Lucy Allen-Goss
@lucyallengoss.bsky.social
Medievalist, feminist, dabbles in horticulture. Writing more and more about infertility/reproduction. Yorkshire.
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/
My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
https://lucyallengoss.substack.com/
My book is Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance
The fabulous @laurakalas.bsky.social talking about toughness and Margery Kempe with Ray Winstone on Radio 4. Absolutely wonderful. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
History's Heroes - History's Toughest Heroes - Margery Kempe: Ministry of Tears - BBC Sounds
A medieval woman finds superhuman strength in her tears.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The fabulous @laurakalas.bsky.social talking about toughness and Margery Kempe with Ray Winstone on Radio 4. Absolutely wonderful. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
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In this blog post, Julian Goodare share insights into why those accused of #witchcraft would confess and what to expect from his co-edited book, Scottish Witchcraft Trials.🧙♀️ Read the blog: buff.ly/Qo4ouEA
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In this blog post, Julian Goodare share insights into why those accused of #witchcraft would confess and what to expect from his co-edited book, Scottish Witchcraft Trials.🧙♀️ Read the blog: buff.ly/Qo4ouEA
One for Halloween, on a myth that really never seems to die. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/we-are-not...
We are not the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn: why the myth of 'lost women's healing knowledge' needs to go.
It is Halloween, and I am seeing a whirl of posts about witches, so here’s a quick post.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
One for Halloween, on a myth that really never seems to die. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/we-are-not...
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Writing about food and memory, and thinking back to this interview I did with Cara De Silva, who later became a friend, and whose passing I still mourn. It's on "eating with the mind", and the ways even stories of food can keep people going.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Writing about food and memory, and thinking back to this interview I did with Cara De Silva, who later became a friend, and whose passing I still mourn. It's on "eating with the mind", and the ways even stories of food can keep people going.
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I don't like linking to wretched Am*z*n but a sample of my book has just appeared (most of the introduction, it looks like, and the plates!) and, well, I hope you like it. Proper publication next month. EEEEEK.
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Textile Shakespeare
Buy Textile Shakespeare by Lees-Jeffries, Hester (ISBN: 9780198861133) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I don't like linking to wretched Am*z*n but a sample of my book has just appeared (most of the introduction, it looks like, and the plates!) and, well, I hope you like it. Proper publication next month. EEEEEK.
www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...
www.amazon.co.uk/Textile-Shak...
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I kind of loathe the 'not your grandma's knitting' shit, AND the 'see it's not just silly woman stuff' push, because I think actually what we need to do is to accept that traditionally feminine crafts are actually very complicated and skilled, rather than divorce them from femininity to accept that.
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I kind of loathe the 'not your grandma's knitting' shit, AND the 'see it's not just silly woman stuff' push, because I think actually what we need to do is to accept that traditionally feminine crafts are actually very complicated and skilled, rather than divorce them from femininity to accept that.
Rightly or wrongly (I still haven't figured out Bluesky), I am going to keep sharing this, because I think infertilty and pregnancy loss matter, and I think we really need to hear that the grief around early loss isn't a recent thing. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-is-to...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Rightly or wrongly (I still haven't figured out Bluesky), I am going to keep sharing this, because I think infertilty and pregnancy loss matter, and I think we really need to hear that the grief around early loss isn't a recent thing. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-is-to...
I wrote this yesterday for #pregnancylossawareness day. I truly think it matters, and I am currently woking on a book about the histories that we urgently need to rediscover when we talk about this subject. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-is-to...
What is too small for grief?
A post for pregnancy loss awareness day
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October 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I wrote this yesterday for #pregnancylossawareness day. I truly think it matters, and I am currently woking on a book about the histories that we urgently need to rediscover when we talk about this subject. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-is-to...
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The ancient ones performed feats of memory, as their culture required them to commit long strings of numbers to their mind palaces.
If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.
October 14, 2025 at 6:48 AM
The ancient ones performed feats of memory, as their culture required them to commit long strings of numbers to their mind palaces.
Did you know they burned witches in medieval times?
Right, now I've got your attention, here's some *actual* medieval witching - and it is entirely adorable, if slightly smutty.
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Right, now I've got your attention, here's some *actual* medieval witching - and it is entirely adorable, if slightly smutty.
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What the Witch and her Cow-Sucking Bag can tell us about Early Modern Misogyny
Medieval witch stories, and a literary grandmother for the Wife of Bath
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October 10, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Did you know they burned witches in medieval times?
Right, now I've got your attention, here's some *actual* medieval witching - and it is entirely adorable, if slightly smutty.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-the-w...
Right, now I've got your attention, here's some *actual* medieval witching - and it is entirely adorable, if slightly smutty.
lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-the-w...
The Witch and her Cow-Sucking Bag is, and always will be, the best ever medieval witch story. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-the-w...
What the Witch and her Cow-Sucking Bag can tell us about Early Modern Misogyny
Medieval witch stories, and a literary grandmother for the Wife of Bath
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October 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
The Witch and her Cow-Sucking Bag is, and always will be, the best ever medieval witch story. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/what-the-w...
This looks excellent.
Daemonologie: A King's Obsession with Witches 🧙♀️
Join us and author Steve Veerapen, for an intriguing evening exploring how a king's paranoia stoked the fear that the devil was stalking early 17th Century Scotland!
