Francis Young

News and updates

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
‘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