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
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
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!
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
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!
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
@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!
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