📆Thursday 30 October 2025
🕙7pm GMT
🎫£10
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Join us and author Steve Veerapen, for an intriguing evening exploring how a king's paranoia stoked the fear that the devil was stalking early 17th Century Scotland!
📆Thursday 30 October 2025
🕙7pm GMT
🎫£10
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daemonolog...
October 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This looks excellent.
New post meandering around nostalgia, and food, and Eamon Duffy on memory and loss.
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Dill, Sour Cream, and Memories
The wind is getting up again now.
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October 4, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New post meandering around nostalgia, and food, and Eamon Duffy on memory and loss.
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Snarking at Greenblatt's Marlowe. But also, Cynthia Harnett doing (so I am assured) an extremely accurate, lovely depiction of a fifteenth-century boy enjoying writing in Latin. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/breaking-b...
'Breaking Bread with the Dead': Marlowe, Greenblatt, and Living Latin
‘Breaking bread with the dead, sir, it’s what we do.’ The speaker in Alan Bennett’s History Boys (the 2006 film of the 2004 play) is 18-year-old Akhtar, en route to Oxbridge, entirely convinced of his...
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September 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Snarking at Greenblatt's Marlowe. But also, Cynthia Harnett doing (so I am assured) an extremely accurate, lovely depiction of a fifteenth-century boy enjoying writing in Latin. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/breaking-b...
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New blog post: some recent reading reviewed, from Booker-shortlisted historical fiction to 70s SF to a forthcoming literary novella drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/r... #booksky
Reading Diary, September 5th to September 13th, 2025
Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project. This Booker-shortlisted novel purports to be a collection of papers concerning a (fictional) notorious murder case; in 1869, a seventeen-year-old crofter c…
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September 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
New blog post: some recent reading reviewed, from Booker-shortlisted historical fiction to 70s SF to a forthcoming literary novella drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/r... #booksky
This is a reflection on Greenblatt's Marlowe biography, and a medievalist's take on his presentation of grammar school Latin. I do think he misunderstands some of the joy that might underpin Marlowe's plays. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/breaking-b...
'Breaking Bread with the Dead': Marlowe, Greenblatt, and Living Latin
‘Breaking bread with the dead, sir, it’s what we do.’ The speaker in Alan Bennett’s History Boys (the 2006 film of the 2004 play) is 18-year-old Akhtar, en route to Oxbridge, entirely convinced of his...
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September 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This is a reflection on Greenblatt's Marlowe biography, and a medievalist's take on his presentation of grammar school Latin. I do think he misunderstands some of the joy that might underpin Marlowe's plays. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/breaking-b...
Do any lovely medievalists know of good medieval descriptions of hangovers? Thank you!
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Do any lovely medievalists know of good medieval descriptions of hangovers? Thank you!
Here are some gorgeous snippets from historical garden writers about bulbs, and flower colours, and general loveliness that might make Monday morning feel a bit better.
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'A sullen or smoakie yellow … a Crimson Fooles Coat …': Spring Bulbs in a New Garden
This morning I bought bulbs for a client’s garden.
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September 8, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Here are some gorgeous snippets from historical garden writers about bulbs, and flower colours, and general loveliness that might make Monday morning feel a bit better.
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If you are choosing spring bulbs, you might like this post of mine, where I am choosing them while leaning over John Parkinson's shoulder as he writes Paradisi in Sole in 1629. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-sullen-o...
'A sullen or smoakie yellow … a Crimson Fooles Coat …': Spring Bulbs in a New Garden
This morning I bought bulbs for a client’s garden.
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September 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If you are choosing spring bulbs, you might like this post of mine, where I am choosing them while leaning over John Parkinson's shoulder as he writes Paradisi in Sole in 1629. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/a-sullen-o...
This is me writing about time passing, and glimpses of the past in the garden. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/the-passin...
The Passing of Time in a Garden
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about apples, and history, and Anne Boleyn. Writing it took me back, powerfully, to my school days. Those gossipy anecdotes from history feel as full of juice and ...
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September 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
This is me writing about time passing, and glimpses of the past in the garden. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/the-passin...
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Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?
September 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Have you pre-ordered your copy yet?
Here's a little meditation on time passing, and history, and the circles of memory-within-memory you get in an old house and an old garden. Also, because school term just started, it's about how achingly fast time goes. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/the-passin...
The Passing of Time in a Garden
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about apples, and history, and Anne Boleyn. Writing it took me back, powerfully, to my school days. Those gossipy anecdotes from history feel as full of juice and ...
lucyallengoss.substack.com
September 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Here's a little meditation on time passing, and history, and the circles of memory-within-memory you get in an old house and an old garden. Also, because school term just started, it's about how achingly fast time goes. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/the-passin...
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Have you seen that our project has had some news coverage over the last few weeks? We've rounded the stories up here:
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Alice Thornton's Books is in the News
News article - 24 August 2025
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August 24, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Have you seen that our project has had some news coverage over the last few weeks? We've rounded the stories up here:
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TWO MORE SIGNATURES and we'll have 450 - every voice counts, you don't have to be an academic or involved with universities in any way <3
Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it.
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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025
Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor)
cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students)
The School of Humanities has ...
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August 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
TWO MORE SIGNATURES and we'll have 450 - every voice counts, you don't have to be an academic or involved with universities in any way <3