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Kris Hughes

@krishughes.bsky.social

Celtic polytheist. You too? Your friendly neighbourhood Celtic Mythology teacher. Identity labels? meh Get to know me and find out. I do like conversations.

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Dr Toby Driver@drtobydriver.bsky.social · 5d ago

One of the largest coastal promontory forts in Cymru/Wales for #HillfortsWednesday 🤩🌊 The epic Deer Park fort at Martin's Haven, south-west Pembrokeshire - a centuries-old embarkation point for the islands, Ireland & beyond Did Pytheas the Greek ever stop here? 🤔🛶 📷 My own, yesterday

A huge coastal headland seen from a boat across the sea, with wide blue skies above
Rebecca Sharp@rebeccasharp.bsky.social · 5d ago

Less than a month to go! The final, homecoming performance - Sat 3 Oct - St Mary's Kirk, Haddington (East Lothian). tinyurl.com/MMMHaddington ...where you'll also find the 2nd edition of the book (Matecznik Press), updated & with a new preface by Prof. Katherine Forsyth (Celtic & Gaelic, UoG).

Maiden Mother Mage

A poetic reimagining of 6th century Lothian princess Thaney (St Teneu), daughter of Loth of Traprain Law. Written by Rebecca Sharp

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones@rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 2w ago

Satisfying how the Protestant urge to religious self-criticism gets you an eighteenth century Welsh Methodist writing things like "and are we not also rather like the Hindus ourselves, because we only marry people who go to the right kind of chapel and are extremely attached to our cows?"

Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · last mo.

A shepherd in Kintail was settling in for the night, when about twenty cats came & sat round the fire, holding up their paws to warm themselves… —from John Gregorson Campbell’s 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘧𝘵 & 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 & 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (1902) #BookWormSat #InternationalCatDay #folklore

A shepherd in Kintail, living alone in a bothy, far from other houses, after kindling in the evening a bright cheerful fire, threw himself on a heather bed on the opposite side of the house. About twenty cats entered and sat round the fire, holding up their paws and warming themselves. One went to the window, put a black cap on its head, cried “Hurrah for London!” and vanished. The other cats, one by one, did the same. The cap of the last fell off, and the shepherd caught it, put it on his own head, cried “Hurrah for London!” and followed. He reached London in a twinkling, and with his companions went to drink wine in a cellar. He got drunk and fell asleep. In the morning he was caught, taken before a judge, and sentenced to be hanged. At the gallows he entreated to be allowed to wear the cap he had on in the cellar; it was a present from his mother, and he would like to die with it on. When it came the rope was round his neck. He clapped the cap on his head, and cried “Hurrah for Kintail!” He disappeared with the gallows about his neck, and his friends in Kintail, having by this time missed him, and being assembled in the bothy prior to searching the hills, were much surprised at his strange appearance.
Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · last mo.

The Cheviot, the Stag & the Black, Black Oil Currently on the BBC iPlayer: the 1974 TV adaptation of John McGrath’s iconic 7:84 play about the exploitation of the Scottish people through history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the North Sea oil boom #drama #theatre www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Play for Today - Series 4: The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil

The 1974 TV adaptation of John McGrath's iconic 7:84 play about the exploitation of the Scottish people through history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom.

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Kris Hughes@krishughes.bsky.social · last mo.

With blackest moss the flower-plots Were thickly crusted, one and all: The rusted nails fell from the knots That held the pear to the gable-wall. The broken sheds look'd sad and strange: Unlifted was the clinking latch; Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

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Ewan Gibbs@ewangibbs.bsky.social · last mo.

My new book, An Injury to All, traces the history of The Unmaking of the British Working Class. Thanks very much to @demleftscotland.bsky.social for publicising An Injury to All as it goes out for pre-order. Full details below🔽 www.democratic-left.scot/post/an-inju...

An injury to all - New book on the 'unmaking of the working class'

Ewan Gibbs, the Glasgow-based historian who is author of Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland will be known to many Democratic Left Scotland members. Ewan’s ...

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Kris Hughes@krishughes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m dismayed by the way some authors and teachers market themselves primarily by highlighting how awful everything else is. Pay attention. Are they trashing people they should be treating as colleagues, or showing quiet self-confidence? #pagansky #Celticpolytheist

Marketing tactics I won't use | Kris Hughes

Sometimes I’m dismayed that there is still so much bad information circulating about the myths and deities of Celtic-speaking cultures. But,

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