Francis Young

News and updates

‘The Catholic Conundrum’ in History Today

18 January 2023
A return to fiction: Shades of Rome

5 January 2023
Article in The Catholic Herald about the Harpole Treasure

4 January 2023
Short story published in Ghosts & Scholars

11 November 2022
Article published in British Catholic History: ‘Surveying a Field Come of Age’

9 November 2022
Katharine Briggs Award 2022

8 November 2022
Talking Sorcery and the Tudor Court with Prof. Suzannah Lipscomb

31 October 2022
Article: ‘Glimpsing Sacred Nature in European Paganism’

28 October 2022
Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award

17 October 2022
‘The Last Pagans’ at the University of York

10 October 2022
‘Letters of Thomas Hatton from Williamsburg, Virginia, 1758-1759’ published in The New American Antiquarian

15 September 2022
Reimagining Romanitas: Cattle Hill Roman Villa (Villa Ventorum)

15 August 2022
Premiere of ‘St Edmund: From King to Legend’

10 June 2022
Talking Jubilee beacons on BBC Radio 4

2 June 2022
Launch of Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic

1 June 2022
‘Royal Bury St Edmunds’ in A New Suffolk Garland

12 May 2022
Publication of Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic

12 April 2022
‘Merlin, Magic and the British’ on The Rest is History

11 April 2022
Contract signed with Cambridge University Press: Twilight of the Godlings

5 April 2022
Publication of Magic in Merlin’s Realm

3 March 2022
Lithuania and Britain at the Oxford Lithuanian Society

19 February 2022
‘The Last Witch-hunt’ at the SPGS History Conference

25 January 2022
‘Bogies, witches and fairies of East Anglia’ for Oxford University’s Department for Continuing Education

24 January 2022
‘Lore of the Land’ in BBC History Magazine

24 January 2022
Publication of Witchcraft and the Modern Roman Catholic Church

5 January 2022
Article on the Depraedatio abbatiae in The Journal of Breckland Studies

21 December 2021
‘England’s Other Westminster Abbey’ for the Churches Conservation Trust

25 November 2021
St Edmund and the Baltic Crusade

20 November 2021
Launch of English Catholicism 1558-1642

13 November 2021
Publication of English Catholicism 1558-1642

29 October 2021