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John Gallagher · Where wolf? Everyone knows I’m a werewolf That he was a werewolf seems to have been common knowledge and Thiess himself freely admitted it – in fact, he said,...

The judges asked Thiess why he had become a werewolf – what benefits did it bring? Thiess recalled that he took on his new identity calmly, but ‘hadn’t thought it would involve so much evil’.

@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on a Livonian werewolf, from 2022.

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Dance yourself dizzy this Halloween

Stephen King’s son among writers boycotting British Library event in solidarity with striking workers King’s son, Joe Hill, joins V Castro and Keith Rosson in withdrawing from the Tales of the Weird festival this weekend in support of industrial action

Joe Hill! 🖤
V. Castro 🖤
Keith Rosson 🖤
Solidarity Forever!!

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The Magiconomy of Early Modern England This post is part of a series marking the print and online Open Access (free) publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, …

To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy.
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Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
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#history
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Sorry for your loss. He looks glorious

Matt is one of my favourite people on here, witty, smart & kind.
If you could repost this I’d appreciate it.

morning walk - out with stars Venus / Orion / Moon etc flights to Europe broadcasting the light from 32000 feet a gear change in bird song as the rotation of Earth reveals the first half of the sun

12/10/25

cooling towers bathed in golden sunshine next to the platform at east midlands parkway train station

Save the East Midlands Parkway cooling towers!

Sign the @c20society.bsky.social petition about the Ratcliffe-on-Soar site in Nottinghamshire.

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More of this sort of thing.

That beautiful blue!

small hours big time moving shapes - parallelogram / moon a black banner - 11th century style - on stellar field pigeons in the chestnut tree - asleep bare branches - conkerless - redacted

7/10/25 - nocturn

Couple moved in next door. Old bloke lived there before had a beautiful garden. He spent every day in it. New guy ripped out everything & put fake grass in. So I've planted trees next to the boundary that will fill his lawn with dead leaves in the autumn. This one's for you Alf

Probably the loveliest thread you will read today, full of beauty and kindness and improvised owl physio

small hours big time chopped up star fields of black paint and scribbles glued the down in three divisions repeat the process every night for a minimum of five years

29/9/25 - nocturn

book with details from an early modern map on the cover

Look how pretty she is! I received my author copies of /Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy/ today (officially published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social on Monday). Will post more about individual chapters (including my own) next week - in the meantime, do ask your library to order a copy!

Lovely to receive my copies in the post! Congrats to @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner & all the contributors (including moi!) 🏴‍☠️☠️🏴‍☠️☠️🏴‍☠️☠️

Iain Banks: the final interview Iain Banks died last Sunday, just before the publication of his final novel The Quarry. Last month he talked to Stuart Kelly about writing, politics and all the things still left to do . . .

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.”

—Iain Banks
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Please enjoy this sculpture of the Prince of Wales and his horse made entirely of butter, courtesy of the Canadians at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924.

I will not be taking any questions at this time.

A scarecrow dressed as a young woman in a pink jumper sits on a bench in a cottage garden

The terrifying local scarecrow competition entries start to appear

Living the Lincolnshire dream!

small hours big time heavy weather at the windows while making copy of Bill Blake's Ghost of a Flea for kicks squall passes / starry interlude that spectre - everywhere

13/9/25 - nocturn

He loves it!

A black cat deeply asleep on his back with all 4 paws in the air

Total undignified relaxation

🏴‍☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy:
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner,
the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Black crayfish with red spotted claws sitting in the grass

Surprise sunbather at Hampstead ponds

I almost had a heart attack!

Winner winner chicken dinner! #GTFC

På en kirkevegg, fra gulvet og nesten opp til taket, danner det seg en blågrønn fiskeaktig skapning med gyllen halefinne, antagelig i tre. Den gaper stort sånn at gapet blir til en prekestol. Fra St Jadwiga-kirken i Dobroszòw, Polen, laget av Michael Kössler 1730

Vet ikke hvem som trenger - vet ikke hvem som *ikke* trenger å se en ✨️sjøormprekestol✨️

Thursday 21 August 2025 at Grimsby Town Hall. Kenneth Bartle on the Grimsby trawlers and their crews requisitioned by the Admiralty as minesweepers during both World Wars. Begins 7:15 pm - £5.00 to non-members.