Francis Young

News and updates

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
Talking Ambrose Rookwood on BBC Radio Suffolk

5 November 2018
Peterborough Folklore at Peterborough Museum

18 October 2018
Talking saints and celebrities on BBC Radio Suffolk

23 September 2018
Legends of Peterborough Saints at the John Clare Theatre

19 September 2018
Visit to Wisbech Castle

15 September 2018
Publication of Possessione, the Italian translation of A History of Exorcism in Catholic Christianity

13 September 2018
Article in History Today: ‘St Edmund the Viking Saint’

1 September 2018
Talking St Edmund on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Making History’

24 July 2018
Publication of A History of Anglican Exorcism

29 June 2018
East Anglian Catholic History Society AGM 2018

9 June 2018