Stephen Miller
@miller-flash-1066.bsky.social
Author and editor. Interests in the Visual Arts, Poetry, Theology, Science, Folklore and the English thoroughbred.
A couple of favourite images for Blake’s birthday! ‘The Sun at His Eastern Gate’ and ‘When the Morning Stars Sang Together’, discussed in my, ‘The Book of Angels: Seen and Unseen’ (Camb. Scholars Pub., 2019, reissued in paperback 2024).
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A couple of favourite images for Blake’s birthday! ‘The Sun at His Eastern Gate’ and ‘When the Morning Stars Sang Together’, discussed in my, ‘The Book of Angels: Seen and Unseen’ (Camb. Scholars Pub., 2019, reissued in paperback 2024).
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
I was there at the unveiling of Lida Cardoza’s gravestone for Blake at Bunhill Fields in 2018 & took this shot:
I GIVE you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall…
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
I GIVE you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall…
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I was there at the unveiling of Lida Cardoza’s gravestone for Blake at Bunhill Fields in 2018 & took this shot:
I GIVE you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall…
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
I GIVE you the end of a golden string;
Only wind it into a ball,
It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,
Built in Jerusalem’s wall…
@blakesociety.bsky.social #BlakeFriday #BlakeSociety
Pleased to see four of my poems (‘The first city’; ‘Dry stone wall’; ‘Scuba dive’ and ‘Kingfisher’) featured in the current issue of ‘Theology’ (Vol. 128, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 2025), accompanied by Victoria Ford’s splendid linoprint, ‘Kingfisher & Perch’. @kcltrs.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Pleased to see four of my poems (‘The first city’; ‘Dry stone wall’; ‘Scuba dive’ and ‘Kingfisher’) featured in the current issue of ‘Theology’ (Vol. 128, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 2025), accompanied by Victoria Ford’s splendid linoprint, ‘Kingfisher & Perch’. @kcltrs.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social
My latest book on the water horse now spotted at Watkins Books, WC2, in its folklore & mythology section! #watkinsbooks (…and in all other good book shops!)
November 17, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My latest book on the water horse now spotted at Watkins Books, WC2, in its folklore & mythology section! #watkinsbooks (…and in all other good book shops!)
Katherine Briggs Lecture (delivered by Prof. Terry Gunnell) and Book Award (won by Ann Schmiesing for ‘The Brothers Grimm: A Biography’, Yale Univ. Press), @swedenborghouse.bsky.social, Bloomsbury, this evening @folkloresociety.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Katherine Briggs Lecture (delivered by Prof. Terry Gunnell) and Book Award (won by Ann Schmiesing for ‘The Brothers Grimm: A Biography’, Yale Univ. Press), @swedenborghouse.bsky.social, Bloomsbury, this evening @folkloresociety.bsky.social @yalepress.bsky.social
Looking forward to giving this!
Join us on Tues 4 November, 19:00 GMT for 'The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse,' online talk by Stephen Miller. Tickets £6.00 (£4.00 for FLS members with Promo Code) from: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-legend...?
The Legend, Lore and Spirit of the Water Horse
Stephen Miller brings together the traditions of the water horse over the centuries in myths, folklore, literature and the visual arts
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October 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Looking forward to giving this!
More fun and frolics with @englishheritage.bsky.social at Hastings yesterday, Abbey and battlefield re-enactment. The Saxon shield wall will be hoping for a different result in today’s renewal!
October 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
More fun and frolics with @englishheritage.bsky.social at Hastings yesterday, Abbey and battlefield re-enactment. The Saxon shield wall will be hoping for a different result in today’s renewal!
A great pleasure to attend yesterday’s responses to Prof. Susannah Ticciati’s wonderful inaugural lecture, Does God Play Hide and Seek? on Augustine and human fallibility, where we were reminded that God is not a thing and that no one has more access to God than others.
@kcltrs.bsky.social
@kcltrs.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
A great pleasure to attend yesterday’s responses to Prof. Susannah Ticciati’s wonderful inaugural lecture, Does God Play Hide and Seek? on Augustine and human fallibility, where we were reminded that God is not a thing and that no one has more access to God than others.
@kcltrs.bsky.social
@kcltrs.bsky.social
I’ve only just received the flyers and promotional material for my new book on the water horse. I’m pleased to able to offer a 25% discount when ordering directly from the publisher by using the discount code: PROMO25 @folkloresociety.bsky.social
Web link: www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
Web link: www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I’ve only just received the flyers and promotional material for my new book on the water horse. I’m pleased to able to offer a 25% discount when ordering directly from the publisher by using the discount code: PROMO25 @folkloresociety.bsky.social
Web link: www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
Web link: www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-...
