Terri Elizabeth Reid
@terrielizabethr.bsky.social
Speaker, performer, FRSA & member Folklore Society, Historical Association, Dickens Fellowship, Museum Volunteer. History, Folklore, Gothic, Uncanny Landscapes
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Today is #WorldBookDay2025 so we've all come to work dressed as library staff while knowing that in 2023/2024 there were 14.5 million physical visits to Scottish libraries - nearly 4 times the number of people who attended Scottish Premiership football matches. #LoveLibraries ❤️
March 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Today is #WorldBookDay2025 so we've all come to work dressed as library staff while knowing that in 2023/2024 there were 14.5 million physical visits to Scottish libraries - nearly 4 times the number of people who attended Scottish Premiership football matches. #LoveLibraries ❤️
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Morning Wyrdlings! @cwreeve.bsky.social here, ready to get this week's #WyrdWednesday started!
This week's topic - “Rising from the Ashes and other Comebacks!” 👻
This week's topic - “Rising from the Ashes and other Comebacks!” 👻
a woman is laying in a coffin with a blanket on her head .
ALT: a woman is laying in a coffin with a blanket on her head .
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March 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Morning Wyrdlings! @cwreeve.bsky.social here, ready to get this week's #WyrdWednesday started!
This week's topic - “Rising from the Ashes and other Comebacks!” 👻
This week's topic - “Rising from the Ashes and other Comebacks!” 👻
#WyrdWednesday Jurate is a Lithuanian goddess who falls in love with a fisherman. They live in her amber palace under the waves until her father sends a thunderbolt to kill the fisherman. Baltic amber may be pieces of the broken palace, or the tears of the grief stricken Jurate Art: JW Waterhouse
February 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#WyrdWednesday Jurate is a Lithuanian goddess who falls in love with a fisherman. They live in her amber palace under the waves until her father sends a thunderbolt to kill the fisherman. Baltic amber may be pieces of the broken palace, or the tears of the grief stricken Jurate Art: JW Waterhouse
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'If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'
-Charles Dickens
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat 's grumpy Christmas edition.
🎨PJ Lynch
-Charles Dickens
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat 's grumpy Christmas edition.
🎨PJ Lynch
December 21, 2024 at 9:51 AM
'If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.'
-Charles Dickens
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat 's grumpy Christmas edition.
🎨PJ Lynch
-Charles Dickens
@signemaene.com welcomes you to #BookWormSat 's grumpy Christmas edition.
🎨PJ Lynch
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It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
December 18, 2024 at 5:51 PM
It’s the time of year for mentioning one of my favourite ‘untranslatables’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
‘Poronkusema’, in Finnish, once denoted a distance of around 7.5km, which is roughly how long a reindeer can last before needing to urinate. ‘Poronkusema’ means ‘reindeer pee’.
#BookWormSat "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us" JRR Tolkien
Image: John Everett Millais #BookologyThursday #LOTR
Image: John Everett Millais #BookologyThursday #LOTR
December 14, 2024 at 2:27 PM
#BookWormSat "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us" JRR Tolkien
Image: John Everett Millais #BookologyThursday #LOTR
Image: John Everett Millais #BookologyThursday #LOTR
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#OTD the 1918 general election took place, the first to see women vote, following the passage of the Representation of the People Act.
To find out more about the significance of the Act, for women, men and Britain's electoral system, check out this 2019 #HistParl article:
To find out more about the significance of the Act, for women, men and Britain's electoral system, check out this 2019 #HistParl article:
The Representation of the People Act, 1918: A radical reform measure bill - The History of Parliament
This is the second in our blog series, women and parliament in this, the centenary year of the Representation of the People Act 1918. Here at the History of
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December 14, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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I’m doing my Ghost Story for Christmas talk plus Q&A online. £5.
No Diggin' - The Story of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas.
7:00pm - 8:30pm, 23 December.
No Diggin' - The Story of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas.
7:00pm - 8:30pm, 23 December.
No Diggin’ - The Story of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas
Join Jon Dear as he explores the origins and history of these these unique and perennial television films.
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December 14, 2024 at 10:27 AM
I’m doing my Ghost Story for Christmas talk plus Q&A online. £5.
No Diggin' - The Story of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas.
7:00pm - 8:30pm, 23 December.
No Diggin' - The Story of the BBC Ghost Stories for Christmas.
7:00pm - 8:30pm, 23 December.
#FolkyFriday The guttering of a candle was once seen as an indication of spirits nearby, and a candle going out suddenly as an omen. When gaslights replaced candles, the hallucinogenic gases given off might have contributed to the increase in the Victorian interest in spiritualism.
