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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 5d

I’m pleased to say you can now pre-order my next book, ‘Fairies: A History’ (out in February 2026) from
@politybooks.bsky.social. Thank you to Jeremy Harte, Simon Young, Jo Hickey-Hall and Owen Davies for such generous endorsements! 🌿📚 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 13m

Digitised from old photocopies

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 15m

Archival photography not permitted

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 16m

Only available on microfilm

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3h

"The chancellor approved it"

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2h

Just admiring Peter Underwood's turtleneck/bunny ear lapel combo

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 16h

Excellent!

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 16h

On #WorldBookshopDay a big thank you to Harris & Harris Books in Clare for selling copies of my books at Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival! 📚

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Meri C Dickson @earbyfae.bsky.social · 17h

Waiting for me when I got home!! Can’t wait to get stuck in!! #folklore

Cover of the book folklore by Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 18h

Why has no-one written a Latvian-set hardboiled detective novel called ‘Riga Mortis’?

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GrumpyScotsman @grumpyscotsman.bsky.social · 21h

@johnnymains.co.uk A little early arrival for the collection.

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Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · 1d

There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph!

Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

#archaeology 🏺 #photography

An historic black & white image of the box excavations at Maiden Castle during Sir Mortimer Wheeler's excavations in 1937. Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 1d

On Tuesday 28 October I will be returning to the Baltic, as I lecture at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social's Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies on pre-Christian Baltic Religion - as part of Stockholm's LAMP project 🇸🇪 www.su.se/english/rese...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about Latvia’s state-sanctioned endorsement of a modern pagan religion - and what that may mean for Europe’s religious future drfrancisyoung.com/2025/10/10/p...

Pagan dawn: Europe’s first pagan state religion in 638 years?

Members of the Dievturi religion at the Latvian Saeima, 9 October 2025 © Dievturi Sadraudze On Thursday the Latvian Saeima (parliament) passed a rather unusual law that, predictably, has escaped no…

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

It is indeed a modern construct, ‘native faith’ is just the term used by anthropologists of religion for the neopagan religions of East-Central Europe

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Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

Discovered a new incredibly based medieval person

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

An absolute giant, imo; he provided a crucial moral and intellectual victory over the apologists of the Teutonic Knights that was the crucial counterpart to Jogaila and Vytautas's military victory

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Although ironically the one thing AI seldom f***s up is spelling, even when it ruins everything else

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Flying a Spitfire with new parts feels like cheating, this is the proper way

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 2d

Had a great time catching up with @dannybate.bsky.social today, and super excited to get my hands on a copy of his new book!! I love learning about new topics and Why Q Needs U is a deep dive into the history of the nuts and bolts of written language- letters.

A man and woman smile at the camera. The woman is holding a book.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Purr-kūnas ⚡️

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

C’mon saddle up lads www.deutscher-orden.at/site/lang/en

Deutscher Orden: Brüder und Schwestern vom Deutschen Haus St. Mariens in Jerusalem

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

This does not surprise me in the slightest

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a big day for the Dievturība (native faith) movement in Latvia, as Latvia becomes the first country in Europe to enshrine the place of its pagan religion in law

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, definitely!

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly no, I wanted to see it but didn’t get there

Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 2d

He has a statue!

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