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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And we're out! The new issue: archaeology in Wigan, Nottinghamshire, Malta; an odd folk find in Oxon; 3rd Stone remembered; fairy doors; religious sects, a new artist feature… and more! Including nods to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social & @helleborezine.bsky.social 🙂https://northernearth.co.uk/subscribe

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today one of my kids conveyed his sense of what I do for a job as ‘Weird book article writer thingy’. I’ll take it.

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Aaand… it's out. The Summer issue: our biggest ever, crammed with everything from porthole stones to Craven Faults, Dartmoor to Alderley Edge. Perfect solstice reading. Inside: @lizziebickerstaff.bsky.social, @cravenfaults.bsky.social, @darklecat.bsky.social and more.

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

It's all systems go for this Friday – and we now have a new speaker, @megalithic.bsky.social – join us along with @paulwhitewick.bsky.social and @lrylandepton.bsky.social. Grab a ticket while you still can!

Flyer for https://northernearth.co.uk/22may

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Just two weeks to go! Get your tickets now for an evening spent in deep time. Speakers include @paulwhitewick.bsky.social and @lrylandepton.bsky.social 🙂

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Honestly, young people these days, always on their phones.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Things you find just lying around in English churches.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Was very pleased to wangle an invite to tonight’s rather secretive 400th birthday party (with cake) for John Aubrey, in the roof of the Sheldonian.

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Today is the 400th birthday of John Aubrey, a founding father of archaeology, folklore studies and more. Find out more about him in the brand new issue of Northern Earth, where he's our cover pin-up! northernearth.co.uk/subscribe

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Founded in 1979, Northern Earth is the world’s longest-running journal combining interests in archaeology, folklore and landscape – exploring the many ways in

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Lots of news to share in the March Hare newsletter... thehare.substack.com/p/the-hare-1...

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The Hare #13 [March 2026]

An Oxford event, the 'oldest northerner', ancient footprints and more…

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Floods bring out the stripes in this Iron Age field system by the Thames.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I've just found @endlessbookshelf.bsky.social's fabulous short course (a couple of hundred words) on micropublishing… all thoroughly relatable. Which reminds me I have a stack of things to post. endlessbookshelf.net/micropublish...

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Micropublishing : A Short Course – The Endless Bookshelf

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Here's something to take you into Yuletide… the new Winter issue of Northern Earth is out! Look out for a Stone Age polishing stone, some old and new geoglyphs and a surprise contribution from a well-known name… northernearth.co.uk/product/nort...

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Are you about to publish a new local history book, ebook, website, blog or app in December/January? Consider nominating it for the Alan Ball ward run by @cilip.bsky.social – details at localstudieslibrarians.org/local-studie... (disclosure: I will be one of the judges).

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

I made a thing… with quite a bit of help from Eric #Ravilious.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Warm thanks to Simon at @biggreenbooks.bsky.social for a very useful (if sobering) chat about the book supply chain! Go thee unto www.biggreenbookshop.com and help us all prop up this strange world of publishing.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Anyone? Is #publishing still alive on this platform? (Or does anyone actually read Bluesky..?)

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Wearing my publishing consultant hat, are there any independent booksellers reading this who would be up for a quick conversation via DM or email? (Please share this if you know such a person.)

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Nature is patiently taking over in my favourite wood.

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

The new issue of Northern Earth is out! In this issue: Rosemary Pardoe on St Edmund and the wolf • #Megaliths in Portugal and Cornwall • Bewitching tape in Britain's hedges… • Sycamore Gap • and lots more. northernearth.co.uk/subscribe

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

A solid take on the traditional publishing landscape here: www.metropolitanreview.org/p/to-go-big-...

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To Go Big or Come Home?

On the Writing Life With Major and Indie Publishers

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

I'd always recommend the indie journal Undefined Boundary (a great mix of hauntological/psychogeographical/countercultural themes), and of course especially so the latest one as it has my article about Charles Dickens and Richard Dadd in it 😀 temporalboundary.bigcartel.com/product/unde...

