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Helen Cornish

@helenhmc.bsky.social
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PhD. Anthropologist: ethnographies of history, contemporary witchcraft historicities, magic, micromuseums. Co-founder @NAoHH-EASA.bsky.social goldsmiths.academia.edu/HelenCornish, Anthropology

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 14/09/2026
UCU members at Brighton University face the threat of derecognition. We have called an emergency rally tomorrow at 1:15pm. It would be amazing to see as many #TUC26 delegates as possible in attendance. 58-67 Grand Parade, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 0JY
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My uni have just withdrawn Geography, History & Geography and Politics & Geography undergrad courses run from our Penryn campus. Terrible for Cornwall. How did the staff find out? When UCAS clearing opened at 8am 😡
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 14/08/2026
The BBC’s Chris Mason happily parrots Farage’s version of events, even though there is no evidence that Essex place issued a warning, and they have denied doing so. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? #Clacton #FarageLies www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Where does this unorthodox by-election victory leave Nigel Farage?
As expected, the Reform UK leader easily won the Clacton by-election but was nowhere to be seen after the result.
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Folklore!! If that got your attention then you might be interested in pre-ordering mine and @odavies9.bsky.social book in its beautiful paperback design through @waterstones.bsky.social - 25% off if you pre-order before end of day tomorrow
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Aidan Cook @aidancook.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Microsoft is planning to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!
Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A grim day in a grim week in a grim month for UK higher education, with Dundee, Exeter and Hertfordshire all making major announcements of planned redundancies. Shrinkage of the research & teaching base by the invisible hand's visible fist is not an 'us' or 'them', SHAPE or STEM phenomenon. 1/2
Photo of an open hand, with part of 4 fingers showing.
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
There are definitely worse places in the world to give a paper on Green Monuments for the 'Sacred Forests All Around Us' project seminar @oulu.fi www.oulu.fi/en/news/uniq...
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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Every university should have broad subject coverage; that's what a university is
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Two screen grabs from the famous end of The Wicker Man. Only now Sgt. Neil Howie is screaming that the island has used up all the wicker, and there’s a basket fete this coming Saturday.
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
SO SO GLAD to see a PROPER rebuttal against Silvia Federici's very wrong scholarship in the latest Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft! Thank you, Rita Voltmer! muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
In the 1970s, an invention of tradition connected the fight for women’s liberation with the figure of the witch. However, this narrative grounded in male fantasies of the 19th century (Bachofen, Grimm, Michelet, and many others). The German “völkisch” feminism followed this pattern, as did Second Wave feminism after the Second World War, especially in its esoteric, spiritual, and ecological branch. The narrative gained ground in the European, the transatlantic and the postcolonial Women’s Movements. Modern witchcraft research has unmasked the “witchcraft narrative” as a mere invention of tradition. However, the “witch narrative” remains alive in the work of the Autonomist Marxist feminist Silvia Federici. The spirit of Grimm and Michelet, which had been conveyed via Gage, Murray and her epigones of spiritual feminism and eco-feminism, still breathes in Federici's books. This article deconstructs Federici’s witches. They are not the granddaughters of the witches who had not been burned, but simply the epigones of the witches invented by males during the 19th century.
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Looking forward to @folkloresociety.bsky.social Katharine Briggs Lecture & Book Award *and* the Doc Rowe Award! Details below! #folklore
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Happy 75th birthday to the European Convention on Human Rights! #OurRightsAndFreedoms
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
What do you know about the Witch of Wookey Hole? MA Folklore Studies researcher @milliefolklore.bsky.social is looking for your stories! Survey link: www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/5ywrm7 @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social #WitchOfWookeyHole #folklore #witchcraft
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Folklore, a gripping guide to the weird yet everyday world of British folklore. Written by two leading experts, @odavies9.bsky.social & @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social, this is the definitive guide to British folklore past & present. Out September 2025. #FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
"Ever been to a pub where a true local legend resides?" @cursedtea.bsky.social is looking for your stories for a Folklore Studies MA dissertation - link below! #PubLegends #FolkloreStudies @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Who's been visiting Sussex woodlands? MA Folklore Studies @clairerakich.bsky.social is looking for your stories! Survey link below! #SussexWoodland #FolkloreStories @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social @odavies9.bsky.social
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Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I'm so excited to announce that mine & @odavies9.bsky.social book 'Folklore: A journey through the past & present' will be out this September! 'The book's key message is that folklore...is and always has been ubiquitous, dynamic and political' manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180384/
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/02/2025
“Why isn’t the UK doing this?” Amaya Edwards, aged 10, wants to know why simple drainage nets aren’t stopping plastic pollution here. If Australia can stop tonnes of rubbish reaching the ocean, why can’t we?
