Dr Romany Reagan
@msromany.bsky.social
Arts Council England funded research fellow, audio artist & storyteller weaving hidden histories into pieces of creative public engagement at museums & heritage sites. Dark heritage, feminist history, layers of memory in place, folklore 📜🕯️
I went to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social exhibition Expecting: Birth, Belief & Protection to see their rare mediaeval birth scroll!! 📜 I explain the history, context. & magical powers of birth scrolls in my latest post: blackthornandstone.com/2025/11/13/g...
#midwives #childbirth #medievalmidwife
#midwives #childbirth #medievalmidwife
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I went to @wellcomecollection.bsky.social exhibition Expecting: Birth, Belief & Protection to see their rare mediaeval birth scroll!! 📜 I explain the history, context. & magical powers of birth scrolls in my latest post: blackthornandstone.com/2025/11/13/g...
#midwives #childbirth #medievalmidwife
#midwives #childbirth #medievalmidwife
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I really enjoyed the lunchtime talk by @msromany.bsky.social titled '(Séance) Room of One’s Own' that covered the origins of British spiritualism and how it inspired women's rights at the turn of the last century.
I hope Dr Romany Reagan will do more of these kinds of talks.
#spiritualism
I hope Dr Romany Reagan will do more of these kinds of talks.
#spiritualism
November 12, 2025 at 12:07 AM
I really enjoyed the lunchtime talk by @msromany.bsky.social titled '(Séance) Room of One’s Own' that covered the origins of British spiritualism and how it inspired women's rights at the turn of the last century.
I hope Dr Romany Reagan will do more of these kinds of talks.
#spiritualism
I hope Dr Romany Reagan will do more of these kinds of talks.
#spiritualism
🎃 👻🧟♂️ Halloween haunts the streets of Battle! 🧟♂️👻🎃The Battle Yarn Bombers outdoing themselves this spooky season with these glorious characters. I love our quirky little town. 🦇🕸️
#yarnbombers #halloween #spookysussex #ilovebattle
#yarnbombers #halloween #spookysussex #ilovebattle
October 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
🎃 👻🧟♂️ Halloween haunts the streets of Battle! 🧟♂️👻🎃The Battle Yarn Bombers outdoing themselves this spooky season with these glorious characters. I love our quirky little town. 🦇🕸️
#yarnbombers #halloween #spookysussex #ilovebattle
#yarnbombers #halloween #spookysussex #ilovebattle
🕯️🧹Halloween Special | Witches Familiars 🧹🕯️ podcast now live! 🎧 I was invited on @nationaltrust.org.uk podcast to discuss witches’ familiars & share some darker stories of loving pets in the past… 🐈⬛🧙🏻♀️💜
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...
#witches #witchcraft #nationaltrust #feministhistory
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...
#witches #witchcraft #nationaltrust #feministhistory
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
🕯️🧹Halloween Special | Witches Familiars 🧹🕯️ podcast now live! 🎧 I was invited on @nationaltrust.org.uk podcast to discuss witches’ familiars & share some darker stories of loving pets in the past… 🐈⬛🧙🏻♀️💜
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...
#witches #witchcraft #nationaltrust #feministhistory
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/vir...
#witches #witchcraft #nationaltrust #feministhistory
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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 9:02 AM
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
My new article ‘Women’s Healthcare in a Man’s World: A potted history of how we got here’⚕️🚺🌿 is out now in Fall 2025 issue of Bust Magazine 💪🏻 It explores when women’s healthcare fell into the hands of men & the fight to get it back⚡️✊🏻 #womenshealthcare #feministhistory #midwives #histmed #feminism
October 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
My new article ‘Women’s Healthcare in a Man’s World: A potted history of how we got here’⚕️🚺🌿 is out now in Fall 2025 issue of Bust Magazine 💪🏻 It explores when women’s healthcare fell into the hands of men & the fight to get it back⚡️✊🏻 #womenshealthcare #feministhistory #midwives #histmed #feminism
My next (free!) talk will be Tues 11/11 12:30pm at the Bank of England Museum — ‘A (Séance) Room of One's Own: The socially subversive origins of British Spiritualism’ 🔮👻 Exploring how ghosts were just the beginning… 🕯️ www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats... #spiritualism #feminism #victorianhistory
October 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
My next (free!) talk will be Tues 11/11 12:30pm at the Bank of England Museum — ‘A (Séance) Room of One's Own: The socially subversive origins of British Spiritualism’ 🔮👻 Exploring how ghosts were just the beginning… 🕯️ www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats... #spiritualism #feminism #victorianhistory
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I saw the lovely @msromany.bsky.social talk about witch bottles at the Museum of the Home in Hackney some years back. It’s a fascinating subject: blackthornandstone.com/2020/09/02/w...
