Treadwell's Books
@treadwells-books.bsky.social
Esoteric arts, great books, high culture, witchcraft, scholarship. Advanced degrees in the banned, the burned, the ridiculed.
Last week Treadwell's acquired a huge collection of vintage tarot decks. Maybe 700, as they fill ten packing boxes.Every deck must be counted to ensure it's complete. So far, each has been opened and shuffled. Out of the 18 we've done,one was missing a card. Here's my niece helping after hours.
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Last week Treadwell's acquired a huge collection of vintage tarot decks. Maybe 700, as they fill ten packing boxes.Every deck must be counted to ensure it's complete. So far, each has been opened and shuffled. Out of the 18 we've done,one was missing a card. Here's my niece helping after hours.
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A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
November 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Such an interesting and friendly evening with @odavis.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social discussing the changing nature of folklore at @treadwells-books.bsky.social.
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
November 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Such an interesting and friendly evening with @odavis.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social discussing the changing nature of folklore at @treadwells-books.bsky.social.
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
Thank you for making me feel so welcome! I look forward to coming back for future events.
#Folklore #Booksky #Writersky
I'm not crying, not even a little.
To everyone who does small good things in the course of your day: you are angels without knowing it, not knowing when, for whom, or how.
I pray:
May I also do small good things.
To everyone who does small good things in the course of your day: you are angels without knowing it, not knowing when, for whom, or how.
I pray:
May I also do small good things.
A woman with dementia adored her haircut. Her husband's letter to the stylist is everything.
#Alzheimers #dementia #kindness #Thanksgiving
#Alzheimers #dementia #kindness #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I'm not crying, not even a little.
To everyone who does small good things in the course of your day: you are angels without knowing it, not knowing when, for whom, or how.
I pray:
May I also do small good things.
To everyone who does small good things in the course of your day: you are angels without knowing it, not knowing when, for whom, or how.
I pray:
May I also do small good things.
Hail to thee, queen of the night. Goddess.
Crescent #Moon tonight from Gibraltar Road in #SantaBarbara at about 29%.
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
Camera settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/9
Exposure time: 1/320
ISO: 400
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography
Camera settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/9
Exposure time: 1/320
ISO: 400
November 26, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Hail to thee, queen of the night. Goddess.
Bookshop life is a kind of paradise. Hard work, but pure and good. Independent, cash- poor, soul-rich. I'm so lucky, everyday, to work in it. Yes that's a mummy case stood up in the background. 😁
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Bookshop life is a kind of paradise. Hard work, but pure and good. Independent, cash- poor, soul-rich. I'm so lucky, everyday, to work in it. Yes that's a mummy case stood up in the background. 😁
Listen to this -- it's kinda wow.
A quiet, eerie place, Llyn Dulyn in Eryri (Snowdonia) is steeped not only in an ancient folklore of evil spirits and witches, but also in a more modern ghost story. It was the site of multiple aeroplane crashes during WWII, and became infamous across North Wales.
Llyn Dulyn: The Ghosts of the Black Lake (Nationwide, 1973)
Another Fortean report from Nationwide , the BBC early-evening magazine programme that offered an incomparable portrait of Britain in the Se...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Listen to this -- it's kinda wow.
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A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏
November 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
A round of applause for the French is in order! 👏👏👏
Talked folklore. And ate blueberry muffins. 'Twere grand. 😊❤️
A lovely and productive meeting with Christina at @treadwells-books.bsky.social today. We signed books while we were there, too. Do please give the team at Treadwell's a follow!
#BookSky🩵📚 #books #author #writer #AuthorsOfBlueSky #bookshop #esoteric #folklore #WitchSky #WitchesOfBlueSky #booklover
#BookSky🩵📚 #books #author #writer #AuthorsOfBlueSky #bookshop #esoteric #folklore #WitchSky #WitchesOfBlueSky #booklover
November 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Talked folklore. And ate blueberry muffins. 'Twere grand. 😊❤️
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Moon worshippers. We're a tribe. Hail to thee, Luna.
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Moon worshippers. We're a tribe. Hail to thee, Luna.
Ancient rituals.
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Ancient rituals.
Callum James, Three Charms. We stock it #poetry
Thank you to @treadwells-books.bsky.social in London, it's always lovely to see your own work on a bookshop shelf out in the wild.
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Callum James, Three Charms. We stock it #poetry
We're proud stockists of this new title from @helleborezine . Our shop's in central London at 33 Store Street, and we're open Tues-Sun.
These comments (and more) from our readers have seriously made my weekend! Thank you everyone for all the love 🖤
November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
We're proud stockists of this new title from @helleborezine . Our shop's in central London at 33 Store Street, and we're open Tues-Sun.
