Journal articles
‘A Monastic Antichrist Satire from Medieval Bury St Edmunds: Interpreting the Iconotypicon Buriense,’ Downside Review 141:4 (2023), pp. 121-32
‘“Of divels in Sarmatia honored”: Writing Baltic Paganism in Early Modern England’, The Pomegranate 24:1 (2022), pp. 70-95
‘Surveying a Field Come of Age’, British Catholic History 36:2 (2022), pp. 204-21
‘Letters of Thomas Hatton from Williamsburg, Virginia, 1758-1759’, The New American Antiquarian 1 (2022), pp. 27-64
‘The Depredatio abbatiae as a source on the uprising against St Edmunds Abbey, 1327′, Journal of Breckland Studies 4 (2020-1), pp. 22-9
‘Sir Thomas Tresham and the Christian Cabala’, British Catholic History 35:2 (2020), pp. 145-68
‘St Edmund versus St Francis: Saints and Conflict in Medieval Bury St Edmunds’, Downside Review 138:2 (2020), pp. 56-67
‘Lingua semilatina: de fabulata origine linguae Lituanicae apud auctores saeculi sexti decimi’, Vox Latina 56 (2020), pp. 57-61
‘Edward Kelley’s Danish treasure hoax and Elizabethan antiquarianism’, Intellectual History Review 30:2 (2020), pp. 167-86
‘The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Democratisation of Magic in Post-Reformation England’, Religions 10(4), 241 (March 2019), https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10040241
‘The Cult of St Edmund, King and Martyr in Medieval Ireland’, Downside Review 136 (2018), pp. 223-238
‘Biblical reference indexing: the challenges’, The Indexer 36:1 (March 2018), pp. 14-15
‘The joy – and importance – of the analytical index’, The Indexer 35:2 (June 2017), pp. 76-77
‘Bishop William Poynter and Exorcism in Regency England’, British Catholic History 33:2 (2016), pp. 278-97
‘Portrayals of St Edmund, King & Martyr, after the Reformation’, Douai Magazine 177 (2015), pp. 62-80
‘Early Modern English Catholic Piety in a Fifteenth-Century Book of Hours: Cambridge University Library MS Additional 10079’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 15:4 (2015) pp. 541-59
‘Papists and Non-jurors in the Isle of Ely, 1559–1745’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 104 (2015) pp. 161–70
‘St Edmund, King and Martyr in Popular Memory since the Reformation’, Folklore 126 (2015) pp. 159-176
‘From Ely to Venice: the life of William Maurus Taylor OSB (b. 1576)’, Downside Review 133 (2015) pp. 152–175
‘The Bishop’s Palace at Ely as a Prison for Recusants, 1577-1597’, Recusant History 32 (2014) pp. 195-220
‘Elizabeth Inchbald’s “Catholic Novel” and its Local Background’, Recusant History 31 (2013), pp. 573-592
‘The Tasburghs of Flixton and Catholicism in Northeast Suffolk, 1642-1767’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 42 (2012), pp. 455-470
‘The Tasburghs of Bodney: Catholicism and Politics in South Norfolk’, Norfolk Archaeology 46 (2011), pp. 190-198
‘Catholic Exorcism in Early Modern England: Polemic, Propaganda and Folklore’, Recusant History 29 (2009), pp. 487-507
‘The Shorts of Bury St. Edmunds: Medicine, Catholicism and Politics in the Seventeenth Century’, Journal of Medical Biography 16 (2008), pp. 188-194
‘John Battely’s Antiquitates S. Edmundi Burgi and its Editors’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 41 (2008), pp. 467-479
‘“An Horrid Popish Plot”: The Failure of Catholic Aspirations in Bury St. Edmunds, 1685-88’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 41 (2006), pp. 209-255
‘Mother Mary More and the Exile of the Augustinian Canonesses of Bruges in England: 1794-1802’, Recusant History 27 (2004), pp. 86-102
Chapters in books
‘Authorities and Control’ in Andrew Sneddon (ed.), A Cultural History of Magic in the Age of Enlightenment (London Bloomsbury, 2025), pp. 109–29
(with Saulė Kubiliūtė) ‘Laumės and Laimės: The Social Supernatural in the Baltic’ in Simon Young and Davide Ermacora (eds), The Exeter Companion to Fairies, Nereids, Trolls and Other Social Supernatural Beings: European Traditions (Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 2024), pp. 233–42
