Harvest Merriment and Folk Horror in the English Countryside
How the bright days of summer bring the darkness of ritual, superstition, and folklore to the English countryside.
Vanessa Payne
Ruralist
Bells, Beer, and Britain: The Sacred Pub Connection
Explore the way we balance reverence with revelry, peculiar customs and public-spiritedness in towns and villages up and down the land.
Ploughing Through History: From Shakespeare to Sustainability
Copied from my ‘The Ruralist’ Substack, a story of soil, toil, and the ways in which we hold on to our traditions and also let them go.