Claire Cock-Starkey

Writer (Lore of the Wild, Hyphens & Hashtags &c). Books, libraries, history. P/t PhD on folklore of death in 19th century England

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

My next book in the Lore of... series is out on 5th October 2023!
🌛💫Lore of the Stars 🪐🌞
is an illustrated treasury of folklore from the skies, stars, planets and beyond. Pre-order your copy here:
https://t.co/9Zb5Gbpyr3

[Clara Contreras @claconame]

My article "Victorian Eco-Spiritualism: Environmental Citizenship and the Occult Revival in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing" is now out in the International Journal of English Studies! Extremely grateful for the interest it is causing https://t.co/liX0m4ly8g

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@Emily__Vincent @unibirmingham @melissaldickson @EllieCDobson @profccferguson @EDACS_UoB @19cc_bham @artsatbham @Gothica_UoB Congratulations Dr Vincent! 🥳

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@shedworking Exciting! Congratulations 🥳 Looking forward to hearing more details!

[Ceri Houlbrook @CeriHoulbrook]

This looks like a fantastic opportunity for any folklorists out there looking to do a funded PhD - any Folklore Studies MA students who enjoyed @odavies9 module on the Folklore of Landscape would be perfect!

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@shedworking Good luck! Sending good commissioning vibes your way 💫

[Dr Ryan Sweet @RyanCSweet]

My new JVC article "Cash Cows and Dogs with Dentures: Prostheses for Animals in Nineteenth-Century British Culture" is out. Free access: https://t.co/Oe4mDclCFv

[Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome]

There is a dark secret on our bookshelves.

The innocently named “The English Flower Garden”, has an eye-catching and beautiful green cloth binding which is infused with poisonous arsenic!

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@History_Will Thank you!

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

Very excited to share my newly-published open access article in Mortality: '‘A distressing scene’? The corpse in the nineteenth-century working-class home'. So pleased to have this research out there! Please share with anyone you think might be interested: https://t.co/dLQepvwkEQ

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@janetteleaf1 @over_leaf @INCSA_19thC No I'm at the Social History Society conference, I presented on Monday and am leaving today after conference closes. Good luck with your paper, hopefully I'll see you around the campus!

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@NrGreenwood Thanks so much Natalie!

[The Folklore Society @FolkloreSociety]

We have one more online talk before our summer break: Sophia Kingshill on 'Through the Looking Glass: What is a Doppelgänger?' Tues 16 July 18:00-19:30 BST. Tickets £6.00 (£4.00 for Folklore Society members with promo code). Join us! https://t.co/2sc6a2iK7F

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@over_leaf @ABDavis1816 @drannaburton @kewgardens @DerbyUni Oh woo! Well done. I would have loved to have been there 🌳

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@LouBell @socialhistsoc @amywok1 Thanks for running it and sorry I was late! Was lovely to connect with some fellow PGRS 😊

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@Trabbs_Bhoy Well it's in a large part due to your excellent supervision and support but also most definitely owes a huge debt to Birkbeck as a whole!

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@kristof_smeyers Thanks Kristof! 😊

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@dickinson_aly @eoldoulaUK @poppysfunerals @ramnaslady @hilarypeppiette @stagcremations Thank you so much Aly!

[Samuel West 💙💛 @exitthelemming]

Educational makeup of the new cabinet: 90%+ state school educated.

This is big (and very different)

[Claire Cock-Starkey @NonFictioness]

@Trabbs_Bhoy Oh my! What a gorgeous pup.