The cult of St Edmund, king and martyr in Australia
Australia might seem an unlikely place to find evidence for the cult of the Anglo-Saxon martyr king St Edmund, but the more time I spend investigating St Edmund’s global presence, … Continue reading
Peterborough Folklore shortlisted for Katharine Briggs Folklore Award
This evening I was privileged to attend the Folklore Society‘s annual Katharine Briggs Lecture at The Warburg Institute in central London. This is the occasion when the annual Katharine Briggs … Continue reading
Talking Ambrose Rookwood on BBC Radio Suffolk
This morning I appeared on BBC Radio Suffolk (listen from 1:33:00) to speak to presenter Wayne Bavin about Ambrose Rookwood, Suffolk’s Gunpowder Plotter. I explained that Rookwood was drawn into … Continue reading
Review: Sacred Britannia by Miranda Aldhouse-Green
Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Sacred Britannia: The Gods and Rituals of Roman Britain (London: Thames & Hudson, 2018), ISBN 978-0-50025-2222, £19.95, illus. If there is anything that gets me more excited than the … Continue reading
‘Exorcising’ Kavanaugh: magic and politics in the contemporary USA
One of the weirder features of the current political turmoil in the United States is the emergence of magic (and now counter-magic) in political discourse. Attempts to use magic to … Continue reading
Peterborough Folklore at Peterborough Museum
This afternoon I spoke to the Friends of Peterborough Museum about the folklore of Peterborough and its surrounding region, the subject of one of my recent books. I have given a … Continue reading
Talking saints and celebrities on BBC Radio Suffolk
This morning I was interviewed on BBC Radio Suffolk‘s Lesley Dolphin Show about the similarities and differences between contemporary celebrity culture and the medieval cult of saints. I compared pilgrimages … Continue reading
