tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71888707812264426362024-03-18T11:06:20.436+00:00London Fortean SocietyWe like to think and talk about strange and excluded things: from ghosts and UFOs to forgotten history and strange beliefs. See below for more details.
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Join at the following link for monthly updates on events, fortean news and what ever we're excited to share with you. <a>http://eepurl.com/hV9OAr</a>Scott Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236379157762055215noreply@blogger.comBlogger225125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-42436422878278658342024-03-10T13:34:00.003+00:002024-03-12T09:13:51.475+00:00The Grand Illusion: Fighting the Nazis with the Occult<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>'...eclectic recruitment to the war effort, strange goings-on in Surrey and a ritual that allegedly took place in the New Forest in 1940 to repel Operation Sealion, Hitler’s plan to invade the British Isles.'</i></span></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Monday 15 April 2024</span></h4><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Doors 6.15 pm</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Talk & Q&A 6.30 pm - 8 pm</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">£9 / £6 cons / £6 online <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173653486" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Advance tickets</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tube: Holborn</span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Directions</span></a></p><p><a href="http://eepurl.com/hV9OAr" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">London Fortean's Mailing List</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/796629658949374" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook event page</span></a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizEihXXb4lcEiesXaRfa7iWNWRYTMizCHRPOQh3SifXrMKton6Es1h3aHMm6w5eYirRIIgxh2tF5RzzI2kRGMRAJ1upD9TnPR8vR3BOWkkmlAGGNpydfzyPG-wRt8LfyzTcE2yCHSOBCUYWh7BA5qLhG8PRV2lQTjpXNx1uRVTXWVzZgFJY-Bqh5h0ZG8/s1024/3452113935_3b493770f6_b.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="1024" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizEihXXb4lcEiesXaRfa7iWNWRYTMizCHRPOQh3SifXrMKton6Es1h3aHMm6w5eYirRIIgxh2tF5RzzI2kRGMRAJ1upD9TnPR8vR3BOWkkmlAGGNpydfzyPG-wRt8LfyzTcE2yCHSOBCUYWh7BA5qLhG8PRV2lQTjpXNx1uRVTXWVzZgFJY-Bqh5h0ZG8/w640-h486/3452113935_3b493770f6_b.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">pentagram on a tree. St Bride's Ring Dun, Near Kingennie by <a href="https://flic.kr/p/6g3ZcM" target="_blank">stuart anthony on flickr</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Many of us are aware of the Nazi’s obsession with the occult (look no further than Indiana Jones, ‘Call of Duty Black Ops’, Hellboy etc). Less is known, however, about what the Brits did to exploit what they saw as a weakness in the German chain of command.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">In ‘The Grand Illusion’ Syd Moore turns her eye on this rather bizarre chapter of history. Her talk for the London Fortean Society will cover the research she undertook to write the novel, including the eclectic recruitment to the war effort, strange goings-on in Surrey and a ritual that allegedly took place in the New Forest in 1940 to repel Operation Sealion, Hitler’s plan to invade the British Isles.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrMjmxmg_KZtZBZS-aUhYcnlQEwrSbp_TTOskKo-ABPmgDr_yBmxog6YRCpw-T3Q7_LzXEY0aTTc2CyZkE0n-INu4apRx_xnSox2bLJrFkdYCLKTUUHPBse7-JwhpBIZ2ipAaT2WvvlMa8SF5hnuDl5I54A0dSfvYN03MJ41c-_qpJzLb5giDpJVRGQOU/s660/emily-schultz-hvqM0yEfTBI-unsplash-copy-660x370.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="370" data-original-width="660" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrMjmxmg_KZtZBZS-aUhYcnlQEwrSbp_TTOskKo-ABPmgDr_yBmxog6YRCpw-T3Q7_LzXEY0aTTc2CyZkE0n-INu4apRx_xnSox2bLJrFkdYCLKTUUHPBse7-JwhpBIZ2ipAaT2WvvlMa8SF5hnuDl5I54A0dSfvYN03MJ41c-_qpJzLb5giDpJVRGQOU/w400-h224/emily-schultz-hvqM0yEfTBI-unsplash-copy-660x370.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Syd Moore is a British bestselling novelist, former television presenter, and activist. Her debut novel, The Drowning Pool, was published in 2011. Her novels are mystery thrillers inspired by her research into the myths from the English county of Essex, where she grew up and still lives. Her latest book, <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Grand-Illusion/Syd-Moore/9780861541607" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Grand Illusion</a>, will be available for this evening.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://sydmoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/syd-moore-biog.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="533" height="320" src="https://sydmoore.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/syd-moore-biog.jpg" width="213" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><h4><span style="font-family: verdana;">Monday 15 April 2024</span></h4><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Doors 6.15 pm</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Talk & Q&A 6.30 pm - 8 pm</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">£9 / £6 cons / £6 online <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173653486" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Advance tickets</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Tube: Holborn</span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Directions</span></a></p><p><a href="http://eepurl.com/hV9OAr" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">London Fortean's Mailing List</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/796629658949374" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Facebook event page</span></a></p></div><p></p>Scott Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236379157762055215noreply@blogger.com0Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL, UK51.519794 -0.118311423.209560163821152 -35.2745614 79.830027836178843 35.0379386tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-90317675337337180002024-03-03T15:44:00.000+00:002024-03-03T15:44:16.771+00:00Hidden Messages (that aren't really there)<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>Tuesday
26 March 2024<br />Hidden
Messages (that aren't really there)</b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo3VPCPbFVi2c8rUsezOKnaIeAszUDcYdoTc-J6uhX9HLzQqlSnBTk3aj04hdiCLoa-OKtpxCuqjLzyFBW_d4vgsnoxERnj_NrbGnVUCV2jnD4qTkEr8zeG44lcomummCQmjCW5HpiJaECADKaQ9tbdsSlayeNX3zeO_VorJ6ctRbNFwu9dfelFUnzR63m/s1536/The%20Science%20of%20Weird%20Shit%20LFS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="787" data-original-width="1536" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo3VPCPbFVi2c8rUsezOKnaIeAszUDcYdoTc-J6uhX9HLzQqlSnBTk3aj04hdiCLoa-OKtpxCuqjLzyFBW_d4vgsnoxERnj_NrbGnVUCV2jnD4qTkEr8zeG44lcomummCQmjCW5HpiJaECADKaQ9tbdsSlayeNX3zeO_VorJ6ctRbNFwu9dfelFUnzR63m/w571-h293/The%20Science%20of%20Weird%20Shit%20LFS.jpg" width="571" /></a></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">One
of the reasons we are successful as a species is our ability to
recognise meaningful patterns in our surroundings, because of the way
our cognitive systems work, particularly the interaction between
bottom-up and top-down processing. But sometimes we fall into the
trap of thinking we have perceived a meaningful message when, in
fact, there is no such message there.<br /></span><b>Prof
Chris French</b></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">’s
light-hearted, interactive presentation illustrates the power of
top-down processing in several contexts including electronic voice
phenomena (EVP), reverse speech theory – and Satanic messages in
rock music!<br />Chris’s
brand-new book </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Science of Weird Shit</span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
based on his years running the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit
at Goldsmiths College, will be available.</span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Venue: The Bell, </span><span style="font-family: arial;">50
