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Author Archives: Ceri Houlbrook

Object Lessons: The Concealed, Revealed, and Displayed

May 30, 2018by Ceri Houlbrook 1 Comment

‘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 […]

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Apotropaia, Events, Exhibitions, Magic, Material Culture, Modern, Project Updates

Getting the Boot: The Magic of Shoes Workshop with Northampton Museum

October 2, 2017by Ceri Houlbrook 3 Comments

‘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 […]

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Apotropaia, Events, Magic, Material Culture, Modern, Project Updates

The Mysterious Case of the Three Hanging Bottles in the Sixteenth-Century Inn

April 3, 2017by Ceri Houlbrook Leave a comment

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 […]

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Apotropaia, Early Modern, Field Trips, Magic, Material Culture, Modern, Witchcraft

Love’s Labour’s Found: An Intimate Archaeology of the Love-Lock

February 14, 2017by Ceri Houlbrook Leave a comment

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 […]

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Love, Material Culture, Modern, Project Updates

The Blackley Boggart at The Haunted Landscape Symposium

November 23, 2016by Ceri Houlbrook 1 Comment

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 […]

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Apotropaia, Events, Ghosts, Modern, Project Updates, Witchcraft

Exchanging Ideas at Special Deposits Workshop

June 27, 2016by Ceri Houlbrook Leave a comment

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 […]

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Apotropaia, Events, Material Culture, Project Updates

Witches, Revenants, and Demonic Hedgehogs: Review of Supernatural Spaces Workshop

May 25, 2016by Ceri Houlbrook Leave a comment

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 […]

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Early Modern, Events, Magic, Project Updates, Reviews, Witchcraft

Review of Ronald Hutton’s ‘Physical Evidence for Ritual Acts’

April 22, 2016by Ceri Houlbrook Leave a comment

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’ […]

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Apotropaia, Magic, Material Culture, Publications, Reviews

Selfhood and the Supernatural at the Social History Society Conference

March 30, 2016by Ceri Houlbrook Leave a comment

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 […]

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Animals, Apotropaia, Early Modern, Emotions, Events, Magic, Material Culture, Medieval, Modern, Project Updates, Witchcraft

Magic in Manchester: An Exhibition at the John Rylands Library

March 18, 2016by Ceri Houlbrook Leave a comment

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 […]

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Early Modern, Events, Exhibitions, Magic, Material Culture, Reviews, Witchcraft

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