I didn't realise Stone Club and The Folk Review were run by @lallymacbeth.bsky.social, author of The Lost Folk (a must read if you're interested in folklore, its history, and who decides what gets remembered)!
Count me in for a new zine all about weird folkloric beasts...
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I’ve made a new issue of The Folk Review. 40 pages of folk beasts! From hooden horses to black shucks and things that lurk in the deep. You can pre-order copies here: stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
‘It is a magical feeling […] knowing that the beavers are living just beyond the treeline.’
@matthewmshaw.bsky.social rejoices in the reintroduction of beavers to Cornwall's Lost Gardens of Heligan www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/10/beav...
Photo: Andy Wilson
Stones of Kernow have made some excellent new merch. My eyes are on that yellow jumper: everpress.com/stones-of-kernow-merch
Our friend Prof. Peter Harrop is giving an online talk for our mates at the @folkloresociety.bsky.social on Violet Alford’s Pyrenean Festivals and Antonin Artaud’s Peyote Dance.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/violet-alf...
Beak Brewery have made The Lost Folk into a beer! It comes with an extract from the book in a fancy peel back label!
There’s a competition over on Instagram where you can win 12 cans of the beer plus a copy of the book… you can find it on The Folk Archive insta…
I also made some badges! They come in packs of four and feature The Folk Archive motto - Folk from the past, folk for the present, folk for the future: stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/the-...
I’ve done some bundles of issues 1 & 2 of The Folk Review…. You can nab them here: stoneclub.bigcartel.com/product/the-....
I have this all the time… shyest person going but I loved Black Shuck for just this. It felt like such a kind and welcoming atmosphere! So many good folk!
Reception with desk
Main room with bench
Empty room with rug
Kitchen
EXCITING NEWS
Today we received the keys for a new space. The Folklore Library & Archive is on the move
This will allow us to open to the public for research more readily. But we really need your help to equip it.
Please give any amount at
www.gofundme.com/f/secure-the...
And read below 👇
Had a great time chatting to Justin a little while ago…
Ive started my next read @lallymacbeth.bsky.social 's The Lost Folk. Fascinating so far about some of hidden people who collected folk stories.
am also intrigued about the church kneeler in the photos... should give that church a visit!
Some other cool ones. more will be on my insta
There are 300 kneelers, each unique, I managed to find the Clipping Service one. But theres some really cool ones.
To get out of my funk I took myself to Painswick St. Marys Church which I had read about in @lallymacbeth.bsky.social 's lost folk. I came for the unique kneelers (more next post) but found wonderful skull friends on the graves
Wonderful evening with the brilliant Matthew and Lally at @stoneclub.bsky.social. Particularly listening to @lallymacbeth.bsky.social talking about all things folk and my old stomping ground of Painswick in Gloucestershire… just don’t mention the song ;)
Thank to everyone who came along to Stone Club @thesociallondon.bsky.social last night
Sounds like a fantastic festival!
If @thefolkarchive.bsky.social is to be believed (and we definitely should believe them - The Lost Folk is a brilliant book), then these little local festivals should be cherished. Ham Farm Festival in Bristol was great.
@bristol247.bsky.social
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Published by @faberbooks.bsky.social, @lallymacbeth.bsky.social's 'The Lost Folk' is our July Book of the Month. Sophie Parkes reviews, finding an attentive author who not only cares deeply about folk culture, but also the people who create it www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/07/lall...
Ah thank you! ❤️🥹
THE LOST FOLK by Lally MacBeth (faber). Massively insightful history of folk art, music, stories etc, and how the traditions of the working classes were co-opted as entertainment for the middle classes.
Thanks so much for coming!
A jaunt over to Sheffield yesterday for the @stoneclub.bsky.social
and Well Dressed event featuring @lallymacbeth.bsky.social . I loved the talk about her book Lost Folk so much, I bought a copy on the spot! Fascinating compendium of lost history...
Igor the pantomime donkey
‘Igor is a life-sized pantomime donkey who came into my life towards the end of the pandemic.’
Lally MacBeth, author of The Lost Folk, discusses five objects from her own folk collection on the Faber Journal.
faber.co.uk/journal/five-objects-from-lally-macbeths-folk-archive/