Coming up this evening : my final talk this week on Ghosts Behind Glass happening in Oxford. Come over if you are in the area! oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a...

It was an absolute joy to have been a poet on the MossWorlds project and re-story moss in collaboration with such inspiring folks. Embrace the mossibilities!

👀 Post Doctoral Researcher - Osteoarchaeology (18mths/PT) "This post is part of a Historic Environment Scotland-funded project to collate, record and disseminate the archive of a 1970s excavation of an important Pictish/Norse cemetery at Newark, Orkney ..." www.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vac...

Last call today for the OFFICIAL PUBLICATION DAY of my book on the Blair era, 'New Labour, New Britain?' I think it's a judicious look at the whole topic, but you must be the judge: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

For young poets! The Inspiring Voices Poetry Festival invites young people across England (ages 11-25) to respond to England's inspiring heritage sites through poetry Hosted by English Heritage & @torchoxford.bsky.social Submissions close 15 March 2026 www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/inspir...

For young poets! The Inspiring Voices Poetry Festival invites young people across England (ages 11-25) to respond to England's inspiring heritage sites through poetry Hosted by English Heritage & @torchoxford.bsky.social Submissions close 15 March 2026 www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/inspir...

My new book, exploring folk tales in Lincolnshire, is now available for pre-order! Publication: April 2026. fiveleaves.co.uk/product/devi...

Next week! Get your tickets for the #Broadside Day 2026 conference on 14 Feb at @sheffielduni.bsky.social with the Traditional Song Forum, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library @efdss.bsky.social and @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social www.efdss.org/whats-on/61-...

Exciting to see the hard copies of this too!! 🤩 @draflint.bsky.social

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

It's taken me a little longer than hoped to find time to get stuck into 'Ghosts Behind Glass' (by @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social), but it is worth the wait - a cracking holiday read! And it's informing a bumper list of Natural History museums I still need to visit 😁

Can anyone identify what type of creature this was meant to depict? I believe it's Native American

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️ Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around! 👇👇👇 @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

We are now accepting proposals from scholars interested in applying for the EU's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships program in 2026. This is a great program for early career (<8 yrs from PhD) scholars to be with @greenhouseuis.net for 2 years on own project. www.uis.no/en/research/...

This, from Lemm Sissay’s collection ‘Listener’, is a masterclass in pace and rhythm and rhyme. It is a read it out loud kind of poem. It is playful, funny, poignant, and deep all at the same time. #poetry #poemoftheday

New in our #LocalStudies library, ‘Ethel’ explores the life of Ethel Haythornwaite, a countryside pioneer from Sheffield. Her tireless campaigning contributed towards the founding of the Peak District National Park and the creation of the first green belt in the UK.

If you're around in Bristol today, I'm giving a lecture on my New Labour book at the University! I'll be kicking off in the Arts Faculty about 1pm... Come along! www.bristol.ac.uk/history/even...

And if you're interested in intersections between #folksong and open-air singing, there's also this #OpenAccess article I wrote, published in Folklore last year doi.org/10.1080/0015...

How did communal open-air singing in early 20th century Britain connect with fellow-feeling, bodily experience, and ideas of the countryside? These are topics @drhick.bsky.social and I discuss in our Element - Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain. Out now & free to read online doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Treat yourself to a little break to read this gem of a poem today.

On 4 Feb @nfsengland.bsky.social are giving a talk at Sheffield Weston Park Museum, giving an overview of the project so far, along with emerging findings. So come on down and see what folklore is potent in England! (You'll need to book in advance: www.sheffieldmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/lun...)

Coming up in about 20 min! Hope to see many of you there for the live talk and discussion.

Are you around in Bristol on Thursday? Do you want to hear me talk about my new book on the Blair years? Well you're in luck, because I'll be giving a lecture and taking a Q&A at the university at 1pm! Come along... www.bristol.ac.uk/arts-law-soc...

Celebrating centenary of landmark law which gave us the right to walk & ride on 1/3 of the commons of Eng and Wales. @openspacessociety.bsky.social was fundamental in its achievement @ramblers.org.uk @ramblerscymru.bsky.social @friendsoflakes.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Closing date 31 January: applications are now invited for the Society's new Applied History Fellowships with @ihr.bsky.social & DC Thomson: bit.ly/4ijiuII Fellowships support recent post-doc historians and demonstrate the appeal of historical skills for employers. £12,000 for 6 months #Skystorians

Escaping the news by immersing myself in poetry today, specifically poems about Avebury henge and stone circles - would love to read other folk's favourite poems about this magnificent site, if you have one to recommend let me know!