Middlesex Street E1 7EX<br /></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;">Door: 7.30<br />Start: 8pm<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: arial;">Tickets (£5/£3)</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b> <a href="https://www.wegottickets.com/event/612491/" target="_blank">https://www.wegottickets.com/event/612491/</a></b> <br /></span></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-78226839113424648992024-02-05T14:46:00.000+00:002024-02-05T14:46:47.121+00:00Haunted London: Ghosts of The British Museum and Bloomsbury<p> London is an old and haunted City; join us for ghost stories of central London. <b>Noah Angell</b> on ghostly sightings at the British Museum, <b>Roger Luckhurst </b>discusses a cursed object in the Egyptian rooms of the British Museum and <b>Sarah Sparkes </b>presents the hauntings and other unexplained happenings of Senate House.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Wednesday 10 April 2024</h2>Doors, books stall, and drinks from 6.15 pm<br />Talks 6.30 pm - 9.30 pm <br />£15 / £12 <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173653019" target="_blank">Advance tickets</a><br /><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL<br />Tube: Holborn<br /><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Directions</a><br /><a href="http://eepurl.com/hV9OAr">London Fortean's Mailing List</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/824385162827448" target="_blank">Facebook event page</a><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHffcCw-gzT-2RbbNA0qOHTcTYirlGOjxW7z2lYr171yG80ei2KVlRp05cdeL5TVvWYtyjjr0i4uAGjP5FTZHeJ-AGy_weXck-76M0MdFjWVcWfliwLQcbeU3fVNbgUTIhPHco176JecUXVSPWCkk1aC1XWki1h36JSMM06PoIgNKZsh12oddbtPH7-R4/s6016/sam-barber-MpyiM0FKxL8-unsplash.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4016" data-original-width="6016" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHffcCw-gzT-2RbbNA0qOHTcTYirlGOjxW7z2lYr171yG80ei2KVlRp05cdeL5TVvWYtyjjr0i4uAGjP5FTZHeJ-AGy_weXck-76M0MdFjWVcWfliwLQcbeU3fVNbgUTIhPHco176JecUXVSPWCkk1aC1XWki1h36JSMM06PoIgNKZsh12oddbtPH7-R4/w640-h428/sam-barber-MpyiM0FKxL8-unsplash.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div><h2 style="text-align: left;">Noah Angell – Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects</h2><p>When artist and writer <b>Noah Angell</b> first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWLsDGZit7EnC7XXMtmYvNqOnR0N694WsTcubXTSpncIXVk9JnqPzj2716yERcOW6h07xLskR9XcPILTixa2NHgfQWKtMY-1KFi9j6BYD6T6USeTWXtORK9GAlE-iLPD57w6eQeD93C040ViWAZWLEJ8twv2jNesskeFtyYRvAVvIQwZ7pqwaqm9w_Chc/s445/51iNZs5aCGL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="277" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWLsDGZit7EnC7XXMtmYvNqOnR0N694WsTcubXTSpncIXVk9JnqPzj2716yERcOW6h07xLskR9XcPILTixa2NHgfQWKtMY-1KFi9j6BYD6T6USeTWXtORK9GAlE-iLPD57w6eQeD93C040ViWAZWLEJ8twv2jNesskeFtyYRvAVvIQwZ7pqwaqm9w_Chc/w124-h200/51iNZs5aCGL._SY445_SX342_.jpg" width="124" /></a></div>had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a landslide as staff old and new, from guards of formidable build to respected curators, brought forth testimonies of their inexplicable supernatural encounters.<p></p><p>It became clear that the source of the disturbances was related to the Museum’s contents – unquiet objects, holy plunder, and restless human remains protesting their enforced stay within the colonial collection’s cases, cabinets and deep underground vaults. Be it wraiths associated with genocides, uprooted sacred beings or the afterglow of deaths that occurred inside the museum itself, according to those who have worked there, the museum is heaving with profound spectral disorder.</p><p>Noah’s book, available on the night, Ghosts of the British Museum fuses storytelling, folklore and history, digs deep into our imperial past and unmasks the world’s oldest national museum as a site of ongoing conflict, where under the guise of preservation, restless objects are held against their will.</p><p>It now appears that the objects are fighting back.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtuw8Ydb0impFzzgE94aYjbfZqrxUcXwibcJoBooWCRpPgOazcYAdoeaO03p9eFwZYsgm_yV5jDSQBjoj-4Q6jxPGx99QhroKaXmklEod9eJG8rKQWR9PRg3LYnyenrwI2yfJrg5wIE78fcamlpL0449LxLZYCin8yT7i2GHZhZe2bemczIUk9HoyJ_g8/s1500/1500x500.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="1500" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtuw8Ydb0impFzzgE94aYjbfZqrxUcXwibcJoBooWCRpPgOazcYAdoeaO03p9eFwZYsgm_yV5jDSQBjoj-4Q6jxPGx99QhroKaXmklEod9eJG8rKQWR9PRg3LYnyenrwI2yfJrg5wIE78fcamlpL0449LxLZYCin8yT7i2GHZhZe2bemczIUk9HoyJ_g8/w640-h214/1500x500.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioc4XsClt9tzm5N2R-AxgtE1hIRGkEopBYheleVms3lLwbFyWeiYGGstpoaZQIE1ccVzsccgsI4Kf1m3fL1EjdeEJRCaTWB6kTcrgPJ6t2uajiSnR-iGWkMQBr3QH6BTPONqjPKnH4qTKgxVKmMTFovNxhkPqsvfA6rDfbBA7K6njzdKIi3_9lIeif1Eo/s900/AmonRaMummy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="675" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioc4XsClt9tzm5N2R-AxgtE1hIRGkEopBYheleVms3lLwbFyWeiYGGstpoaZQIE1ccVzsccgsI4Kf1m3fL1EjdeEJRCaTWB6kTcrgPJ6t2uajiSnR-iGWkMQBr3QH6BTPONqjPKnH4qTKgxVKmMTFovNxhkPqsvfA6rDfbBA7K6njzdKIi3_9lIeif1Eo/w300-h400/AmonRaMummy.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>Roger Luckhurst – The Priestess of Amen-Ra: The British Museum Mummy Curse</h2><p>This talk will take us back to stories about a cursed object in the Egyptian rooms of the British Museum that began to circulate twenty years before Tutankhamun fever. The true story of how the object was acquired by the Victorian gentleman Thomas Douglas Murray in the 1860s and its adventures in London drawing rooms before arriving in the Museum in 1889. The cast of this odd story includes occultists, Egyptologists, theosophists, psychical researchers, stuffed Pekingese dogs, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.<br /><br /><b>Roger Luckhurst </b>has written and broadcast widely on popular culture, specialising in science fiction and the Gothic. He is interested in the odd spaces between science and popular supernatural beliefs. He has previously written a history of how the notion of 'telepathy' emerged in the late Victorian period, and has published editions of Jekyll and Hyde and Dracula. He is also a regular radio reviewer of terrible science fiction films. He teaches horror and the occasional respectable novel by Henry James at Birkbeck College, University of London.</p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;">Sarah Sparkes – The Ghosts of Senate House</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpM85F_34HsFvkWL_VPTmBJ-JlF3WsEHHo438LUwzkhalMjM5asMfLD4Wa-Yz-e-hCFNKGFkIjYWYjRbPJIRsjZNBmEGmiFF44rG0MB1KoDvvdTXYzyhYi2us6ER4akIutOx8oMFZ6GtICElH-lRwnx1dHI_rchCyd7CQV-w2X9ZsB34vknt1TzDCx_M/s640/helpful_ghost_in_the_stack.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="640" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpM85F_34HsFvkWL_VPTmBJ-JlF3WsEHHo438LUwzkhalMjM5asMfLD4Wa-Yz-e-hCFNKGFkIjYWYjRbPJIRsjZNBmEGmiFF44rG0MB1KoDvvdTXYzyhYi2us6ER4akIutOx8oMFZ6GtICElH-lRwnx1dHI_rchCyd7CQV-w2X9ZsB34vknt1TzDCx_M/s320/helpful_ghost_in_the_stack.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><b>Sarah Sparkes </b>will talk about The Ghosts of Senate House, a creative research project, that collects and archives tales of hauntings and other unexplained happenings, centered at Senate House, University of London and its immediate surrounds. Sarah was a Research Fellow at the SAS UOL and also an artist and curator. Her talk will include examples of some of the stories collected by herself and Christopher Joseph as well as actual recordings she collected for the project.</div><p>Sarah will also illustrate how research material was developed into a series of collaborative, public artworks “The Magical Library Presents: Ghosts of Senate House” for The Bloomsbury Festival in 2011 and ‘The Electric Girl’ 2014, for Seance Month at Senate House Library. Sarah Sparkes runs the GHost project which she initiated with Ricarda Vidal in 2008. She is currently painting 101 GHost Stories, inspired by her research.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXShIoQrP8ouhyphenhyphenwQB6WJmAaLIeU56XfXeu3i_h1XmCr-pnPebODf1u0CX0KbqgZpyOcfEUmM4VU8GeR_Ahelx_0XUwtEsI8VilqilUMZTKuakDNw93WtpfRp7-txf-msZQZNDnCi-4yHdOGEkCevOms6BSLUwiHAAQ7q7pI_FQwykbp6LN9LXi0z2hBYM/s397/fortean_ghost_house_london.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="397" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXShIoQrP8ouhyphenhyphenwQB6WJmAaLIeU56XfXeu3i_h1XmCr-pnPebODf1u0CX0KbqgZpyOcfEUmM4VU8GeR_Ahelx_0XUwtEsI8VilqilUMZTKuakDNw93WtpfRp7-txf-msZQZNDnCi-4yHdOGEkCevOms6BSLUwiHAAQ7q7pI_FQwykbp6LN9LXi0z2hBYM/w400-h225/fortean_ghost_house_london.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><h2>Wednesday 10 April 2024</h2><p>Doors, books stall, and drinks from 6.15 pm<br />Talks 6.30 pm - 9.30 pm<br />£15 / £12 <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173653019" target="_blank">Advance tickets</a><br /><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL<br />Tube: Holborn<br /><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Directions</a><br /><a href="http://eepurl.com/hV9OAr">London Fortean's Mailing List</a><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/824385162827448" target="_blank">Facebook event page</a></p><p><br /></p></div>Scott Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236379157762055215noreply@blogger.com0Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL, UK51.519794 -0.118311423.209560163821152 -35.2745614 79.830027836178843 35.0379386tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-89947640632754797132024-02-04T11:38:00.001+00:002024-02-04T11:52:20.556+00:00Sleepers Awake!