A manuscript reunion at Cambridge University Library
Today I had the pleasure of witnessing a lost manuscript from Cambridge University Library‘s Hengrave Manuscripts reunited with the collection after nearly 70 years. A beautifully written and bound manuscript … Continue reading
Article in Downside Review: ‘The Cult of St Edmund, King and Martyr in Medieval Ireland’
My article ‘The Cult of St Edmund, King and Martyr in Medieval Ireland’ has just been published in Downside Review. The article is the first study of the significance of … Continue reading
Commemoration of Mary, Queen of Scots at Fotheringhay
This morning I spoke at the annual service of commemoration for Mary, Queen of Scots in St Mary and All Saints church, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire. Mary was beheaded in the great … Continue reading
Speaking to The Ghost Club: ‘”Beware! Beware! of the Black Friar”: Ghosts and the Dissolution of the Monasteries’
Today in central London I spoke to The Ghost Club, the world’s oldest organisation devoted to investigating ghosts, on the theme of monastic ghosts. My talk, entitled ‘”Beware! Beware! of … Continue reading
Talking St Edmund on Newstalk Radio Ireland
This evening Ireland’s Newstalk Radio interviewed me about my book Edmund: In Search of England’s Lost King. On the station’s ‘Talking History‘ show, presenter Patrick Geoghegan asked me about the … Continue reading
Ghosts in the Bookshop – a foray into fiction writing
This evening, in an event at Petersfield Bookshop in Hampshire, a short story authored by me will be read out as one of three runners up in a ghost story … Continue reading
Review: Love and Dishonour in Elizabethan England by Ralph Houlbrooke
My review of Ralph Houlbrooke’s Love and Dishonour in Elizabethan England: Two Families and a Failed Marriage has just appeared in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and … Continue reading
