Laurence Mitchell
@eastofelveden.bsky.social
Writer. Doom stroller. Travel and landscape, also archaeology and wildlife. Author of various Bradt and Cicerone guides, also Westering (Saraband). https://eastofelveden.wordpress.com. Latest book: Flint Country https://saraband.net/sb-title/flint-country/
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Thrilled to have an advance copy in my hands. Flint Country will be published on July 10 by @saraband-books.bsky.social #books #booksky #flint
Gorleston was Gorleston ere Yarmouth Begun, Raveningham Sculpture Trail, Norfolk #fingerpostfriday
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Gorleston was Gorleston ere Yarmouth Begun, Raveningham Sculpture Trail, Norfolk #fingerpostfriday
Not so much for the dead as of the dead. Capela dos Ossos (Bone Chapel), part of the 18th century Carmelite church, Nossa Senhora do Carmo in Faro, Portugal, which contains the bones of over 1000 Carmelite friars #TombTuesday
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Not so much for the dead as of the dead. Capela dos Ossos (Bone Chapel), part of the 18th century Carmelite church, Nossa Senhora do Carmo in Faro, Portugal, which contains the bones of over 1000 Carmelite friars #TombTuesday
Two of the taller megaliths of Pobull Fhinn stone circle on slope of Ben Langlass, Isle of North Uist. Probably 2nd millennium BCE. The circle is actually an oval c 27 x 38 metres. About two dozen stones remain in total. #StandingStoneSunday #Scotland
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Two of the taller megaliths of Pobull Fhinn stone circle on slope of Ben Langlass, Isle of North Uist. Probably 2nd millennium BCE. The circle is actually an oval c 27 x 38 metres. About two dozen stones remain in total. #StandingStoneSunday #Scotland
Dejected signpost, Norfolk #FingerpostFriday
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Dejected signpost, Norfolk #FingerpostFriday
A thin place, Iona #Samhain #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A thin place, Iona #Samhain #Halloween
Kerry Ridgeway, Shropshire/Powys border #FingerpostFriday
October 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Kerry Ridgeway, Shropshire/Powys border #FingerpostFriday
The resting place of Sir John Soanes, polymath and architect of the Bank of England, St Pancras Old Church graveyard, London. His tomb later to be inspiration for the iconic K1 red telephone box #TombTuesday
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The resting place of Sir John Soanes, polymath and architect of the Bank of England, St Pancras Old Church graveyard, London. His tomb later to be inspiration for the iconic K1 red telephone box #TombTuesday
An outlier of Lochbuie stone circle, whose nine granite megaliths can be seen in the distance in the shadow of Ben Buie on the Isle of Mull. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age #StandingStoneSunday
October 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
An outlier of Lochbuie stone circle, whose nine granite megaliths can be seen in the distance in the shadow of Ben Buie on the Isle of Mull. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age #StandingStoneSunday
Saddle-height fingerpost, Corndon Hill, Powys, Wales #FingerPostFriday
October 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Saddle-height fingerpost, Corndon Hill, Powys, Wales #FingerPostFriday
NEWS – Flint Country makes EABA Shortlist
I'm delighted to announce that Flint Country has been shortlisted in the General Non-fiction category for the East Anglia Book Awards 2025. The winners of each of the seven categories will be announced early next year. It's gratifying to see it here,…
I'm delighted to announce that Flint Country has been shortlisted in the General Non-fiction category for the East Anglia Book Awards 2025. The winners of each of the seven categories will be announced early next year. It's gratifying to see it here,…
NEWS – Flint Country makes EABA Shortlist
I'm delighted to announce that Flint Country has been shortlisted in the General Non-fiction category for the East Anglia Book Awards 2025. The winners of each of the seven categories will be announced early next year. It's gratifying to see it here, midstratum in this literary Jenga Tower, its spine a silvery - dare-I-say, flinty - grey. A distinct, rock-solid layer in a cliff face of words and syntax. Anyway. Good luck to all of us.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
NEWS – Flint Country makes EABA Shortlist
I'm delighted to announce that Flint Country has been shortlisted in the General Non-fiction category for the East Anglia Book Awards 2025. The winners of each of the seven categories will be announced early next year. It's gratifying to see it here,…
I'm delighted to announce that Flint Country has been shortlisted in the General Non-fiction category for the East Anglia Book Awards 2025. The winners of each of the seven categories will be announced early next year. It's gratifying to see it here,…
Knowth passage tomb, Co Meath, Ireland. Built c 3000 BCE, part of the Bru na Boinne complex in the bend of the River Boyne. Here are some of its many decorated kerbstones #TombTuesday
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Knowth passage tomb, Co Meath, Ireland. Built c 3000 BCE, part of the Bru na Boinne complex in the bend of the River Boyne. Here are some of its many decorated kerbstones #TombTuesday
Monasterboyce tower and high cross, Ireland #BlueSkyMonday
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Monasterboyce tower and high cross, Ireland #BlueSkyMonday
Fantastic news to have Flint Country shortlisted for this award.