<p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tuesday 27th February</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Sleepers Awake!</span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehh-WaiNP9tLmAvVm6qYFM76a6H9WYSuEbLnX4k7tbC-ErTYJ2kiJeAAPD0Sc6Hq1-ucsnWZt8QW0WBVMv5ffTQ7IJGXBnbVV091ABRhZUtM95Os6DKzkvOQxLrUveRv1J-rQ36thzuQpV0ufPiiL7Latou14c446_eD0i-4pgOUsX8r0xR6pnxCwswJ1/s1775/The_magnetic_pass,_the_Mesmeric_sleep._19th_century._Wellcome_L0009938.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1775" data-original-width="1200" height="447" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgehh-WaiNP9tLmAvVm6qYFM76a6H9WYSuEbLnX4k7tbC-ErTYJ2kiJeAAPD0Sc6Hq1-ucsnWZt8QW0WBVMv5ffTQ7IJGXBnbVV091ABRhZUtM95Os6DKzkvOQxLrUveRv1J-rQ36thzuQpV0ufPiiL7Latou14c446_eD0i-4pgOUsX8r0xR6pnxCwswJ1/w302-h447/The_magnetic_pass,_the_Mesmeric_sleep._19th_century._Wellcome_L0009938.jpg" width="302" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In
this illustrated talk </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Prof
Roger Luckhurst</b></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
of Birkbeck, University of London, explores the puzzling history of
states of unnatural sleep, anomalous conditions that have shadowed
the rise of modern medicine since the late 18th century. Franz
Mesmer’s claims to put patients into a state of suspended animation
to treat their illnesses with “animal magnetism” caused a scandal
in Paris in the 1780s, even before his student the Marquis de
Puységur began to suggest that the artificial sleep of the trance
state was associated with supernatural powers – mind-reading and
clairvoyance. Such claims delayed the acceptance of what became known
as hypnotism until the 1890s, but even then the early pioneers of
medical hypnotism were associated with the Society for Psychical
Research. </span></span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">More
conventional medicine has tried to explore so-called “catatonic
states”, yet the uncanny nature of artificial sleep has continued
to puzzle doctors, right up to the current rise of teenage children
in Scandinavia who fall into sleep states that can last years, called
Pervasive Refusal Syndrome. </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <b>Date:</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> Tuesday 27th February<br /><b>Venue:</b> The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX<br /><b>Doors:</b> 7.30pm<br /><b>Start:</b> 8pm<br /><b>Tickets £5/£3:</b> <a href="https://www.wegottickets.com/event/608675/" target="_blank">https://www.wegottickets.com/event/608675/</a></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span><br /></p>
<p> </p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-79836176803670277862024-02-04T11:29:00.000+00:002024-02-04T11:29:34.617+00:00<p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL2W2hrx1tj5FBNNBIOVTlTpCFMLi9rlaAjpuyQ_t1qVBvJ7EjwZzAWudvGt7DmXRhIxacERjSINS3hbag7sSUop80w62LyhGzHvv-eevjvcTXO7REVsCvftACSHl_NPxD0ZJVng77eA-__mzUcXfQP0CouaN3CDWkqp1OLDWqKmmoGYmBtsxDGikeXXW1/s216/Aleister%20Crowley%20MI6%20new%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="216" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL2W2hrx1tj5FBNNBIOVTlTpCFMLi9rlaAjpuyQ_t1qVBvJ7EjwZzAWudvGt7DmXRhIxacERjSINS3hbag7sSUop80w62LyhGzHvv-eevjvcTXO7REVsCvftACSHl_NPxD0ZJVng77eA-__mzUcXfQP0CouaN3CDWkqp1OLDWqKmmoGYmBtsxDGikeXXW1/s1600/Aleister%20Crowley%20MI6%20new%202.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apologies to everyone who wasn't able to buy tickets for our January meeting, <span style="color: red;"><b><br />Aleister Crowley: The Spy Who Loved the Occult</b></span>. </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">We sold out very early on. We had a full house, and everyone there enjoyed Richard C McNeff's talk. We're hoping to put a version of this talk on again in a few months' time, so that all those who missed it the first time get a chance to hear it. Watch this space, and our Facebook page, for details.</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-72080394882807745362023-12-28T11:47:00.001+00:002024-01-28T23:18:14.619+00:00Aleister Crowley: The Spy Who Loved the Occult<div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> <span style="color: red;"><b>Tuesday 30th January 2024</b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><b>SOLD OUT -- SOLD OUT -- SOLD OUT </b></span><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Aleister
Crowley<br />The Spy Who Loved the Occult</span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><b>SOLD OUT -- SOLD OUT -- SOLD OUT </b></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJrvrxxF1vPdJj9Qc5s9QMgGMG8ZR2NbLoPubdjtB5wA_sTgc1fJS_87_1eN4s0a27Svn3Hdi6IvvWUWT-W63ZbDul5AvUqhEqCgAwJf9GdyxU_eWlD2KPMblNdmkVsqisGvw7zR6-UhB2_a68O6RkfYfZlcKYKEGFXAp-0I7r33R26XE9h4YkFzHWLRw/s2832/Aleister%20Crowley%20MI6%20new.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2832" data-original-width="2198" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEJrvrxxF1vPdJj9Qc5s9QMgGMG8ZR2NbLoPubdjtB5wA_sTgc1fJS_87_1eN4s0a27Svn3Hdi6IvvWUWT-W63ZbDul5AvUqhEqCgAwJf9GdyxU_eWlD2KPMblNdmkVsqisGvw7zR6-UhB2_a68O6RkfYfZlcKYKEGFXAp-0I7r33R26XE9h4YkFzHWLRw/w380-h490/Aleister%20Crowley%20MI6%20new.jpg" width="380" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><b>SOLD OUT -- SOLD OUT -- SOLD OUT </b></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Mountaineer,
artist, magician, was Aleister Crowley also a secret agent who worked
for different branches of British Intelligence at various stages of
his life? Did this culminate in his interrogation of Nazi warlord and
occultist Rudolf Hess in 1941? </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Richard
C McNeff</b></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
deciphers Crowley’s espionage career as well as taking a wider look
at his role as an influencer, with some very surprising followers. </span>
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">The
author of two novels prominently featuring Crowley, Richard will
separate fact from fiction in his portrayals of the Beast.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Venue:</b> The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Date:</b> </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tuesday 30th January 2024</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Doors:</b> 7.30pm</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Start:</b> 8pm</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Tickets:</b> £5/£3 <a href="https://www.wegottickets.com/event/604335/">https://www.wegottickets.com/event/604335/</a></span></span><br /></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span> THIS TALK IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT</span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span>WE HOPE TO RUN IT AGAIN LATER IN THE YEAR</span><span><br /></span></span></b></p>
<p></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-87472437279556674112023-12-08T10:43:00.001+00:002023-12-08T10:45:41.025+00:00'twixt Xmas & NY<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> <span style="color: red;">'twixt Xmas & NY<br /></span></b></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Thursday 28th December</b></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></span></p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNlcGyYv-Ra44LnB8cgtQqzF6hPzAMlCvwfMb4Svvht7vrPbG0-tKAwRXj_4grmrmRxBJc5XClxs3YcQ2Rm7k4_4fZlQ4sfB1fI12BJQHFgakQAuhTTka3iOhuPV5eMWhBxhP4K8BW7qp3qO-gwxRzZ_cOH9yRWZOoPipQgk5NAEC0x7xpAmgzFSGuDv32/s1200/C%20of%20Y.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNlcGyYv-Ra44LnB8cgtQqzF6hPzAMlCvwfMb4Svvht7vrPbG0-tKAwRXj_4grmrmRxBJc5XClxs3YcQ2Rm7k4_4fZlQ4sfB1fI12BJQHFgakQAuhTTka3iOhuPV5eMWhBxhP4K8BW7qp3qO-gwxRzZ_cOH9yRWZOoPipQgk5NAEC0x7xpAmgzFSGuDv32/w539-h282/C%20of%20Y.webp" width="539" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We don't have a London Fortean Society meeting in December -- but a few of us get together for a drink in that fairly odd time 'twixt Xmas & NY. No speaker, no programme, just a few pints and chat. Regulars and irregulars equally welcome.<br />We'll be in the front room at the <b>Cittie of Yorke</b> pub between Chancery Lane and Holborn, from around <b>7.30 on Thursday 28th December</b>. They do standard pub food.<br />See you there! </span></span><br /></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-68082007520927429252023-11-10T11:50:00.001+00:002023-11-12T16:45:23.205+00:00A New Demonology: John Keel and the Mothman Prophecies<p> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>Tuesday
