Review: This Hollow Land: Aspects of Norfolk Folklore by Peter Tolhurst
Peter Tolhurst, This Hollow Land: Aspects of Norfolk Folklore (Norwich: Black Dog Books, 2018), £20. ISBN 978-0-9954792-5-8. 286pp. Illus. Readers of this blog will know that I faithfully review almost … Continue reading
Review: Gonville & Caius College: The Statutes of the Founders
My review of Michael Pritchard’s edition of the statutes of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Gonville & Caius College: The Statutes of the Founders has just appeared in volume 107 … Continue reading
Article in History Today: ‘St Edmund the Viking Saint’
This month’s edition of History Today features my article entitled ‘St Edmund the Viking Saint’, which makes a case that it was the Danes (or ‘Vikings’) who settled in East … Continue reading
Talking St Edmund on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Making History’
My research on the last resting place of St Edmund featured in this week’s episode of BBC Radio 4’s history programme ‘Making History’, presented by Tom Holland (listen from time … Continue reading
Review: Hikey Sprites: The Twilight of a Norfolk Tradition by Ray Loveday
E. Ray Loveday, Hikey Sprites: The Twilight of a Norfolk Tradition, 2nd edn (Norwich: privately published, 2014), 48pp., illus. Ray Loveday’s Hikey Sprites is a truly remarkable piece of contemporary … Continue reading
Publication of A History of Anglican Exorcism
Today is publication day for my new book A History of Anglican Exorcism: Deliverance and Demonology in Church Ritual. The book is the first to tell the story of exorcism … Continue reading
East Anglian Catholic History Society AGM 2018
Today the East Anglian Catholic History Society (the diocesan historical society of the Diocese of East Anglia) held its third Annual General Meeting in the chapel of Oxburgh Hall, by … Continue reading