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For our final Live Show release of 2026 we have a Live Q&A hosted by the one and only @treadwells-books.bsky.social OUT NOW! 🖤
In case you're unfamiliar, Treadwell's is an esoteric bookshop in London specializing in occult and spiritual topics like magic, witchcraft, and world religions.
Enjoy!
In case you're unfamiliar, Treadwell's is an esoteric bookshop in London specializing in occult and spiritual topics like magic, witchcraft, and world religions.
Enjoy!
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
For our final Live Show release of 2026 we have a Live Q&A hosted by the one and only @treadwells-books.bsky.social OUT NOW! 🖤
In case you're unfamiliar, Treadwell's is an esoteric bookshop in London specializing in occult and spiritual topics like magic, witchcraft, and world religions.
Enjoy!
In case you're unfamiliar, Treadwell's is an esoteric bookshop in London specializing in occult and spiritual topics like magic, witchcraft, and world religions.
Enjoy!
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“The unread pile of books shouldn’t be guilt-inducing but reassuring; proof that we have access to thoughts and stories we might love. Bookshelves show what subjects and ideas spark our curiosity. Owning a book can be as emotionally satisfying as reading it.” www.vogue.in/content/in-d...
In defence of buying books you may never read
If we’re going to be materialistic, it might as well be about books
www.vogue.in
November 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
“The unread pile of books shouldn’t be guilt-inducing but reassuring; proof that we have access to thoughts and stories we might love. Bookshelves show what subjects and ideas spark our curiosity. Owning a book can be as emotionally satisfying as reading it.” www.vogue.in/content/in-d...
It's Sapphic Saturday here...
"My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine."
Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead
November 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
It's Sapphic Saturday here...
Good night from Treadwell's. May your dreams be of this.
November 21, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Good night from Treadwell's. May your dreams be of this.
"like running asthma trials without mentioning asthma attacks." Exactly. Exactly.
November 21, 2025 at 10:04 PM
"like running asthma trials without mentioning asthma attacks." Exactly. Exactly.
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Here's a practical way to respond to the climate crisis, lower air pollution, ease traffic congestion, and make public transportation more appealing and convenient. Iowa City's success story with its free buses shows this strategy can work in lots of other places, too. (Gift link)
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Here's a practical way to respond to the climate crisis, lower air pollution, ease traffic congestion, and make public transportation more appealing and convenient. Iowa City's success story with its free buses shows this strategy can work in lots of other places, too. (Gift link)
We remember. We see.
The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 PM
We remember. We see.
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#Art
Artist John William Waterhouse. Year 1886. Oil on Canvas. Measures 183 cm × 127 cm (72 inches × 50 inches). Location Tate Britain, London, UK.
Artist John William Waterhouse. Year 1886. Oil on Canvas. Measures 183 cm × 127 cm (72 inches × 50 inches). Location Tate Britain, London, UK.
October 2, 2025 at 3:15 AM
#Art
Artist John William Waterhouse. Year 1886. Oil on Canvas. Measures 183 cm × 127 cm (72 inches × 50 inches). Location Tate Britain, London, UK.
Artist John William Waterhouse. Year 1886. Oil on Canvas. Measures 183 cm × 127 cm (72 inches × 50 inches). Location Tate Britain, London, UK.
After everyone's gone home, the bookshop is silent. The quiet of books waiting, resting. The scent of dragons blood incense is almost imperceptible.
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
After everyone's gone home, the bookshop is silent. The quiet of books waiting, resting. The scent of dragons blood incense is almost imperceptible.
Wiltshire folk: get to know your land spirits and your haunted places. Below are your guides: posts, appearances, blogs.
I’m on How Haunted again with my pal Rob and this time we covered Berry Pomeroy castle. It’s super haunted. 👻
Have a listen! Or you can read about it and see the ghost photos captured there in my blog: weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2024/11/30/b...
Have a listen! Or you can read about it and see the ghost photos captured there in my blog: weird-wiltshire.co.uk/2024/11/30/b...
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Wiltshire folk: get to know your land spirits and your haunted places. Below are your guides: posts, appearances, blogs.
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"My age will be, as my youth has been, my power and my glory."
If this were printed on a banner, I'd wave it in the street. A million times yes.
If this were printed on a banner, I'd wave it in the street. A million times yes.
November 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
"My age will be, as my youth has been, my power and my glory."
If this were printed on a banner, I'd wave it in the street. A million times yes.
If this were printed on a banner, I'd wave it in the street. A million times yes.