28 November 2023<br /></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>A
New Demonology: <br />John Keel and the Mothman Prophecies</b></span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVBbIbtCkOuAliBnm1aXVASwTtOUXdKikbFFD715NxKDI4hVS-NqoyB8ZYUJUnoOPIPUeydycYqkNpg_XOjuOtdDqZfq7qbISPly5jD7BYuznGXpKKRezhO-SRdDdq1rOBT9n2DPOK-xwZs-xdOEUBgS-Z4eMozYqQLA-5pQ7yfBKBuxbk3w_jVjjwpQ07/s432/mothman%20london%20fortean%20David%20Clarke.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="393" data-original-width="432" height="525" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVBbIbtCkOuAliBnm1aXVASwTtOUXdKikbFFD715NxKDI4hVS-NqoyB8ZYUJUnoOPIPUeydycYqkNpg_XOjuOtdDqZfq7qbISPly5jD7BYuznGXpKKRezhO-SRdDdq1rOBT9n2DPOK-xwZs-xdOEUBgS-Z4eMozYqQLA-5pQ7yfBKBuxbk3w_jVjjwpQ07/w577-h525/mothman%20london%20fortean%20David%20Clarke.jpg" width="577" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">From
the 1960s the “ultraterrestrial hypothesis” became a popular
alternative to the ETH for UFOs and other fortean anomalies as a
result of the writings of the American journalist John Keel
(1930-2009). Keel’s theories are best known today via his 1975 book
</span></span></span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Mothman Prophecies</span></i></span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
that chronicled an outbreak of weirdness in the Ohio Valley, USA,
that included visits by a winged humanoid (the Mothman),
Men-in-Black, UFOs and animal mutilations. His book had a Hollywood
makeover in 2002 and the legend is now marked by an annual Mothman
Festival in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. </span></span></span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b><br />Dr
David Clarke</b></span></span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">’s
talk is based on an extended interview with Keel during his visit to
the UK in 1992 and the contents of his chapter “The Mothman of West
Virginia: a case study in legendary storytelling” in </span></span></span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Contemporary Legend Casebook 2: North American Monsters</span></i></span></span><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
(Utah University Press 2020).</span></span></span></span></div><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;">Date: Tuesday
28 November 2023<br />Venue: The Bell, 50
Middlesex Street E1 7EX<br />Doors: 7.30pm<br />Start: 8pm<br />Tickets: £5/£3 <a href="http://www.wegottickets.com/event/599621/">www.wegottickets.com/event/599621/</a><br /></span></b></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p> </p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-62098320633475697262023-11-04T02:30:00.000+00:002023-11-04T17:42:21.360+00:00The Haunted Landscape: Witchcraft, Ritual and the Supernatural 2023<p>It’s getting darker. Join us at <a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-haunted-landscape/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hal</a><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-haunted-landscape/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">l</a> as we explore the Haunted Landscape, our annual gathering of witchcraft, folklore, ghosts, and fairies from the British Isles. Speakers this year: Jamie Canton, Nigel Pennick, Dr. Helen Frisby, Kirsty Hartsiotis, Sandra Lawrence, Allyson Shaw, James Edward Frost, and Francis Young. </p><p><b>Live and online.</b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvV_5oEIkAHrndUm-gOqwdwxeaznINGV12T077f47ws_z25TYzejwMey9BQWMH7eY7b2gS_urxCcEGbRbXX9HJkTS6oZN6FnU2eHRvhqgWnk5uV5JFnkcCF45hHhxlZAmicSPWtBWuiZ7IOp4aYDlyjIO05xyNWAZUbKWmAmAtpPTtf3TO4ilJ5tcxGI0/s2048/27968683797_e23e839f6b_k.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvV_5oEIkAHrndUm-gOqwdwxeaznINGV12T077f47ws_z25TYzejwMey9BQWMH7eY7b2gS_urxCcEGbRbXX9HJkTS6oZN6FnU2eHRvhqgWnk5uV5JFnkcCF45hHhxlZAmicSPWtBWuiZ7IOp4aYDlyjIO05xyNWAZUbKWmAmAtpPTtf3TO4ilJ5tcxGI0/w640-h426/27968683797_e23e839f6b_k.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/JBuPha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Spro Mine</a> by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/vlash/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vlash</a> on flickr</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: large;">Saturday 18 November 2023</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Doors, books stall, and coffee from 9.30am.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Talks 10 am - 5 pm.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Lunch 1 pm-2 pm (ish)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">£25 / £18 concessions. £15 live stream. <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173646094." rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Advance tickets</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Tube: Holborn</span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Directions</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A link to all live streams will be sent out to all online participants after booking. </span></p><p><a href="https://blogspot.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b8c6e1eb1af3ac31bf00a56f0&id=30dd6edb27"><span style="font-size: medium;">London Fortean's Mailing List</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1368263133723993/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook event page</a></span></p><h1 style="text-align: left;">10 am<br />Allyson Shaw - Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness. </h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://allysonshaw.com/" rel="nofollow" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJw3D13a1mG16xvFFVh5ZiVdybsG1zSHHlPE3Yy6XOn0jCFbq1Ad36EgT1sCGrLfqhr_LjqtRPXzD0huOZvzMRexaA7iYTjfL767FcAcqLggcaSdc-7rXH4hfdioV9h45DdVzwLp84Gk-eyfd0Pyg1LjqMW3tfZPC5sVN-R0LqzyguCLnxKZO-KZLi74k/w150-h200/allysmall.jpeg" width="150" /></a></div>A moving and personal journey, along rugged coasts and through remote villages and cities, in search of the traces of those accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland. <p></p><p>This is the untold story of the witches' monuments of Scotland and the women's lives they mark. Allyson's book <i>Ashes and Stones</i> is a trove of folklore linking the lives of contemporary women to the horrors of the past, a record of resilience and a call to choose and remember our ancestors. <a href="https://allysonshaw.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Allyson Shaw </a>untangles the myth of witchcraft and gives voice to those erased by it. Her elegant and lucid prose weaves together threads of history and feminist reclamation to create a vibrant memorial. </p><p><a href="https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/allyson-shaw/ashes-and-stones/9781529395457/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness </a>is published by Sceptre Books. It will be available on the day. </p><h1 style="text-align: left;">11 am <br />Sandra Lawrence - As if the sick earth had burst into foul pustules: Fungi in Folklore and Superstition </h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh06M1KRILkdw1DrNf_jOUHvsguLAsNs91I17tym1v1TpxM0o6E8hB7YM3U_Ek7BQHb5ofxPZvUVRFJeIebA272npOanxx3roZuwMBIKxMNOAW3S7D9vLnRMt3UpUyHEjOy4Bx39hPb0dDpTLxqrLeb7ZSgARcJc6H0uedZNrkMIbvnsautJvl19cI8Jp8/s1080/kew-magic-of-mushrooms_j_1_4.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="777" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh06M1KRILkdw1DrNf_jOUHvsguLAsNs91I17tym1v1TpxM0o6E8hB7YM3U_Ek7BQHb5ofxPZvUVRFJeIebA272npOanxx3roZuwMBIKxMNOAW3S7D9vLnRMt3UpUyHEjOy4Bx39hPb0dDpTLxqrLeb7ZSgARcJc6H0uedZNrkMIbvnsautJvl19cI8Jp8/w144-h200/kew-magic-of-mushrooms_j_1_4.jpg" width="144" /></a></div>The word ‘mycophobia’ was coined in 1887 but fear, loathing, and hostility towards the fungi kingdom has been with certain parts of the world since the dawn of humanity. Other cultures can’t get enough mushrooms in their cooking pots, medicine chests, and spiritual lives. What is it about Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘foul pustules’ that brings out such extremes in people and just how old is fungal folklore anyway? </div><p></p><p><a href="https://www.sandralawrence.