The third of the quarter days and beginning of autumn, of darker nights and colder days. Happy Michaelmas! My goose has been fattened on the stubble from the fields after harvest: ‘Eat a goose on Michaelmas Day, want not for money all the year’, or so they say! #Michaelmas #AllAngels
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The third of the quarter days and beginning of autumn, of darker nights and colder days. Happy Michaelmas! My goose has been fattened on the stubble from the fields after harvest: ‘Eat a goose on Michaelmas Day, want not for money all the year’, or so they say! #Michaelmas #AllAngels
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‘Both an overarching historical and cultural survey and a handy reference source’. Thank you to Stephen Miller for a generous review of ‘Paganism Persisting’ in the latest number of ‘Folklore’ 📚 @robincdouglas.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
‘Both an overarching historical and cultural survey and a handy reference source’. Thank you to Stephen Miller for a generous review of ‘Paganism Persisting’ in the latest number of ‘Folklore’ 📚 @robincdouglas.bsky.social
September’s Folklore (136:3) features two of my reviews on books about the social supernatural & the persistence of paganism. Both richly worth the doing. Some splendid other stuff too! 😉
@uexeterpress.bsky.social @robincdouglas.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social
@uexeterpress.bsky.social @robincdouglas.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 6:56 PM
September’s Folklore (136:3) features two of my reviews on books about the social supernatural & the persistence of paganism. Both richly worth the doing. Some splendid other stuff too! 😉
@uexeterpress.bsky.social @robincdouglas.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social
@uexeterpress.bsky.social @robincdouglas.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social
Mantua for the Palazzo Te and Palazzo Ducal (with its Mantegna frescoes).
August 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Mantua for the Palazzo Te and Palazzo Ducal (with its Mantegna frescoes).
Up close and personal with Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery today.
August 8, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Up close and personal with Jenny Saville at the National Portrait Gallery today.
Advance copies of my new book have arrived, featuring artworks from Victoria Ford, Stephen Cook & Herbert James Draper; epigraphs from Statius, Robert Burns & DBH; and endorsements from Francis Young @addhart.bsky.social Simon Young & Jeremy Harte. What’s not to like!? @folkloresociety.bsky.social
August 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Advance copies of my new book have arrived, featuring artworks from Victoria Ford, Stephen Cook & Herbert James Draper; epigraphs from Statius, Robert Burns & DBH; and endorsements from Francis Young @addhart.bsky.social Simon Young & Jeremy Harte. What’s not to like!? @folkloresociety.bsky.social
My new book is on its way… index complete, cover design set and carrying very welcome back-cover endorsements from luminaries in the fields of folklore, theology and the history of belief.
@kcltrs.bsky.social @addhart.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
@kcltrs.bsky.social @addhart.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
July 29, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My new book is on its way… index complete, cover design set and carrying very welcome back-cover endorsements from luminaries in the fields of folklore, theology and the history of belief.
@kcltrs.bsky.social @addhart.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
@kcltrs.bsky.social @addhart.bsky.social @folkloresociety.bsky.social @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
My poem ‘The Changeling’ (illustrated by Stephen Cook) appears in June’s FLS. @folkloresociety.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My poem ‘The Changeling’ (illustrated by Stephen Cook) appears in June’s FLS. @folkloresociety.bsky.social
As a devotee of her work for decades now, great to finally get to meet Emily Young, following the McDonald Agape Lecture in Theology & the Visual Arts at the Inner Temple Lecture Theatre and reception yesterday. As she has said of herself, a ‘servant of the stones stillness’. Inspirational work!
July 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
As a devotee of her work for decades now, great to finally get to meet Emily Young, following the McDonald Agape Lecture in Theology & the Visual Arts at the Inner Temple Lecture Theatre and reception yesterday. As she has said of herself, a ‘servant of the stones stillness’. Inspirational work!
On the Feast Day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (marking his birth rather than death), here is my snapshot of a panel from Pietro Lorenzetti’s Pieve Polyptych, featured at the very recent ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting’ show at the National Gallery, London.
June 24, 2025 at 10:26 AM
On the Feast Day of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (marking his birth rather than death), here is my snapshot of a panel from Pietro Lorenzetti’s Pieve Polyptych, featured at the very recent ‘Siena: The Rise of Painting’ show at the National Gallery, London.
Glorious day! Contracts signed, manuscript of latest book submitted! Time to slump and to introduce the sun’s rays to some pallid flesh (with copious G&Ts on the side!)… ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!’ […well the first bit anyway]. 👍
June 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Glorious day! Contracts signed, manuscript of latest book submitted! Time to slump and to introduce the sun’s rays to some pallid flesh (with copious G&Ts on the side!)… ‘Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, but to be young was very heaven!’ […well the first bit anyway]. 👍
This landed on my doormat this morning, from Pwca Books. Good to see folk willing to take the trouble to collect the reports for this sort of case study. It is also a splendidly lively and entertaining read!
June 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This landed on my doormat this morning, from Pwca Books. Good to see folk willing to take the trouble to collect the reports for this sort of case study. It is also a splendidly lively and entertaining read!
#StandingStoneSunday
Avebury and Stonehenge.
Avebury and Stonehenge.
June 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
#StandingStoneSunday
Avebury and Stonehenge.
Avebury and Stonehenge.
Back from a couple of days visiting Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, the standing stones at Avebury (the largest megalithic stone circle in the world), the site of Wolf Hall, and the Seven Stars in Bottlesford! A fine excursion.
May 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Back from a couple of days visiting Stonehenge, Silbury Hill, the standing stones at Avebury (the largest megalithic stone circle in the world), the site of Wolf Hall, and the Seven Stars in Bottlesford! A fine excursion.
Journeying back from Ramsgate to North London today, stopping off at Saint Augustine’s Cross (Minster), All Saint’s, Tudeley (for the Chagall stained-glass, beautifully illuminated by today’s sunshine) and Down House (the home of Charles Darwin).
May 11, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Journeying back from Ramsgate to North London today, stopping off at Saint Augustine’s Cross (Minster), All Saint’s, Tudeley (for the Chagall stained-glass, beautifully illuminated by today’s sunshine) and Down House (the home of Charles Darwin).