Francis Young

News and updates

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
A Ghost Story for Christmas: ‘There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard’

24 December 2020
Christmas Ghosts on BBC History Extra

22 December 2020
Christmas is cancelled! The Bury St Edmunds Christmas riots of the 1640s

16 December 2020
A gimpse of Abbot John Reeve?

9 December 2020
English Social and Local History at Oxford’s Department for Continuing Education

5 December 2020
‘Christmas Ghosts’ for the Churches Conservation Trust

3 December 2020
Christianity on Hadrian’s Wall in The Catholic Herald

1 December 2020
The ‘curse of St Edmund’ on BBC Radio Suffolk

19 November 2020
Friday the Thirteenth on BBC Essex

13 November 2020
Translating the Act of Remembrance into Latin

6 November 2020
Article in Transforming Ministry: ‘Readers in the Eastern Churches’

23 October 2020
‘Macabre Church Lore’ for the Churches Conservation Trust

22 October 2020
‘Spooky Suffolk’ on BBC Radio Suffolk

9 October 2020
Article in British Catholic History: ‘Sir Thomas Tresham and the Christian Cabala’

5 October 2020
Joy Rowe (1926-2020): tribute to a historian

16 September 2020
Publication of Yellow Glass and Other Ghost Stories

10 September 2020
Edmund: In Search of England’s Lost King out in paperback

3 September 2020
Contract signed with Routledge: English Catholicism, 1558–1642 (Second Edition) by Alan Dures and Francis Young

14 July 2020
The face of Abbot Curteys – in glass from St Edmunds Abbey?

9 July 2020
Article in History Ireland: ‘St Edmund: Patron Saint of Ireland?’

1 July 2020
Article published: ‘St Edmund versus St Francis? Saints and Religious Conflict in Medieval Bury St Edmunds’

19 June 2020