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sandra Lawrence</a> is a freelance journalist and author, writing, over the past 20-odd years, hundreds of articles; for all the broadsheets and over 60 magazines and journals. She specialises in heritage and garden writing. She is a columnist for British Heritage Travel and on the Q&A expert panel for History Revealed. She is a full member of the Garden Media Guild. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d58553_f072786d48334dcfa90c319b4affbf98~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_363,h_550,al_c,lg_1,q_80,enc_auto/d58553_f072786d48334dcfa90c319b4affbf98~mv2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="363" height="200" src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/d58553_f072786d48334dcfa90c319b4affbf98~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_363,h_550,al_c,lg_1,q_80,enc_auto/d58553_f072786d48334dcfa90c319b4affbf98~mv2.jpg" width="132" /></a></div>Sandra is the author of 14 non-fiction books for adults and children, on a variety of subjects, ranging from history) via myths, legends and folklore (including Myths & Legends, 360 Degrees, 2017; An Atlas of Heroes, Templar, 2018 and An Atlas of Monsters, Templar, 2019) and quirky heritage (Paperscapes: Paris, Welbeck, 2019; Paperscapes: London, Welbeck 2019). <p></p><p><a href="https://shop.kew.org/magic-of-mushrooms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Magic of Mushrooms: Fungi in folklore, superstition and Traditional Medicine </a>was published in 2022 by Welbeck will be available on the day. </p><p><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;">11.45 am</h1><h1 style="text-align: left;">Kirsty Hartsiotis - Ghosts of the Cotswold and Wiltshire Landscape </h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ8l358I_JG8ooLv4_x29JjKkTvKG6SRXulzHeCIcbtCNUVZZ6oV_2VMLWupLcyU909yCfXsasabp5SuTyZddzdmRfWZABPMnrP_0sZLlVjMdDbyjk1untswaKFJgwuM-THjEJPTzRdjItaCSSQYWeMHKC4gab5eK9tlzwX5LUiC_FRYVqSKIsqPrgEw0/s1571/Kirsty+Hartsiotis.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="1571" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ8l358I_JG8ooLv4_x29JjKkTvKG6SRXulzHeCIcbtCNUVZZ6oV_2VMLWupLcyU909yCfXsasabp5SuTyZddzdmRfWZABPMnrP_0sZLlVjMdDbyjk1untswaKFJgwuM-THjEJPTzRdjItaCSSQYWeMHKC4gab5eK9tlzwX5LUiC_FRYVqSKIsqPrgEw0/w320-h209/Kirsty+Hartsiotis.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div>Storyteller <a href="https://www.kirstyhartsiotis.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kirsty Hartsiotis</a> explores the haunted landscape of the West Country. Hear of fields haunted by a slew of Civil War ghosts and the prehistoric and Tudor hauntings in Wiltshire. Kirsty presents Kirsty will discuss more recent sightings and look at how the ghosts are related to their specific landscapes, and how the physical landscape and history affect ghosts. </div><p>Raised in East Anglia, Kirsty's lived in the East, North and West of England, as well as in Italy and Greece. She's a storyteller, writer, speaker, and a part-time museum curator. She is the author of numerous books including <a href="https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/wiltshire-folk-tales/9780752457369/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wiltshire Folk Tales</a> and <a href="https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/suffolk-ghost-tales/9780750970099/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Suffolk Ghost Tales</a> (History Press) which will be, among other books, available on the day. </p><p><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: left;">12.15 am<br />Dr Helen Frisby - The Sin-eater: lives and afterlives </h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68q3jy22Vmmgunn2RxI4bABC2JfPVFl3fcF2R2XoH1Uv4SlIqh38w9ktzM1FP5-N1GTGK79EdVwJlZnEkqLJYjZ1icjL665JrKMx8pOy2Nj8Yo9dtf-ZsuLl_D5Tmxh1cQJWC7SsiYDlqKzbUgk1ElltExWzg1vcWu5YpNwzpicliQec89ddtZWCsJDE/s500/9781784423773.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="351" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg68q3jy22Vmmgunn2RxI4bABC2JfPVFl3fcF2R2XoH1Uv4SlIqh38w9ktzM1FP5-N1GTGK79EdVwJlZnEkqLJYjZ1icjL665JrKMx8pOy2Nj8Yo9dtf-ZsuLl_D5Tmxh1cQJWC7SsiYDlqKzbUgk1ElltExWzg1vcWu5YpNwzpicliQec89ddtZWCsJDE/s320/9781784423773.jpg" width="225" /></a></div>A sin-eater was a ‘long, leane, ugly, lamentable poor raskal’ (Aubrey, 1687) who, by eating a special meal over the coffin, consumed a dead person’s sins and thus helped them enter heaven. In this talk <b>Dr Helen Frisby </b>surveys the historical evidence for this fascinating old funerary character and their mysterious rituals in service of the souls of the dead. As it turns out, things aren’t quite what they might first seem - but Helen will suggest that it’s the sin-eater’s very elusiveness within the historical record that has enabled them to rise again in present-day film, TV and literature. <p></p><p>Helen has taught history at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and funeral directing at the University of Bath. She is Secretary of the <a href="https://deathandsociety.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Association for the Study of Death and Society</a>, and a Council Member and Trustee of the <a href="https://folklore-society.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Folklore Society</a>. Helen has previously appeared on BBC Radio and The History Channel and continues to research a range of topics relating to death, funerals, and bereavement, past and present. </p><h1 style="text-align: left;">2 pm<br />James Edward Frost - The Kentish Hooden Horse </h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx96iyMvDdb9T13bjNnirGIUKrdJmMtD3rJri3JMi2GgADYrzb6XdAD4x9GVVhnCCScgOOVqHuDJuJ0ybtRwOR9im9_Ac-RygIRnyZaVxKbXi0Mo9UuVVOfLqDiAEhynbLzlH3XtQlVMPnenkbatU4s5rxzOnIhDOfZK5mX95wzVMBrp-v8an18yWPpSc/s668/e08ba6_95a4ec3ff1004348868b4b821cb4ce45~mv2_d_3264_4928_s_4_2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="668" data-original-width="442" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx96iyMvDdb9T13bjNnirGIUKrdJmMtD3rJri3JMi2GgADYrzb6XdAD4x9GVVhnCCScgOOVqHuDJuJ0ybtRwOR9im9_Ac-RygIRnyZaVxKbXi0Mo9UuVVOfLqDiAEhynbLzlH3XtQlVMPnenkbatU4s5rxzOnIhDOfZK5mX95wzVMBrp-v8an18yWPpSc/s320/e08ba6_95a4ec3ff1004348868b4b821cb4ce45~mv2_d_3264_4928_s_4_2.jpg" width="212" /></a></div>Hoodening is an ancient calendar custom unique to East Kent, involving a wooden horse's head on a pole, carried by a man concealed by a sack. The earliest reliable record is from 1735, but little serious research had gone into the tradition between Percy Maylam's seminal work The Hooden Horse, published in 1909, and George Frampton's 2018 update, Discordant Comicals. <p></p><p><a href="https://www.jamesedwardfrost.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Edward Frost</a> describes what hoodening was, what the hooden horse is. He covers historical records and artifacts, revival groups, 'Autohoodening' performances which reimagine the old tradition in a modern context, and related practices such as the Mari Lwyd, Obby Osses, various northern beasts, and stag guising. James hopes to bring a hooden horse with him for a demonstration on the day. </p><p>James is a Lecturer in Performing Arts at Canterbury Christ Church University, as well as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He curated an exhibition at Maidstone Museum on the Hooden Horse and is the author of <a href="https://ozaru.net/ozarubooks/animal-guising.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Animal Guising and the Kentish Hooden Horse: An Exhibition at Maidstone Museum</a> (Ozaru Books) which will be available on the day. </p><h1 style="text-align: left;">2.30 pm<br />Jeremy Harte - When Saint's Go Bad</h1><p>You didn’t mess with medieval saints. On earth, they may have turned the other cheek, but that was</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0aUmhc8_NU3ZeucdcoZ2zcJAjJiXf9yaPTK9lPFgUehL78guDT1sONlcdeVYqWaYkumQyj1ExIlS4FUXqxUcBwWotI0v8NSLiHQUA13pJLJvNaiekUerbfYZQF19yBinNIA9Hb0Zwqg4KAc57qTzHyZEweLbpNydv2iP4EiwBUiGjAkbh9EqE2KO1am4/s225/Jeremy%20Harte%20Conway%20Hall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0aUmhc8_NU3ZeucdcoZ2zcJAjJiXf9yaPTK9lPFgUehL78guDT1sONlcdeVYqWaYkumQyj1ExIlS4FUXqxUcBwWotI0v8NSLiHQUA13pJLJvNaiekUerbfYZQF19yBinNIA9Hb0Zwqg4KAc57qTzHyZEweLbpNydv2iP4EiwBUiGjAkbh9EqE2KO1am4/w200-h200/Jeremy%20Harte%20Conway%20Hall.