‘Mendicant Missionary Journeys in Medieval and Early Modern Lithuania’, in Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton and Annejulie Lafaye (eds), Mendicants on the Margins (Cork: Cork University Press, 2024), pp. 129–44
‘Ferishers and Hikey Sprites: East Anglia’ in Simon Young and Ceri Houlbrook (eds), Magical Folk: A History of Real Fairies, 500AD to the Present, 2nd edn (London: Gibson Square, 2023), pp. 80-86
‘A Provocative Presence: The Franciscan Friars of Babwell and Conflict with the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds’, in Andreea Chiricheș (ed.), Instances of Franciscanism in England, XIIIth–XVIth Centuries (Florence: Studi Francescani, 2023), pp. 657-75
‘Royal Bury St Edmunds’, in Elizabeth Burke, Dan Franklin, John James and Mary James (eds), A New Suffolk Garland (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2022), pp. 245-9
‘Rookwood [married name Gage], Elizabeth (1684-1759)’, in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (published May 2019), https://doi.org/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.90000112755
‘East Anglian Catholics in the Eighteenth Century, 1688-1829’, in Francis Young (ed.), Catholic East Anglia: a history of the Catholic faith in Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (Leominster: Gracewing, 2016), pp. 93-122
‘Norwich’s Catholic Chapels’, in Nicholas Groves (ed.), Of Churches, Toothache and Sheep: selected papers from the Norwich Historic Churches Trust Conferences, 2014 and 2015 (Norwich: Lasse Press, 2016), pp. 49-60 [out of print]
‘The Catholic Faith in East Anglia: A Brief History’, in Diocese of East Anglia: Year Book & Liturgical Calendar 2016 (Norwich: Diocese of East Anglia, 2016), pp. 81-85
Book reviews
‘The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland by Lindy Brady’, Irish Historical Studies 49 (May 2025)
‘Disenchanting Albert the Great: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician by David J. Collins’, Irish Theological Quarterly 90:3 (August 2025), pp. 17–18
‘Walking the wild side of Merrie England’ (review of Liz Williams, Rough Music), The Critic 55 (March 2025)
‘Lore of the Land’ (review of Ann Schmiesing, The Brothers Grimm), History Today 75:2 (February 2025), pp. 97-8
‘The Church and Cistercians in Medieval Poland by Józef Dobosz’, Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 13 (2024), pp. 155-7
‘Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte’, Agricultural History Review 72:2 (2024), pp. 311-12
‘Tory Utopias’ (review of Blue Jerusalem by Kit Kowol), The Critic, 20 October 2024
‘Reality is Strange’ (review of How to Think Impossibly by Jeffrey Kripal), First Things (August 2024)
‘Common Longings’ (review of Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore), History Today 74:8 (August 2024), pp. 103-104
‘Stranger Things’ (review of Magus by Anthony Grafton), History Today 74:3 (March 2024), pp. 102-103
‘Holy Ghosts: Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny, edited by Fiona Snailham‘, Folk Life: Journal of Ethnological Studies 62:1 (2023), pp. 71-2
‘History Takes Flight’ (review of Carlos Eire, They Flew), First Things (November 2023)
‘Witchcraft on the World’s Edge (review of Malcolm Gaskill, The Ruin of All Witches)’, First Things (December 2022)
‘A History of Christian Conversion by David W. Kling’, ARYS 20 (2022), pp. 525-7
‘The Real History of Paganism (review of Ronald Hutton, Queens of the Wild)’, First Things (June 2022)
‘The Making of Christian England (review of Marc Morris, The Anglo-Saxons)’, First Things (December 2021)
‘Wolsey by Glenn Richardson’, British Catholic History 35 (2021), pp. 352-3
‘Disunion Within the Union: The Uniate Church and the Partitions of Poland by Larry Wolff’, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church 21 (2021), pp. 72-3
‘Staging Fairyland: Folklore, Children’s Entertainment and Nineteenth-Century Pantomime by Jennifer Schacker’, Folklore 132 (2020), pp. 108-9
