How can you fail to love a country which not only has a pair of otters on one of its bank notes, but also has hidden lines of poetry about them, only visible under UV light, as one of its security features? Cont./ #glasgow #scotland #banknotes #royalbankofscotland #whaslikeus

Submissions invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 43! We want poetry & prose in English, #Gaelic, & #Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct! Submit free via @Submittable 👇 nws.submittable.com/submit

There are those who believe in divination by boneyard lichen. Hooklanders call it tomb-blight telling. Charts to tomorrow in swirl and splotch. A thousand branchings to show the possible worlds stemming from the now. Of course, it's a difficult art to master. – #MattAdams, 1982

while haiti is in the news so much this week maybe we should all take a moment to discuss the fact that their economic destitution is entirely due to being forced to spend ~80% of their federal budget every year for 150 years on reparations to france for freeing the slaves

Treading the path from summer to winter, thread count in the carpet of fallen leaves growing denser by the day, we're nourished by autumn's oranges and peaches. Yet still we feel the need to feed a different kind of hunger – the kind only art can satisfy. iambapoet.com/wave/19

If you've ever wondered what the stars from Lord of the Rings are doing now, I can tell you with some authority, that the massive spider lives in my shed.

We have a list of every Anglo-Saxon whose name we know: it's an astonishing achievement & research tool. It took 10 years & is now available again: pase.ac.uk Reeves, moneyers, pilgrims; anchorites, assassins, archpriests; sisters, sons & seventeenth-grandfathers...

🚨 Call For Submissions: The Alien Buddha’s Chaos Countdowns 🚨 🎆 Deadline: December 7, 2024 📖 Theme: Stories set on or around New Year's Eve 📝 Word Limit: 5,000 words Accepted Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery/Crime Party Comedy/Adult Romcom Sci-Fi Urban Life Fringe

With the help of bookfinder.com, Inter-Library Loan, Internet Archive, and HathiTrust, I've assembled over three dozen source texts for Pre-Code films. We've reached a point where it's easier to find and watch the movies than it is to find the books that inspired them.

In the 1920s, dentist Samuel Aykroyd regularly hosted séances. Samuel’s son, Maurice, was a Bell Telephone engineer who tried to contact the dead via radio. Maurice’s son, Peter, wrote the book 'A History of Ghosts. Peter's son is Dan Aykroyd, writer and star of Ghostbusters.

That time when Burne-Jones took time away from all the pre-Raphaeliting to draw dragon school for tiny dragon tots

While funding the NHS, right? Right...?

This needs to happen now.

Submissions for the Manchester Cathedral Ecopoetry and Place Competition open until October 23rd judged by myself, Ella Duffy and Emily Oldfield. Free entry for your first poem and £200 to be won! 🌿

i just got an email from our hr department informing us that, “regrettably”, our office has become “inundated” with raccoons and as of this morning, after an incident where one raccoon fell thru the ceiling, they’ve decided to let us work from home

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My favourite medieval doodle in the library collection is this weary- looking man who looks like he would really appreciate some coffee. (WCL F116 f.27v William of Heytesbury's Sophismata 14thC ms).

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My 15 yr old has just discovered Simon & Garfunkel. Laugh if you must but maybe you, too, remember being an alienated weird kid in a small town, as I was decades past—finding that music was profound.