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 […]
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Now Booking! Living in a Magical World: Inner Lives, 1300–1900
St Anne’s College, Oxford 17–19 September 2018 An international conference organised and funded by the Leverhulme Trust research project Inner Lives: Emotions, Identity, and the Supernatural, 1300–1900, with generous additional […]
Call for Papers: Living in a Magical World: Inner Lives, 1300–1900
St Anne’s College, Oxford 17–19 September 2018 An international conference organised and funded by the Leverhulme Trust research project Inner Lives: Emotions, Identity, and the Supernatural, 1300–1900, with generous additional […]
Getting the Boot: The Magic of Shoes Workshop with Northampton Museum
‘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 […]
Workshop Report: Approaching Inner Lives: Thinking, Feeling, Believing, 1300-1900
It is now a commonplace for every discussion of the history of the emotions to start with reference to an ‘affective turn’, but the overcoming of historians by emotion of […]
Melancholy Witches, Love Magic, and a Sinister Island: Inner Lives at #isch17
The project was on the road again last week for the tenth conference of the International Society for Cultural History (26–29 June 2017). The event took as its topic ‘Senses, […]
Witch Stones and Demon Dogs: 6 Chilling East Anglian Landscape Legends
Since I joined the project in late 2016, a regular extracurricular activity has been a weekend jaunt from my base in Norwich into the countryside of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and […]
Love’s Labour’s Found: An Intimate Archaeology of the Love-Lock
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 […]
Approaching Inner Lives: Thinking, Feeling, Believing, 1300-1900
Videos of most papers are now available on our YouTube channel! To watch a specific talk, click on its title in the programme below. Tuesday 28 March 2017 Room 0.05, […]
The Blackley Boggart at The Haunted Landscape Symposium
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 […]