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>then… and this was the twelfth century, with shrines at risk of pillage and robber barons on the prowl. If the earth opened up and swallowed some hired thugs, it was no more than they deserved. <p></p><p>The saints jealously guarded their personal space and time, blinding intruders who broke into shrines and crippling labourers who worked on feast days, while the oxen commanded to plough on a saint’s holiday would run mad and gore the farmhands. </p><p>From their seat in Heaven, all nature was at the saints’ command:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzRcHq61fY0rs-qTdfRQqYMZCLg4WUqGvaOzptPxhf-QQ-l5y56yHX_ACC5XuzFzNvOT9yRugWzj3ZRkd9YKzZFCgqSSXiOudsX4M5ChxxFwCki2Bx_0I7aOwkVM0ZvWjLud4TkbvlApCZP-WHkrau5qQ41fanSeHxeGkn636dWHhUi6PFxmZaf_UkInA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="250" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzRcHq61fY0rs-qTdfRQqYMZCLg4WUqGvaOzptPxhf-QQ-l5y56yHX_ACC5XuzFzNvOT9yRugWzj3ZRkd9YKzZFCgqSSXiOudsX4M5ChxxFwCki2Bx_0I7aOwkVM0ZvWjLud4TkbvlApCZP-WHkrau5qQ41fanSeHxeGkn636dWHhUi6PFxmZaf_UkInA=w141-h200" width="141" /></a></div>lightning and earthquake quelled national enemies and armies of rats were sent to gnaw the provisions and occasionally persons of unbelievers. Even pious curiosity was penalised; many an abbot died for letting daylight in on the bodies of the mighty dead without due reverence. <p></p><p>Tender to the sparrows that nested in their church and the ducks that waddled round their hermitage, they were hard on men and women, especially women. Newly returned and (so far) unharmed from scholarly pilgrimage to Edmund, Æthelthryth, Modwenna, Cuthbert and Ive, <b>Jeremy Harte</b> looks at the mean side of the meek.</p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h1><h1 style="text-align: left;">3.15 pm<br />Francis Young - The Origin of British Fairies </h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtlkWzK5xAgwLG-rlX5EUI3TbhVYKBrVrxVTCXYMfcHf7B_iF6TFjKbNVEJAdwa4Yuz05shTnFFsw1trNLEL_6wd9FsLNXKhzV2AMiOngv4MkT2Q_L62AnDnkgYutLMfpfemg25NZFW4VI4BLg5OFSKLOT9FEqaowegM3sOc7EOAJb6Yn0crRemjuCHU/s932/1009330365.01.S001.LXXXXXXX.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="932" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijtlkWzK5xAgwLG-rlX5EUI3TbhVYKBrVrxVTCXYMfcHf7B_iF6TFjKbNVEJAdwa4Yuz05shTnFFsw1trNLEL_6wd9FsLNXKhzV2AMiOngv4MkT2Q_L62AnDnkgYutLMfpfemg25NZFW4VI4BLg5OFSKLOT9FEqaowegM3sOc7EOAJb6Yn0crRemjuCHU/w129-h200/1009330365.01.S001.LXXXXXXX.jpg" width="129" /></a></div><br />A bold and field-defining exploration of the cultural and religious origins of Britain's fairies and other supernatural beings. <p></p><p>Throughout the recorded history of Britain, belief in earthbound spirits presiding over nature, the home, and human destiny has been a feature of successive cultures. From the localised deities of Britannia to the Anglo-Saxons' elves and the fairies of late medieval England, Britain's godlings have populated a shadowy, secretive realm of ritual and belief running parallel to authorised religion. <a href="https://drfrancisyoung.com/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Francis Young</a> argues that accreted cultural assumptions must be cast aside to understand the godlings – including the cherished idea that these folkloric creatures are the decayed remnants of pagan gods and goddesses. He traces Britain's 'small gods' to a popular religiosity-influenced classical learning. It offers an exciting new way of grasping the island's most mysterious mythical inhabitants. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://francisyoung.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/profile-bw.jpeg?w=768" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://francisyoung.files.wordpress.com/2021/07/profile-bw.jpeg?w=768" width="150" /></a></div>Francis’s book <i>Twilight of the Godlings</i> delves deep into the elusive history of these supernatural beings, tracing their evolution from the pre-Roman Iron Age to the end of the Middle Ages. <p></p><p>Francis Young has written eighteen previous books in the fields of folklore and the history of religion and supernatural belief, including – most recently – <i>Magic in Merlin's Realm</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2022). A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he teaches courses on history, myth and religion for the Department for Continuing Education in the University of Oxford. <a href="https://www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk/products/twilight-of-the-godlings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twilight of the Godlings</a> (Cambridge University Press 2023) will be available on the day. </p><h1 style="text-align: left;">4.15 pm<br />James Canton - Grounded: A Journey Into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors </h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUoca3stNIdUSUGGucCUhjjy7th54g9S0B-MUsgOVbg1-2PF2vTwbr6fF-_Ju55mLpUH0WvYNw0VRo8B_E1y7KcR-0NALvUYOwILhbmsibhK2_vgEtrn4vCNeDdgd30DMAsQW-2a9aks-LthPD9bFKcCSv3GmPQQr5fTUbNYc-QAEjJ2E26L9QyT_nHg/s2598/getimage.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2598" data-original-width="1630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUoca3stNIdUSUGGucCUhjjy7th54g9S0B-MUsgOVbg1-2PF2vTwbr6fF-_Ju55mLpUH0WvYNw0VRo8B_E1y7KcR-0NALvUYOwILhbmsibhK2_vgEtrn4vCNeDdgd30DMAsQW-2a9aks-LthPD9bFKcCSv3GmPQQr5fTUbNYc-QAEjJ2E26L9QyT_nHg/w202-h320/getimage.jpg" width="202" /></a></div>When <a href="https://jamescanton.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Canton</a> walked into Suffolk's Lindsey Chapel, it was the beginning of what would become a new journey in his life. Inside the chapel, Canton realized that his past cosmopolitan desires had been replaced by an intense yearning to understand the history of the place he called home, a burning curiosity about the past, and the spiritual ways and beliefs of the people who came before us. <p></p><p>In his book <a href="https://canongate.co.uk/books/3973-grounded-a-journey-into-the-landscapes-of-our-ancestors/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grounded</a>, Canton retraces his steps into the places where our ancestors have experienced profound emotion, otherwise known as numinous experiences, to help us better understand who we are. Through lyrical meditation, reflection, and a thoughtful consideration of the ways and beliefs of the people who came before us, Canton seeks to know what our ancestors considered to be human, and what lessons we can learn from them to find security in our contemporary selves. Steeped in literary and folklore references, <i>Grounded</i> is a powerful exploration of the power of nature to soothe, nourish, and inspire the human soul. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbnj3UBEtOpbAT5ONo9txsp6XDZlgJL7_3UX8RyZwe8tlKO7-0KxO4Qf40U2YC43PSpYvRvzguAe8HaMF8EM6CFM6DuZXybKvi9YgttqhYskf07hpvBt2-hDJLmtaUGJzVHT4jGNYiRJrJFWHfO_45eUxkU33QdKTXwmAU8ta-LVO0yfHmPuQASsEHVis/s300/getimage14976-james-canton.300x300.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbnj3UBEtOpbAT5ONo9txsp6XDZlgJL7_3UX8RyZwe8tlKO7-0KxO4Qf40U2YC43PSpYvRvzguAe8HaMF8EM6CFM6DuZXybKvi9YgttqhYskf07hpvBt2-hDJLmtaUGJzVHT4jGNYiRJrJFWHfO_45eUxkU33QdKTXwmAU8ta-LVO0yfHmPuQASsEHVis/w200-h200/getimage14976-james-canton.300x300.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Dr. James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and is the author of <i>Ancient Wonderings</i> and <i>Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape,</i> which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the <i>TLS</i>, <i>Caught by the River</i>, and <i>Earthlines</i>. Canton is a regular on British television and radio and lectures frequently. He lives in Essex, England. <i>Grounded</i> will be available on the day. <p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Haunted Landscape</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Saturday 18 November 2023</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Doors, books stall, and coffee from 9.30am.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Talks 10 am - 5 pm.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Lunch 1 pm-2 pm (ish)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">£25 / £18 concessions. £15 live stream. <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173646094" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Advance tickets</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Tube: Holborn</span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Directions</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A link to all live streams will be sent out to all online participants after booking. </span></p><p><a href="https://blogspot.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b8c6e1eb1af3ac31bf00a56f0&id=30dd6edb27"><span style="font-size: medium;">London Fortean's Mailing List</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1368263133723993/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook event page</a></span></p>Scott Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236379157762055215noreply@blogger.com2Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL, UK51.5197922 -0.118336923.209558363821152 -35.2745869 79.83002603617885 35.0379131tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-31951539277341501352023-10-01T14:26:00.002+01:002023-10-01T14:28:15.045+01:00Hallowe'en Special<p style="text-align: center;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"> </span></b><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">Hallowe'en Special</span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tuesday