‘Mysticism in Early Modern England by Liam P. Temple’, British Catholic History 35 (2020), pp.133-5
‘Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe, by Liesbeth Corens’, Reviews in History, September 2019
‘Love and Dishonour in Elizabethan England: Two Families and a Failed Marriage, by Ralph Houlbrooke’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 48 (2018), pp. 307-8
‘Contested Reformations in the University of Cambridge, 1535-1584, by Ceri Law’, Reviews in History, September 2018
‘Gonville & Caius College: The Statutes of the Founders, ed. by David Pritchard’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society 107 (2018), p. 3
‘Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression and Legitimization, ed. by Edward Bever and Randall Styers’, Reviews in History, January 2018
‘The Cult of St Edmund in Medieval East Anglia, by Rebecca Pinner’, Folklore 127:3 (2016), pp. 367-8
‘Magic in Western Culture: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment, by Brian Copenhaver’, Reviews in History, September 2016
‘The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West, ed. by David J. Collins’, Journal of Jesuit Studies 3:2 (2016), pp. 332-4
‘Martin Delrio: Demonology and Scholarship in the Counter-Reformation, by Jan Machielsen’, Reviews in History, May 2015
‘Archbishop Pole, by John Edwards’, Reviews in History, August 2014
‘Jessica Martin and Alec Ryrie (eds), Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain‘, Anaphora 8.1 (2014), pp. 74-77
‘Brian P. Levack, The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West‘, History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, June 2014
‘Laura Sangha, Angels and Belief in England, 1480-1700‘, History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, April 2014
‘Victorian Protestantism and Bloody Mary: the Legacy of Religious Persecution in Tudor England. By Peter Wickins’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 43 (2013), pp. 120-1
Obituaries
‘Joy Rowe FSA, 1926-2020’, British Catholic History 36:1 (2022), pp. 2-4
Magazine articles
‘The return of the strong gods?’, The Critic, 18 October 2025
‘St. George’s Cross, Flag of the People’, First Things, 8 September 2025
‘Gods at the Margins’, History Today 75:7 (July 2025), pp. 28-39
‘What could be better than an English county show?’, The Spectator, 3 June 2025
‘An Earthy History of the British Gnome’, Hellebore 13 (Beltane 2025), pp. 42-53
‘How Shrove Tuesday inspired the animal welfare movement’, The Spectator, 27 February 2025
‘How Santa Came to Recruit his Elves’, The Spectator, 24 December 2024
‘The Surprisingly Recent Invention of Friday the Thirteenth’, The Spectator, 13 December 2024
‘Halloween Fairies’, The Spectator, 26 October 2024, p. 52
‘Elizabeth Inchbald, Inventor of the Catholic Novel’, First Things, 26 September 2024
‘Words Lost in the Forest: The Strange Case of “Pagan Dialects from Narew”,’ Deep Baltic, 22 May 2024
‘England’s Forgotten Easter Traditions’, The Spectator, 31 March 2024
‘The Benedictine Revolution’, Medieval World 10 (March 2024), pp. 28-33
‘Intangible Benefits for Intangible Heritage?’, The Critic, 9 February 2024
‘Lead and Brass’, The Lamp 21 (Lent 2024), pp. 8-10
‘Britain’s Christmas “Hobby Horse” Customs’, The Critic, 26 December 2023
‘Christmas Traditions and the Lost Practice of “Mumming”,’ The Spectator, 25 December 2023
‘The Ancient Roots of Christmas Ghost Stories’, The Spectator, 24 December 2023
‘The Ministry of Justice is Engaged in Historical Vandalism’, The Spectator, 19 December 2023
‘The Meaning of the Multi-Faith Area’, The Critic, 27 November 2023
‘Folklore in Penelope Lively’s The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy‘, FLS News 101 (November 2023), pp. 11-13
‘The Anarchy of Bonfire Night’, The Spectator, 5 November 2023
‘The Message in the King’s New Coins’, The Spectator, 16 October 2023
‘Sycamore Gap and Britain’s Sacred Trees’, The Critic, 1 October 2023
‘We need an English folk revival’, The Spectator, 8 September 2023
