Paul Cowdell

I research (library & field), write on, & talk about folklore. Am proud to have been described as an 'expert in morbid eschatology' and a 'cannibalism celebrity'.

Blog: https://humphreywithhisflail.blogspot.com
Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Cowdell
AcademiaDOTedu: https://herts.academia.edu/PaulCowdell

Last Notes

2024-07-10 12:56:30 GMT

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Excellent call!

2024-07-08 11:22:33 GMT

Got back from a draining 10 day trip involving a conference, a symposium and catching bloody COVID again.
Cheered up slightly by receiving my contributor's copy of this little beauty: https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/6566-moebius-media
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2024-07-02 08:16:55 GMT

Book Challenge: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. Alt text!
Day 8/20
#20books #20books20days
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2024-07-01 15:49:35 GMT

I am and will always be a Londoner, and sound a bit like one, even though I no longer live there.
Right now I am back on East Ham High Street for the first time in 8 years and what is making me nostalgically tearful is not the place so much as the sudden uber-East London-ness of my accent.

2024-07-01 15:43:32 GMT

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Including @npub1mms…5mxh here because it's a reply to him, too. I was really taken with Ryszard Kapuściński's comment on Herodotus, which really gets at everything I get/have got from reading and re-reading him: 'The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart'

2024-07-01 09:37:05 GMT

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I loved him as an undergraduate, and now constantly feel that if I'd only thought more about why I loved him I'd have ended up a folklorist a lot sooner.

2024-06-30 18:02:29 GMT

Book Challenge: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. Alt text!
Day 6/20
#20books #20books20days
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2024-06-29 06:03:01 GMT

Book Challenge: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. Alt text!
Day 5/20
#20books #20books20days
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2024-06-24 18:11:35 GMT

Probably not a great time to start this, as I'll be on the move for a large part of the next fortnight, but...
Book Challenge: 20 books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers. Alt text!
#20books #20books20days
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2024-06-24 15:35:09 GMT

Cheering myself up that this is now showing as live on the publisher's website:
https://upcolorado.com/utah-state-university-press/item/6566-moebius-media
#Folklore #folkloresque
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