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Today in 1766 a riot broke out at the Nottingham Goose Fair over the price of cheese. The crowd looted hundreds of wheels of cheese, and the army fired into the mob to restore order. British food history and lore is fun! See my book for more tasty tales. Buy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-fe...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy October! For Spooky Month, why not buy A Feast of Folklore? It has weird food traditions, tales, and superstitions. Plus it would really help me out. One day I'll write the whole saga of this book, the missing money, and other fun things. But here: share.google/Ynaucze8JFHp...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy Michaelmas! When Satan was cast out of heaven on this day he landed in a bramble patch. The pain of the thorns led him to curse the fruit by... er... urinating on them. Eating blackberries after today can be deadly. Read more about it in A Feast of Folklore! #folklore

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Hi, we saw you from across Ely cathedral and really dig your vibe."

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Petrie Museum is an oasis of calm after a trip to the British museum.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Daisy says "Buy a copy of A Feast of Folklore." You wouldn't want to disappoint a tiny dog, would you? Order here: share.google/5ZzcERaYAdbF...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Lovely to stop in @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social and sign a copy of my book. And buy another book...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

With all due respect to Mr Nolan, the perfect adaptation of the Odyssey has already been made.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

How your email finds me today. But imagine him surrounded by fans.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

When the weather cooled down I could finally brave London to do a book tour. I got to see A Feast of Folklore in the wild. Out now it has a foreword by @tastinghistory.bsky.social and recipes by me, as well as weird food traditions and tales.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

It's publication day for A Feast of Folklore! Normally I'd be in town signing every copy I can find but I might melt in the heat. So pretend I'm posting amazingly professional promo pics here, and not clinging to a fan. #FolkloreThursday

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

For more on strange, predictive cakes may I suggest my book A Feast of Folklore? It's full of strange food traditions, superstitions, and general oddness. And it's out on Thursday! Click here: www.amazon.co.uk/Feast-Folklo...

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A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food

Buy A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food by Gazur, Ben, Miller, Max (ISBN: 9781837052332) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

If everyone could buy enough copies of my book that I can afford air conditioning that would be great. A Feast of Folklore is out this week! Buy here: share.google/9exGEoJ26syq...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Happy 11th Birthday to #FolkloreThursday! I would not have written half the things I have had they not let me guest host! Thanks to Willow and Dee Dee, and everyone else involved. And my book, A Feast of Folklore, is out next Thursday.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

A little 300 million year old set of Neuropteris leaves.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wish I'd written about sea gooseberries in my book. I love a comb jelly.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

This is one of my favourite bits of foody folklore. For more odd edible cures and bizarre traditions order A Feast of a Folklore. Out next month! Available here: share.google/UNLMYfEwLqQ8...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Happy Shit-Sack-Day! Or Oak Apple Day! Either way it's the day to celebrate King Charles II hiding in an oak tree to escape his enemies. I love British folklore...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Happy #FolkloreThursday! Need to cure whooping cough? Get a ferret to drink from some milk, then feed the rest of the milk to the sick child. If you like food and weird traditions then order my book, A Feast of Folklore, out next month! Click here 👇 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-fe...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This weather makes me want to evolve into a crab and scuttle into the ocean. I'm reliably informed everything is better down where it's wetter.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Me escaping the heat by descending into a swamp, like an antiquated reconstruction of a dinosaur.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Getting some training in for the Cooper's Hill cheese rolling. For more weird British food traditions order my book, A Feast of Folklore. Out next month! A Feast of Folklore a book by Ben Gazur - Bookshop.org UK share.google/AjNYArWt6O64...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A Feast of Folklore is out next month! If you love old food traditions, folk remedies, and bizarre culinary tales you will love it. Plus it has recipes now and a foreword by Max Miller. Buy it here: A Feast of Folklore a book by Ben Gazur - Bookshop.org UK share.google/rSc5MvAbq2Lg...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

With the eye of faith you can make out the doggy on this sherd of Roman pottery. #mudlarking

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

My mental health got the better of me. I was supposed to be talking at the Hay literary festival this year. It was an amazing opportunity. Unfortunately my anxiety about doing it got too much. I've had to pull out. Doing better now, but I think I have to accept writing is my medium.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Happy Beltane! Get your Beltane celebration going with a mock human sacrifice. In Scotland you pass bits of bannock, a type of oatcake, around. Whoever gets the burned bit gets the honour of 'dying'. For more food folklore see my upcoming book!