‘Perkunas in Kent: Eastern European “Native Faith” Movements in the UK’, The Critic, 15 August 2023
‘The Mystery of the Baltic God in Kent’, The Spectator, 13 August 2023
‘Fairy Origins’, Fortean Times 434 (August 2023), pp. 38-41
‘The Wars of the Roses and the Problem with Private Armies’, Engelsberg Ideas, 26 June 2023
‘King Alfred’s Nun-daughter’, The Catholic Herald, 15 May 2023
‘Coronation in High Definition: Confronting the Mysteries of a Sacred Institution’, The Critic, 8 May 2023
‘How the Ancient Rites of the Coronation Survived’, The Spectator, 6 May 2023
‘Remembering and Forgetting’, The House, 6 May 2023
‘The Ancient Royal Magic of Coronation’, First Things, 5 May 2023
‘Monarchy Re-enchanted’, The Critic, 4 May 2023
‘Strange Pilgrimages’, Hellebore 9 (Beltane 2023), pp. 33-41
‘Ritual, Not Pageantry: Understanding the Coronation’, The Critic, 28 April 2023
‘Does King Charles’ Green Man make him a Pagan?’ The Spectator, 6 April 2023
‘The Catholic Conundrum’, History Today 73:2 (February 2023), pp. 40-7
‘Excellent Women’, The Catholic Herald (January 2023), pp. 38-9
‘Is Christmas Really a Pagan Festival?’, The Spectator, 23 December 2023
‘Glimpsing Sacred Nature in European Paganism’, Cunning Folk 5 (Autumn 2022), pp. 116-19
‘Folklore For All’, Hellebore 7 (May 2022)
‘Catholics join ecumenical celebration of St Edmunds Abbey’, The Catholic Herald (May 2022)
‘Apotropaic Magic in South Cambridgeshire?’, FLS News 96 (February 2022), pp. 12-13
‘Lore of the Land: A History of Britain’s Folklore’, BBC History Magazine (February 2022)
‘The History of Christmas Ghost Stories’, First Things (December 2021)
‘Remember, Remember’, Hellebore 6 (Samhain 2021)
‘An Unlikely Saviour’, Leaven 1:4 (October/November 2021)
‘A Brief History of Exorcism in England’, The Christian Parapsychologist 2 (2021), pp. 4-11
‘Mysteries of the hidden oratory’, The Catholic Herald 6615 (July 2021)
‘Christianity on Hadrian’s Wall’, The Catholic Herald 6609 (December 2020)
‘Readers in the Eastern Churches’, Transforming Ministry 120:4 (Winter 2020), pp. 17-18
‘Latin in Lockdown: Reviving the Liber Precum Publicarum‘, The Prayer Book Today 15 (Michaelmas 2020), pp. 11-12
‘The Woman Who Inspired Wicca’, First Things (August 2020)
‘A Glimpse of a Saint’s Elusive Intellectual World’, The Catholic Herald 6606 (September 2020), pp. 58-9
‘St Edmund: Patron Saint of Ireland?’, History Ireland 28:4 (July/August 2020), pp. 18-20
‘The last lockdown: 13th-century England’s six years without Mass’, The Catholic Herald 6601 (10 April 2020)
‘How plague shaped a great historian’, The Catholic Herald 6599 (20 March 2020)
‘St Eanswythe helps dispel the anti-Catholic myth of relic fraud’, The Catholic Herald 6598 (13 March 2020)
‘Making Medieval Ireland English’, History Today 70:3 (March 2020), pp. 18-20
‘The Myth of Medieval Paganism’, First Things 300 (February 2020), pp. 12-14
‘What this stone church reveals about early English Christianity’,The Catholic Herald 6931 (6 September 2019)
‘Readers in Ecumenical Perspective’, The Reader 119:3 (Autumn 2019), pp. 26-7
(with Michael Rear), ‘Was the original Walsingham statue really destroyed – or is it in the V&A?’, The Catholic Herald 6925 (26 July 2019), pp. 22-3
‘Anglican Exorcism: How The Church of England Returned to Casting Out Devils’, Paranormal Review 88 (Autumn 2018), pp. 14-17
‘St Edmund the Viking Saint’, History Today 68:9 (September 2018), pp. 18-20
‘1866 And All That: the origins of Reader Ministry in the Church of England’, The Reader 115:2 (Summer 2016), pp. 12-13
‘The Catholic Prisoners in Wisbech Castle, 1581-1616’, Wisbech Society Annual Review 76 (2015), pp. 19-26
‘The Dangers of Spiritualism: The Roman Catholic Church’s Campaign against Spiritualism during and after the First World War’, Paranormal Review 71 (2014), pp. 18-20
‘A Philosophical Defence of Monarchy’, Philosophy at Cambridge 11 (May 2014), pp. 7-8
‘How did Catholic families survive and flourish under the Penal Laws?’, Catholic Ancestor 14:3 (2012), pp. 105-120
