The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty

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Glad for God is the history of the Bousfield families of Newark and Bedford from the late eighteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. It first traces the origins of the Newark families they married into and then tells the story of two brothers, Edward and Thomas Bousfield, and their descendants. Charting their triumphs and disasters, their loves and losses, their jobs and good works reveals how some of these descendants found a new religious ideal which transformed their lives, while others stayed with the faith of their fathers. Jeremy Harte combines folklore scholarship with a lively style to show what the presence of fairies meant to people's lives. Like their human counterparts, the secret people could kill as well as heal. They knew marriage, seduction, rape and divorce; they adored some children and rejected others. If we are frightened of the fairies, it may be because their world offers an uncomfortable mirror of our own. Psychotherapy assists people to construct a narrative which makes sense of their lives. However psychoanalysis too often relies on outdated and limited assumptions. By learning from the poets who created the Celtic myths, therapists can help their patients develop more appropriate personal narratives. Apart from a few people in universities studying folklore or mythology these questions may seem strange. In this booklet Bob Trubshaw suggests that, far from being strange, folklore and mythology – at least as understood by academics – are key to understanding the processes by which we create our all-encompassing 'social reality'.

Enchantment is All About Us is the fifth book in the Living in a Magical World series. These books will challenge you to recognise the traditional magic still alive in modern society, and empower you with a variety of skills and insights. Every bottle of mead is part of this unbroken tradition. So, as Beatrice Walditch explains, You Don't Just Drink It! In this informative yet light-hearted book she tells you what you need to know – and do – before drinking mead. She also includes recipes and practical advice for brewing mead, based on her own experience. This is a story of the American dream with a twist, a tale of one Scottish family's rise from rags to riches only to end in tragedy. It tells of Scott Fitzgerald's super-rich set a generation before he wrote The Great Gatsby. The tide of history has receded, leaving thirty names on memorials to the fallen. Who were these 'lost sons'? What was the story of their lives and deaths? The numbers of deaths as a proportion of those who served is almost three times the national average. How did the village react? Ymir's Flesh gathers together the distorted fragments of this mythology and provides an original and inspiring insight into the complex inter-weaving of mythological themes.Although I've always enjoyed history (even the dull, dry stuff – and some of it can be drier than an Egyptian mummy's wrappings) what really intrigues me are those weird, almost surreal moments that leave you shaking your head in disbelief wondering "Whatever were they thinking?" The second edition adds a preface discussing the influence of the Western zodiac on Chinese divination and ontology about two centuries prior to the era of Heraclitus and early Taoism. A wealth of material has been gathered here, and it has been well digested before being compiled into this book. It is a very useful reference book for those of us who are interested in the water element in general and in wells in particular. I found it both inspirational and interesting […] an excellent book' There are three recognised Old English words for shrines. Neither hoh nor hlaw are among them as these words have so far been thought to simply describe specific-shaped hills and burial mounds. This study looks beyond these accepted interpretations and provides substantial evidence that hohs were shrines to boundary-defending deities, and hlaws should be thought of as shrines to ancestors. Not only are they both shrines, but ancestors could be thought of as boundary-defenders too. And hohs look like giant-sized hlaws. And all this overlapping complexity makes even more sense when looked at from the perspective of the underlying worldviews set out in early volumes making up The Twilight Age series.

The Especially Sacred Grove both draws upon and supercedes Bob Trubshaw's previous publications about Six Hills and the Leicestershire Wolds. The author's soft spot for the Socratic Method ensures a wide variety of topics – most of them decidedly arcane – emerge during numerous evening discussions in the Le Strange Arms, or between 'The PM' and 'The Management' as they go about their day-to-day business.

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What is a 'theory of place'? Outside the realms of geography most academics see no need to consider such a question. Sadly, this is especially true of the linguists who study the names of places. Those that do venture, such as Tim Ingold, reveal just what a wonderful 'garden of delights' awaits.

Creating the Paranormal brings together recent cognitive science with the 'social uses' of the paranormal, especially the way in which encounters are retold. To all intents and purposes such narratives are how must of us are aware of the paranormal – and all of us create the meaning and significance of such stories. The third part covers the life of William Robert and his family in England. Their story is in many ways typical of a prosperous middle class family either side of 1900, but also very individual. Following his early difficulties, and eventual success, it describes his marriage to Hattie Bousfield and their life together in Nottingham, and the close involvement of Hattie's parents and her wider family. It relates the pleasures this brought and the stresses it engendered particularly for their children.

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Alby Stone write in clear and concise English, with a minimum of jargon and an occasional twinkle of humour.' Withowinde Over time the bad men, both high and low, were brought under control. But life remained hard and, while the industrial revolution brought new kinds of jobs to this rural area, there was no real prosperity. But it did offer better prospects elsewhere. Liverpool was the great magnet for these northern folk, and it was here the Tates moved in the 1870s to start a new life. Explore Folklore provides a lively introduction to the study of most genres of British folklore, presenting the more contentious and profound ideas in a readily accessible manner. For the fifth edition the Introduction has been fully revised and a selection of representative Old English texts included. These will start you on the path of appreciating a very special literature and the way the language works. The early years of the Co-operative College, in its transition from Manchester to Stanford Hall, are brought to life with personal reminiscences and previously-unpublished photographs from the collections of the College and the author. They portray a vivid picture of an era of education that, to a great extent, has already been lost.

As a boy at the start of the twentieth century, Jim Hamilton grew up in the heyday of railways. By the age of three he was in love with steam locomotives. He enthusiastically compared the different competing rail companies that flourished around his home in Nottingham: the Great Central, Great Northern, North Western and his favourite because its engines were painted red– the Midland. His interest was greatly aided and abetted by The Railway Magazine, which rapidly became his preferred reading. The root * albiyo- is also found in Gaulish and Galatian albio- 'world' and Welsh elfydd ( Old Welsh elbid 'earth, world, land, country, district'). It may be related to other European and Mediterranean toponyms such as Alpes, Albania or the river god Alpheus (originally 'whitish'). It has Literature as diverse as Old English poems and the tales of Scottish Travellers uses the first-person to give a voice, and personality, to a diverse range of non-human artefacts. By using this device for the metaphysical relocation of self, the author's identity may become conflated with the artefact – or even a deity. Stonehenge Celebration and Subversion contains an extraordinary story. Anyone who imagines Stonehenge to be nothing but an old fossil should read this and worry. [This book is] ... the most complete, well-illustrated analysis of Stonehenge's mysterious world of Druids, travellers, pagans and party-goers'. Explore Fairy Traditions is an excellent introduction to the folklore of fairies, and I would highly recommend it.'

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Bob answers questions I’d never even thought of asking, yet throughout he is at pains to point out that his theory is only that, a theory. Refreshingly, he doesn’t claim to have all the answers, but he does make you think about the ones he offers for consideration.'