Witch Bottles & Hidden Curses: Objects of Protection; Objects of Vengeance
By Romany Reagan Written accounts of witchcraft, witch trials, cunning folk, and folk magic were largely recorded by the Church, with all the prejudices associated with a one-sided narrative. Given…
blackthornandstone.com
October 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I saw the lovely @msromany.bsky.social talk about witch bottles at the Museum of the Home in Hackney some years back. It’s a fascinating subject: blackthornandstone.com/2020/09/02/w...
🦇🎃💀 Happy October!!! 💀🎃🦇 Get into the *spirit* of things with my audio walk through darker Bloomsbury following occult pathways & hidden histories in this birthplace of British Spiritualism 👻🔮 Join me… if you DARE 🏚️
londonmonthofthedead.com/hauntedbloom...
#bloomsbury #spiritualism #audiowalk
londonmonthofthedead.com/hauntedbloom...
#bloomsbury #spiritualism #audiowalk
October 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🦇🎃💀 Happy October!!! 💀🎃🦇 Get into the *spirit* of things with my audio walk through darker Bloomsbury following occult pathways & hidden histories in this birthplace of British Spiritualism 👻🔮 Join me… if you DARE 🏚️
londonmonthofthedead.com/hauntedbloom...
#bloomsbury #spiritualism #audiowalk
londonmonthofthedead.com/hauntedbloom...
#bloomsbury #spiritualism #audiowalk
Only 2 weeks until the Battle Folk & Fable Festival August bank holiday weekend!! 🧙🏻♀️🌿📜🕯️I’ll be giving my talk on dreamlore 3:15pm on Sat 23rd in the main marquee tent ✨ Witches, Faeries & Ghosts: Our dreamscapes of legend & lore ✨ battlefolkandfable.co.uk
#dreams #dreamlore #folklore #ghosts #witches
#dreams #dreamlore #folklore #ghosts #witches
August 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Only 2 weeks until the Battle Folk & Fable Festival August bank holiday weekend!! 🧙🏻♀️🌿📜🕯️I’ll be giving my talk on dreamlore 3:15pm on Sat 23rd in the main marquee tent ✨ Witches, Faeries & Ghosts: Our dreamscapes of legend & lore ✨ battlefolkandfable.co.uk
#dreams #dreamlore #folklore #ghosts #witches
#dreams #dreamlore #folklore #ghosts #witches
My Spotify daylist has informed me that I apparently like anti-folk cabaret deathgrass. And they are not wrong. 🤷🏻♀️
August 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
My Spotify daylist has informed me that I apparently like anti-folk cabaret deathgrass. And they are not wrong. 🤷🏻♀️
I’m so proud to be in this lux little new zine #TheSpectralLines 🕯️💀for ‘seekers of unveiled meta-realms’ by #CarnieFilms with my piece ‘Grey Ladies in the Crumbling Stones: a love affair with the uncanny gothic feminine’ 🥀 #greyladies #ghoststories #iwanttobelieve #ghosthunting #doyoubelieveinghosts
June 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I’m so proud to be in this lux little new zine #TheSpectralLines 🕯️💀for ‘seekers of unveiled meta-realms’ by #CarnieFilms with my piece ‘Grey Ladies in the Crumbling Stones: a love affair with the uncanny gothic feminine’ 🥀 #greyladies #ghoststories #iwanttobelieve #ghosthunting #doyoubelieveinghosts
I'm giving live talks again! Join me Thurs 12/6 6:30pm at Museum of the Home for the feminist history of herbal midwives & women’s right to choose! *** + after-hours entry to Gardens Through Time 🌙 wine reception🍷 & private view of SIMPLING at Ruup & Form gallery *** ruupandform.com/events/52-pl...
June 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I'm giving live talks again! Join me Thurs 12/6 6:30pm at Museum of the Home for the feminist history of herbal midwives & women’s right to choose! *** + after-hours entry to Gardens Through Time 🌙 wine reception🍷 & private view of SIMPLING at Ruup & Form gallery *** ruupandform.com/events/52-pl...
“Reading” is a strong word, but certainly consuming literature. 🤨
May 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“Reading” is a strong word, but certainly consuming literature. 🤨
It’s a little-known fact that Dennis Leary died in Battle in 1885 ☠️ The current Dennis Leary is in fact a vampire🧛🏻♂️I pass this headstone every day & invented many Victorian adventures for Dennis Leary the Vampire romping around East Sussex 🗺️
#dennisleary #dennislearythevampire #losthistory #truefacts
#dennisleary #dennislearythevampire #losthistory #truefacts
May 9, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It’s a little-known fact that Dennis Leary died in Battle in 1885 ☠️ The current Dennis Leary is in fact a vampire🧛🏻♂️I pass this headstone every day & invented many Victorian adventures for Dennis Leary the Vampire romping around East Sussex 🗺️
#dennisleary #dennislearythevampire #losthistory #truefacts
#dennisleary #dennislearythevampire #losthistory #truefacts
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May 7, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Join me & Kerry Lemon aka MRS ROE 12/6 6:30pm for feminist herbal history talk + art exhibition 🌿 We’ll begin at @museumofthehome.bsky.social with my talk on the herbal secrets of mediaeval midwives 🌙 Then to Ruup & Form gallery to view MRS ROE exhibition Simpling 🚺
ruupandform.com/events/52/ov...
ruupandform.com/events/52/ov...
