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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Still a bit blown away to see copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ in the wild. Here is a signed copy available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social

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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last night were honoured to celebrate the creator and community of @hookland.bsky.social . Christina and David in the subterranean Hades before the main event.

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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last night were honoured to celebrate the creator and community of @hookland.bsky.social . Christina and David in the subterranean Hades before the main event.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I told you next week's Hookland talk at @treadwells-books.bsky.social came with stickers ...

Sheets of vinyl stickers on a drought ravaged patch of grass. The first sheet features of drawing of the Bone Horse and the words RE-ENCHANTMENT IS RESISTANCE. The second sheet features a haunted Edwardian photograph of dear skulls and the words HERNE THE HUNTER HATES YOUR RACIST BOLLOCKS. The third sheet features a rainbow circle and the words: THE NORSE GODS WERE QUEER AS FUCK.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From tonight's Hookland talk on Re-enchantment as Resistance at @treadwells-books.bsky.social. 'Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom.' #FolkloreThursday

Folklore can ignite enchantment within us. Enchantment that fuels our imaginations. Enchantment that shifts our consciousness, allows us to envisage new and better worlds. It begins the process of manifesting the changes we desire. Re-enchanted, the world is full of new, feral possibilities. Re-enchanted our imagination is an accessible superpower.

The stories we intentionally absorb, the stories we select to tell ourselves, they allow us to live in the world differently. They allow us to make and remake the world differently.

Folklore is often the wild frontier of belief, the place where wonder may still live. Here be Woodwoses, here be Harrowhounds, the ghosts which whisper wisdom. We need this space. We ache for the sublime. For re-enchantment is an assertion of wonder and the numinosity of our relationships with landscape. Re-enchantment is an assertion of our collective ability to both imagine and experience better worlds. As a refusal of despair, as a lensing of hope. In re-enchantment we stop dreaming of inevitable apocalypse and find the permissive space to tell stories of hope.

Re-enchantment is personal metamorphosis. The space in which we grow glowing red eyes to patrol our communities against this long night of authoritarian pisspuffinry. The space in which we develop iron-hard fur, immune to the curses reductionist racists, misogynists, homophobes and AI cultists throw at us. Re-enchantment as the permissive circle where we can voyage into ourselves and find the marvels and bravery we need to deal with this age of violent bruising. This is why I walk the territory of folklore. Wear my witch-cloak of swan feathers, hold hag stone to my eye. This is why I created Hookland as a home for stories, a community for Fully-grown Changelings.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Those churches which act as stone bestiaries call me to visit. They are lithic libraries, places where my eyes and fingers can trace stories of wonder. In them I may meet the fabulous beasts I've dreamed about since childhood. They are gateways into folkloric joy. – #CLNolan

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This word did the Muses speak to me first of all: “we know how to tell many lies resembling the truth; and we know, when we want, to utter what is true.” - #Hesiod, ‘Theogony’ 24

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Anna Milon @hexnhart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A game or something more? This Thursday, Sept 10th at @treadwells-books.bsky.social www.treadwells-london.com/events-1/mys...

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Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A great evening at @treadwells-books.bsky.social for the book launch of @witchesetc.bsky.social latest book. She was personable and super knowledgeable on the subject of witchcraft, magic, the infamous witch trials and folklore. #witches #witchtrials #folklore

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Back in the basement of Treadwell’s Books signing more copies of ‘Hookland Fragments Volume One’ and inserting the exclusive Right To Reside cards. So if you’ve ever wanted a signed copy with RTO card, I guarantee they are back in stock at @treadwells-books.bsky.social

Copies of the book Hookland Fragments, piles of Hookland Right To Reside cards and a mug of breakfast tea atop a grey desk.

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Haunting The Atom @hauntingtheatom.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Popped into a freshly stocked @treadwells-books.bsky.social this afternoon to pick up the @hookland.bsky.social book, and was complimented on my choice at checkout. (I say 'popped into'; I actually walked 12 miles to get there. It was a rainy, overcast day and I fancied the stroll.)

A newly purchased Hookland Fragments Volume One by David Southwell, alongside a 'right to reside' certificate, atop a black surface and lit atmospherically.

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Oh yes, there will…. #BookSky

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In the follies of the county some feel an ache for the pagan, a desire to be connect to something lost. Old gods given new shrines. Old gods given new faces to gaze into the now. How galling for them to be neglected yet again. Cobwebbed and disregarded. – Dr. M. Benn, 1982

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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Best day. Best conversation. Best hug. Hookland forever.

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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Medical research is a social good. A magic to endorse.

