Stopped off at Kilkhampton on the way back from Bude and - wow St James' Church is awesome. Look at that Norman doorway! And the fantastic 16th century pew ends! Some of my favourites: wolfy-boy with his bird head tail; just kings being bros; a man and his bear; someone who looks to have a cuttlefish head and fishtail, mid-belly laugh
#churchesofinstagram #cornwall #kilkhampton
Thank you @bude_litfest for inviting me to take part in your wonderful literary festival! I had an amazing weekend - getting to meet incredibly talented budding writers at our "Writing the Supernatural" workshop, browsing the excellent @spencer_thorn bookshop, and of course working with the ever delightful @joan.j.passey ❤️ look at our books hanging out in the window together 🥹 finally, thank you to everyone who generously shared their own tales of the weird with me - a sure sign that we're still living in magical times!
#bude #budelitfest #cunningfolk
I visited Iford Manor Gardens for the first time today and it's a place of pure (very purple !) joy 💜 I met some excellent plants and some equally excellent felines (both animate and inanimate. Very good catting all round).
**THIS WEEKEND**
To celebrate the launch of the Academy of Magical History, come join this ONLINE conference exploring our magical past.
You'll hear about:
🧙♀️ Witches
☘ Curses
👻 Ghosts
🍀 The Green Man
🧙♀️ More witches!
Use the QR code or the link in bio!
Hey Bath friends! Come and join me for a night of history, magic and strange stories about fish!
30th April, 7.30-9.30pm at the Roper Theatre 😊 Ticket link in bio!
#Bath
I just finished Father Alberto and the Flying Girl by @timxatack and - wow. I've rarely read anything so vivid and empathetic, so gentle and yet utterly heartbreaking. It's historical fiction with a modern message, but not in a way that feels trite. It's religious but in a firmly human way. And it's about love, but there's no twee romance in sight.
Father Alberto is coming out in June - definitely one to add to your reading list 📜
@chattobooks #currentlyreading
Throwback to the time I met a - strangely cute, and tender - mummified cat at @moyseshallmuseum . It was found in the walls of a house in Suffolk, if memory serves - possibly an example of magical house protection?
(I can't think about the cat too deeply or I cry, but the history is cool)
#throwbackthursday #history #magic
Some quite unsettling photos taken at a recent talk (thanks to Sophie L for sharing them!). If my shadow's to be believed, it looks like I'm entering my hag era early 🧙 fingers crossed it's as fun as Nanny Ogg promised
First class of the term at @studyabroadbath and I'm excited to get stuck into some weird and wonderful history with some wonderful and (hopefully) weird students 📚🌟
Today's Book of the Day - Cunning Folk by Tabitha Stanmore - was chosen by our resident ghost. She has ... um... brought this book to our attention at least 3 or 4 times now, so it must be as good as it sounds!
A vibrant look at a distant but strangely familiar time that overturns our assumptions about the history of magic. (Nonfiction)
(Questions about the oddness of these photos? Ask our staff 🙂💜)
#botd #healers #magic