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

If you love food and folklore then do I have the book for you! It would really help if people could pre-order A Feast of Folklore. Plus it will teach you things to do with your nuts you never dreamed of. #FolkloreThursday amzn.eu/d/01YUPupr

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A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food

Buy A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food by Gazur, Ben (ISBN: 9781837052332) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Folklore says if the first butterfly of the year you see is white you will eat fine white bread the rest of the year. I do like a granary loaf though...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Happy St Mark's Eve! This is the traditional day for predicting your future spouse. Divination was done using a dumb cake, a cake baked in silence, or popping nuts in a fire. For more food folklore, pre-order my book here www.amazon.co.uk/Feast-Folklo...

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A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food

Buy A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food by Gazur, Ben (ISBN: 9781837052332) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food

Buy A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food by Gazur, Ben (ISBN: 9781837052332) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

A beautiful day for fossil hunting in the woods. Lots of little shark teeth.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Amazing talk by Gary Lee Boas about all of his celebrity photos and encounters. And New York naughty parties

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Me hearing the post arrive: My parasitic wasps are here!

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Not sure if I want to go on this fairground ride that comes out the side of the Shard.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Publisher: What sort of publicity are you comfortable doing? Me: Sometimes I stand in front of my books and when someone walks by I say "I've heard these are excellent".

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

If it’s 16 April, it must be... YES, OF COURSE! The 248th anniversary of Parson Woodforde’s ‘Piggs’ being hungover

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My 2 Piggs are still unable to walk yet, but they are better than they were yesterday. They tumble about the yard and can by no means stand at all steady yet. In the afternoon my 2 Piggs were tolerably sober.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

When ploughing your fields make sure to put a little cake in the soil as an offering to the spirits of the land. #FolkloreThursday For more food folklore pre-order my book here 👇 share.google/42hZ3kYT9rES...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I know it's non-ideal but after months of struggle my book, A Feast of Folklore, is finally listed on Amazon. If you like tales of cheesy saints and fortune-telling turnips this is the book for you. amzn.eu/d/0j0RJex6

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A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food

Buy A Feast of Folklore: The Bizarre Stories Behind British Food by Gazur, Ben (ISBN: 9781837052332) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Glass is hard to identify sometimes but there's something about this piece which is saying very old. Any glass specialists out there? #Mudlarking

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The Book Vault @thebookvault.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Now in store, A History of Horror Fear & the Uncanny, hardback with red and black page edges and full colour artwork and photography throughout. I saw @kjsoar.bsky.social post about this yesterday, and @bengazur.bsky.social and one or two others involved. An excellent addition to our shelves.

Photo of part of a bookshelf with A History of Horror Fear & the Uncanny facing forward. With three other DK books on Histories of Magic, Ghosts & Spirits, Ghostlore to the side along with a Compendium of the Occult and The Book of Forgotten Witches.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

There were two types of Roman flue tile makers: the nice straight liners, and the wild squigglers.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! Introduced my husband to the joys of egg rolling and discovered an impaled chicken.

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! Do people still go egg rolling? I once tried taking my uni friends to Arthur's Seat to do it. The slope was a little too steep...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Bread baked on Good Friday never goes mouldy according to folklore. A little of it grated into a drink was thought to cure most illnesses. Cambridge Folk Museum has a loaf baked in 1919. Find out if it's still mould free in my book! A Feast of Folklore share.google/wcRxdjvLSoWJ...

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A Feast of Folklore

British food has an unsavoury global reputation, but the folklore which made it what it is can be traced back millennia. Folklorist Ben Gazur guides you through the dark alleys of British history to u...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Happy Good Friday! This is a prime day for food folklore! Plant your crops today! Collect rainwater to use in baking bread throughout the year! Hang a hot cross bun in the The Widow's Son pub! Or pre-order my boo of food folklore here: A Feast of Folklore share.google/NW3nsfHf0IeL...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

A History of Horror, Fear, and the Uncanny is out today! DK produce amazing books and writing for them is always an honour. If you like weird and creepy tales, this is the book for you. share.google/yNvKmPZwWd7f...

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A History of Horror, Fear, and the Uncanny

Take a step ' if you dare ' into the shadows, and discover the blood-curdling history of horror across the world in this gruesomely illustrated title.A History of Horror, Fear and the Uncanny explores...

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Ben Gazur @bengazur.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I saw the Thames from a new angle yesterday. A nerve-jangling angle.

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