Andrew Chapman
@chapmanbookman.bsky.social
I help authors/indie presses publish non-fiction books. Also editor of 3 British history magazines, including northernearth.co.uk (folklore, archaeology, psychogeography, landscape). Writer, walker, ambulomancer, neoantiquarian.
andrewchapman.info
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I made a thing… with quite a bit of help from Eric #Ravilious.
It's out! Our first Traditional Year Calendar, packed with folk customs and feasts, weather lore and traditions from down the ages. Grab yours now at northernearth.co.uk/product/trad...
November 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I made a thing… with quite a bit of help from Eric #Ravilious.
Warm thanks to Simon at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for a very useful (if sobering) chat about the book supply chain! Go thee unto www.biggreenbookshop.com and help us all prop up this strange world of publishing.
October 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Warm thanks to Simon at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for a very useful (if sobering) chat about the book supply chain! Go thee unto www.biggreenbookshop.com and help us all prop up this strange world of publishing.
Anyone? Is #publishing still alive on this platform? (Or does anyone actually read Bluesky..?)
Wearing my publishing consultant hat, are there any independent booksellers reading this who would be up for a quick conversation via DM or email? (Please share this if you know such a person.)
October 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Anyone? Is #publishing still alive on this platform? (Or does anyone actually read Bluesky..?)
Wearing my publishing consultant hat, are there any independent booksellers reading this who would be up for a quick conversation via DM or email? (Please share this if you know such a person.)
October 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Wearing my publishing consultant hat, are there any independent booksellers reading this who would be up for a quick conversation via DM or email? (Please share this if you know such a person.)
Nature is patiently taking over in my favourite wood.
October 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Nature is patiently taking over in my favourite wood.
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The new issue of Northern Earth is out! In this issue: Rosemary Pardoe on St Edmund and the wolf • #Megaliths in Portugal and Cornwall • Bewitching tape in Britain's hedges… • Sycamore Gap • and lots more.
northernearth.co.uk/subscribe
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September 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The new issue of Northern Earth is out! In this issue: Rosemary Pardoe on St Edmund and the wolf • #Megaliths in Portugal and Cornwall • Bewitching tape in Britain's hedges… • Sycamore Gap • and lots more.
northernearth.co.uk/subscribe
northernearth.co.uk/subscribe
A solid take on the traditional publishing landscape here: www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...
To Go Big or Come Home?
On the Writing Life With Major and Indie Publishers
www.metropolitanreview.org
September 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A solid take on the traditional publishing landscape here: www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...
I'd always recommend the indie journal Undefined Boundary (a great mix of hauntological/psychogeographical/countercultural themes), and of course especially so the latest one as it has my article about Charles Dickens and Richard Dadd in it 😀 temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/unde...
Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion Volume 4/Issue 1 PREORDER
PLEASE NOTE: This is a presale and copies will be posted when available in September. If you have other items included in this order they will be...
temporalboundary.bigcartel.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I'd always recommend the indie journal Undefined Boundary (a great mix of hauntological/psychogeographical/countercultural themes), and of course especially so the latest one as it has my article about Charles Dickens and Richard Dadd in it 😀 temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/unde...
Just get in touch.
July 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Just get in touch.
The always-inspiring YouTuber Beau Miles has a new project: for every 1000 views this video gets, he'll plant four trees (i.e. the value of the ad revenue). Watch and share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YF...
Watching this YouTube video will plant a forest
YouTube video by Beau Miles
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July 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The always-inspiring YouTuber Beau Miles has a new project: for every 1000 views this video gets, he'll plant four trees (i.e. the value of the ad revenue). Watch and share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YF...
Finally finished Offa’s Dyke Path yesterday (a third in 2021 and 2023, a third last week) – the first national trail I’ve actually completed! And with my 16yo son – happy times.
July 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Finally finished Offa’s Dyke Path yesterday (a third in 2021 and 2023, a third last week) – the first national trail I’ve actually completed! And with my 16yo son – happy times.
A little hint of folk horror thanks to a raven on today’s walk.
June 27, 2025 at 8:21 AM
A little hint of folk horror thanks to a raven on today’s walk.
My short piece about Oliver Cromwell and his wife Elizabeth seems to have struck a chord with people, including someone related to them. www.gethistories.com/p/mrs-protec...
Mrs Protector, 1650
He's away on business, and doesn't get in touch enough!
www.gethistories.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:12 AM
My short piece about Oliver Cromwell and his wife Elizabeth seems to have struck a chord with people, including someone related to them. www.gethistories.com/p/mrs-protec...
In Scotland they have tossing the caber. Here in the Cotswolds we have ‘spurning the bar’ - one of many entertaining spectacles at yesterday’s Cotswold Olimpicks. 1/3
May 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
In Scotland they have tossing the caber. Here in the Cotswolds we have ‘spurning the bar’ - one of many entertaining spectacles at yesterday’s Cotswold Olimpicks. 1/3
Loved being part of this last year.
