Francis Young

News and updates

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
‘Fairies: A History’: Contract signed with Polity Books

4 March 2024
‘Silence of the Gods’: Contract signed with Cambridge University Press

29 February 2024
Chapter in ‘Instances of Franciscanism in England’

19 January 2024
Contract signed: ‘Pre-Christian Baltic Religion and Belief’

16 January 2024
Launch of ‘The Franciscans in Medieval Bury St Edmunds’

24 November 2023
Folklore in Penelope Lively’s The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy

24 November 2023
Installation as a Lay Canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral

19 November 2023
Haunted Landscape Conference at Conway Hall

18 November 2023
‘Where’ve All The Good People Come From?’ for the Folklore Society

24 October 2023
Talking ‘pagan survivals’ on Wide Atlantic Weird podcast

1 October 2023