Penny Randall

Hidden Histories: Unlocking the UK's Inaccessible Heritage
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A Bestiary of Loss ~ a sobering catalogue of some of the roughly 800 animal species estimated to have gone extinct since 1500. There are another 4,000 or so animals currently listed as critically endangered. At L, the extinct yellow-tufted Hawaiʻi ʻōʻō
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Pompeii: Spectacular new discoveries unearthed include private spa A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash.

Wow! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret Sussex - Lost in the snow - BBC Sounds Something very peculiar happened when two boys got lost in the snow on Ditchling Beacon.

Lovely bit of snowy Sussex folklore from #BBCSussex
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We want as many people as possible to come so the cheapest ticket is only £5 FOR A WHOLE DAY of content!

You pay what you can afford and all the money goes to Magic Breakfast to feed hungry kids

Even if you can't make it on the day, buying a ticket gets you recordings of the sessions.

"Supernatural beings of Pomerania: postmodern mapping of folkloristic sources" by Włodzimierz Juśkiewicz, Jakub Jaszewski, @DBrykala, @PierRoberrto, K.M. Alexander, and Kacper B. Juśkiewicz.

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CFP for A Warning to The Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales An ONLINE conference on 23rd and 24th August 2025 marking the 100th anniversary of MR James A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 10th April 2025 The conference is f…

The Romancing the Gothic Conference 2025 is now open and waiting for your submissions!

A Warning to the Curious: Ghostly, Supernatural and Weird Tales

Marking the 100th anniversary of MR James collection of the same name!

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The Kinver rock houses of England's last cave people Over centuries, caves in Kinver, Staffordshire, are turned into rock houses by families.

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Somerset Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised At least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten in a Bronze Age massacre in Somerset.

Lovely, beautiful and peaceful Somerset...

"Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised"
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Always an A for me.

Inner voices can be bitches. Sending love Jenn, you are awesome. Xxxx

An article from a 1970s educational magazine on how to make a Krampus table decoration for children including a truly horrifying black and white illustration of the krampus which is made of prunes

Forget cheese and pineapple hedgehog, every party needs an edible Krampus. Especially knowing how much children love prunes.
(From a 1970s edition of Child Education magazine)

Sussex: The mysterious dome which played a vital war role Many drive past the decaying structure near Shoreham Airport, but how many know about its history?

I’ve driven past Shoreham Airport many times and never noticed this…or maybe I have and simply forgotten…
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We called it “Ærra Gēola” in the old tongue — the tide before #yule A time when monster and spirits roam the dark.

Just us for #GothicAdvent — join in and share your dark Yuletide tales from the 1st December.

#Folklore #WyrdWednesday #Christmas

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What Is Hookland? Hookland is England seen from a ghost train. It is a fierce refusal to let psychogeographers tell you that when you talk about spirits of place you can’t really believe in them. It is all the books you borrowed time and time again from the library as a child – encyclopedias of horror films, Usborne’s Worlds of the Unknown UFOs and Charles Berlitz’s The Bermuda Triangle. It is walking home through the woods in November mists and feeling that the place had monsters, not the sort they made into Aurora model kits, but old, nameless things that are fed by the fear you’ve had of this place since that murder a few years back. It is the terror of living in a haunted landscape. It is the delight of living in a profoundly haunted landscape. Hookland is the place you can almost allow yourself to believe in magic once again before realising it is a territory you already inhabit. Shared space where all your broken memories of childhood are resuscitated and walking alongside you. It is knowing all the names of the Russian spacemen orbiting above and feeling the youthful power of recognising which mushrooms are poisonous. It’s sneaking into fields to release crows from cruel traps and thinking up mad schemes to buy fireworks when the air becomes rich with the intoxicating smell of bonefires. It is being more scared by gaudy movie posters for films you haven’t seen than being afraid of the things your parents constantly warn you about. It is knowing everywhere is layers of story, layers of memory and realising you may be the ghost for someone else’s future. It is French radio stations on AM, full of songs that you hear and instantly love, but will spend the rest of your life trying to remember what the title was, which band it was. On its jagged rocks, on its scarring brambles, fragments of ripped cloth that you know are clues to something you have forgotten. Something important you just can’t unlock. It has a default setting of unease and déjà…

What is Hookland? #Hookland