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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Edward Carpenter, a prince among men. A mensch. A man whose goodness shines down the generations, and never grows old.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We have entered that blurred border between summer and autumn where bees seem to intensify their efforts as prophecy of coming cold. A honeyed period between regret and hope where the witch makes rich harvest of cures for winter, the sadness of the passing year. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Ross Johnson @rosserford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

We’re going to hear about how everyone loved Dolly, and that feels true. But it’s good to remember, and to her credit, that she was attacked for her AIDS activism, her vaccine advocacy, her LGBTQ+ support and even, more recently, for her reading initiatives. She ALWAYS stood firm when it mattered.

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Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The rock art at Loughcrew tomb complex (cairn L, tomb C16) depicts intricate abstract patterns that some believe depicts an eclipse. Archaeologists are sceptical, as similar patterns appear at many Neolithic sites in Ireland. #WyrdWednesday 📷 Frank Prendergast / Atlas Obscura

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My last speaking engagement this year will be at the wonderful @treadwells-books.bsky.social where I will be talking about re-enchantment as resistance; communities of story and the importance of links between folklore and place. www.tickettailor.com/events/tread.... I hope to see some of you there.

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Hookland with David Southwell – In-Person Lecture – Treadwells Books, Thu 24 Sep 2026 - The creator of England's imagined lost county on re-enchantment as resistance. Through near-daily postings in th...

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optimisticsoap.bsky.social @optimisticsoap.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Libraries make us a harder target for authoritarianism. Equal access to info, ideas, and space that doesn’t require a purchase to belong. Also: using the library means money stays in your community instead of streaming out to Amazon. 📚 What’s checked out on your card right now?

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I have been into @treadwells-books.bsky.social and signed a huge pile of ‘Hookland Fragments’ and inserted dozens of Right To Reside cards, so there are definitely back in stock if you want a copy from one of my favourite bookshops.

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Mitch Benn @mitchbenn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

PLEASE SHARE THIS To the young person (longish dark hair, patterned waistcoat, chinos & DM boots) who left this scroll of papers on the Piccadilly Line train at South Kensington station at about 4.25pm today, I’ve handed it to the station staff at Hammersmith.

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Simon 🪗 @mzdt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I love buying books from booksellers that clearly love books :-) @treadwells-books.bsky.social

A book neatly wrapped in pink tissue paper

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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Back in stock! On our online shop as well as in the Bloomsbury shop in person

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I absolutely stand by this description of folklore. #FolkloreSunday

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The wonderful @treadwells-books.bsky.social will have new stock of signed books and Right To Reside cards very soon as I am booked up to go in and sign them.

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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

More copies will be available soon. They'll be announced here -- stay tuned!

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Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A brilliant and educational evening at @treadwells-books.bsky.social on Magnetism in the 19th Century by Kristof Smeyers, followed by a book signing. An enjoyable evening... #magnetism #franzantonmesmer #victoriangothic #19thcenturygothic #mesmerism

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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

They should have made him a 'saint'. #BookSky

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Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Despite the oppressive heatwave, tonight's talk at @treadwells-books.bsky.social with the always pleasant and wonderful dynamic duo Dr Zoe Venditozzi and Claire Mitchell KC from Witches of Scotland was beyond excellent. #witchesofscotlandremembered #accusedwitches #witchcraftandfeminism

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Applications are now open for two fellowships for Māori curators to work, in partnership with Pitt Rivers Museum staff, on some of the taonga Māori held in the Museum. The fellowship will include a 6 week residency in Oxford. Applications close on 20 July 2026. www.teaonews.co.nz/2026/06/29/a...

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Applications open for Te Māori fellowships to the UK

Applications are open for two fellowships for Māori curators to work directly with some of the taonga Māori held at Oxford in the United Kingdom.

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

“There isn’t much that Francis Young doesn’t know about fairies.” Thank you to Mark Mason for this latest review of ‘Fairies: A History’, in The Critic 🧚‍♀️📚

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Jason D. Brawn @jasondbrawn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

An enjoyable night at @treadwells-books.bsky.social on Welsh Folk Music with performer @chrisaverymusic.bsky.social #welshfolkmusic

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Happy Wednesday.

In case you forgot:
We live on a planet where whales sing songs that travel for miles.
Where trees can recognize their own offspring and protect them underground.
Where dolphins give each other names and where lightning can create glass in the sand.
Where horses can read human emotions.
Where rain has a smell before it even arrives and where the ocean can glow in the dark.
And where stars we see might not even exist anymore.

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Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @reblambert.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🚨 Standing Stone Shoutout 🚨 I’m currently in the early stages of designing a new creative practice piece for Practises Make Places & I need your help Do you have a local, or regional word(s) 4 a standing stone? Not a name e.g. Long Meg, but a general word e.g menhir This isn’t restricted to the UK🙂

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The threshold is an engine of wonder. The threshold is an engine of wonder. In its walking, in its crossing, the threshold is the witch's line. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

St Francis shaking paws with a mastiff. We start the day --

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Treadwell's Books @treadwells-books.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

That's not a tear in my eye. Oh no not at all. * sniff * 🥹

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