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Shining a light on another culture in all the Stonehenge and Newgrange posts: Shab e Yalda, or Chelle Night, is a Persian winter solstice tradition which warded off evil on the longest night. Img: By Vfnyos - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?cu… #folklore #Solstice

Spotted and photographed by me in Exmouth, Devon today. Are they part of a set? Investigation needed!

We are hosting a series of FREE events in the library again this winter as part of the warm space programme. We kick off with a Wassail Concert on January 19th. January events are on the poster below. We will share February and March events soon. Please contact us to book

Have you got your tickets yet?! 👇

A couple of lovely spooky books donated to our print library. Y Brian Arnopp - Photographer recently Thanks for sending them :)

It’s the first of our free Warm Winter events in the library today, supported by Mid Devon District Council #GrowingCommunitiesFund We have a full audience for our Wassail Concert with Jim Causley, Simon Pope and Bill Murray

For a long time, we have been collecting and archiving images of postbox toppers We would like to try and preserve some of these actual items in our collections with a view to creating an exhibition and so will need to seek donations Can you volunteer to help us do this?

PLEASE read this really important message about The Folklore Library and Archive and if you can help follow this link gofundme.com/f/keep-the-fol… Even if you can't help directly, please forward this message on to everyone you can. These archives are valuable. Thank you.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the Folklore Library & Archive major fundraiser so far If you have made a donation, you will receive a personal message of thanks soon If this is new to you, please read the announcement below and visit gofundme.com/f/keep-the-fol…

melstridemp.com/news/local-mp-… Great to sit down with The Folklore Library & Archive to share insights on the Dartmoor Line’s reinstatement. Proud to have campaigned for over a decade for this vital lifeline for Central Devon, and looking forward to the opening of Okehampton Interchange in 2026! 🚉

We are hosting an evening with Dom Lee, local filmmaker, this evening in the Folklore Library and Archive as part of our Warm Winter programme of free events funded by Mid Devon District Council Growing Communities Fund

The Folklore Library and Archive charity crowdfunder to put staff in place for a year to get more material catalogued and accessible to everyone online is just £50 shy of its first £2k If you can share the appeal, or throw anything in, please help. gofundme.com/f/keep-the-fol…

New multi-media art exhibition on archaeology, cartography and folklore coming to the Silk Museum #Macclesfield Stone Club Stone Bothering Dr Campbell Price The Folklore Library & Archive

We have another free event as part of our Warm Winter programme in the library tonight. Historian Tony Gale is talking about Ogilby’s Brittany’s, published in 1675, and explaining how we can see it as Britain’s first road atlas

This event is funded by the Mid Devon District Council Growing Communities Fund

A new blog post from our GWR Customer and Community Improvement Fund grant-funded rail heritage project is now on our website, detailing our recent meeting with Mel Stride folklorelibrary.com/devon-rail-her…

Behold this classic edition of A Christmas Carol which we have just accessioned to the library through donation. Such great cover art

We are setting up for a fascinating talk on the history of photography in Devon in the Folklore Library and Archive. And we have lots of toys to look at too

We are delighted to have been working with Folkloristan to preserve their vital collection of Pakistani cultural heritage. Today we made the archive public and you can see it freely at …b709d708a60.starter3ua.preservica.com/portal/en-GB/c… Material is being added to this archive frequently

The Folklore Library and Archive is dedicated to trying to preserve AT-RISK cultural heritage materials that are folklore specific adjacent such as Folkloristan. If you know of other at-risk materials or archives that you think should be preserved, please get in touch