December 13, 2024 at 3:05 PM
#FolkyFriday The guttering of a candle was once seen as an indication of spirits nearby, and a candle going out suddenly as an omen. When gaslights replaced candles, the hallucinogenic gases given off might have contributed to the increase in the Victorian interest in spiritualism.
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Winter wizards and icy snow queens, another #FolkyFriday is upon us! Our theme today is "Candle, Falcon and Boar Lore." To take part, post related lore, art, songs or customs tagged #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-10pm GMT.
🎵 The boar's head in hand bear I,
Bedeck'd with bays and rosema-rye! 🎵
🎵 The boar's head in hand bear I,
Bedeck'd with bays and rosema-rye! 🎵
a cartoon drawing of a boar 's head with a yellow eye
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December 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM
Winter wizards and icy snow queens, another #FolkyFriday is upon us! Our theme today is "Candle, Falcon and Boar Lore." To take part, post related lore, art, songs or customs tagged #FolkyFriday for shares from 10am-10pm GMT.
🎵 The boar's head in hand bear I,
Bedeck'd with bays and rosema-rye! 🎵
🎵 The boar's head in hand bear I,
Bedeck'd with bays and rosema-rye! 🎵
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Today on #BookologyThursday we are sharing 'Gifts and Gestures in Literature and Lore, and Books You Love to Give as Presents!'
@samanthaslk.bsky.social with you for the next few hours excited to receive your literary gifts!
@samanthaslk.bsky.social with you for the next few hours excited to receive your literary gifts!
Tis the season of giving! This week on #BookologyThursday we want you to share...
🎁Gifts and Gestures in literature and lore, as well as the books you love to give as presents!🎁
Kerria and Samantha can't wait for you to shower us with your literary treats!
Art by James Archer
🎁Gifts and Gestures in literature and lore, as well as the books you love to give as presents!🎁
Kerria and Samantha can't wait for you to shower us with your literary treats!
Art by James Archer
December 12, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Today on #BookologyThursday we are sharing 'Gifts and Gestures in Literature and Lore, and Books You Love to Give as Presents!'
@samanthaslk.bsky.social with you for the next few hours excited to receive your literary gifts!
@samanthaslk.bsky.social with you for the next few hours excited to receive your literary gifts!
#WyrdWednesday "I give you the light of Eärendil our most beloved star. May it be a light to you in dark places when all other lights go out." #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings #BookologyThursday
Img: Evelyn De Morgan: Lux in Tenebris
Img: Evelyn De Morgan: Lux in Tenebris
December 11, 2024 at 8:26 PM
#WyrdWednesday "I give you the light of Eärendil our most beloved star. May it be a light to you in dark places when all other lights go out." #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings #BookologyThursday
Img: Evelyn De Morgan: Lux in Tenebris
Img: Evelyn De Morgan: Lux in Tenebris
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Wyrdlings! Are you sick of the dark? Want something to illuminate the gloomy winter? Well, you're in luck! This week's #WyrdWednesday theme is:
'Shine a light in the long Winter night!'
In the name of St Lucy, let's spread some luminescence!🕯️🕯️
Use the hashtag to appear in the feed 👻
'Shine a light in the long Winter night!'
In the name of St Lucy, let's spread some luminescence!🕯️🕯️
Use the hashtag to appear in the feed 👻
December 9, 2024 at 7:50 PM
Wyrdlings! Are you sick of the dark? Want something to illuminate the gloomy winter? Well, you're in luck! This week's #WyrdWednesday theme is:
'Shine a light in the long Winter night!'
In the name of St Lucy, let's spread some luminescence!🕯️🕯️
Use the hashtag to appear in the feed 👻
'Shine a light in the long Winter night!'
In the name of St Lucy, let's spread some luminescence!🕯️🕯️
Use the hashtag to appear in the feed 👻
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We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY
Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
December 9, 2024 at 7:37 AM
We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY
Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
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‘A candle is a small thing, but it helps to chase the dark away.’ ~ Emily Dickinson and
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a candlelit #BookWormSat 🕯️
🖼️ Albert Lebourg, c.1870.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a candlelit #BookWormSat 🕯️
🖼️ Albert Lebourg, c.1870.
December 7, 2024 at 3:50 PM
‘A candle is a small thing, but it helps to chase the dark away.’ ~ Emily Dickinson and
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a candlelit #BookWormSat 🕯️
🖼️ Albert Lebourg, c.1870.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a candlelit #BookWormSat 🕯️
🖼️ Albert Lebourg, c.1870.
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Our #Bookologythursday theme is:
🌨️❄️Wintery Wonderlands and Treasured Holiday Stories❄️🌨️
Send us your favorites in literature, lore and art!
Kerria and Samantha look forward to your posts!
🌨️❄️Wintery Wonderlands and Treasured Holiday Stories❄️🌨️
Send us your favorites in literature, lore and art!
