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Sunrise from Nattadon Hill The Solstice Horn Sun over the graveyard Back in the village -
My first encounter with the bourrée was via Jethro Tull ... ...and their jazzed-up take on J. S. Bach's Bourrée in Em. T...
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Telling the Bees played Glastonbury this year, two gorgeous gigs courtesy of the Toad Hall stage in the Green Futures field. I took ... -
It's easy to miss the sign for Altarnun as you hoof back up out of Cornwall on the A30, just another colourfully named village that you... -
I first came across Simon Costin's Museum of British Folklore a few years ago, when Telling the Bees played Festival at the Edge. Then... -
I find it hard to believe but it's exactly ten years since my book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was published. Thou... -
One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta...
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Shroom: ten years on
I find it hard to believe but it's exactly ten years since my book Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom was published. Thou...
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This programme, Spirit of the Beehive by Nina Perry who made the excellent radio documentary about Oxford's Catweazle Club, looks like ...
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Just lately I've been listening online to what's been emerging from Newcastle University's Folk Music degree course . Here's...
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In 1993, when I was still a whippersnapper in my twenties, I managed to get myself invited to the Secret McKenna Workshop , organised by the... -
One of the more persistent myths about the fly-agaric mushroom , Amanita muscaria , the familiar red and white-spotted mushrooms of fairy-ta...
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In case you’re not a regular subscriber to Economic Botany , and to my shame I’m not, you mightn’t have read the following recently publishe... -
Not long after the August Bank Holiday, when the last lingering sunshine slinks away and the chilly morning air smells of back to school, my... -
One of my favourite textbooks, that I refer to again and again, is New Religions: A Guide edited by Christopher Partridge. Apart from an, a...
