Seven Miles of Steel Thistles

This Saturday, the 10th of November, there was a protest outside the prestigious gold-leaf-covered gate of All Souls College, Oxford.  ...

I'm taking the weekend off from Steel Thistles, as today you will find me talking about trolls to my friend Lucy Coats, over at Scribble...

Sara Allgood as Maurya, photo by Carl Van Vechten , 1938 Maurya:   (raising her head and speaking as if she did not see the people aro...

From ‘The Western Island’ by Robin Flower, Clarendon Press, 1944 A tale of Tomàs O Crithin from the Great Blasket It is no...

by Nick Green Turn again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London! Turn again, Whittington, thrice Mayor of London! Is ‘Dick Whit...

The Silver Cup from Dagberg Daas From Scandinavian Folklore, ed William Craigie, 1896 Here’s a version of an old tale I used in ...

by Penny Dolan All that was needed, so people said, was a single coin placed on a stone beside your tethered horse. Have ...