Francis Young

News and updates

‘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
Coronation commentary

6 May 2023
Coronation ordines compared: 1953 and 2023

29 April 2023
Talking Coronation regalia on BBC Radio 4

28 April 2023
Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic now available in paperback

24 April 2023
Magic in Merlin’s Realm released as an audiobook

15 April 2023
Launch of Twilight of the Godlings

5 April 2023
Publication of Twilight of the Godlings

30 March 2023
‘Treasures of the Abbey of St Edmund’ at Moyse’s Hall Museum

17 February 2023
Magic and politics on the Ecclesiastical History Society podcast

10 February 2023
‘Magic and Politics in British History’ at Queens’ College, Cambridge

6 February 2023
Writing Baltic paganism in early modern England / Baltų pagonybė anglų tekstuose ankstyvaisiais Naujaisiais amžiais

26 January 2023