Our 1st #envhum #book talk of 2026 is on Monday, 19 Jan, 16:00 CET/15:00 GMT. Join us to hear Isabelle Gapp @issygapp.bsky.social discuss her book A Circumpolar Landscape: Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930. All are welcome! newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Popped into Leeds Art Gallery & saw this gorgeous exhibition today. Especially moved by Judith Tucker's Night Fitties paintings 😍 museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/don-t-let-s-...

I'm collecting children's folklore for a forthcoming podcast theme - what do you remember believing as a kid, or what games did you play? And what do YOUR kids do for rites, games, and stories they pass on? Let me know! forms.gle/D8mLW7q2um5Z...

Hopefully you all know how I love the mixture of archaeology and art. Today I visited the @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social & saw the spellbinding collection of Rose Ferraby work. Of so many things precious to me - landscapes, sites, artefacts. One week left - go and see it! #archaeology #art #wiltshire

Another publication from m'learned colleagues on the 'All Our Footsteps' project, funded by @ukri.org. This time it's @drhick.bsky.social of Newcastle and @draflint.bsky.social of Oxford on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain'... What a topic!👍 It's free to read: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Hi, have I mentioned that my book on New Labour and the Blair years is coming out in UNDER FOUR WEEKS? Any journalists who'd like a proof copy for review, do DM or email and I'll fix it right up... 👍 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526146328/

Collections Officer (Part-time) Location: M60 0AS, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom Salary: £16,200 (FTE: £27,000) The Co-operative Heritage Trust is the charity which runs Rochdale Pioneers Museum on Toad Lane – where the modern co-operative culturejobs.org/job/collecti...

33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

If anyone out there works for a museum (anywhere in the world) that would like to have me give a similar talk about extinction & museums with a local twist, please contact me!

👀Online publication day🥳 'Outdoor singing in modern Britain: a sensory & emotional history' by me and @drhick.bsky.social is now available to read online & download (for free). Part of CUP's Elements in Histories of Emotions & the Senses series www.cambridge.org/core/element...

NEWS 📣 The CUP Element @draflint.bsky.social & I wrote on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain: A Sensory and Emotional History' has been published & free to download here. Thanks to editorial team incl @boddice.bsky.social, reviewers and all who commented on WIP 🙏 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

My Sister Went to Live on the Moon – Sue Finch @suefinch.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2026/01/09/m...

Today's wintry weather has reminded me of this piece I wrote for The Goose, on walking, snow and suburbia. It's #OpenAccess scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol...

Today's wintry weather has reminded me of this piece I wrote for The Goose, on walking, snow and suburbia. It's #OpenAccess scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol...

History has lured me here – a lining of moss on a crumbling log. This year, I'm hoping to release a 3-pamphlet sequence of haibun with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social. It has a Covid-19 theme, lockdown-restricted walking/writing process, & illustrations by my partner, Ruth. #HaveYouAlwaysBeenHere?

My streets are empty as the moon, curtains closed as sealed-up hearths. I stop the traffic and the world and lay down on a snow-white road. Matthew Clegg

My Christmas reading has finally arrived! Can't wait to get stuck in

There's still time to order from us for Christmas delivery to Sheffield addresses (postcodes S1-S17), and we're happy to gift-wrap books, if you like, at no extra cost. Orders received by 23 December will be delivered - by hand, on foot - on or before 24 December. longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Lots of you will be logging off at the end of today. So what's coming up in 2026? It'll be packed. M'colleagues @drhick.bsky.social and @draflint.bsky.social from the 'All Our Footsteps' project will be publishing a book on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain'! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Whoop! so good to have these corrections back in time for the Christmas break 🎁 It was a smasher to write (dream team!) and can't wait to see it out in the world next year 🎉🎶

Christmas 1984 – Moira McPartlin atriumpoetry.com/2025/12/19/c...

An early festive gift for folk who like stone circles and poetry! A NEW blog post for the @torchoxford.bsky.social and English Heritage collaborative Poetry, Heritage and Community project. All about the poetic associations of #Stonehenge www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/writ...

Order by 2pm Wednesday 17 December for delivery in time for Christmas (within the UK). We can gift-wrap, add a handwritten note, and/or send to a different UK address (no extra charge).