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Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy

Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solve and even a cameo appearance by Bart Simpson. On a cold winter’s night, not so very long ago…

See It, Say It, Sorted: What’s in a name?

Words can be powerful, but can names be magic?

The Kindness of Strangers – some reflections for an up-ended world

The only way out is through, and the only way through is together.

The Spaces In Between – further adventures in Letterpress

Some thoughts from the print shed: musings about and around setting movable type.

Objects of Desire: friction, mark-making and bearing witness

Some thoughts about the ways we shape our environments, and our environments shape us.

Writing Through the Dark

About finding meaning, and steading ourselves, in difficult times.

In The Rare Books Room – scattered thoughts about a small green volume

A trip to the library, and a little green book of poems, takes me on a journey into the past.

Health and Safety Gone Mad – working with radiation at the Oak Ridge Labs (1944 edition)

Did you know that a rubber rain hat was once considered appropriate personal protective equipment for working with radioactive contamination?

On Aeromancy – contemplating the gathering storm

How can we understand the future when our collective grasp of the present and past seems more fragile than ever?

In Our Ancestors’ Shoes: The Slow Road to London (1604 Edition)

On finding a 1604 'sat-nav' in the archives - some thoughts about how people move around long-occupied human landscapes, then and now.