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Collecting the Prof John Widdowson #folklore archive, donated to Centre for Contemporary Legend CCMS Sheffield Hallam University Library 🏳️‍🌈 #FolkloreThursday

My latest article for November's Derbyshire Life magazine, out now. It concerns folklore and legends surrounding specific Derbyshire trees. #folklore #derbyshire #folklore thursday #trees #treelegends #treelore #plantlore

My latest article for October's Derbyshire Life covers Ilkeston's Charter Fair - with references to The Goodies and Kenny Everett shoehorned in. Unlike the Goose Fair, it's back on in 2021: Wednesday 20th - Saturday 23rd. #ilkeston #ilson #ilkeston charterfair

Knickers embroidered with the Festival of Britain logo! Featured in Richard Bradley’s fantastic talk on the Sheffield Hallam collection #C20Festival

My latest folklore article for the August edition of Derbyshire Life (out now) is about the annual Plague Commemoration held on the last Sunday every August to remember the outbreak if the deadly disease in the village in 1665-6. It's on again this year, today at 3pm. #eyam

My latest article for the June/July issue of Derbyshire Life magazine covers the Parwich Oddfellows parade which took place this weekend in a sign of calendar customs making a tentative post-pandemic comeback. #derbyshire #oddfellows #parwich

My article in the most recent May/June issue of Derbyshire Life magazine looks at the way #derbyshire celebrated the 1951 #festivalofbritain , 70 years ago this summer.

My latest county folklore piece for the current March/April issue of Derbyshire Life magazine, this one's all about local dragons 🐉🐲 #folklore #derbyshire #dragons #derbyshire life

My article for February's Derbyshire Life covers a very well known custom, Ashbourne Shrovetide Football - it's not happening this year for obvious reasons, which is HUGE (even World War 2 couldn't put a stop to it...)

Latest article for Derbyshire Life on Mappleton New Year Bridge Jump tradition... incredible to think these photos used to illustrate were taken a year and a day ago, everyone present so innocent of what was soon coming our way #derbyshire #mappletonbridgejump #mapletonbridgejump

My feature for December's issue of Derbyshire Life - one of my all-time favourite Derbyshire customs: Christmas weirdness with Winster Guisers and Wendy Taylor Guisers... #derbyshire #folklore #mummers #guisers #winsterguisers #ripleyguisers

Article for latest (Nov) Derbyshire Life out now. Derbyshire Bonfire Night traditions: rhymes, Thor Cake, Penny For the Guy + Find out in which village the quarry workers gave the boys gunpowder to lay along the main street and ignite to make things go with a bang #derbyshire

In a parallel non-Covid world I'd have been premiering QUADROS tonight at Sensoria Festival, my new musical offering in collab w/ I MONSTER + Neil Ridley... here is preview, the lyrics prob sum up what many of us feel re. 2020... soundcloud.com/theponyharvest…

Latest calendar customs article for October Derbyshire Life out now on Apple Day feat. Scarthin Books Cromford chronicles Ripley morris men Darlings #derbyshire #folklore #folklore thursday #appleday

From this month's (September, out now) Derbyshire Life magazine I'll be contributing a regular monthly feature on local folklore and customs - does this mean I can now legitimately fill in official documents with 'folklorist' as my occupation? #derbyshire #folklore #folklorist

Farmer taunted by screaming martyr not far from Darley Dale town hall. Traffic queues likely. #DarleyDale #DarleyDale TownHall

I've written an article for July's edition of Derbyshire Life (out now) on some of my favourite Derbyshire-shot archive films which feature on the amazing BFI Britain on Film map player.bfi.org.uk/britain-on-fil…

Today in 'school' we made a miniature well dressing using flowers and natural materials from in and around the garden and left it next to a nearby spring.... most of this year's actual well dressings are cancelled.

A label inside a book (formerly belonging to Lambeth Libraries) I withdrew from stock at work just before we went into Lockdown: 'Do not return to the library, without the permission of the librarian [sic], a book which has been exposed to any infectious disease.'