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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · Jun 9

My latest research article 'Monstrous Megaliths: Ancient Stones in Folk Horror Film and Television – Showing, Telling and Making On-Screen Folklore' proposes my own methodology to describe the showing, telling and making of folklore on-screen.VERY proud of this! www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/...

Monstrous Megaliths: Ancient Stones in Folk Horror Film and Television – Showing, Telling and Making On-Screen Folklore | Journal of British Cinema and Television

Ancient stones and their surrounding landscape provide a source of enduring fascination for audiences, writers and directors. Piers Haggard, a director who has worked on folk horror, remarked, ‘stone ...

www.euppublishing.com

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 1d

Conclusion of our Dartmoor #folklore adventure with @nfsengland.bsky.social and @folklorepod.bsky.social with vegan cream tea, Widecombe village and the 'legend of the hairy hands' blackspots!

Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 1d

Scooby Doo adventures in Dartmoor with @nfsengland.bsky.social and @folklorepod.bsky.social - looking for the Hound of the Baskervilles at Hound Tor! #folklore

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 1d

Exploring #folklore in Exeter yesterday evening with the @nfsengland.bsky.social team

Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 2d

We arrived in Exeter after our epic train/replacement bus journey, working hard en route and ready to talk about the National Folklore Survey for England in Crediton TOMORROW at The Boniface Centre!

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 2d

The @nfsengland.bsky.social crew en route to Exeter to talk about our folklore survey project, by way of the LEGEND OF THE REPLACEMENT BUS SERVICE QUEUE

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.bsky.social · 4d

Vincent Price advertising monster-shaped vitamins.

Vincent price says
"Come a little closer, madam-I want to save you 25€ on Monster Vitamins"
Kids love Monster" Vitamins. They come in 7 monstrous shapes and colors. And they taste terrific. Even more important, Monsters contain 10 essential vitamins. Children should get vitamins by eating right, but when they don't, Monster Vitamins and Monster Vitamins Plus Iron sure help.

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 6d

If only I had space, and a family who were more enthusiastic about playing board games with me!! :D

Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 6d

Ooooo! Folkloric board games in St Luke's vintage charity shop (Broomhill, Sheffield) today! #folkloreisfun

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 12d

The results of the @nfsengland.bsky.social National Folklore Survey for England are now in and analysis is underway - watch this space! #folklore www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk/news/analysi...

Analysis is underway — National Folklore Survey for England

It’s an exciting time… we’re analysing the data from the National Folklore Survey for England.

www.nationalfolkloresurvey.co.uk

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 16d

Meltdown on "Truth" Social in 5... 4... 3... 2...

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Wil Wheaton @wilwheaton.net · 20d

It's pretty easy to cancel your Disney+ subscription, and a coordinated, national day of cancellations would send a very clear message about our values as Americans.

River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 20d

Heard from a friend at Disney+ that there are multiple levels of freakout internally, both from internal dissatisfaction, concerns about subscription cancelations, and of course the big one: concern about a boycott spilling over into parks and cruises.

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Chris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 20d

Past seven day Google search trend for "cancel disney," with "cancel hbo" for comparison's sake.

"cancel disney" spikes significantly past 24 hours, "cancel hbo" does not"

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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 19d

On Tuesday 7 October the team from @nfsengland.bsky.social will be giving a free presentation at 7.30pm about the National Folklore Survey for England at Crediton Library in Devon.

Come and learn about the project and chat with others. Refreshments available

Free tickets from bit.ly/flaevents

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 21d

The Folklore Survey for England team are presenting on our project Tuesday, October 7 · 7:30 - 9:30pm at Crediton Library in Exeter - it's free to atttend, so if you live nearby come and say hello! @nfsengland.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/national-f...

National Folklore Survey for England Presentation

Meet the team behind the new National Folklore Survey for England and hear about the project and its history in advance of the results

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 25d

I'm not sure there's one on the schedule, but check the list! :)

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 25d

Excited for the whole of this year's festival!

Celluloid Screams Horror Film Festival @celluloidscreams.bsky.social · 26d

We’ve had an amazing response to our 2025 programme announcement! Full Festival Passes and Day Passes for Celluloid Screams 2025 - presented by Arrow Video- are on sale TOMORROW at 12 noon from Showroom Cinema - online and via phone on 01142757727.

Celluloid Screams: Sheffield Horror Film Festival | Showroom Cinema

Award winning horror films, director Q+As, and a celebration of scares. Will you survive the weekend?

showroomcinema.org.uk

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · 29d

IMPORTANT NEWS ‘Most important, most beautiful, most musical’: Bagpuss set for big screen return www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

‘Most important, most beautiful, most musical’: Bagpuss set for big screen return

Stop-motion animation voted the UK’s all-time favourite kids’ show will be rebooted with the ‘saggy old cloth cat’ now busy mending in modern Britain

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sounds like my whole day today.

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hi! This is in the UK, GMT - be great to see folks there :)

Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · Sep 8

Could your lunchtime, once a month, do with more VAMPIRES? Why not sign up for the FREE online lunchtime bites - a 30 min talk once a month, each from a different speaker, on Dracula, vampires and all things vampire-adjacent!
www.ticketsource.co.uk/draculalunch...

www.ticketsource.co.uk

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · Sep 7

It's a wooden moneybox about 6" across :)

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · Sep 7

The best thing that they had at the vintage market today is coming home with us

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Craig Ian Mann @craigimann.bsky.social · Sep 1

Overwhelmed by the reaction to Survivors, the documentary Rob Nevitt and I have been working on for @severinfilms.bsky.social on the making and legacy of Threads. Thanks to @dianearodgers.bsky.social for a fun Q&A after the premiere. To steal a joke from @reecedinsdale.bsky.social: we had a blast.

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · Aug 31

Delighted to be part of last night's premiere of Rob Nevitt and Craig Mann's SURVIVORS: THE SPECTRE OF THREADS. Beautiful, amazing interviews, archive footage and hauntological soundtrack. Never been so proud to live at the centre of a fictional nuclear disaster #wyrdtv #hauntology

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Dr Diane A Rodgers @dianearodgers.bsky.social · Aug 29

You'll find out if you watch the film ;) (short answer is yes!)

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