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Undefined Boundary: The Journal of Psychick Albion Volume 4/Issue 1 PREORDER

PLEASE NOTE: This is a presale and copies will be posted when available in September. If you have other items included in this order they will be...

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

The always-inspiring YouTuber Beau Miles has a new project: for every 1000 views this video gets, he'll plant four trees (i.e. the value of the ad revenue). Watch and share! www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5YF...

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Watching this YouTube video will plant a forest

YouTube video by Beau Miles

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Finally finished Offa’s Dyke Path yesterday (a third in 2021 and 2023, a third last week) – the first national trail I’ve actually completed! And with my 16yo son – happy times.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

A little hint of folk horror thanks to a raven on today’s walk.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

My short piece about Oliver Cromwell and his wife Elizabeth seems to have struck a chord with people, including someone related to them. www.gethistories.com/p/mrs-protec...

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Mrs Protector, 1650

He's away on business, and doesn't get in touch enough!

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

In Scotland they have tossing the caber. Here in the Cotswolds we have ‘spurning the bar’ - one of many entertaining spectacles at yesterday’s Cotswold Olimpicks. 1/3

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Loved being part of this last year.

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Well, issue 180 is back from the printers and now winging its way to subscribers and retailers! If you're not in the gang yet, join us here… northernearth.co.uk/product/nort... What's inside? Well, we've got holy wells, H.G. Wells and, er, Oliver Cromwell.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Before going to events I like to walk in the hills. This is the wood where I unexpectedly bumped into Clive Anderson today, and helped him navigate. All part of the #hayfestival experience!

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Off for my 2nd crazy annual day trip to the Hay Festival (and for a walk in the hills) on Thursday, this time for @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social's talk on rivers.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Fame at last? I was interviewed by The Times seeking a response to Bill Bryson snarking about self-publishing. In today's paper (and I've also now been interviewed by Hugo Rifkind on Times Radio): archive.is/eXJik – I should maybe add that I'm rather more pro self-pub than the extract suggests!

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

The Hare is running! Read the first issue of our free newsletter here (appropriately enough for March): thehare.substack.com/p/the-hare-1...

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The Hare #1 [March 2025]

Witch trials, phallic stones, fortune-telling spoons…

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Northern Earth @northernearth.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The challenge with a quarterly print magazine is keeping up with news and events in the interim. So that's why we've set up The Hare, a free monthly newsletter to share useful and interesting stuff! First one goes out next week. thehare.substack.com

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The Hare | Andrew Chapman | Substack

The monthly newsletter of Northern Earth, the journal of people, place and experience. Click to read The Hare, by Andrew Chapman, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Hello Bluesky - it's good to be here! Do follow us if you're interested in vernacular architecture and buildings archaeology.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

So I was watching @paulwhitewick.bsky.social's latest video, about the Neolithic chalk drums - www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXvC... - while cooking, and I had to pause it for a moment. Which happened to be when he was doing his best jazz hands.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Walking bringing a new generation together… the 'post-pandemic flâneurs': www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I don't watch The Traitors but nonetheless this was a great read on storytelling with a diverse range of reference from Kierkegaard to Scooby Doo… joelmorris.substack.com/p/the-traito...

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'The Traitors', Agatha Christie, and The Kierkegaard Edit

How we consume story, versus how it's made.

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Andrew Chapman @chapmanbookman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I do have to gush about Tom Rosenthal's charming Strangers on a Bench podcast, linktr.ee/strangersona... (and the beautiful song by Caroline Chan about the melancholy figure of 'Monsieur Flaneur', www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2jO...).

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The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

📆Deadline for proposals 31 January 2025📆 Call for papers: 'Folklore and the Senses'. Our annual conference, in collaboration with the Department of Folklore & Ethnology @ucc.bsky.social. Fri 20 Jun - Sun 22 Jun 2025, online & at University College Cork. folklore-society.com/blog-post/fo...

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'Folklore and the Senses' Call for Papers: Deadline for proposals Friday 31 January 2025 - The Folklore Society

Folklore and the Senses The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference, in collaboration with the Department of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork, Ireland. Friday 20 June to Sunday 22 June 202...

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