Dr Claire Collins
@medpreg.bsky.social
Medievalist: pregnancy & childbirth / social history / medicine / magic / folklore | Work: The Folklore Society & University of Reading | She/her | Views own |
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Don’t miss this wonderful talk with Roy Vickery looking at queer plant lore, can’t wait as this is such a new and unique topic! 🌸
Plus support the Centre while in hibernation. 💚
Ticket holders will be sent a replay link to watch at your leisure.
Tickets: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
Plus support the Centre while in hibernation. 💚
Ticket holders will be sent a replay link to watch at your leisure.
Tickets: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Don’t miss this wonderful talk with Roy Vickery looking at queer plant lore, can’t wait as this is such a new and unique topic! 🌸
Plus support the Centre while in hibernation. 💚
Ticket holders will be sent a replay link to watch at your leisure.
Tickets: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
Plus support the Centre while in hibernation. 💚
Ticket holders will be sent a replay link to watch at your leisure.
Tickets: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
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Tickets still available for our Katharine Briggs Lecture & Book Award 2025. Terry Gunnell, you say? Live in London? At the wonderful @swedenborghouse.bsky.social? With wine and snacks? And a load of folklorists? It's going to be a great evening! Tues 11 Nov, 6pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...
The Katharine Briggs Lecture and Book Award 2025
Our lecturer this year is Professor Terry Gunnell, Professor Emeritus in Folkloristics at the
University of Iceland
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November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Tickets still available for our Katharine Briggs Lecture & Book Award 2025. Terry Gunnell, you say? Live in London? At the wonderful @swedenborghouse.bsky.social? With wine and snacks? And a load of folklorists? It's going to be a great evening! Tues 11 Nov, 6pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...
Next week! I'm so looking forward to seeing the great Terry Gunnell speak, and to the whole evening! Tickets are still available if you're going to be in London next Tuesday evening and fancy it www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...
November 3, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Next week! I'm so looking forward to seeing the great Terry Gunnell speak, and to the whole evening! Tickets are still available if you're going to be in London next Tuesday evening and fancy it www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-kathar...
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Show us yer neeps (and other assorted veg/fruit lanterns)
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Show us yer neeps (and other assorted veg/fruit lanterns)
Good news!
NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
NHS makes morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England
Those in need of free emergency contraception no longer have to see their GP or attend a sexual health clinic
The NHS has made the morning-after pill available for free across pharmacies in England in an effort to reduce a “postcode lottery” of access to emergency contraception.
Almost 10,000 pharmacies are now able to offer the pill without charge, saving those in need of free emergency contraception from having to visit their GP or to get an appointment at a sexual health clinic. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Good news!
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Hey look! Some of our Folklore Society Library & Archive material is included in this digital collection
Coming soon to British Online Archives — Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920.
Featuring rare records from The National Archives, British Library, UCL, and The Folklore Society.
Register your interest: buff.ly/YBeFCF1
Featuring rare records from The National Archives, British Library, UCL, and The Folklore Society.
Register your interest: buff.ly/YBeFCF1
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Hey look! Some of our Folklore Society Library & Archive material is included in this digital collection
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Call for applications! 📣
The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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September 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Call for applications! 📣
The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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Really looking forward to chairing next week's online talk - Roy Vickery on five decades of collecting and studying plant folklore. Get your tickets at the link below! 🍀🍂🌿
Next week: Our next online talk is from Roy Vickery, on '50 Years of Plant-Lore Collecting'. Tuesday 23 September, 19:00-20:30 BST on Zoom. Tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/50-years-o...
50 Years of Plant-Lore Collecting
Roy Vickery looks back at five decades of attempts to collect and study plant folklore, 1970s – 2020s
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September 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Really looking forward to chairing next week's online talk - Roy Vickery on five decades of collecting and studying plant folklore. Get your tickets at the link below! 🍀🍂🌿
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Not too late to pick up a ticket for this tonight. Sounds amazing, and Peter's a terrific scholar (and lovely bloke), so it'll be well worth your time.
It's September and our programme of online talks is resuming next week! First up, 'Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance' by Prof. Peter Harrop. Tuesday 9 September at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violet-alf...
Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance
In the 1930s, an English folklorist and a French theatre director, made individual journeys in search of authentic performance
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September 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Not too late to pick up a ticket for this tonight. Sounds amazing, and Peter's a terrific scholar (and lovely bloke), so it'll be well worth your time.
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Folklore. FREE - my 3 Folklore Society Presidential Lectures on:
Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Folklore. FREE - my 3 Folklore Society Presidential Lectures on:
Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This year's Newer Researchers in Folklore Day is on 26 Sept 2025, 10:00–16:00 @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social. Experts will run informative & interactive sessions on material culture of folklore, fieldwork, ethics, & more. More info & booking a free place: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
July 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
This year's Newer Researchers in Folklore Day is on 26 Sept 2025, 10:00–16:00 @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social. Experts will run informative & interactive sessions on material culture of folklore, fieldwork, ethics, & more. More info & booking a free place: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
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Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
August 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
Bears repeating: the noise comes from a tiny minority. But a loud minority with influence, money, privilege and reach. Most of us have only love and support for our trans siblings chng.it/kP42RRHM95
August 31, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Bears repeating: the noise comes from a tiny minority. But a loud minority with influence, money, privilege and reach. Most of us have only love and support for our trans siblings chng.it/kP42RRHM95
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Jonathan Gullis "I'm sick of seeing the Palestine flag all over the place"
Lets make him sick.
