Martin Brown
@martinb-archaeo.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, Morris tart, folklorist manqué
A day late for
#FolkloreThursday
but if you want to read my review of Imogen Corrigan's book The Green Man, it's here. It's not perfect but I really enjoyed the book and found some useful insights, particularly about the possible origins of the phenomenon.
www.archaeologists.net/publications...
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The Green Man: Myth and Reality
This readable book challenges preconcpetions. It may surprise some readers, but the Green Man isn’t green, and they aren’t all men. The foliate head is only known as the Green Man in the Anglophone wo...
https://www.archaeologists.net/publications/reviews/2025/green-man-myth-and-reality
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The circle also sits immediately above active springs in a verdant, even fecund, re-entrant. Last time I visited it was busy with ravens too.
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8 months ago
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This is the sort of thing we all need in our lives.
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8 months ago
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If the Metropolitan Police did indeed break open the doors of the Grade II Listed Friends Meeting House, they may have committed a
#HeritageCrime
and should not be above the law
@mayoroflondon.bsky.social
#Quakers
@quaker.org.uk
do report to Historic England
8 months ago
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As it's
#HillfortsWednesday
, here are a few from a recent site visit that involved a trip up Old Sarum,
#Wiltshire
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10 months ago
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I'm sure I know people who will take no pleasure in seeing this... eh,
@paulblinkhorn.bsky.social
?
11 months ago
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I've sung these words on The Fifth when the National Anthem is played in
#Lewes
as part of
#Bonfire
. My Society's HQ is next to Bull House.
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11 months ago
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Happy birthday to the only Civil War General to have a Morris dance named after him. Shame how he turned out, mind.
@efdss.bsky.social
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about 1 year ago
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Meanwhile, there's been some interesting archival footage discovered by
@bwzuk.bsky.social
in the library of the Hookland Folk Dance and Song Society
#Hookland
youtube.com/shorts/SQprI...
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Folklore
YouTube video by bwzuk
https://youtube.com/shorts/SQprIBmp8R4?si=MG59Mmeklv_MM1dH
about 1 year ago
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Martin Brown
about 1 year ago
Day 4 of the
#HooklandChristmasTree
. We drape the Bell Hill Worm, remember legends of dragon-carved paths. The stuffed felt snake is an old friend. Its silver stitches glitter, its scales bounce faery light colours. When we turn away, it seems to slither to a different branch.
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Dr Delyth Badder
about 1 year ago
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed. If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath. 👉
uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
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Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/StoryvilleBooks
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Ray Newman
about 1 year ago
BLOG POST: What to watch next if, like me, you wish there were at least a hundred more of those 1970s BBC ghost stories for Christmas. 🎞📽
precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/11/24/t...
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The infinite supply of BBC ghost stories for Christmas
There are only eight episodes of the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, produced between 1971 and 1978. That’s not enough. Here are some suggestions for where to go next. First, let’s address a technic…
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/11/24/the-infinite-supply-of-bbc-ghost-stories-for-christmas/
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Sonia Zakrzewski
about 1 year ago
Such a big loss. RIP Colin Renfrew
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Sue Hagley
about 1 year ago
Avoid Amazon always!
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Just a few images for November from
#Lewes
on The Fifth.
#Bonfire
about 1 year ago
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I'm back. You all know why
about 1 year ago
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Here's some rather lovely graffiti from the porch of the parish church in Welbourn, Lincolnshire.
about 2 years ago
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That's me and the incomparable John Tams, folk singer and song maker extraordinaire. Taken after his set at #Banterfest last weekend. Yes, reader, I fangirled him.
about 2 years ago
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Andrew Screen
about 2 years ago
If you're a Nigel Kneale fan then you must listen to 'You Must Listen', a new adaptation of Kneale's lost 1952 radio drama, on Radio 4 tomorrow at 2:15pm or later on catch up.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, You Must Listen
A new adaptation of a lost 1952 radio drama by science-fiction legend Nigel Kneale.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmdp
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Good morning. Thanks to
@danherb10.bsky.social
I am here. First posting includes a picture that neatly combines many of my interests.
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