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).

As part of the Inspiring Voices poetry festival (for ages 11-25), English Heritage have shared these fab story dice as poetry prompts. Even if you aren't entering the competition, these are a fun way to spark a new poem inspired by heritage and history! storydice.english-heritage.org.uk

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...

Sat here wishing the rain would turn into snow, so thought it was a good time to re-share a poem I had published in @atriumpoetry.bsky.social back in April atriumpoetry.com/2025/04/22/c...

Exciting book news - mine and @drhick.bsky.social 's Element on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain: A sensory and emotional history' is coming soon! It draws on research which was part of the AHRC funded In All Our Footsteps project.

'For years, we have told a story of bogs as unproductive, unattractive; dangerous places of waste, empty landscapes we pass through.' Read an extract from editor @clareshawpoet.bsky.social's contribution to ‘The Book of Bogs' — our December Book of the Month www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/book...

These handsomely crafted books make excellent Christmas presents and, being rectilinear, they are very easy to wrap

Peat friends! Our #EGU26 session "Peatland hydrology: From tropical to subarctic latitudes" 🌍🌿💧 is open for abstracts. We welcome studies on a broad range of hydrological processes in peatlands. Submission deadline is Thu 15 Jan, 13:00 CET. Full info here: www.egu26.eu/session/56151

Publication day! The Routledge Handbook of Heritage & Creative Practice is out today and it includes my piece on creative responses to the mass removal of love-locks along with some amazing pieces by some brilliant people www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

I blogged about “Just Objects?”, the event I ran with @drhick.bsky.social about inclusion and belonging in public space, at the Farrell Centre in Newcastle. Photo courtesy of panellist @draflint.bsky.social www.catherinemax.co.uk/just-objects/

Just been to a fascinating lecture on rhyme by Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings. More on this series of lectures (and many recordings) here: www.english.ox.ac.uk/professor-of...

I really like this pavement guy in Oxford!

This is a great anthology! Such a rich range of voices on walking and landscapes 👣👇

Looking forward to speaking at the 'Air Matters' Symposium tomorrow organised by Tatiana Konrad and Savannah Schaufler. Lots of interesting papers! Free to join online. More info here airproject.univie.ac.at

We're launching our in-person #folklore #writing group for #TUOS PGRs, ECRs and staff writing academically / creatively on folklore themes. Taster session 10-11.30am, 14 November, Doctoral School Centre (by Jessop West). No need to register! contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/centre-activ...

I'm really looking forward to contributing to this event next week (18th November) around inclusion in public spaces - there's still time to book a place!

‘If we are seeking to reassert women’s presence in our public spaces, where better to look than to the very legacies they themselves constructed’. My latest article for @uk.theconversation.com is inspired by a new statue of @ballioloxford.bsky.social’s co-founder, Dervorguilla of Galloway.

I'm so looking forward to reading this book...and to the booktalk today #AnimalHistory

Love passing this little bit of history on a street in Sheffield.

NEW: blog-post from the Poetry Heritage and Community project - 'If walls could talk': how might we think poetically about writing and other physical marks inscribed on the fabric of heritage sites? Focusing on Bolsover Castle @torchoxford.bsky.social www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/if-w...

NEW: blog-post from the Poetry Heritage and Community project - 'If walls could talk': how might we think poetically about writing and other physical marks inscribed on the fabric of heritage sites? Focusing on Bolsover Castle @torchoxford.bsky.social www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/if-w...

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

@catherinemax.bsky.social and I are convening a practitioner/policy/academic roundtable and discussion covering themes such as inclusion in public spaces. Also featuring the work of @draflint.bsky.social (who is speaking at the event) and myself as part of All Footsteps. Get in touch if interested!

It's November so I'm allowed to quietly whisper the word #Christmas, right? Sneaking in between my #Folklore promos I also wanted to point towards a book based on archival research but cosily fictionalised as magical realism - I wrote the book I'd always wanted to read

This is happening tomorrow, Tues 28th 7-9pm, online. Interactive, generative, friendly - I'd love you to come along, so if you need a reduced price ticket, DM me. "Creative language can immerse us in the rich sensory world of the landscape". www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-in...

Spotted 'The Book of Bogs' in the wild whilst out shopping today (at Waterstones in Sheffield)

I Eat the Moon – Antonia Kearton @antoniakearton.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/24/i...

This was a lovely celebration of the #MossWorlds project yesterday - do go and check out the exhibition if you're in Manchester. It's a great excuse to visit this fabulous park in the sky too!

Inspired by @draflint.bsky.social's poem, 'To all Walkers' (currently on display at the Farrell Centre in Newcastle) the Farrell are running a series of masterclasses, led by poet Anna Woodford. Info and booking here: www.farrellcentre.org.uk/whats-on/cit...

Our next Nature Classic: The Icknield Way by Edward Thomas. For a long time we've wanted to add to our library of Thomas' prose, and here it is, complete with a new introduction by Jack Cornish! Cover by Spencer Gore. Out in the spring. Preorder www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

Marsh, mire, fen, wash, level, sump, carr This week's North Sea Nexus post explores the rich linguistic inheritance of words for the watery realm between land and sea

Question for #envhist and humanities peeps: I’m working on an outreach plan supporting a wetland restoration project. Does anybody have recommendations of authors or projects using history to increase public awareness on restoration projects?

It's Electric Wind publication day!💨 Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social. Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇 A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present. Electric Wind is out now💡

#A&K Alive & Kicking helping n.10! This is an article by one of our longest members, Angelos Hadjikoumis. It is based on his PhD dissertation, undertaken in Sheffield. This is highly relevant ethnoarchaeological work. Enjoy! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Delighted to be hosting the @histchild.bsky.social conference next year at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Calling for papers right now! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...

The third series of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast is now available - the first programme just out featuring Al McClimens. Other guests include @thehalt.bsky.social @corrintachibana.bsky.social Geraldine Monk, Cliff Forshaw, Steve Sawyer and Helen Angell twowaypoetry.podbean.com

STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY FROM EFDSS At the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) we strive to create an open culture of belonging where everyone feels safe, represented and respected. Folk is for Everyone.

Wow! 😍

Hurrah! The launch that Clare writes about here was a joyous day full of deep care and kinship. I feel so grateful to have been a tiny part of it.

Never forget your reading glasses when you need to stand in front of a very busy audience and some of the best nature writers in the UK. The Book of Bogs is a glorious anthology about peat and the necessity to protect it. Here's the first page of my chapter about the bogs above Bethesda.

📢Call for Papers📢 ‘Folklore on the Move’: The Folklore Society’s annual conference 2026 in collaboration with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen. In person conference: 5-7 Jun 2026; online conference day: 10 Jun 2026. Proposal deadline 14 Dec www.folklore-society.com/event/call-f...

Coming soon💨 How has energy shaped a nation? Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡 Pre-order now!

Be the fairest of them all, excel at domestic chores & rely on your prince to ensure a happy ending? But folklore & fairytale give us much more than gender stereotypes. Come hear me talk on #Folklore & Women in Liverpool on 5 Nov (& Nottingham 19 Nov) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-w...