I went to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social exhibition Expecting: Birth, Belief & Protection to see their rare mediaeval birth scroll!! 📜 I explain the history, context. & magical powers of birth scrolls in my latest post: blackthornandstone.com/2025/11/13/g... #midwives #childbirth #medievalmidwife

I really enjoyed the lunchtime talk by @msromany.bsky.social titled '(Séance) Room of One’s Own' that covered the origins of British spiritualism and how it inspired women's rights at the turn of the last century. I hope Dr Romany Reagan will do more of these kinds of talks. #spiritualism

🎃 👻🧟‍♂️ Halloween haunts the streets of Battle! 🧟‍♂️👻🎃The Battle Yarn Bombers outdoing themselves this spooky season with these glorious characters. I love our quirky little town. 🦇🕸️ #yarnbombers #halloween #spookysussex #ilovebattle

🕯️🧹Halloween Special | Witches Familiars 🧹🕯️ podcast now live! 🎧 I was invited on @nationaltrust.org.uk podcast to discuss witches’ familiars & share some darker stories of loving pets in the past… 🐈‍⬛🧙🏻‍♀️💜 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir... #witches #witchcraft #nationaltrust #feministhistory

Coming soon to British Online Archives — Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920. Featuring rare records from The National Archives, British Library, UCL, and The Folklore Society. Register your interest: buff.ly/YBeFCF1

My new article ‘Women’s Healthcare in a Man’s World: A potted history of how we got here’⚕️🚺🌿 is out now in Fall 2025 issue of Bust Magazine 💪🏻 It explores when women’s healthcare fell into the hands of men & the fight to get it back⚡️✊🏻 #womenshealthcare #feministhistory #midwives #histmed #feminism

My next (free!) talk will be Tues 11/11 12:30pm at the Bank of England Museum — ‘A (Séance) Room of One's Own: The socially subversive origins of British Spiritualism’ 🔮👻 Exploring how ghosts were just the beginning… 🕯️ www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats... #spiritualism #feminism #victorianhistory

I saw the lovely @msromany.bsky.social talk about witch bottles at the Museum of the Home in Hackney some years back. It’s a fascinating subject: blackthornandstone.com/2020/09/02/w...

🦇🎃💀 Happy October!!! 💀🎃🦇 Get into the *spirit* of things with my audio walk through darker Bloomsbury following occult pathways & hidden histories in this birthplace of British Spiritualism 👻🔮 Join me… if you DARE 🏚️ londonmonthofthedead.com/hauntedbloom... #bloomsbury #spiritualism #audiowalk

Only 2 weeks until the Battle Folk & Fable Festival August bank holiday weekend!! 🧙🏻‍♀️🌿📜🕯️I’ll be giving my talk on dreamlore 3:15pm on Sat 23rd in the main marquee tent ✨ Witches, Faeries & Ghosts: Our dreamscapes of legend & lore ✨ battlefolkandfable.co.uk #dreams #dreamlore #folklore #ghosts #witches

My Spotify daylist has informed me that I apparently like anti-folk cabaret deathgrass. And they are not wrong. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m so proud to be in this lux little new zine #TheSpectralLines 🕯️💀for ‘seekers of unveiled meta-realms’ by #CarnieFilms with my piece ‘Grey Ladies in the Crumbling Stones: a love affair with the uncanny gothic feminine’ 🥀 #greyladies #ghoststories #iwanttobelieve #ghosthunting #doyoubelieveinghosts

I'm giving live talks again! Join me Thurs 12/6 6:30pm at Museum of the Home for the feminist history of herbal midwives & women’s right to choose! *** + after-hours entry to Gardens Through Time 🌙 wine reception🍷 & private view of SIMPLING at Ruup & Form gallery *** ruupandform.com/events/52-pl...

“Reading” is a strong word, but certainly consuming literature. 🤨

It’s a little-known fact that Dennis Leary died in Battle in 1885 ☠️ The current Dennis Leary is in fact a vampire🧛🏻‍♂️I pass this headstone every day & invented many Victorian adventures for Dennis Leary the Vampire romping around East Sussex 🗺️ #dennisleary #dennislearythevampire #losthistory #truefacts

Music is joy! #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmil...

Join me & Kerry Lemon aka MRS ROE 12/6 6:30pm for feminist herbal history talk + art exhibition 🌿 We’ll begin at @museumofthehome.bsky.social with my talk on the herbal secrets of mediaeval midwives 🌙 Then to Ruup & Form gallery to view MRS ROE exhibition Simpling 🚺 ruupandform.com/events/52/ov...

This is Elias (human) and Bruce (cow) and today they're making cupcakes! Yum.

What a marvellous first Mother’s Day!! 💐 It’s a bit surreal for this holiday to apply to myself for the first time. We went to a Mother’s Day Tractor Run 🚜 (we live in the country so this is apparently what we do now! 👩🏻‍🌾) Next year we’ll get there early enough to score seats actually on a tractor! 😃

True stories of an American / British household — poor little love will alternate in confusion between learning that’s not his ZEE-bra and that’s not his ZEH-bra depending on who’s reading to him at the time… 🤨🤪😂 #americanbritish #transatlanticparenting

A new (and gorgeous!) Witches of Scotland #tartan has been created to honor the thousands of people, primarily women, who were persecuted as #witches between the 16th and 18th centuries. wildhunt.org/2025/02/newl...

I’m surprised the non-stop baby lullabies playlist didn’t completely tweak my roundup this year! I fully expected night sounds instrumental green sleeves to top the billing 🤣

Battle Abbey looking quite imposing and glorious this year with its Christmas illumination! 🏰 No filter here, it genuinely looks like this when you walk down the high street! Top Christmas’ing. 🎄 @englishheritage.bsky.social

Gloriously dramatic tree I saw today in my local cemetery. A tree to tell stories under. Some trees blend in to the background in summer and then start to show their unique beauty in autumn. ❤️🍂

Not gonna lie: I'm a historian and I had no idea there was a second person on that plane. His name was Fred Noonan. We've all been a Fred at one point in our lives 😂

It's easier to drain a moat of water than it is to remove its ghosts. On long redundant bridges, absence of water doesn't stop those crossing them from hearing invisible splashes or the rhythmic sound of oars. Now dry circles fiercely hold their phantoms. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

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My chapter ‘Unlocking Heritage Stories’ in the new Digitising Heritage book has been published and out now from University of Heidelberg Press! 📚🎧🚶🏻‍♀️☠️ The goal of this work is to offer what is hopefully a helpful resource for practitioners to create their own digital heritage content.

Looking for something free to do in London? 🔍💸 Want to learn feminist history in a beautiful garden? 🌺🌻 🌿Women’s Weeds is back for Summer 2024 at #MuseumoftheHome !🌿🚶🏻‍♀️🎧🌳 blackthornandstone.com/womens-weeds/ #feminism #midwives #hackney #herbalmedicine #witchtrials #colonialhistory #audiowalks

Come join me International Women’s Day next Fri 8/3 7pm at Sutton House in London where I’ll share how the Women of Sutton House contributed to the fight for women’s education & the vote! 🚺✊ *** Tix include lecture, pop-up exhibition & wine reception🍷🍷🍷 *** www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london...

I’ve now stood in the same room as Shakespeare’s First Folio! 📜🥹 I caught the end of the Senate House Library exhibition, Shakespeare’s First Folios: a 400-year journey. It was incredible to view the evolving editions of the book — and to discover some intriguing conspiracy theories & side-plots!