Breaking news from the 4th World Congress of Psychogeography: the 2025 event (Swansea, 11 October), but sadly the last in its current form. Proposals sought: mailchi.mp/90a8aaabbf33...
4WCoP 2025 Call for Submissions
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May 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Loved being part of this last year.
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Well, issue 180 is back from the printers and now winging its way to subscribers and retailers! If you're not in the gang yet, join us here… northernearth.co.uk/product/nort... What's inside? Well, we've got holy wells, H.G. Wells and, er, Oliver Cromwell.
Northern Earth subscription - Northern Earth
Founded in 1979, Northern Earth is the world’s longest-running journal combining interests in archaeology, folklore, phenomenology and psychogeography –
northernearth.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Well, issue 180 is back from the printers and now winging its way to subscribers and retailers! If you're not in the gang yet, join us here… northernearth.co.uk/product/nort... What's inside? Well, we've got holy wells, H.G. Wells and, er, Oliver Cromwell.
Before going to events I like to walk in the hills. This is the wood where I unexpectedly bumped into Clive Anderson today, and helped him navigate. All part of the #hayfestival experience!
May 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Before going to events I like to walk in the hills. This is the wood where I unexpectedly bumped into Clive Anderson today, and helped him navigate. All part of the #hayfestival experience!
Off for my 2nd crazy annual day trip to the Hay Festival (and for a walk in the hills) on Thursday, this time for @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's talk on rivers.
May 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Off for my 2nd crazy annual day trip to the Hay Festival (and for a walk in the hills) on Thursday, this time for @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's talk on rivers.
Broken Veil is great. Do listen!
Catch up if you haven’t yet…
Apparently we’re “trending”. Number two in Fiction. Number ten in all podcast series.
Episode three due on Wednesday.
Join in.
#BrokenVeil
pod.link/1745494718
Apparently we’re “trending”. Number two in Fiction. Number ten in all podcast series.
Episode three due on Wednesday.
Join in.
#BrokenVeil
pod.link/1745494718
March 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Broken Veil is great. Do listen!
Fame at last? I was interviewed by The Times seeking a response to Bill Bryson snarking about self-publishing. In today's paper (and I've also now been interviewed by Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio): archive.is/eXJik – I should maybe add that I'm rather more pro self-pub than the extract suggests!
March 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Fame at last? I was interviewed by The Times seeking a response to Bill Bryson snarking about self-publishing. In today's paper (and I've also now been interviewed by Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio): archive.is/eXJik – I should maybe add that I'm rather more pro self-pub than the extract suggests!
Reposted by Andrew Chapman
The Hare is running! Read the first issue of our free newsletter here (appropriately enough for March): thehare.substack.com/p/the-hare-1...
The Hare #1 [March 2025]
Witch trials, phallic stones, fortune-telling spoons…
thehare.substack.com
March 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Hare is running! Read the first issue of our free newsletter here (appropriately enough for March): thehare.substack.com/p/the-hare-1...
Reposted by Andrew Chapman
The challenge with a quarterly print magazine is keeping up with news and events in the interim. So that's why we've set up The Hare, a free monthly newsletter to share useful and interesting stuff! First one goes out next week. thehare.substack.com
The Hare | Andrew Chapman | Substack
The monthly newsletter of Northern Earth, the journal of people, place and experience. Click to read The Hare, by Andrew Chapman, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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February 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The challenge with a quarterly print magazine is keeping up with news and events in the interim. So that's why we've set up The Hare, a free monthly newsletter to share useful and interesting stuff! First one goes out next week. thehare.substack.com
Reposted by Andrew Chapman
Hello Bluesky - it's good to be here! Do follow us if you're interested in vernacular architecture and buildings archaeology.
February 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Hello Bluesky - it's good to be here! Do follow us if you're interested in vernacular architecture and buildings archaeology.
So I was watching @paulwhitewick.bsky.social's latest video, about the Neolithic chalk drums - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXvC... - while cooking, and I had to pause it for a moment. Which happened to be when he was doing his best jazz hands.
February 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
So I was watching @paulwhitewick.bsky.social's latest video, about the Neolithic chalk drums - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXvC... - while cooking, and I had to pause it for a moment. Which happened to be when he was doing his best jazz hands.
Reposted by Andrew Chapman
There's a rich line-up now for this year's Terminalia psychogeography festival, focused around 23 February: terminaliafestival.org
Terminalia - Festival of Psychogeography 23rd Feb
Terminalia a festival of walking, place, space and psychogeography around 23 Feb Across the UK and internationally
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February 11, 2025 at 4:07 PM
There's a rich line-up now for this year's Terminalia psychogeography festival, focused around 23 February: terminaliafestival.org