Claire Cock-Starkey
@NonFictioness
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Writer (Lore of the Wild, Hyphens & Hashtags &c). Books, libraries, history. P/t PhD on folklore of death in 19th century England
Cambridge
Joined May 2012
My next book in the Lore of... series is out on 5th October 2023! 🌛💫Lore of the Stars 🪐🌞 is an illustrated treasury of folklore from the skies, stars, planets and beyond. Pre-order your copy here: https://t.co/9Zb5Gbpyr3
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My article "Victorian Eco-Spiritualism: Environmental Citizenship and the Occult Revival in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing" is now out in the International Journal of English Studies! Extremely grateful for the interest it is causing https://t.co/liX0m4ly8g
Excited to announce that my article "Victorian Eco-Spiritualism: Environmental Citizenship and the Occult Revival in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing" was accepted by the International Journal of English Studies and will be out in June! https://t.co/NxSQjOubBL
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This looks like a fantastic opportunity for any folklorists out there looking to do a funded PhD - any Folklore Studies MA students who enjoyed @odavies9 module on the Folklore of Landscape would be perfect!
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My new JVC article "Cash Cows and Dogs with Dentures: Prostheses for Animals in Nineteenth-Century British Culture" is out. Free access:
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Abstract. This article shows how the history of prostheticized animals is much deeper and richer than one might think. Investigating the interest in fittin
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There is a dark secret on our bookshelves. The innocently named “The English Flower Garden”, has an eye-catching and beautiful green cloth binding which is infused with poisonous arsenic!
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We have one more online talk before our summer break: Sophia Kingshill on 'Through the Looking Glass: What is a Doppelgänger?' Tues 16 July 18:00-19:30 BST. Tickets £6.00 (£4.00 for Folklore Society members with promo code). Join us! https://t.co/2sc6a2iK7F
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Very excited to share my newly-published open access article in Mortality: '‘A distressing scene’? The corpse in the nineteenth-century working-class home'. So pleased to have this research out there! Please share with anyone you think might be interested:
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When Edwin Chadwick released his report into burial reform in 1843 he was highly critical of the working-class practice of keeping the dead body in the home for up to a week in the period between d...
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Educational makeup of the new cabinet: 90%+ state school educated. This is big (and very different)
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Just heard 🦈Lore of the Deep 🌊 will be published in the US on 1 October 2024 and in the UK on 17 October. It's jam-packed with myths, legends and lore covering everything from ghost ships to sea shanties. Pre-order here: https://t.co/Bg2gaKVvAZ...
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Delighted to announce that my article on Victorian female ornithologists and their role in the rise of ecological consciousness has just been published by Atlantis English Studies! Many thanks to @EnvCit for supporting and funding my work 🪶 https://t.co/sE7lXEv9DL
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Hurrah, my book spotted at American Library Association annual conference #alaac24
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ICYMI at the weekend, I did one of those sort-of-topical "historian here" threads about the history of photographing the northern lights 🌌
Northern lights photographed by Carl Størmer from Bossekop in 1910 📷: Norsk Teknisk Museum
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We have an amazing line up for the final Grave Matters on 10 June at 6pm with @Trabbs_Bhoy @TheProfRog @S_R_Gordon Sign up for free here: https://t.co/sa3lKGGuk3 and please share far and wide, it's going to be a corker!
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After three fabulous years Grave Matters is coming to a close so please join us for our final curtain, online on Monday 10 June at 6pm. We're going out with a bang with three incredible speakers 👇 Sign up for free here: https://t.co/rdLewMyCaZ Please share far and wide!
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TONIGHT at 6pm do come along to our next Grave Matters seminar! Sign up for free here: https://t.co/cLdFnMI2oB and see more details 👇
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Do come along to the next Grave Matters online event on Monday 15 April at 6pm, it promises to be a really fascinating seminar!
Grave Matters is excited to present our next online seminar on Monday 15 April at 6pm BST on Persecution, Ethics and Identity, sign up for free here: https://t.co/cLdFnMI2oB
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Our next Death and Culture Researchers Meet Up is 30 April - book here!
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📢Calling all #C19 ECRs📢 Take a few minutes to fill out our short surveys in the @BAVS_UK newsletter as we prepare to launch the new BAVS Postdoctoral Network & BAVS Tea Time 🫖 @aliciarbarnes @HarrietTho @BAVS_PGs
The Spring issue of the @BAVS_UK Newsletter is now out in the world. Thanks to everyone who has contributed reviews and reports. It's in members' inboxes and on our website now: https://t.co/1zsHtCGvm6
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Very excited to share the cover for my next book Lore of the Deep! With incredible artwork by Stacey Rozich 😍 It's full of folklore, myths and legends about the seas and oceans - from pirate lore to ghost ships. Out in the UK and US in October 2024!
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Grave Matters is excited to present our next online seminar on Monday 15 April at 6pm BST on Persecution, Ethics and Identity, sign up for free here: https://t.co/cLdFnMI2oB
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Ten days until our next 💀Grave Matters 💀 event on Persecution, Ethics and Identity with three fantastic speakers! Sign up for free here: https://t.co/cLdFnMI2oB Please share far and wide!
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