31 October 2023</span></span></span></b></p>
<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbTQRyw5eTAhXHX1ZFOu5d4OdwR8p86NzHA3E6bEv3onJ-zqOHtKRzyj1VTtrWuYtbfGwS_ZwADXLLcM63KXFDSvYScT-S0ykM7EkwpXP3VorC0MQHdEq7rzb4V5SFarisdbGd_WtmGOht6bheJw_b0-gh24r_RZugJGfxN4oBHCkaKSGjjXix3Q-jhAis/s2121/ghost.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1414" data-original-width="2121" height="367" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbTQRyw5eTAhXHX1ZFOu5d4OdwR8p86NzHA3E6bEv3onJ-zqOHtKRzyj1VTtrWuYtbfGwS_ZwADXLLcM63KXFDSvYScT-S0ykM7EkwpXP3VorC0MQHdEq7rzb4V5SFarisdbGd_WtmGOht6bheJw_b0-gh24r_RZugJGfxN4oBHCkaKSGjjXix3Q-jhAis/w552-h367/ghost.jpg" width="552" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Instead
of our usual fortean talk, we’re delighted to welcome back after 10
years the wonderful storyteller </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Olivia
Armstrong</b></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
to tell us witchy and ghosty tales.</span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Olivia has been a professional
storyteller for over 15 years, telling stories at (amongst many
others) Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, the
British Museum, the National Gallery and the British Library. </span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">As well
as telling us haunting folktales and fairytales, Olivia will answer your
questions about the storyteller’s craft, where she finds her raw
material and how she crafts her stories.</span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
rare opportunity, not to be missed!</span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Venue:</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The Bell, </span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">50
Middlesex Street E1 7EX</span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Date: Tuesday
31 October 2023</span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Time: 8pm (doors 7.30)</span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tickets: <a href="http://www.wegottickets.com/event/595522/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.wegottickets.com/event/595522/</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <br /></span></span></p>
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<p></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-23641939477849864662023-09-08T09:38:00.002+01:002023-09-08T15:38:01.907+01:00The Highest Strangeness -- Richard Freeman<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="color: red;">Tuesday
26 September 2023</span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;">The Highest Strangeness</span></span></b></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpE18UTG6tFwSJKKAbZjsXU3tIpkZ8t_81FoQ1mC0IR9uQIchogu-1AfsiNaq9ld4p0lYt6yhLxXZ2M5w_u48d4cGmUaUlGUPPo-C_MgSjDe5-RkhV3bvNa4rujEEjVfOHIiuTLcx6RCl2USuKKeobaDQsQjCpsJwj06k6eSoiyL_pHOYYVNTOSY67eIfM/s2048/LFS%20Freeman.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="639" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpE18UTG6tFwSJKKAbZjsXU3tIpkZ8t_81FoQ1mC0IR9uQIchogu-1AfsiNaq9ld4p0lYt6yhLxXZ2M5w_u48d4cGmUaUlGUPPo-C_MgSjDe5-RkhV3bvNa4rujEEjVfOHIiuTLcx6RCl2USuKKeobaDQsQjCpsJwj06k6eSoiyL_pHOYYVNTOSY67eIfM/w480-h639/LFS%20Freeman.jpg" width="480" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Forteana
by its very nature is strange. Nobody could say that encountering a
ghost, UFO or sea serpent was an everyday occurrence. Yet there are
some fortean cases that go beyond the bounds of simply strange. These
could be called The Highest Strangeness, cases so weird that they
have even the most seasoned investigators scratching their heads.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Modern
day sightings of dragons, giant glowing ghost crabs, bigfoot piloting
UFOs and haunting houses like ghosts, bubbling, stinking, crawling
phantom trees, weird little animals turning up during poltergeist
outbreaks, demonic dogs in flying saucers, the town haunted by a
Godzilla-sized phantom snake, fairies in spaceships, organic flying
saucers, balls of light melting people alive, giant worms in stone
circles, pixie and fairy sightings, the giant talking cat with human
eyes that saved two kids from a child molester, and that's just the
tip of the iceberg!</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>Richard
Freeman</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
zoological director at the Centre for Fortean Zoology and author of
</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Highest Strangeness</span></i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
tries to make sense of it all.</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Venue:</b> The Bell, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">50
Middlesex Street E1 7EX</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Date:</b> Tuesday
26 September 2023</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Time:</b> 8pm
(Doors 7.30)</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Tickets:</b> £5/£3 <a href="https://www.wegottickets.com/event/593207/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.wegottickets.com/event/593207/</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-57233507562650697792023-07-27T14:24:00.000+01:002023-07-27T14:24:08.721+01:00<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><b>Tuesday
29 August 2023</b></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Shifting
Realities<br />Myth and landscape in Alan Garner's novels</b></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnIxEgwg2jzzWWdpy85tnUhcdQHkz_w5GgtMvj91hPvJLLPlmJbudY3bYZ1ElYmYrC5w_mzm3SskXlLm3-VCo1-5g02I8WIvHD1SG0zPOVXvnKfImabC4Vsi4l_w0u44YV9-sTfjv5pHB6ZYLMkF1VUUdIyOkPDBR7c3D5xA30sAhVf0gS-7CxoXBTaAaa/s578/Red%20Shift.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="578" height="387" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnIxEgwg2jzzWWdpy85tnUhcdQHkz_w5GgtMvj91hPvJLLPlmJbudY3bYZ1ElYmYrC5w_mzm3SskXlLm3-VCo1-5g02I8WIvHD1SG0zPOVXvnKfImabC4Vsi4l_w0u44YV9-sTfjv5pHB6ZYLMkF1VUUdIyOkPDBR7c3D5xA30sAhVf0gS-7CxoXBTaAaa/w499-h387/Red%20Shift.jpg" width="499" /></a></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">Alan
Garner has been exploring creatively the landscape of his native
Cheshire for over 60 years; his fictional landscape is a country in
which fantastic creatures from mythology erupt into the mundane
world, communication between dimensions is possible in a supernatural
multiverse and events proceed through the operation of repeated
actions played out across generations, articulated through folktale,
myth and story, as Garner takes his cue from the quantum universe and
the overarching constellations above Alderley Edge. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sue
Terry</b></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">,
who lives 40 minutes away from Alderley Edge and is working on a book
on Garner’s fiction, explores the shifting nature of reality that
emerges through the interplay of history, folklore and landscape
within Garner’s early novels, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>The
Weirdstone of Brisingamen</i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">,
</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>The
Moon of Gomrath</i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">,
</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>Elidor</i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">
and </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><i>Red
Shift</i></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;">. </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Venue: The Bell, </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">50
Middlesex Street E1 7EX</span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Date: Tuesday 29 August</span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Time: 7.30 for 8pm</span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Tickets £5/£3 from https://www.wegottickets.com/event/589055/</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></p>
