Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author and PhD researcher in the Gothic and the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author and PhD researcher in the Gothic and the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
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Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author and PhD researcher in the Gothic and the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author and PhD researcher in the Gothic and the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
Happy International Bat Appreciation Day! 🦇
🎨"The Witch’s Sister on her Black Bat" (1921) by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
#InternationalBatAppreciationDay
Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author and PhD researcher in the Gothic and the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author and PhD researcher in the Gothic and the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
Paul Robeson, singing with a Welsh choir in The Proud Valley (1940). 🎬
The American bass-baritone was born in Princeton, New Jersey, on this day in 1898.
A strong supporter of workers’ rights, he formed a lasting bond with the mining communities during filming in Wales.
Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author and PhD researcher in the Gothic and the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
Welsh folklore tells us to take it easy on the Thursday before Easter... or else: ⚡
"Maundy Thursday was important for doing good deeds. If anybody performed unnecessary work on this day they would be in danger of being stricken by thunder & lightning."
Folklore of Wales, 1909
Art Historian | Arts Journalist | Cultural Adventurer. Author and PhD researcher in the Gothic and the uncanny in visual culture. Ghosts & Folklore of Wales podcast. Made in Port Talbot. Happiest at Halloween.
Happy birthday to Ivor The Engine, the little Welsh railway engine from the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company, who first appeared on our screens today in 1959. Toot-toot!
#onthisday #otd #wales