Francis Young

News and updates

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
‘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