Object Lessons: The Concealed, Revealed, and Displayed
‘Any idea of value?’. This question was posed to me by the coordinators of the project’s exhibition Spellbound: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, opening at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and […]
‘Any idea of value?’. This question was posed to me by the coordinators of the project’s exhibition Spellbound: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft, opening at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and […]
‘I started work at Northampton Museum in the 1950s, and it was about 1957, in conversation with John Thornton, then head of the Boot and Shoe Department, Northampton College of […]
It’s like the opening scene of a horror film. Kelly Appleton-Swaine, Buildings Conservation Officer for Heritage Lincolnshire, leads the way up the ladders and I follow suit. Clutching torches, we climb […]
This Valentine’s Day, Ceri is hoping to catch some elusive Mancunian love-lockers in the act of locking their love. So she’ll be posting herself at Manchester’s iconic love-lock bridge throughout most […]
Last weekend (19 November) I had the good fortune of being invited to speak at ‘The Haunted Landscape: British Folklore and Ghosts’ symposium, organised by Scott Wood of the London […]
Last week I presented a paper on the ‘Concealed Revealed’ project (see website here) at a workshop on ‘Coins, Hoards, and Special Deposits’, organised by Murray Andrews at the Institute […]
Last week Malcolm and I were fortunate enough to be invited to the ‘Supernatural Spaces in the Early Modern World’ workshop. Organised by Jenny Spinks, lecturer in early modern history […]
Back in 1987, archaeologist Ralph Merrifield asserted that magic and ritual ‘can be studied objectively like any other human behaviour, and archaeology can make a major contribution towards its investigation’ […]
Last week the Inner Lives team assembled at Lancaster University for the Social History Society conference. As well as presenting a poster summarising the project (see below), we also ran […]
Yesterday I was treated to a tour of the ‘Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World’ exhibition, curated by Jennifer Spinks and Sasha Handley. It’s held at the […]