Kerria and Samantha look forward to your posts!
December 3, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Our #Bookologythursday theme is:
🌨️❄️Wintery Wonderlands and Treasured Holiday Stories❄️🌨️
Send us your favorites in literature, lore and art!
Kerria and Samantha look forward to your posts!
🌨️❄️Wintery Wonderlands and Treasured Holiday Stories❄️🌨️
Send us your favorites in literature, lore and art!
Kerria and Samantha look forward to your posts!
#LegendaryWednesday The Snow Queen of Hans Christian Anderson's story is cold, heartless, reigns over an eternal winter and freezes Kai's heart with a kiss. Some suggest that she was inspired by Anderson's unrequited love for "The Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind #BookologyThursday
December 4, 2024 at 5:27 PM
#LegendaryWednesday The Snow Queen of Hans Christian Anderson's story is cold, heartless, reigns over an eternal winter and freezes Kai's heart with a kiss. Some suggest that she was inspired by Anderson's unrequited love for "The Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind #BookologyThursday
#WyrdWednesday In mid 19C Devon, after a heavy snowfall, "devil's footprints" appeared in the snowy landscape over a wide area. Possible explanations discussed included an escaped kangaroo! Strangely these cloven hoofprints appeared again in Devon 150 yrs later. Art by John Everett Millais
December 4, 2024 at 4:48 PM
#WyrdWednesday In mid 19C Devon, after a heavy snowfall, "devil's footprints" appeared in the snowy landscape over a wide area. Possible explanations discussed included an escaped kangaroo! Strangely these cloven hoofprints appeared again in Devon 150 yrs later. Art by John Everett Millais
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🌿🌩️🌿Holly growing beside a house was believed to ward off lightning strikes - if there was no nearby tree, a sprig of Holly from the Christmas greenery would be saved and kept inside the home to protect it throughout the coming year.
#WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday
#WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday
December 4, 2024 at 11:25 AM
🌿🌩️🌿Holly growing beside a house was believed to ward off lightning strikes - if there was no nearby tree, a sprig of Holly from the Christmas greenery would be saved and kept inside the home to protect it throughout the coming year.
#WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday
#WyrdWednesday #FolkloreThursday
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In winter on the Shetland Isles, where daylight dwindles, a monster lurks in dark waters. Its head is riddled with eyes, and its mouth bursts with teeth. The Marool waits, hungry for capsized ships and their meaty sailors—a feast to stave off the winter’s wrath.
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
December 4, 2024 at 11:45 AM
In winter on the Shetland Isles, where daylight dwindles, a monster lurks in dark waters. Its head is riddled with eyes, and its mouth bursts with teeth. The Marool waits, hungry for capsized ships and their meaty sailors—a feast to stave off the winter’s wrath.
#WyrdWednesday
#WyrdWednesday
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Wyrdlings!
For the first week of Yuletide, we give you:
"Things that thrive in the darkest depths of winter!”
as #WyrdWednesday topic.
Bring us your firs, hollies, and other wyrd seasonal lifeforms!
Use the hashtag to appear in the feed 👻
For the first week of Yuletide, we give you:
"Things that thrive in the darkest depths of winter!”
as #WyrdWednesday topic.
Bring us your firs, hollies, and other wyrd seasonal lifeforms!
Use the hashtag to appear in the feed 👻
December 2, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Wyrdlings!
For the first week of Yuletide, we give you:
"Things that thrive in the darkest depths of winter!”
as #WyrdWednesday topic.
Bring us your firs, hollies, and other wyrd seasonal lifeforms!
Use the hashtag to appear in the feed 👻
For the first week of Yuletide, we give you:
"Things that thrive in the darkest depths of winter!”
as #WyrdWednesday topic.
Bring us your firs, hollies, and other wyrd seasonal lifeforms!
Use the hashtag to appear in the feed 👻
#BookWormSat "That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been"
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Img: Great Expectations 1946 John Mills & Valerie Hobson
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Img: Great Expectations 1946 John Mills & Valerie Hobson
November 30, 2024 at 3:49 PM
#BookWormSat "That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been"
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Img: Great Expectations 1946 John Mills & Valerie Hobson
Charles Dickens Great Expectations
Img: Great Expectations 1946 John Mills & Valerie Hobson
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Roundhay Lake - John Atkinson Grimshaw
An English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes
This is one of his favourite locations in his home town of Leeds
An English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes
This is one of his favourite locations in his home town of Leeds
November 30, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Roundhay Lake - John Atkinson Grimshaw
An English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes
This is one of his favourite locations in his home town of Leeds
An English Victorian-era artist best known for his nocturnal scenes of urban landscapes
This is one of his favourite locations in his home town of Leeds