Ten days until our next 💀Grave Matters 💀 event on Persecution, Ethics and Identity with three fantastic speakers! Sign up for free here: ticketpass.org/event/EUPBXY/p… Please share far and wide!

Grave Matters is excited to present our next online seminar on Monday 15 April at 6pm BST on Persecution, Ethics and Identity, sign up for free here: ticketpass.org/event/EUPBXY/p…

Very excited to share the cover for my next book Lore of the Deep! With incredible artwork by Stacey Rozich 😍 It's full of folklore, myths and legends about the seas and oceans - from pirate lore to ghost ships. Out in the UK and US in October 2024!

📢Calling all #C19 ECRs📢 Take a few minutes to fill out our short surveys in the BAVS newsletter as we prepare to launch the new BAVS Postdoctoral Network & BAVS Tea Time 🫖 @aliciarbarnes @HarrietTho BAVS Postgrads

Our next Death and Culture Researchers Meet Up is 30 April - book here! eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-up-grou…

Do come along to the next Grave Matters online event on Monday 15 April at 6pm, it promises to be a really fascinating seminar!

TONIGHT at 6pm do come along to our next Grave Matters seminar! Sign up for free here: ticketpass.org/event/EUPBXY/p… and see more details 👇

After three fabulous years Grave Matters is coming to a close so please join us for our final curtain, online on Monday 10 June at 6pm. We're going out with a bang with three incredible speakers 👇 Sign up for free here: tktp.as/EMTKSG Please share far and wide!

ICYMI at the weekend, I did one of those sort-of-topical "historian here" threads about the history of photographing the northern lights 🌌

We have an amazing line up for the final Grave Matters on 10 June at 6pm with @Trabbs_Bhoy Roger Luckhurst Stephen Gordon Sign up for free here: ticketpass.org/event/EMTKSG/g… and please share far and wide, it's going to be a corker!

Delighted to announce that my article on Victorian female ornithologists and their role in the rise of ecological consciousness has just been published by Atlantis English Studies! Many thanks to @EnvCit for supporting and funding my work 🪶 atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atla…

Hurrah, my book spotted at American Library Association annual conference #alaac24

Just heard 🦈Lore of the Deep 🌊 will be published in the US on 1 October 2024 and in the UK on 17 October. It's jam-packed with myths, legends and lore covering everything from ghost ships to sea shanties. Pre-order here: uk.bookshop.org/a/3387/97807...

Educational makeup of the new cabinet: 90%+ state school educated. This is big (and very different)

Very excited to share my newly-published open access article in Mortality: '‘A distressing scene’? The corpse in the nineteenth-century working-class home'. So pleased to have this research out there! Please share with anyone you think might be interested: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We have one more online talk before our summer break: Sophia Kingshill on 'Through the Looking Glass: What is a Doppelgänger?' Tues 16 July 18:00-19:30 BST. Tickets £6.00 (£4.00 for Folklore Society members with promo code). Join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/through-the-…

There is a dark secret on our bookshelves. The innocently named “The English Flower Garden”, has an eye-catching and beautiful green cloth binding which is infused with poisonous arsenic!

My new JVC article "Cash Cows and Dogs with Dentures: Prostheses for Animals in Nineteenth-Century British Culture" is out. Free access: academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-ar…

This looks like a fantastic opportunity for any folklorists out there looking to do a funded PhD - any Folklore Studies MA students who enjoyed Owen Davies module on the Folklore of Landscape would be perfect!

My article "Victorian Eco-Spiritualism: Environmental Citizenship and the Occult Revival in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing" is now out in the International Journal of English Studies! Extremely grateful for the interest it is causing revistas.um.es/ijes/article/v…