This evening I spoke at Moyse’s Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds about treasures of St Edmunds Abbey: those lost before and during the dissolution, those which survive but are dispersed around the world, and those which can be found in Bury and indeed at Moyse’s Hall itself. I am grateful to all those who attended the talk and to Dan Clarke and the team at Moyse’s Hall for inviting me to speak on this subject.
In the latest episode of the Ecclesiastical History Society’s podcast I speak to Angela Platt of Royal Holloway University of London about magic and politics in British history, medieval and early modern belief in magic and my book Magic in Merlin’s Realm.
You can listen to the podcast here.
This evening I spoke to the Erasmus Society at Queens’ College, Cambridge on the subject of ‘Magic and Politics in British History’, which was the subject of my books Magic as a Political Crime (2017) and Magic in Merlin’s Realm (2022). The Erasmus Society is the College’s History society and the talk was attended by both students and fellows. It was followed by a stimulating discussion and I was afterwards kindly invited to dine with the President and Fellows.
Francis Young 