Contract signed with Cambridge University Press: Magic in Merlin’s Realm
I have just signed a contract with Cambridge University Press to publish my book Magic in Merlin’s Realm: A History of Occult Politics in Britain, which will be a complete … Continue reading
The ghost of Maude Carew on BBC Radio Suffolk
This afternoon I spoke to James Hazell of BBC Radio Suffolk for my regular ‘Spooky Suffolk’ segment (listen from time signature 2:15:30), which this week focussed on Bury St Edmunds’s … Continue reading
Supernatural Sutton Hoo on BBC Radio Suffolk
On today’s ‘Spooky Suffolk’ segment on BBC Radio Suffolk I spoke to presenter James Hazell about some of the supernatural associations of Sutton Hoo, which is in the news this … Continue reading
Suffolk’s abandoned settlements on BBC Radio Suffolk
This afternoon I was once again interviewed by James Hazell for BBC Radio Suffolk’s ‘Spooky Suffolk’ segment, this week focussing on Suffolk’s abandoned settlements. Although Dunwich is the most famous … Continue reading
History in Prehistory for Wiltshire Museum
This evening I delivered an online talk for Wiltshire Museum on the theme of ‘History in Prehistory: Interpreting the Prehistoric Landscape in Medieval and Early Modern England’, which examined the … Continue reading
Plough Monday on BBC Radio Suffolk
In today’s ‘Spooky Suffolk’ segment on BBC Radio Suffolk I spoke to James Hazell about Suffolk’s Plough Monday traditions, from cross-dressing to plough blessing and a strange charm involving a … Continue reading
A Ghost Story for Christmas: ‘There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard’
I recently recorded a dramatic reading of M. R. James’s story ‘There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard’ for the Churches Conservation Trust, as a special online event for … Continue reading
Christmas Ghosts on BBC History Extra
The talk on Christmas ghost stories I gave to the Churches Conservation Trust on 3 December is now available as part of a BBC History Extra podcast, in which I … Continue reading
Review: Opening The Box of Delights by Philip W. Errington
Philip W. Errington, Opening the Box of Delights (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 2020), 128pp. I cannot have been old enough to watch the BBC adaptation of John Masefield’s The … Continue reading
Christmas is cancelled! The Bury St Edmunds Christmas riots of the 1640s
The Christmas of 1644 was a bleak time. England was embroiled in a bitter civil war that had already lasted over two years, with a consequent breakdown of law and … Continue reading