Congratulations to @eastofelveden.bsky.social who has been shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Awards 2025, for Flint Country 🎉
Read the full announcement below, and congratulations to all the shortlistees!
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...
@writerscentre.bsky.social
#Booksky
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Read the full announcement below, and congratulations to all the shortlistees!
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk/writing-hub/...
@writerscentre.bsky.social
#Booksky
📚💙
East Anglian Book Awards 2025 shortlist announced
The shortlisted titles for the East Anglian Book Awards 2025, the region’s leading celebration of writing and publishing talent, have been announced — alongside the shortlist for the inaugural City of...
nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Fantastic news to have Flint Country shortlisted for this award.
An outlier at Beltany Stone Circle, Donegal #Ireland #StandingStoneSunday
October 19, 2025 at 8:46 AM
An outlier at Beltany Stone Circle, Donegal #Ireland #StandingStoneSunday
Bryn Celli Ddu, a late Neolithic site on Anglesey, Wales. Built in two phases: first a henge, then later a passage tomb added within, its entrance roughly aligned with the summer solstice. Visitors continue to leave votive offerings even today #TombTuesday
October 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Bryn Celli Ddu, a late Neolithic site on Anglesey, Wales. Built in two phases: first a henge, then later a passage tomb added within, its entrance roughly aligned with the summer solstice. Visitors continue to leave votive offerings even today #TombTuesday
One of 64 stones at Bronze Age Beltany stone circle, Donegal #StandingStoneCircle #Ireland
October 12, 2025 at 7:52 PM
One of 64 stones at Bronze Age Beltany stone circle, Donegal #StandingStoneCircle #Ireland
The Bloody Foreshore, Donegal, Ireland #FingerPostFriday
October 10, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The Bloody Foreshore, Donegal, Ireland #FingerPostFriday
Drumnatiddy beach, Co Donegal, Ireland
October 8, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Drumnatiddy beach, Co Donegal, Ireland
The path to Tramore Beach, Co Donegal, Ireland
October 6, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The path to Tramore Beach, Co Donegal, Ireland
Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland. Cross, tower and church.
October 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Monasterboice, County Louth, Ireland. Cross, tower and church.
Absorbed by nature, SE Bulgaria #FingerPostFriday
October 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Absorbed by nature, SE Bulgaria #FingerPostFriday
Holy Trinity Church, Loddon, and its lovely glistening rainbow of flintwork.
October 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Holy Trinity Church, Loddon, and its lovely glistening rainbow of flintwork.
Lochbuie stone circle. Nine granite megaliths shape a circle, close to the shoreline in the shadow of Ben Buie on the Isle of Mull. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age #StandingStoneSunday
September 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Lochbuie stone circle. Nine granite megaliths shape a circle, close to the shoreline in the shadow of Ben Buie on the Isle of Mull. Late Neolithic/early Bronze Age #StandingStoneSunday
Callanais, Isle of Lewis. The grain of the land #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths
September 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Callanais, Isle of Lewis. The grain of the land #StandingStoneSunday #megaliths
Telephone box and heron, Ulva, Inner Hebrides, Scotland #telephones #TelephoneBoxTuesday
September 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Telephone box and heron, Ulva, Inner Hebrides, Scotland #telephones #TelephoneBoxTuesday