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This simple solution stops pollution going into the sea
Amaya Edwards, 10, asks: If Australia can stop tonnes of plastic reaching the ocean, why isn’t the UK doing it?
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Signe Aaboe @signeaaboe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The full stop of the increasing winter sea-ice extent in the Arctic has now lasted for two weeks... 🌊⚒️🧪🥼❄️
Line graph showing the daily sea-ice extent for the Arctic from 1978 to the present time in 2025. 2025 is shown in the thick black line to the left, while the previous years are presented in plasma colormap with the earliest years in purple and most recent years in yellow'ish. Since January 27th, the normal winter increase in sea-ice extent has completely stopped. Arctic ice extent is now record low and significantly lower than previous years.
Data source is the OSI SAF sea-ice index v2.2.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 28/12/2024
Great prize for a young writer inspired by the writing of George Orwell. Cash prize and books for school on offer. Please share :)
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About the Orwell Youth Prize | How to Enter
The Orwell Youth Prize uses the writing of George Orwell as a starting point to inspire you to write about your own ideas and experiences, thinking about the world you live in.
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Only 1 hour to go before #NewYearPlantHunt starts! We're all set - are you? There are 21 of us on the Support Team this year, working shifts over the 4 days to help you with IT/ data entry problems, to offer #WildFlowerID help & to answer any questions you may have. Just email nyplanthunt@bsbi.org
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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
here’s my piece from 2021 news.artnet.com/art-world-ar...
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The U.K. Has Held Onto the Parthenon Marbles for Centuries—But the Tide Is Turning. Here's Why I Expect Them to Be Returned by 2030 | Artnet News
Lockdowns have played a significant role in shifting the public's perception on restitution. The extent of that shift has yet to be seen.
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Lewis Pugh @lewispugh.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
The Climate Crisis might feel like a slow burn, but the clock is ticking faster than we think. We’re in uncharted territory now. 🎥: @edhawkins.org
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Richard Irvine @robotforaday.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"Time is hacked up into such small pieces that there is hardly anything left of it." RIP Thomas Hylland Eriksen
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Super happy to be part of Enquiring Eye 12 with this piece on the Boscastle Museum of Witchcraft and Magic on mirrors, reflections, and spirit - especially the shiny surfaces in their collection! museumofwitchcraftandmagic.co.uk/shop/the-enq... #museumofwitchcraftandmagic #folkmagic #mirrormagic
First page of Mirrors, reflections, and spirit with photo of a witch mirror from the Museum of Witchcraft and MagicContents page for the Enquiring Eye 12 - journal of the Museum of Witchcraft and MagicFront cover - with witch bottle image - for The Enquiring Eye 12, 2024 - journal for the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Thanks @noahangell.bsky.social Francis Gooding & Special Rider books for a haunting conversation about the Ghosts of the British Museum in the most freezing venue in London on the coldest night of the winter! Brr!
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Equal Pay Day 2024 - 2 days earlier than 2023 - hurtling in the wrong direction!
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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
On Nov 20th, Equal Pay Day highlighted the need for urgent action on workplace inequality. Women, especially racially minoritised and Disabled women, face low pay, discrimination, and barriers to senior roles. Stronger policies are needed to drive real change. #EndPayGaps
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Sisters Salon Brighton #CreatingWomensSpaces @sisterssalon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Today was (un) #EqualPayDay24 Yet again, key issues facing women have gone unremarked upon by our elected representatives. @sianberry.bsky.social @chriswardmp.bsky.social #PeterKyleMP @lesliepumm.bsky.social #BellaSankey #Brighton #Sussec #SistersSalon #RespectWomen
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Currently reading Ghosts Of The British Museum by @noahangell.bsky.social - and wishing I’d joined the tours! #MondayReads #BookSky #AmReading #ReadingList #ChooseBookshops
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Helen Cornish @helenhmc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Ok. I’m here now.
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