Event: Plant Knowledge as Power: Woman's Weeds with Dr Romany Reagan and the Museum of the Home
Join Dr Romany Reagan and Kerry Lemon for an exclusive after-hours event at the Museum of the Home, followed by a group walk to Ruup & Form for an intimate viewing of SIMPLING led by the artist. We’ll...
ruupandform.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Join me & Kerry Lemon aka MRS ROE 12/6 6:30pm for feminist herbal history talk + art exhibition 🌿 We’ll begin at @museumofthehome.bsky.social with my talk on the herbal secrets of mediaeval midwives 🌙 Then to Ruup & Form gallery to view MRS ROE exhibition Simpling 🚺
ruupandform.com/events/52/ov...
ruupandform.com/events/52/ov...
What a marvellous first Mother’s Day!! 💐 It’s a bit surreal for this holiday to apply to myself for the first time. We went to a Mother’s Day Tractor Run 🚜 (we live in the country so this is apparently what we do now! 👩🏻🌾) Next year we’ll get there early enough to score seats actually on a tractor! 😃
March 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
What a marvellous first Mother’s Day!! 💐 It’s a bit surreal for this holiday to apply to myself for the first time. We went to a Mother’s Day Tractor Run 🚜 (we live in the country so this is apparently what we do now! 👩🏻🌾) Next year we’ll get there early enough to score seats actually on a tractor! 😃
True stories of an American / British household — poor little love will alternate in confusion between learning that’s not his ZEE-bra and that’s not his ZEH-bra depending on who’s reading to him at the time… 🤨🤪😂
#americanbritish #transatlanticparenting
#americanbritish #transatlanticparenting
March 17, 2025 at 12:38 PM
True stories of an American / British household — poor little love will alternate in confusion between learning that’s not his ZEE-bra and that’s not his ZEH-bra depending on who’s reading to him at the time… 🤨🤪😂
#americanbritish #transatlanticparenting
#americanbritish #transatlanticparenting
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A new (and gorgeous!) Witches of Scotland #tartan has been created to honor the thousands of people, primarily women, who were persecuted as #witches between the 16th and 18th centuries. wildhunt.org/2025/02/newl...
Newly Approved Tartan Design Memorializes Those Persecuted Under Scotland’s Witchcraft Act - Paganism, U.K., U.S., Witchcraft, World
Witchcraft & Pagan News - The Scottish Register of Tartans approves a new design by The Witches of Scotland, an organization seeking justice for those persecuted under the Witchcraft Act. | Paganism, ...
wildhunt.org
February 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A new (and gorgeous!) Witches of Scotland #tartan has been created to honor the thousands of people, primarily women, who were persecuted as #witches between the 16th and 18th centuries. wildhunt.org/2025/02/newl...
I’m surprised the non-stop baby lullabies playlist didn’t completely tweak my roundup this year! I fully expected night sounds instrumental green sleeves to top the billing 🤣
December 5, 2024 at 6:05 PM
I’m surprised the non-stop baby lullabies playlist didn’t completely tweak my roundup this year! I fully expected night sounds instrumental green sleeves to top the billing 🤣
Battle Abbey looking quite imposing and glorious this year with its Christmas illumination! 🏰 No filter here, it genuinely looks like this when you walk down the high street! Top Christmas’ing. 🎄 @englishheritage.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 2:06 PM
Battle Abbey looking quite imposing and glorious this year with its Christmas illumination! 🏰 No filter here, it genuinely looks like this when you walk down the high street! Top Christmas’ing. 🎄 @englishheritage.bsky.social
Gloriously dramatic tree I saw today in my local cemetery. A tree to tell stories under. Some trees blend in to the background in summer and then start to show their unique beauty in autumn. ❤️🍂
November 19, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Gloriously dramatic tree I saw today in my local cemetery. A tree to tell stories under. Some trees blend in to the background in summer and then start to show their unique beauty in autumn. ❤️🍂
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Not gonna lie: I'm a historian and I had no idea there was a second person on that plane. His name was Fred Noonan.
We've all been a Fred at one point in our lives 😂
We've all been a Fred at one point in our lives 😂
November 15, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Not gonna lie: I'm a historian and I had no idea there was a second person on that plane. His name was Fred Noonan.
We've all been a Fred at one point in our lives 😂
We've all been a Fred at one point in our lives 😂