Francis Young

News and updates

Contract signed with Dorling Kindersley

9 December 2025
Guest lecture at Stockholm University: pre-Christian Baltic religion

28 October 2025
‘Silence of the Gods’ at the Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival

10 October 2025
Pagan dawn: Europe’s first pagan state religion in 638 years?

10 October 2025
‘Baroque Epic in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’ at BaroCon 2025

25 September 2025
Publication of ‘A Cultural History of Magic in the Age of Enlightenment’

18 September 2025
Contract signed with Reaktion: ‘Strange Christianities’

30 August 2025
‘Silence of the Gods’ on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Programme

27 July 2025
Election of the 12th Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich

24 July 2025
‘Magic in Merlin’s Realm’ published in paperback

22 July 2025
Publication of ‘Royal Blood: The Passion of St Cnut, King and Martyr’

10 July 2025
King Edward VI School’s 475th anniversary celebrations

27 June 2025
Book launch for ‘Silence of the Gods’

19 June 2025
Published today: ‘Silence of the Gods’

19 June 2025
Latin literature at the Francis Skaryna Library

14 June 2025
Sermons published in the 2026 Canterbury Preacher’s Companion

1 June 2025
Appointment as Series Editor for Cambridge University Press

12 May 2025
‘Religious creolisation in the early modern Baltic’ at CBSE 2025

26 April 2025
Publication of ‘Pre-Christian Baltic Religion and Belief’

4 April 2025
New film: ‘Sea-Drift: A Life of Frederick Delius’

5 November 2024
Publication of ‘Paganism Persisting’

8 October 2024
Appointment as Senior Research Associate at the University of Portsmouth

3 September 2024
Dorling Kindersley ‘History of Ghosts’ published

4 August 2024
The Moral Maze: ‘Is Anything Sacred?’

31 July 2024
Laimės and laumės

21 July 2024
Published today: ‘Poetry and Nation-Building in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’

30 June 2024
Book chapter published: ‘Mendicant Missionary Journeys in Late Medieval and Early Modern Lithuania’

27 June 2024
A medieval miracle at Coney Weston?

13 May 2024
‘Magic in Merlin’s Realm’ on HistoryHit

9 May 2024
St Edmund and patron saints on BBC Radio 4

28 April 2024