~Autumn Tide~ by P. D Brown Now they come from barrow, mound and henge enclosure,From Low Connie’s winter solstice clock,And further afield; the mighty three at Thornborough.A Bronze Age woman rises from Kirkcarrion, A sun-disc round her neck. She steps into her ox-drawn waggon,As skeins of geese fly by, And all around the earth at…
Tales & Ales – followed by a Samhain Ceremony
Hear five tales of terror straight from master storyteller P D Brown! Including the elder tree witch and the great-grandmothers feast!!! A night you won’t forget! Saturday 31st Oct – 7.30pm start The Angels Cut, Duke Street Darlington on Saturday 31st October 2026 at 7.30pm This will be followed by a Samhain ceremony – all…
Chariots, Treasure & Power: Secrets of the Melsonby Hoard
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We are so excited to find out the Melsonby Hoard will be on display from 15th May this year and we have booked our tickets already. Full report and pictures coming soon!
Sing-Along-A-Wicker-Man Comes to Saltburn!!!
UPDATE: NOW CANCELLED DUE TO PERFORMER ILLNESS – WE WILL LET YOU KNOW IF AND WHEN IT IS RESCHEDULED Yes it’s back! Thursday April 30th at 7.30pm at Saltburn Community Arts Centre! Get there early and join your host Lord Summerisle (AKA David Bramwell) for your appointment with The Wicker Man! Full report to follow!…
Interesting Talk Coming Up in Middlesbrough!
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This advert for a talk on the history of witchcraft and feminism popped up in my Facebook page recently – and instead of just being online or in down in London it’s actually in Middlesbrough! Here are the details about the talk, which will be followed by Q&A with Dr. Moretti: The image of the…
Storytelling with Half-Man, Half-Myth!
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For the past couple of months we have been along to The Angel’s Cut bar to hear Norse storytelling. The fabulous Half-Man, Half-Myth (also known as P. D. Brown) is telling tales of the Norse Gods and legends from the Sagas and the Poetic Edda. P. D. is originally from York and has recently moved…
Digital Druidry
Hi Jenny here – I am delighted to announce that my paper, Digital Druidry, looking at the nature of online Druid ritual, is now live in the Journal for the Study of Religious Experience (pp. 104-127) available to read for free here: Digital Druidry: An investigation into the development, nature and significance of online ritual…
The Melsonby Hoard
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Yesterday Jenny and I were invited to attend a lecture at The Yorkshire Museum on the Melsonby hoard. The details of the hoard are absolutely stunning. I did start taking some photographs of the presentation but was just so overwhelmed by the volume of amazing images of all of the finds that I ended up…
Silent Witness for the Right to Peaceful Protest
Jenny and Keith represented the OBOD Mandua Briga seed group yesterday joining over 40 members of the Quakers and other faith communities by the Pease monument in Darlington town centre at 11am to mark a silent witness highlighting the threat from the 2022 and 2023 crime and policing bills to the right for peaceful protest.…
Thank you!
To all the people who turned up to our Moot! We had a brilliant time at Hopetown and were overwhelmed that 12 of you came along! We had to do some major table shifting to get everyone together and thank you to the staff of Hopetown for putting up with us! Thank you to Ben,…