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@cathbannister1.bsky.social
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@cathbannister1.bsky.social
· Dec 30
Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the Digital Playground is now available to pre-order from @uclpress.bsky.social It features the Time Telephone by @vsigno.bsky.social on the cover, and our chapter, From Interfaces to Memories, on transmitting memories of play uclpress.co.uk/book/playing...
Playing the Archive
Playing the Archive: From the Opies to the digital playground reflects on a major study inspired by the work of citizen scholar folklorists Iona and Peter Opie. In the 1950s and 1960s, the Opies built...
uclpress.co.uk
2025❗means publication of this team effort from Playing the Archive exploring play past and present informed by the Iona and Peter Opie archive #folklore #archives. Chuffed to co-author chapters for this @uclpress.bsky.social book with @drjuliabish.bsky.social, Kate Cowan and Alison Somerset-Ward.
Doug my beloved.
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Doug my beloved.
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Huge congratulations to Steve Roud on being awarded a honorary degree by The Open University in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the study of folk song and culture!
November 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Huge congratulations to Steve Roud on being awarded a honorary degree by The Open University in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the study of folk song and culture!
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We're launching our in-person #folklore #writing group for #TUOS PGRs, ECRs and staff writing academically / creatively on folklore themes. Taster session 10-11.30am, 14 November, Doctoral School Centre (by Jessop West). No need to register!
contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/centre-activ...
contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/centre-activ...
Writing Folklore Group
Coming Soon! Writing Folklore is a new Folklore writing group supporting academic and creative writing related to Folklore and Folklore Studies and Research. Led by our wonderful members Abbi Flint an...
contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We're launching our in-person #folklore #writing group for #TUOS PGRs, ECRs and staff writing academically / creatively on folklore themes. Taster session 10-11.30am, 14 November, Doctoral School Centre (by Jessop West). No need to register!
contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/centre-activ...
contemporaryfolklore.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/centre-activ...
Flying visit to the #Research Arcade in @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social Sheffield to catch up with some amazing projects from @sheffielduni.bsky.social and @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social . Brilliant to see @sabinelittle.bsky.social and the beautiful Quilt of Welcome coming together.
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Flying visit to the #Research Arcade in @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social Sheffield to catch up with some amazing projects from @sheffielduni.bsky.social and @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social . Brilliant to see @sabinelittle.bsky.social and the beautiful Quilt of Welcome coming together.
Had a lot of fun and revisited some old frights writing this seasonal piece on scary books for children for @uk.theconversation.com ! #Halloween theconversation.com/scary-storie...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Had a lot of fun and revisited some old frights writing this seasonal piece on scary books for children for @uk.theconversation.com ! #Halloween theconversation.com/scary-storie...
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Delighted to be hosting the @histchild.bsky.social conference next year at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Calling for papers right now! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
Fifth Biennial Conference | Children's History Society
University of Sheffield, 1-3 July 2026
www.histchild.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Delighted to be hosting the @histchild.bsky.social conference next year at @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Calling for papers right now! www.histchild.org/pages/sheffi...
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Cover by Pete Costanza.
October 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Cover by Pete Costanza.
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I will never stop being tired of Digital Humanities professors who never approach archivists as peers deeming fit to tell archivists how and why to do their jobs differently. It happens time and time again, rarely with a spirit of collaboration and often with an uncomfortable tech-disruptor energy
October 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I will never stop being tired of Digital Humanities professors who never approach archivists as peers deeming fit to tell archivists how and why to do their jobs differently. It happens time and time again, rarely with a spirit of collaboration and often with an uncomfortable tech-disruptor energy
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Folklorist Job Alert! University of London seeks a part time PDRA on Project Storymachine, which aims to preserve, explore and increase access to folklore in Germany and the UK through digital infrastructure. Application details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY261/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine at University of London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, Project StoryMachine at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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October 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Folklorist Job Alert! University of London seeks a part time PDRA on Project Storymachine, which aims to preserve, explore and increase access to folklore in Germany and the UK through digital infrastructure. Application details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY261/p...
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CFP! Journal of Festive Studies is inviting abstracts for an issue on TINY/giant: Playing with Scale. Themes include giant puppets, toy theatres, effigies for celebration or excoriation, miniature collectibles... Deadline 15 Nov, more info here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Journal of Festive Studies Issue Nine Call for Papers: TINY/giant: Playing with Scale | H-Net
TINY/giant: Playing with Scale Guest Editors: Dawn Tracey Brandes & Martha Radice, Dalhousie University Deadline for abstracts and short bios: November 15, 2025In addition to our guest-edited section ...
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October 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
CFP! Journal of Festive Studies is inviting abstracts for an issue on TINY/giant: Playing with Scale. Themes include giant puppets, toy theatres, effigies for celebration or excoriation, miniature collectibles... Deadline 15 Nov, more info here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Lovely day with newer researchers at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social presenting on folk group identities with @drjuliabish.bsky.social on behalf of the @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social, zine making and exploring our folklore origin stories! Thanks Holly and the FLS @folkloresociety.bsky.social.
