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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇

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Have-a-go folklorist and writer. My new book Household Lore publishes in November! Pre-order your copy https://watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore and learn the secrets of your dark corners...

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · Jul 17

📣 Have just fondled my first copy of Household Lore & I'm totes emoshe (as the kids probably don't say any more). To get your mitts on my purple spredges pre-order here: watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore
#HouseholdLore #FolkloreThursday #Folklore #BookChatWeekly #Booksky #BookologyThursday 🪴🥔

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20h

Louise V Durham, stained glass and driftwood sculpture, Shoreham by Sea, UK #WomensArt

Photo of a vertical driftwood sculpture inlaid with rainbow coloured stained glass, the sculpture is sited on a wet looking shoreline by the sea under a sky with silver clouds and pale blue light

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 19h

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books

A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023

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Fortean Times @forteantimes.bsky.social · 14h

On sale now!
Witches and Witchcraft: Stories of Sorcery, Spells and Superstition
A new special edition from the archives of Fortean Times, with an introduction and commentary by historian of witchcraft Malcolm Gaskill.
In shops now, or order direct from:
shop.forteantimes.com/product/witc...

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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 16h

It was two OUP books.

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you!

🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 15h

And don't forget to pre-order Household Lore; Folklore, Traditions and Remedies for Every Room in Your Home for more tips, tricks and advice about the folklore found in the crevices of your home #HouseholdLore #Folklore #FolkyFriday watkinspublishinglinks.com/householdlore

Front cover of Household Lore by Liza Frank. The picture shows the book and the purple spredges. The front cover is a spooky purple house with the windows lit up.

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 15h

Do you have a problem conventional wisdom has failed to solve? If so, why not ask the Folklore Agony Aunt about it! No problem is too mundane, no dilemma too supernatural, just get in touch especially if you have a question about your home liza-frank.com/folklore-ago... #HouseholdLore #Folklore 2/3

Folklore Agony Contact Form | Liza Frank

Do you have a problem? Is conventional advice just not cutting the mustard? If so, let the Folklore Agony Aunt take a crack at it…

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 15h

In this week's Household Agony column, the Folklore Agony Aunt helps a reader with their knotty decision over what to do with their household spirits when they move… Subscribe and get all the drama in your inbox! #HouseholdLore🏡 #Folklore #FolkyFriday #spirits liza-frank.com/moving-house... 1/3

Moving House(hold Spirits) | Household Agony!

A reader about to move house asks the Folklore Agony Aunt for tips on how best to manage their household spirits...

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

This still makes me laugh, irrespective of how many times I've heard it.

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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 1d

First prompt for Guild Eleven Mysterium
Mine has morphed into 'Precious Pumpkin-lings'; a fox having collected a hoard of delicious little pumpkins for winter 🦊🌖🍂
#Guild11Mysterium

a sitting fox facing the viewer surrounded by pumpkins, pumpkins hanging on vines above the fox. In the nightly sky an orange full moon. line drawing and water colours, Maria Strutz

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 1d

This is #BookyMcBookface sailing back from Rousay this afternoon. 💨🌊 #Orkney

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Jenny O @msyellowhat.bsky.social · 1d

Not the point, I know, but also, so what if you’re the only white person in a tube carriage? Literally, so fucking what? British people come in all skin tones, Londoners come in all skin tones, visitors to London come in all skin tones. Why on earth would it bother you? (Well we all know why)

Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 2d

It’s quite a feat for Isabel Oakeshott to be the only white person in a London tube carriage given she lives in Dubai

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🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, they are all words, I just don't understand why he's put them together that way.

🧟‍♀️ Liza Frank 🎃🕸️💀🦇 @lilithepunk.bsky.social · 1d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Shima Tamami (1937-1999), an influential Japanese printmaker who joined a Women's Print Association in her country, mid 20th century, at a time when women in the arts struggled to receive the same resources and promotion as their male equivalents #ReframingWomensPrintmakers

Print featuring three stylised black birds with long necks and beaks, grouped together on the right, against a brown background

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 1d

I'm continuing to stockpile Professionally Defaced copies of Tales Accursed ahead of the next drop on Halloween, but this sheet ghost phantom copy I made last night is currently available in the shop if anyone wants it...
👻 slipperyjack.bigcartel.com

Title page of Tales Accursed a Folk Horror Anthology with pen illustration of a sheet ghost.

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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 1d

A literary Iguanodon at the Earth Sciences Library. Do any other libraries have dinosaurs or other antediluvian creatures carved into the furniture?

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Alison1972 @alison1972.bsky.social · 2d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

Milk, honey, or Lemon?' by #printmaker Catherine C.E.Walker
#WomensArt

Print in black and white featuring a round boiling kettle on an electric hob next to a number of jars and bottles on a kitchen surface

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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 2d

The whole big thing 🦋🌸🌿
#embroidery #fiberArt

A big embroidery piece on a hoop, with lots of flowers and plants, an appliqué moth with a fuzzy faux fur body, and a leafy background

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 2d

vertical

diagona/

horizonta__

no further questions

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 2d

I LOVED this book. You will too, I promise.

Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 2d

It's #buyastrangerabook day!

@seanjones.org has bought a copy of We the People : A History of the US Constitution by Jill Lepore for me to give to someone.

blurb in second image.

If you'd like it, get in touch.

UK only.

Blurb for the book.

On the 250th anniversary of America's founding - a landmark history of the US Constitution for a troubling new era. The US Constitution is among the oldest constitutions in the world - and one of the most difficult to amend. Although nearly twelve thousand amendments have been proposed since 1789, only twenty-seven have ever been ratified.

Tellingly, the Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. Without amendment, the risk of political violence rises. So does the risk of constitutional change by presidential power.

Leading Harvard historian Jill Lepore captures the stories of generations of ordinary people who have attempted everything from abolishing the Electoral College to guaranteeing environmental rights, hoping to mend their nation. Recounting the history of America through centuries of efforts to realize the promise of the Constitution, we witness how nearly all those bids have failed. We the People is the sweeping account of a struggle, arguing that the Constitution was never intended to be preserved, but was expected to be gradually altered.

At a time when the risk of political violence is all too real, it hints at the prospects for a better, amended America.

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Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social · 2d

Folklore. Reading an excellent Scottish article from 1872, full of place legends:

"First Report by the Committee on Boulders"

I would like to be on a "Committee on Boulders". Offers open.

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Jill🌻 @jillsunflower.bsky.social · 3d

Finished this giant long-term embroidery project 😌✨ I’ll take a full photo tomorrow in the daylight, but here’s a preview featuring fuzzy moth. #fiberArt

A small section of a large embroidery piece on a leafy background, with colorful flowers, a big moth with a fuzzy faux fur body, and a little shimmery butterfly

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