Dr Alex Broadhead will be giving an online talk on English Dialect Literature to the @folkloresociety.bsky.social on 27th January. Tickets are £6 (or £4 if you're a member). Here's a link: www.folklore-society.com/event/online...

Tomorrow, an excellent talk on Northern Spiritualism from the fab Icy Sedgewick at the Folklore Centre in #Todmorden Only a few tickets left! www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

New exhibition coming soon! Come and explore this intriguing story, view the last original artefacts… if you dare!! 😱

Saturday! 🙌 Emeritus Prof. of Sociology (Uni. of Sheffield), Hon. Treasurer of The Folklore Society, Richard won Katharine Briggs Award in 2015 for ‘Black Magic and Bogey Men.’ He will be discussing his research into the stories of Mother Shipton. Tickets: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

Happy International Museum Day 2025! How lucky are we to have the stunning Towneley Hall Museum & Art Gallery in Burnley, Lancashire? The Hall is home to over 30,000 museum objects and artworks that have been bought, gifted and loaned since Burnley Corporation obtained the Hall in 1901. We have……..

IMPORTANT NOTICE On Tuesday 20th May, the Park Life Café and Towneley Hall toilets and shop will be closed to the public, to enable contractors to complete the resurfacing of the paths around the Hall with golden gravel, as part of the works to restore the Hall. Access around…….

Discovering the Going for Gold theme was composed by Hans Zimmer is up there with Salman Rushdie's song about the Burnley Building Society. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU20...

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Many true things from @theguyliner.bsky.social. Quite happy with my two days a week in the office (quiet reading time on the commute with noise-cancelling earphones) but that's ON MY OWN TERMS. substack.com/@theguyliner...

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As the tiresome WFH vs office 'debate' is back clogging up headlines again, my very serious investigation into the extremely valid reasons people detest going into the office is now free to read.

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Can we trace family history through the recipes passed down through generations? One of my brilliant Folklore Studies MA students is asking this question. If you cook/bake then please consider filling in their survey here qualtricsxmjr5kww3lt.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Snow! In #Folkestone! #uksnow

Starting in April! Watch this space… With a huge thank you to @icysedgwick.bsky.social for all her support for the Centre and her kind offer to host these talks in order to fundraise. Thank you! 💚

We’re looking for speakers for our new online programme- please get in touch if you’d like to give a talk… 😊

Del's got the trademark trademarks.ipo.gov.uk/ipo-tmcase/p... but has he got the passion? #dragonsden

#Dragons, more than a myth? Find out at the #Folklore Centre in #Todmorden on Sat 22 Feb! Cryptozoologist, author and Fortean Times writer, Richard Freeman is giving a talk in West Yorkshire. www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

PNW Moss #photography #nature #hiking

VENUS AND SAGITTARIUS TONIGHT!!!

Waning Gibbous Moon. 2042UT 16 November 2024. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography

THE INTERNET ARCHIVE IS BACK WITH FREE BOOKS AND MOVIES AND A BILLION OTHER TYPES OF MEDIA WHO CHEERED archive.org

English National Folklore Survey! Excited to work on this with David Clarke, Ceri Houlbrook, Diane Rogers & Chris Bader Exploring the country’s diverse beliefs & practices will be fascinating, but we’ll also examine what folklore tells us about Englishness today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Robin Hood, morris dances and UFOs: English folklore survey gets post-Brexit reboot

A fresh look at cultural identity will follow outline of 60-year-old Survey of Language and Folklore, conducted by two academics driving a red Mini

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Are you a #facilitator? Is #facilitation part of your work? Want to discuss and practice #facilitating? I'm running the Facilitators Unconference next month. Tickets via www.facilitators-unconference.com Price includes lunch, refreshments and access to the event. Please share!

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What are your plans for next weekend? Here’s an idea: you could join us at the UK’s free culture and open source celebration and unconference, in Manchester. It is going to be great! #OggCamp2024 ogg.camp/tickets

OMG. Person next to me on this (delayed) train has just *emptied her inbox*. I’ve never seen that. In awe.