Francis Young

News and updates

Suffolk Fairylore shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award

29 October 2019
‘Holy and Unholy Suffolk’ at the Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival

26 October 2019
The destruction of the Pachamama statues and the history of Catholic iconoclasm

22 October 2019
The face of Abbot Bunting – the builder of St Edmundsbury Cathedral

8 October 2019
Contract signed with Four Courts Press: Athassel Priory and the Cult of St Edmund in Medieval Ireland

26 September 2019
Contributing to Bloomsbury’s Cultural History of Magic

23 September 2019
Why do people laugh at fairies?

19 September 2019
Talking Tudor magic with Natalie Grueninger

13 September 2019
Article published: ‘Edward Kelley’s Danish treasure hoax and Elizabethan antiquarianism’

7 September 2019
Publication of The Secret Disclosed by Margaretta Greene

1 September 2019
Article in The Reader: ‘Readers in Ecumenical Perspective’

17 August 2019
Our Lady of Walsingham? The Mystery of the Langham Madonna

25 July 2019
‘Medieval Magic: Future Directions’ workshop

26 June 2019
Lecture on ‘Magic in English Political History’ at Birkbeck

20 June 2019
Elizabeth Rookwood in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

9 May 2019
Contract signed: Monasticism in Suffolk

7 May 2019
Article in Paranormal Review: ‘Anglican Exorcism: How The Church of England Returned to Casting Out Devils’

1 April 2019
Article in Religions: ‘The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Democratisation of Magic in Post-Reformation England’

31 March 2019
Publication of Bogie Tales of East Anglia by M. H. James

28 February 2019
A manuscript reunion at Cambridge University Library

22 February 2019
Article in Downside Review: ‘The Cult of St Edmund, King and Martyr in Medieval Ireland’

13 February 2019
Commemoration of Mary, Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay

3 February 2019
Speaking to The Ghost Club: ‘”Beware! Beware! of the Black Friar”: Ghosts and the Dissolution of the Monasteries’

19 January 2019
Talking St Edmund on Newstalk Radio Ireland

6 January 2019
Ghosts in the Bookshop – a foray into fiction writing

22 December 2018
Talking Suffolk fairies on BBC Radio Suffolk

29 November 2018
Publication and launch of Suffolk Fairylore

23 November 2018
The global cult of St Edmund, king and martyr: an overview

19 November 2018
The cult of St Edmund, king and martyr in Australia

18 November 2018
Peterborough Folklore shortlisted for Katharine Briggs Folklore Award

7 November 2018