Francis Young

News and updates

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
Contract signed with Dorling Kindersley

7 September 2023
Talking Perkūnas on BBC Today

10 August 2023
Foreword for Saints and Sinners on Horseback

9 August 2023
Talking godlings on History Hack

4 August 2023
Article published: ‘A Monastic Antichrist Satire from Medieval Bury St Edmunds’

31 July 2023
Contract signed: Paganism Persisting with Robin C. Douglas

16 June 2023
Contract signed: Poetry and Nation-Building in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

26 May 2023
‘Competing ethnographies of the pagan Baltic’ at Schefferus Conference 2023

24 May 2023
A visit to St Edmund’s Abbey, Hovedøya

20 May 2023