Francis Young

News and updates

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
‘Begone Satan! A History of the English Exorcism’ for the Churches Conservation Trust

28 October 2021
‘The Real St Edmund’ at the Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival

25 September 2021
‘Ancestral Pagans in Reformation Europe’ at the Reformation Studies Colloquium

9 September 2021
30 years of diplomatic relations between Lithuania and the United Kingdom

27 August 2021
Pagans in the Early Modern Baltic awarded book prize

8 August 2021
A secret Norfolk Catholic chapel

1 July 2021
St Edmund on HistoryHit

30 June 2021
Jankyn Smyth Commemoration Sermon 2021

24 June 2021
The Chapel of St Thomas the Martyr, Little Whelnetham

20 June 2021
Mendicant missionary journeys in medieval and early modern Lithuania

20 May 2021
230th anniversary of the Polish-Lithuanian constitution of 1791

5 May 2021
A lost treasure of St Edmunds Abbey? The Douai Reliquary

11 April 2021
England’s first poltergeist on BBC Radio Suffolk

18 March 2021
Contract signed with Cambridge University Press: Magic in Merlin’s Realm

1 March 2021
The ghost of Maude Carew on BBC Radio Suffolk

11 February 2021
Supernatural Sutton Hoo on BBC Radio Suffolk

28 January 2021
Suffolk’s abandoned settlements on BBC Radio Suffolk

21 January 2021
History in Prehistory for Wiltshire Museum

14 January 2021
Plough Monday on BBC Radio Suffolk

7 January 2021