've not shown him this time.

Familiar! Treadwell's is just one street from the great monolithic building that is Senate House. Among our bookshop customers are many of the staff and students of the libraries and institutes therein.

This conference, courtesy of @magicnotwitches.bsky.social and others, will be incredible. Be a part of it

Fascinating article. Thanks, Ben!

Shout-out to every dusty little used book store ever!

Last week Treadwell's acquired a huge collection of vintage tarot decks. Maybe 700, as they fill ten packing boxes.Every deck must be counted to ensure it's complete. So far, each has been opened and shuffled. Out of the 18 we've done,one was missing a card. Here's my niece helping after hours.

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Such an interesting and friendly evening with @odavis.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social discussing the changing nature of folklore at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events. #Folklore #Booksky #Writersky

I'm not crying, not even a little. To everyone who does small good things in the course of your day: you are angels without knowing it, not knowing when, for whom, or how. I pray: May I also do small good things.

Hail to thee, queen of the night. Goddess.

Bookshop life is a kind of paradise. Hard work, but pure and good. Independent, cash- poor, soul-rich. I'm so lucky, everyday, to work in it. Yes that's a mummy case stood up in the background. 😁

Listen to this -- it's kinda wow.

A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏

Talked folklore. And ate blueberry muffins. 'Twere grand. 😊❤️

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Moon worshippers. We're a tribe. Hail to thee, Luna.

Ancient rituals.

Callum James, Three Charms. We stock it #poetry

We're proud stockists of this new title from @helleborezine . Our shop's in central London at 33 Store Street, and we're open Tues-Sun.

For our final Live Show release of 2026 we have a Live Q&A hosted by the one and only @treadwells-books.bsky.social OUT NOW! 🖤 In case you're unfamiliar, Treadwell's is an esoteric bookshop in London specializing in occult and spiritual topics like magic, witchcraft, and world religions. Enjoy!

“The unread pile of books shouldn’t be guilt-inducing but reassuring; proof that we have access to thoughts and stories we might love. Bookshelves show what subjects and ideas spark our curiosity. Owning a book can be as emotionally satisfying as reading it.” www.vogue.in/content/in-d...

It's Sapphic Saturday here...

Good night from Treadwell's. May your dreams be of this.

"like running asthma trials without mentioning asthma attacks." Exactly. Exactly.

Here's a practical way to respond to the climate crisis, lower air pollution, ease traffic congestion, and make public transportation more appealing and convenient. Iowa City's success story with its free buses shows this strategy can work in lots of other places, too. (Gift link)

We remember. We see.

#Art Artist John William Waterhouse. Year 1886. Oil on Canvas. Measures 183 cm × 127 cm (72 inches × 50 inches). Location Tate Britain, London, UK.

After everyone's gone home, the bookshop is silent. The quiet of books waiting, resting. The scent of dragons blood incense is almost imperceptible.

Wiltshire folk: get to know your land spirits and your haunted places. Below are your guides: posts, appearances, blogs.

"My age will be, as my youth has been, my power and my glory." If this were printed on a banner, I'd wave it in the street. A million times yes.

UMass-Amherst is hiring “a specialist in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world” ! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...

Librarians are guardians of so much of cultural value; no bookseller would tell you otherwise. But booksellers and private collectors are also keepers of the soul and wit of humanity. 8/

The reason we have some of those books is because someone, whether a collector in the public trust (a librarian) or a bookseller or private collector, kept them until the time when popular culture recognized their historical value, their literary merit, their astonishing and unique character. 7/

Think of all the times when the popular culture of the moment placed less interest in, say, novels written by formerly enslaved people, or the Beat poets, or Jewish literature, or news flyers sold in London streets. 6/

Even if libraries had infinite funding, even if librarians had more time and more energy and perfect insight into what future readers and scholars will need, some books of great value would still be lost. 5/

Booksellers place books, sometimes with public or academic libraries, sometimes with private collectors who then bequeath their books to libraries. Only later, sometimes because of the work of the bookseller/collector, do enough people see the value of those books for a library to acquire them. 4/

Booksellers have, century after century, identified important texts: books printed by William Caslon, books written in Yiddish, secret thrillers by Louisa May Alcott, the Dove Bible.... Sometimes booksellers and collectors are the only ones who want certain books at a certain time in history. 3/

'Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past' (Philip Carr-Gomm, "Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century") 🌳

Readers, book lovers, remember this always.

Warwickshire folk, here is your rabbit hole. Dive down and delight in these snippets of lore.

And then you're a snake- wrapped, bound up, egg of potentiality, and you're facing the flame-edged challenge of a sword.

And then, with only a touch more fabric vibe, we're suddenly in a tarot card. Admittedly, by this point the spiral wrapping has degenerated completely into a safety sort of wavy draping...

Continuing with the spiral wrap theme (?obsession) skipping through the centuries. Sort of snakey on the left, and sort of scarf like on the right. I mean, are we seeing Renaissance gendering of Serapis exemplars?