24/08/2026
🚨➡️ A Short History of Bemushroomed Britons: From obscure origins, Psilocybe mushrooms quickly and quietly established themselves as part of local traditions and countercultural Britain during the twentieth century. They became a staple rite of passage, folkloric emblem, and mischievous companions in the festival calendar. And for over fifty years, these trickster fungi danced around the law, difficult to capture.
From mycologists, field foragers and the earliest uses of home-growing kits, to scientific research, legal conundrums and their reclassification in 2005, historian Dr Robert Dickins draws on a wealth of sources to reveal how every region of Britain became populated with Psilocybe pickers, and the extraordinary lengths authorities went to in order to police their use ❤️📖
It includes a Foreword by Dr Andy Letcher (Andy Letcher), who writes:
➡️ "In this impeccably researched and skilfully written book, historian Robert Dickins demonstrates persuasively that the [history of mushrooms] is far more complex. We may never know categorically who was the first to intentionally pick a Liberty Cap, but Rob presents the definitive picture of how underground discourses mingled with mycological knowhow to create the milieu that gave us the magic mushroom.”
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