Martin Brown
@martinb-archaeo.bsky.social
Archaeologist, Morris tart, folklorist manqué
A day late for #FolkloreThursday but if you want to read my review of Imogen Corrigan's book The Green Man, it's here. It's not perfect but I really enjoyed the book and found some useful insights, particularly about the possible origins of the phenomenon. www.archaeologists.net/publications...
The Green Man: Myth and Reality
This readable book challenges preconcpetions. It may surprise some readers, but the Green Man isn’t green, and they aren’t all men. The foliate head is only known as the Green Man in the Anglophone wo...
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September 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A day late for #FolkloreThursday but if you want to read my review of Imogen Corrigan's book The Green Man, it's here. It's not perfect but I really enjoyed the book and found some useful insights, particularly about the possible origins of the phenomenon. www.archaeologists.net/publications...
The circle also sits immediately above active springs in a verdant, even fecund, re-entrant.
Last time I visited it was busy with ravens too.
Last time I visited it was busy with ravens too.
Perched on a flat shelf, Mitchell's Fold stone circle offers panoramic views towards Wales and the west. Eastwards is the Stiperstones ridge and Cranberry Rock. From the circle this horizon has the appearance of a lion as the Equinox sun gleams and rises over it. #StandingStoneSunday More...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The circle also sits immediately above active springs in a verdant, even fecund, re-entrant.
Last time I visited it was busy with ravens too.
Last time I visited it was busy with ravens too.
This is the sort of thing we all need in our lives.
A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked.
I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.
March 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This is the sort of thing we all need in our lives.
If the Metropolitan Police did indeed break open the doors of the Grade II Listed Friends Meeting House, they may have committed a #HeritageCrime and should not be above the law @mayoroflondon.bsky.social #Quakers @quaker.org.uk do report to Historic England
March 31, 2025 at 9:32 AM
If the Metropolitan Police did indeed break open the doors of the Grade II Listed Friends Meeting House, they may have committed a #HeritageCrime and should not be above the law @mayoroflondon.bsky.social #Quakers @quaker.org.uk do report to Historic England
As it's #HillfortsWednesday, here are a few from a recent site visit that involved a trip up Old Sarum, #Wiltshire.
February 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
As it's #HillfortsWednesday, here are a few from a recent site visit that involved a trip up Old Sarum, #Wiltshire.
I'm sure I know people who will take no pleasure in seeing this... eh, @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social ?
January 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I'm sure I know people who will take no pleasure in seeing this... eh, @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social ?
I've sung these words on The Fifth when the National Anthem is played in #Lewes as part of #Bonfire. My Society's HQ is next to Bull House.
Just been doing some wandering through Sheffield history, which leads me to highlight the poet Joseph Mather, a working class poet who composed a Jacobin national anthem – ‘God Save Great Thomas Paine’
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The Songs of Joseph Mather
This first Proletics blog is about a figure who has come to symbolize, for me, the birth of Sheffield’s working-class culture and the emergence of working-class writing. I first encountered J…
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December 31, 2024 at 8:13 AM
Happy birthday to the only Civil War General to have a Morris dance named after him. Shame how he turned out, mind. @efdss.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Happy birthday to the only Civil War General to have a Morris dance named after him. Shame how he turned out, mind. @efdss.bsky.social
Meanwhile, there's been some interesting archival footage discovered by @bwzuk.bsky.social in the library of the Hookland Folk Dance and Song Society #Hookland youtube.com/shorts/SQprI...
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December 6, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Meanwhile, there's been some interesting archival footage discovered by @bwzuk.bsky.social in the library of the Hookland Folk Dance and Song Society #Hookland youtube.com/shorts/SQprI...
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Day 4 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We drape the Bell Hill Worm, remember legends of dragon-carved paths. The stuffed felt snake is an old friend. Its silver stitches glitter, its scales bounce faery light colours. When we turn away, it seems to slither to a different branch.
December 4, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Day 4 of the #HooklandChristmasTree. We drape the Bell Hill Worm, remember legends of dragon-carved paths. The stuffed felt snake is an old friend. Its silver stitches glitter, its scales bounce faery light colours. When we turn away, it seems to slither to a different branch.
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⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
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November 24, 2024 at 6:41 PM
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
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BLOG POST: What to watch next if, like me, you wish there were at least a hundred more of those 1970s BBC ghost stories for Christmas. 🎞📽
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The infinite supply of BBC ghost stories for Christmas
There are only eight episodes of the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, produced between 1971 and 1978. That’s not enough. Here are some suggestions for where to go next. First, let’s address a technic…
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November 24, 2024 at 9:24 AM
BLOG POST: What to watch next if, like me, you wish there were at least a hundred more of those 1970s BBC ghost stories for Christmas. 🎞📽
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Such a big loss. RIP Colin Renfrew
Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.
Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.
November 24, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Such a big loss. RIP Colin Renfrew
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Avoid Amazon always!
November 24, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Avoid Amazon always!
November 14, 2024 at 12:10 PM
I'm back.
You all know why
You all know why
November 13, 2024 at 3:03 PM
I'm back.
You all know why
You all know why
Here's some rather lovely graffiti from the porch of the parish church in Welbourn, Lincolnshire.
October 3, 2023 at 6:59 AM
Here's some rather lovely graffiti from the porch of the parish church in Welbourn, Lincolnshire.
That's me and the incomparable John Tams, folk singer and song maker extraordinaire. Taken after his set at #Banterfest last weekend. Yes, reader, I fangirled him.
September 19, 2023 at 8:52 PM
That's me and the incomparable John Tams, folk singer and song maker extraordinaire. Taken after his set at #Banterfest last weekend. Yes, reader, I fangirled him.
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If you're a Nigel Kneale fan then you must listen to 'You Must Listen', a new adaptation of Kneale's lost 1952 radio drama, on Radio 4 tomorrow at 2:15pm or later on catch up.
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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, You Must Listen
A new adaptation of a lost 1952 radio drama by science-fiction legend Nigel Kneale.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 19, 2023 at 3:28 PM
If you're a Nigel Kneale fan then you must listen to 'You Must Listen', a new adaptation of Kneale's lost 1952 radio drama, on Radio 4 tomorrow at 2:15pm or later on catch up.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Good morning.
Thanks to @danherb10.bsky.social I am here.
First posting includes a picture that neatly combines many of my interests.
Thanks to @danherb10.bsky.social I am here.
First posting includes a picture that neatly combines many of my interests.
September 4, 2023 at 10:46 AM
Good morning.
Thanks to @danherb10.bsky.social I am here.
First posting includes a picture that neatly combines many of my interests.
Thanks to @danherb10.bsky.social I am here.
First posting includes a picture that neatly combines many of my interests.