Lets make him sick.
August 19, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Jonathan Gullis "I'm sick of seeing the Palestine flag all over the place"
Lets make him sick.
Lets make him sick.
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Be the fairest of them all. Depend on the hero, he knows best. Marry the prince & live happily ever after. But folklore doesn't only reinforce gender stereotypes; it also promotes female empowerment. I'm talking on this in Birmingham 28 Aug -NEARLY SOLD OUT! booking.glee.co.uk/22547
August 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Be the fairest of them all. Depend on the hero, he knows best. Marry the prince & live happily ever after. But folklore doesn't only reinforce gender stereotypes; it also promotes female empowerment. I'm talking on this in Birmingham 28 Aug -NEARLY SOLD OUT! booking.glee.co.uk/22547
Places are still available for the Newer Researchers in Folklore Day next month, Friday 26 September, at The Folklore Centre in Todmorden. This is a free event but places do need to be booked www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
This year's Newer Researchers in Folklore Day is on 26 Sept 2025, 10:00–16:00 @folkloretodmorden.bsky.social. Experts will run informative & interactive sessions on material culture of folklore, fieldwork, ethics, & more. More info & booking a free place: www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
August 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Places are still available for the Newer Researchers in Folklore Day next month, Friday 26 September, at The Folklore Centre in Todmorden. This is a free event but places do need to be booked www.folkloremythmagic.com/event-detail...
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I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.
August 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I will be asking to remove 'Queer As Folklore' from the long list for the Polari Prize 2025.
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Marina's new book, Sanctuary, is extraordinary, and I'm looking forward to this talk next Tuesday.
For the last online talk before our summer break we're delighted to be welcoming Professor Dame Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social for her talk 'How to Create Sanctuary Now?’ Tuesday 15 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-cre...
How to Create Sanctuary Now?
Marina Warner explores the history of Sanctuary and how traditions and storytelling might help revive this ancient right in the present day
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July 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Marina's new book, Sanctuary, is extraordinary, and I'm looking forward to this talk next Tuesday.
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For the last online talk before our summer break we're delighted to be welcoming Professor Dame Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social for her talk 'How to Create Sanctuary Now?’ Tuesday 15 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-cre...
How to Create Sanctuary Now?
Marina Warner explores the history of Sanctuary and how traditions and storytelling might help revive this ancient right in the present day
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
For the last online talk before our summer break we're delighted to be welcoming Professor Dame Marina Warner @marinawarner.bsky.social for her talk 'How to Create Sanctuary Now?’ Tuesday 15 July at 19:00 BST, tickets £6.00 (£4 for members with promo code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-cre...
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The Folklore and the Senses conference has come to an end 🥲 Thank you to everyone for making it so fantastic: the speakers, attendees, and in particular to Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie for organising and keeping things running smoothly and hosting us at your beautiful campus!
June 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The Folklore and the Senses conference has come to an end 🥲 Thank you to everyone for making it so fantastic: the speakers, attendees, and in particular to Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie for organising and keeping things running smoothly and hosting us at your beautiful campus!
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Today, UK MPs are voting on substantial reform to abortion law. Abortion is currently permitted under certain circumstances. Outside of these circumstances, abortion care is regulated by a Victorian law. The reform would protect people from arrest and imprisonment for ending their own pregnancy.
June 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Today, UK MPs are voting on substantial reform to abortion law. Abortion is currently permitted under certain circumstances. Outside of these circumstances, abortion care is regulated by a Victorian law. The reform would protect people from arrest and imprisonment for ending their own pregnancy.
This time next week I'll be heading to Cork for our conference @ucc.ie 'Folklore and the Senses'. I'm so looking forward to it! Online tickets are still available if you'd like to join us virtually
We're getting excited for 'Folklore and the Senses', our conference with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.ie next week, 20-22 June! Online tickets are still available to buy until 21 June (in-person registration has now closed) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/folklore-a...
Folklore and the Senses
The Folklore Society's annual conference, in collaboration with the Dept of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork
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June 12, 2025 at 8:57 AM
This time next week I'll be heading to Cork for our conference @ucc.ie 'Folklore and the Senses'. I'm so looking forward to it! Online tickets are still available if you'd like to join us virtually
Looking forward to MERL's Romany and Traveller Heritage Day on Saturday! merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany...
June 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Looking forward to MERL's Romany and Traveller Heritage Day on Saturday! merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany...
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📣The deadline for in-person registration for our hybrid conference Folklore and the Senses is tomorrow, Thursday 5 June, 17:00 BST.📣 Booking for online participants will remain open until 21 June. Day rates are available folklore-society.com/event/folklo...
Folklore and the Senses - The Folklore Society
The Folklore Society's annual conference, exploring the Senses in folklore and tradition, 20-22 June 2025, at University College Cork, and Online
folklore-society.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
📣The deadline for in-person registration for our hybrid conference Folklore and the Senses is tomorrow, Thursday 5 June, 17:00 BST.📣 Booking for online participants will remain open until 21 June. Day rates are available folklore-society.com/event/folklo...