Featuring a curated list of fabulous BBC resources, short chats from me about witches and recommended reading, this is a fun podcast-style opportunity to find out more about #witchcraft in #history , literature, TV and film

Today’s favourite archival item: a big suede pouch containing a tiny scrap of paper. It’s a note stating that no timber has been seized by customs officials. A great example of the “Bureaucracy Gone Mad” genre in history #lovearchives The National Archives

Been thinking about this detailed #witchcraft folktale: lincolnshirefolktalesproject.com/2024/02/20/fan… which to my mind really wants some visuals. Any recommendations for an appropriate illustration? #LincolnshireFolklore

This is both heartbreaking & maddening.
The creative industries account for more than £100bn to UK economy, 15.9% of all UK service exports.; there is more production space here than anywhere in world outside of Hollywood. RT if agree!
#supportthearts theguardian.com/education/2024…

Interested in researching the history of witchcraft and magic? The join us to discover the wealth of resources available to you from IHR Wohl Library The Warburg Institute Senate House Library
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Only two weeks until 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴, 850-1000 appears in print (the ebook is already available). It's currently 20% off for anyone interested in tenth-century English queens and the development of queenly office.

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“Sargent and Fashion” Tate - glorious, sensitive, cleverly put together. I wish I’d met these fine and dandy women. Just look at them!

Southwark is full of good history! A kind welcome and surprise sermon alongside Bishop Lancelot Andrewes and cat Hodge Southwark Cathedral, Octavia Hill’s Victorian garden sanctuary for workers and a war memorial for hop traders and pickers

Favourite document of today: I’ve been wanting to look at this for a while. John Lowes, 17th century Vicar of Brandeston in Suffolk, falls out with his neighbours and sues them. Later they’ll accuse him of witchcraft…

Kew - a nice village with a very nice archive The National Archives #witchcraft #history

Come be my colleague please! 🙏🙏🙏🙏jobs.ac.uk/job/DGY958/lec…

Join us for this inspiring interdisciplinary rumination on early modern law, forms, fictions, more - feat. dr lucy js clarke is arguably a 'woke academic' 🍉 Holly Brewer Chloë Ingersent Clare Egan Joanna McCunn , Nandini Chatterjee, Lorna Hutson, Tim Stretton, Subha Mukherji, Lenny Hodges, Ian Williams -!

Happy Easter 🐣 And “WITCH saves Money”! A car boot find this morning: a 1957 magazine advert offering a soot and smoke abater

On the 313th anniversary of the Island Magee witch trial of 1711 at County Antrim Assizes, check out our project website - loads of ways to find out about it w1711.org

“Another messy, confused decline of something Britain was genuinely once good at, which contributed billions to the economy while projecting soft power abroad” - gabyhinsliff nails the government self-contradiction devastating British universities ⬇️ 💔

New blog! This time, Dr Tabitha Stanmore explores witches as parents and the (often harmful) narratives built around them...

On Writers, Witches and Children

#folklorethursday #witchcraft #History Professor Marion Gibson

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Great day filming the next HistoryExtra Academy course on witchcraft history with the brilliant Professor Marion Gibson ! Made some witchy friends while I was there, too! Course begins on 15th April, exclusive to HistoryExtra members… join at historyextra.com/join

We are currently looking for nominations to join our committee. The vacancies include a postgraduate representative, which is a great way to get involved in the society if you are a PhD student researching social or cultural history:

socialhistory.org.uk/2024/02/12/com…

This is a great book review thread on Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials - I love it when readers discuss the book and say what they got from it. Thanks! ❤️

Great 🧵 from daanis on #book Witchcraft: A History in 13 Trials by Professor Marion Gibson

Reason #472,609 why I would not call what we got “an education” so much as an indoctrination in good ol’ peace-making Canadia...