A-fish-ionados, I need your help! Please can you help me identify the fish circled in the image? I seem to remember a similar debate on one of @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social 's posts? And maybe @greenleejw.bsky.social could hook me up with some fellow fish fans? More details in next post...

I love Blake so much that I'm always a bit wary to read the latest book about him, but @philiphoare.bsky.social's more than delivers: as lyrical, fantastic and eclectic as the man himself. And he gave me a Behemoth and Leviathan badge when he signed my book at Norwich History Festival 😃

Had the best time sharing stories from the sea at this weekend's vibrant First Light Festival in Lowestoft with Tom Greaves and Megan Pay firstlightlowestoft.com/event/sea-so... Thanks to Nicholas Grant, Alex Bratt and CreativeUEA for the opportunity. Next stop The Royal Norfolk Show...

A fascinating paper this evening featuring some top-notch manuscript detective work from @britishlibrary.bsky.social's Julian Harrison in his exploration of Robert Cotton and the ownership of The Chronicle of Mann and the Isles for our Med & EMod Literature Research Seminar. Thank you Julian!

@thorewing.bsky.social closing the wonderful @lincsfolk.bsky.social symposium telling the atmospheric tale of The Dead Moon, where the moon gets trapped in the bogs and fens of Lincolnshire... #LFT25

Reading Lincolnshire Folk Tales Reimagined in the sunshine then attending the book's official launch at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social to hear tales of imps, bogs and boggarts: what a great way to get in the mood for the
@lincsfolk.bsky.social symposium tomorrow!
#LFT25

It was such a joy to be joined by @sachacoward.bsky.social this week and to hear his fascinating and inspiring talk to some of our third year @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social Literature, Drama and Creative Writing students about myths, monsters and queer history🐉🐦‍🔥🧜‍♀️ Thank you Sacha 😊

Well this is cool! Old Shucky is one of the stars of Royal Mail's new Myths and Legends stamps shop.royalmail.com/special-stam...
#FolkloreThursday

A Roman soldier, mind you, so I'm loving the anachronistic armour! In that sense it does remind me of this image of Edmund performing a posthumous miracle (spearing Sweyn Forkbeard) clad in late medieval armour, but Edmund isn't depicted like this at the time of his martyrdom.

'And the first angel sounded the trumpet and there followed hail'

Preparing to teach a class on medieval signs and wonders and feeling unnerved by the weather 😬

I went wassailing and it was brilliant! 🌳🍏🎶

#wassailing #wassail #folklore #folktraditions #calendarcustoms

There was such enthusiasm for our tour of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe's Norwich that we had to run it three times 🤩 Thanks to our students who joined me for the first two and who were so engaged and asked such great questions.

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