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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 11h

Ronald Hutton called it 'The best overall view of the subject... It not only covers the traditional remit of folklore but extends it into many less conventional areas'. And you can't argue with Ronald Hutton 😁 You can buy #Folklore in bookshops & here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180377/

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 20h

Having a very proud moment, watching one of my wonderful former MA Folklore Studies students present her excellent and very important dissertation research on tree stories as environmental activism at a conference at the University of Brighton 😊😊😊

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you to everyone that joined us at @rncmlive.bsky.social last night for an evening of folklore with authors @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social & @magicnotwitches.bsky.social.
Huge thanks to @blackwellsmcr.bsky.social for bookselling and thanks to @oxrdmcr.bsky.social for supporting this event. #booksky

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 1d

An evening of #folklore, cunning-folk & The Witching Hour @rncmlive.bsky.social this evening, with two wonderful scholars: Mel Giles & Tabitha Stanmore

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 3d

A successful annual parasol forage (apologies to the fairies who were using them as umbrellas or dining tables)

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 5d

The best kind of indie bookshop is one that stocks 8 copies of your book, has somewhere cosy for the littlun to sit while you sign them, & can involve a muddy trek through a beautiful clough to get there

P.S. there are 8 signed copies of #Folklore in Hebden Bridge's The Book Case

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 6d

Started reading @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social 's folklore alongside @johnnymains.co.uk Halloweird this season.

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 8d

Sadly not - but there might be online ones in the future 😊

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 8d

Be the fairest of them all, excel at domestic chores & rely on your prince to ensure a happy ending? But folklore & fairytale give us much more than gender stereotypes. Come hear me talk on #Folklore & Women in Liverpool on 5 Nov (& Nottingham 19 Nov) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-w...

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 8d

Ooh yay! Thank you!

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 8d

Thanks, I love it!

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 8d

Aww yay! And what a lovely photo 😍

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you very much :)

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 9d

Brilliant, I hope you enjoy :)

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 9d

Excellent :)

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 9d

'as a rich and fascinating overview and introduction to British folklore this book is really essential reading for anyone interested in the subject. I know I’ll be returning to my copy again and again' - a lovely review of #Folklore on @shinynewbooks.bsky.social shinynewbooks.co.uk/folklore-a-j...

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 10d

What do leaver's shirts, love-locks, memes and Monty Python have in common?

These everyday items originate in folklore, and still persist today. Read our latest blog by 'Folklore' co-author @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/09...
'Folklore' is out now!

5 things you didn't know originated from folklore - Manchester University Press

One of the great things you’ll discover when you read Folklore by Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook, is the everyday items that you didn’t know originate in folklore, and still persist today. Today we sh...

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 10d

Really enjoyed talking with the students on the MA Creative Writing and the Writing Industries @lborouniversity.bsky.social about 'Winter's Wishfall', the differences between academic & fiction writing, and the 'romantasy' genre

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Debora Moretti @drdebsmoretti.bsky.social · 15d

Excellent evening at Waterstones in Leeds with @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social and @odavies9.bsky.social presenting their new book “Folklore. A journey through the past and present” 🥰

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 15d

Excellent!! I definitely want to hear/read more about fairy music

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you very much for coming! I hope to see you again for folklore talk 😁 @odavies9.bsky.social is indeed on here

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 15d

Popped into the wonderful indie bookshop Colours May Vary in Leeds Corn Exchange to sign some copies of 'Folklore' today - & had the added bonus of chatting with the lovely bookseller Andy

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 16d

Haha but then we would have missed Halloween and that would have been tragic!

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 16d

Tomorrow evening (7pm 25th Sep) @odavies9.bsky.social & I will be in conversation with the amazing writer, poet & musician @stuhennigan.bsky.social, author of 'Ghost Signs', talking #folklore at Leeds @waterstones.bsky.social - book your tickets here: www.waterstones.com/events/folkl...

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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 16d

Oops thanks - 25th Sep - let me change that. Thanks for spotting!

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