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Excursion: Hibaldstow
Gemma Garwood ventures to Hibaldstow to create a deep map. Black dogs, enchanted springs, knowledgeable locals and… peacocks (?) may be present.
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Folk Memory as Resistance
The book in question is a collection of short fiction that in different ways draws on working-class themes and experience, all ten contributions by working-class writers. The genre is horror. The problem: how do I describe the class-consciousness I developed growing up in a once industrious town in north Lincolnshire…
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Three Kings
Threekingham is an unusual name, and an incorrect etymology has long been attached to it, as is not uncommon with place names that are unusual – especially when those names so obviously seem to suggest something concrete. Three kings, for example.
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Ciapek
Is a wholly true story a folk tale? Well, no, not according to most definitions – but what if that story involves a folk hero? And what if that folk hero isn’t human, and is personified in literary accounts, requiring extrapolation akin to that common in legends? Ciapek was a small stray dog found near…
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Twyford Wood (RAF North Witham)
RAF North Witham was established in 1942, and closed in 1960. It encroached upon what had been Twyford Forest, and after the closure of the base the Forestry commission took it back over and planted thousands of trees. This has created a beautiful, unusual composite: increasingly mature woodland grows thickly around increasingly crumbling and buckling…
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Jack and the Day of the Fair
We love receiving original contributions of creative writing. Below, you’ll find a new addition to the Jack tale genre, sent to us by Peter Irons, who came along to our recent Folk Tale Day at Mrs Smith’s Cottage Museum, Navenby in February. This story is set in and on the edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds,…
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