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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Dec 30

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.

Leah Lovett @leahlo.bsky.social · Dec 6

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...

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 1d

Oh fuck off

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · 12d

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.

The back of a zine reading Ta Ta Todmorden with the FLS and CFRC logos

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 24d

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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David Jenkins @david-jenkins.bsky.social · 27d

Empathy is our greatest strength.

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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · 29d

I think Ed Davey just about squeaks into Gen X!

a man wearing blue sunglasses is making a face .

Alt: Gif of Kurt Cobain

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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Sep 4

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!

CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social · Sep 3

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...

TSF Autumn Conference 2025 – Traditional Song Forum

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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Aug 31

Finance.

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Michael Eades @drmichaeleades.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Angeline Morrison @angelcakepie2.bsky.social · Aug 31

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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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Aug 28

New wheels (not the white van) courtesy of my lovely bloke who surprised me with a whole car for my birthday next month #Saab

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Aug 28

“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

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · Aug 26

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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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Aug 25

#Folklorists against fascism.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · Aug 21

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"

Woman in a greeny/white wedding gown, under a 'keep eels reel' sign, surrounded by XR activists. Near a river, presumably

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CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social · Aug 17

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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Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social · Aug 19

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

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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Aug 17

Off to the East Coast tomorrow for my hols, and thanks to a hot tip from @davidwclarke.bsky.social, a spot of werewolf hunting.
theconversation.com/why-we-shoul...

Why we should welcome the return of ‘Old Stinker’, the English werewolf

Collective environmental guilt could be leading to a rise in werewolf sightings in the English countryside.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 16

Like Jeremy Corbyn and Sophie Ellis-Bextor, I grew up in Woodcraft Folk. Here’s how it changes children’s lives | Phineas Harper

The leftwing alternative to Scouts turns 100 this year. If Keir Starmer wants to empower Britain’s young people, it has much to teach him, says writer and curator Phineas Harper

www.theguardian.com

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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Aug 17

looking forward to being part of the Newer Researchers in #Folklore event on 26 Sept alongside amazing experts at @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social There's still places for this free day of Folklore Studies workshops @folkloresociety.bsky.social @herts.ac.uk

www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...

Newer Researchers in Folklore | Centre for Folklore

A one-day series of workshops hosted by The Folklore Society

www.folkloremythmagic.com

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🌈Dr. Franken Frizzle 🎃 @swilua.bsky.social · Aug 12

the trick is the scientist has to be having secret lunch dates with a poet, where they eat plums and cheese, and he’ll look at the plum, then the poet, then BAM he’ll just know

it doesn’t work any other way, everyone knows this

Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · Aug 12

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yeah, she is widely recognised in the UK as bonkers.

Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Jul 26

Fantastic 😍

Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Jul 26

So...who was going to tell me that Brownies has a #Folklore badge?!!!

www.girlguiding.org.uk/what-we-do/o...

Folkore interest badge

Brownies will enjoy discovering and sharing epic stories, mysterious legends and magical tales with the folklore interest badge.

www.girlguiding.org.uk

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CFRC-Folklore @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social · Jul 23

Brilliant @cfrc-folklore.bsky.social member Ella Ruby Self @local-sea-wytch.bsky.social will be In Conversation with the Society of Young Publishers about her debut novel, 30 Aug at The Mowbray, Sheffield, if any of you would like to pop along and hear about her folklore-inspired writing!

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Cath 🏴‍☠️ @cathbannister1.bsky.social · Jul 21

Wish I could get my #fandom badge. I've absolutely earned it #girlguiding 🏴‍☠️☠️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Girlguiding unveils 72 new badges including 'fandoms' and 'laughter'

It is only the second time in the organisation's 116-year history that it has released new badges.

www.bbc.co.uk

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