September 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Lovely day with newer researchers at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social presenting on folk group identities with @drjuliabish.bsky.social on behalf of the @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social, zine making and exploring our folklore origin stories! Thanks Holly and the FLS @folkloresociety.bsky.social.
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Seeing folks say that the rise and normalisation of the alt-right in the UK is because of the US and while I think the UK’s fascists are taking a lot of inspiration by the US’s tactics and aesthetics, it would be really cool for you Brits to also own up to the fact that this shit is also homegrown.
September 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Seeing folks say that the rise and normalisation of the alt-right in the UK is because of the US and while I think the UK’s fascists are taking a lot of inspiration by the US’s tactics and aesthetics, it would be really cool for you Brits to also own up to the fact that this shit is also homegrown.
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Empathy is our greatest strength.
September 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Empathy is our greatest strength.
Looking forward to our paper @drjuliabish.bsky.social @mariamyamin.bsky.social on finding folksong in the NATCECT #Archives of Cultural Tradition @uoscollections.bsky.social for this brilliant conference!
Booking is open for the Traditional Song Forum's Autumn #Conference at Gloucestershire Heritage Hub, Gloucester, 18 Oct. This free in-person event focuses on #folk #songs in #archives asking 'where can we find them and are they safe?' - more details here...🎵
tradsong.org/tsf-autumn-c...
tradsong.org/tsf-autumn-c...
TSF Autumn Conference 2025 – Traditional Song Forum
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September 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Looking forward to our paper @drjuliabish.bsky.social @mariamyamin.bsky.social on finding folksong in the NATCECT #Archives of Cultural Tradition @uoscollections.bsky.social for this brilliant conference!
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I’ve had some deeply sobering conversations recently about how arts and education organisations across the country are actively preparing for how they’ll navigate life under a Reform MP/ Council/ Govt. This story from Notts feels like a harbinger of things to come www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform council’s Nottingham Post ban a ‘massive attack on local democracy’
Nottinghamshire council’s administration says it will no longer deal with local paper, in unprecedented move
www.theguardian.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I’ve had some deeply sobering conversations recently about how arts and education organisations across the country are actively preparing for how they’ll navigate life under a Reform MP/ Council/ Govt. This story from Notts feels like a harbinger of things to come www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Save the date! Saturday 4 October is a Black British Folk Renaissance and you are invited. I’ve nurtured this idea for a few years now, so I’m thrilled that @efdss.bsky.social will be hosting it at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social See you there! 🖤 www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-...
August 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Save the date! Saturday 4 October is a Black British Folk Renaissance and you are invited. I’ve nurtured this idea for a few years now, so I’m thrilled that @efdss.bsky.social will be hosting it at @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social See you there! 🖤 www.efdss.org/whats-on/26-...
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“If we stop producing people who are trained or educated to help undergraduates understand the most important things thought or written or painted in human history, we might not be able to recover that.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
Why it matters that the University of Chicago is pausing admissions to doctoral programs in literature, philosophy, the arts, and languages
www.theatlantic.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:49 AM
“If we stop producing people who are trained or educated to help undergraduates understand the most important things thought or written or painted in human history, we might not be able to recover that.” www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
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No, I'm sorry, I can't come back to work, I haven't finished helping Princess Zelda save the Kingdom of Hyrule. Thanks in advance for your understanding in this matter.
August 26, 2025 at 7:02 AM
No, I'm sorry, I can't come back to work, I haven't finished helping Princess Zelda save the Kingdom of Hyrule. Thanks in advance for your understanding in this matter.
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Ok. "Starting this Sunday, Extinction Rebellion’s Dirty Water Campaign is launching the World Water Wedding...for people to pledge their troth [hand in marriage] to protect rivers and water bodies across the country"
"Actions will [include] hand-fastings & other commitment ceremonies on riverbanks"
"Actions will [include] hand-fastings & other commitment ceremonies on riverbanks"
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Ok. "Starting this Sunday, Extinction Rebellion’s Dirty Water Campaign is launching the World Water Wedding...for people to pledge their troth [hand in marriage] to protect rivers and water bodies across the country"
"Actions will [include] hand-fastings & other commitment ceremonies on riverbanks"
"Actions will [include] hand-fastings & other commitment ceremonies on riverbanks"
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Coming Nov 2025 - our new ✨ 'Writing Folklore' ✨ group! A space for creative and academic #Folklore writing led by Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social, Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social and @cathbannister1.bsky.social. Join us on TUOS campus for community and creativity. More details soon! ✒️👨💻
August 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Coming Nov 2025 - our new ✨ 'Writing Folklore' ✨ group! A space for creative and academic #Folklore writing led by Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social, Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social and @cathbannister1.bsky.social. Join us on TUOS campus for community and creativity. More details soon! ✒️👨💻
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Kiruna church is in the news today for being on the move. I mention this in my poem 'Midnight Sun at Abisko', published in the Consilience anthology Field Notes Volume 1 (excerpt below)
www.consilience-journal.com/field-notes
www.consilience-journal.com/field-notes
August 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Kiruna church is in the news today for being on the move. I mention this in my poem 'Midnight Sun at Abisko', published in the Consilience anthology Field Notes Volume 1 (excerpt below)
www.consilience-journal.com/field-notes
www.consilience-journal.com/field-notes