Francis regularly appears as a guest on historical podcasts, including The Rest is History, Not Just the Tudors, HistoryHit’s Gone Medieval, the Folklore Podcast and BBC History Extra. Some of his online talks have also been recorded, and this page provides links to a selection of Francis’s recorded talks and podcast appearances.
Podcasts
The Gabriela Houston Project: History of Belief (10 April 2024)
We Can Be Weirdos: The Rough Corner (9 April 2024)
I Might Believe in Faeries: Twilight of the Godlings (15 February 2024)
Thou Shalt Not Suffer: The Witch Trial Podcast: Witchcraft and the Modern Roman Catholic Church (21 December 2023)
That Shakespeare Life: Christmas and Ghost Stories for Tudor England (18 December 2023)
Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding: Where do otherworldly beings come from? (23 November 2023)
A Language I Love Is: Lithuanian (29 October 2023)
Fear and Trembling: Godlings and Supernatural Creatures (11 October 2023)
Wide Atlantic Weird: Fragments of Pagan Gods: Pagan Survival Theory (1 October 2023)
We Can Be Weirdos: The Rough Corner (21 August 2023)
Fabric of Folklore: Lithuanian folklore (16 August 2023)
History Hack: Godlings, the shadowy beginnings of Britain’s supernatural beings (26 July 2023)
Holy Smoke: How Protestant is the Coronation? (5 May 2023)
Religion Off the Beaten Track: The Coronation of King Charles (4 May 2023)
Digital Folklore: Ritual, Exorcism, and Religion (24 April 2023)
What Magic is This?: The Origins of British Fairies (18 April 2023)
The Nathan Eckersley Podcast (10 April 2023)
Angela’s Symposium: Occult Politics in British History (8 April 2023)
Ecclesiastical History Podcast: Occult Politics in Britain (9 February 2023)
History Rage: Medieval Paganism (28 November 2022)
Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning: Lithuanian Paganism during the Reformation (17 October 2022)
Not Just the Tudors: Sorcery and the Tudor Court (31 October 2022)
Tales of Wihtlore: Magic in Merlin’s Realm (30 April 2022)
Religion Off the Beaten Track: Magic and Politics in British History (18 April 2022)
The Rest is History: Merlin, Magic and the British (11 April 2022)
Gone Medieval (HistoryHit): Saint Edmund, England’s Lost King (June 2021)
BBC History Extra: Christmas Ghost Stories (21 December 2020)
The Folklore Podcast: Exorcism (20 July 2020)
Talking Tudors: Magic and Witchcraft in Tudor England (13 September 2019)
Deviatus Pod: Exorcism (2 October 2017)
Recorded talks
‘Charles Bertram and the De Situ Britanniae‘ for the Roman Roads Association, 20 April 2023
‘Magic and Politics in British History’ for Crediton Library, 28 October 2022
‘Lithuanian Paganism During the Reformation’, Razib Khan’s Unsupervised Learning, 17 October 2022
‘England’s Other Westminster Abbey: Bury St Edmunds and its Royal Shrine’ for The Churches Conservation Trust, 26 November 2021
‘Indexing Local History’ for the British Association for Local History, 12 October 2021
‘The Benedictines in Suffolk’ for Downside Abbey, 25 August 2021
‘Christmas Ghosts’ for The Churches Conservation Trust, 4 December 2020
‘Monasticism in Suffolk’ for The English Catholic History Association, 20 November 2020
‘Macabre Church-Lore’ for The Churches Conservation Trust, 22 October 2020
‘St Edmund’ for We Love Bury St Edmunds, 24 August 2018
Online courses (Massolit)
The Tudors – Elizabethan Catholicism in the British Isles, 1533-1603
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