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<p> </p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-91888408770104347082023-07-15T10:56:00.001+01:002023-07-24T14:43:22.105+01:00<p> </p><div><div dir="auto"><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":rjh:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">*** TUBE STRIKE ***</span></h1></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Although the tube strike has been called off, we'd already shifted the date of our next meeting at the Bell, <b><u>Jeremy Harte speaking on Gypsies and the Supernatural</u></b>, from Tuesday July 25 to <b>Tuesday August 1</b>. <br /></div>Please note that we're sticking with this new date.<br /></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-56181040930937267582023-06-25T10:58:00.003+01:002023-07-18T20:33:31.839+01:00<p> </p><p style="text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Tuesday 1 August 2023<br /></span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Lucky
For Some: Gypsies and the Supernatural<br />Jeremy Harte</span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"> </span></span></b></p><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":rjh:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial;">*** CHANGE OF DATE ***</span></h1><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Because of the Tube strike we can't meet on our planned date, Tuesday 25th July. Instead, both our speaker Jeremy Harte and the manager at the Bell have kindly agreed that we can move to the following week<br /><br /><b><span style="color: red;">TUESDAY 1 AUGUST</span></b><br /><br />NOTE: there will be Aslef action on the trains on the new date, but most trains will still be running -- and most important, the Tube will be running normally. So book your tickets to hear brilliant folklorist Jeremy Harte speak on "Lucky For Some: Gypsies and the Supernatural". Let's have a great turnout! </span></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9188840877010434708" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 520px;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div><div class="x1iorvi4 x1pi30zi x1swvt13 xjkvuk6" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id=":rjh:"><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf xz62fqu x16ldp7u"><div class="xu06os2 x1ok221b"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto"><div class="xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a" style="text-align: left;"></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: #303030; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(68, 68, 68); color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px;">Posted b</span></div></div><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXyCKJdbzI03Sk-sqQpMBUJvw4gmUIK0jShIHfdAKe14qBTWv4MqjcIV6SfA_E1fomQ3d2cRK2PqQtq5NOop16bIGf7B4YTMcUdIIPUr7qQ2PaItF9_sTqkgbatClXZi798n4Ruswn4t6pzGNxsiQcCxC5q8cTS6f65Sevp66_qnJcHS6PUew9rMyGYQW/s1575/Jeremy%20Harte.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1575" height="420" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpXyCKJdbzI03Sk-sqQpMBUJvw4gmUIK0jShIHfdAKe14qBTWv4MqjcIV6SfA_E1fomQ3d2cRK2PqQtq5NOop16bIGf7B4YTMcUdIIPUr7qQ2PaItF9_sTqkgbatClXZi798n4Ruswn4t6pzGNxsiQcCxC5q8cTS6f65Sevp66_qnJcHS6PUew9rMyGYQW/w561-h420/Jeremy%20Harte.jpg" width="561" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /> </b></span></span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some
peoples achieve magical status, some have it thrust upon them: the
Gypsies have done both. Arriving in Europe as an unprotected
minority, the Romany turned their alien status into an art (prophecy
is the trade that needs no tools) and an armour (who would mess with
a people with such occult powers?). Fortune-telling was a seduction,
a charming into shared intimacy about the future, and a way to deploy
the intuitive cunning cultivated by all subaltern groups. <br />Folklorist
</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jeremy
Harte</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">
has spent many years with English Gypsies and was commissioned to
write a history of the community. He’ll be reflecting on two themes
that run through Romany culture – plaited threads of truth and lies
which entwine when people sense the supernatural suffusing family and
identity, yet make a living from the huckster arts of the fairground.</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX</span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Date: Tuesday 1 August 2023</span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">8pm (doors open 7.30)</span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tickets £5/£3 www.wegottickets.com/event/586084/</span></span></b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.wegottickets.com/event/586084/"> </a></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></p>
<p> </p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-18763632896954241062023-05-27T14:46:00.003+01:002023-05-28T13:50:41.963+01:00<br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<b><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Tuesday
27 June 2023</span></span></b></p>
<p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;">
<span style="font-style: normal;">Why
Mystery Matters</span></span></b></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMYqy6AV2h1ge0SKVaRVVFMaw2Is_HF7T7Xof1jrR6M9donfZu4zdMT6iyMbmwTs3Ij9VbhwNe66-XczuAqPkPNIBcdm03zEky4KJJPFMCuNPob5lzO3cENqtJSKACDjVH7hl9y0uHg4GBLO0-lo40AoVWHzxzvp-vA3Zb13OUKEMfghh1XmiEEOgEQ/s1891/Why%20Mystery%20Matters%20pic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1891" data-original-width="1815" height="521" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBMYqy6AV2h1ge0SKVaRVVFMaw2Is_HF7T7Xof1jrR6M9donfZu4zdMT6iyMbmwTs3Ij9VbhwNe66-XczuAqPkPNIBcdm03zEky4KJJPFMCuNPob5lzO3cENqtJSKACDjVH7hl9y0uHg4GBLO0-lo40AoVWHzxzvp-vA3Zb13OUKEMfghh1XmiEEOgEQ/w500-h521/Why%20Mystery%20Matters%20pic.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /> </span><p></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There
are mysteries we don’t understand, mysteries created to entertain
us and life-problems we struggle with, that remain mysterious. Few
people take the time to stop and think of the value of mystery, as a
thing in itself. Lifelong fortean and author </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Neil
Nixon</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
takes us on a tour of all things mysterious revealing a rich and
varied subject offering powers we can all use and a history that is
by turns insightful, frightening, and hilarious. From UFOs to
stand-up comedy and from the history of religion to a psychological
condition where sufferers experience themselves as being dead, this
is a unique view based on a lifetime’s obsession. <br />Neil’s new book
</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Why
Mystery Matters</span></i></span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
will be available on the night.</span></span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Venue:</b> The Bell, </span></span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">50
Middlesex Street E1 7EX</span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Date:</b> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;">Tuesday
27 June 2023</span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Time:</b> 8pm (doors open 7.30pm)</span></span></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Tickets:</b> £5/£3 </span></span></span><span class="bold" style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.wegottickets.com/event/583596/" target="_blank">www.wegottickets.com/event/583596/</a></span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="bold" style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="bold" style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span class="bold" style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b> </b></span></span></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></span></p>
<p><br /></p>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-79145985270190774532023-04-19T15:35:00.000+01:002023-04-19T15:35:58.420+01:00<p><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">The Surreal Worlds of Leonora Carrington</span></b></p><p><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Tuesday May 30th at the Bell </span></b></p><p><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFre6_z0YMtM-jCU4k0hapcv7MNyyavwW_BiWU6jxdDvyLBolTBwy5rPffFsNcTiqd43fVQ0D-bOc0BWR1Cxhfuoyeajo6G7JIQMr67HKVevQZSmyIN3U2Gfyi0cO2CKDOuma3YGNTIeTecZQDOmDjo9O-0_cOwOB8G3EKFQYWgVFSto6GsG46HROamg/s507/14206-IMG_BG_POST-leonora_carrington.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="341" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFre6_z0YMtM-jCU4k0hapcv7MNyyavwW_BiWU6jxdDvyLBolTBwy5rPffFsNcTiqd43fVQ0D-bOc0BWR1Cxhfuoyeajo6G7JIQMr67HKVevQZSmyIN3U2Gfyi0cO2CKDOuma3YGNTIeTecZQDOmDjo9O-0_cOwOB8G3EKFQYWgVFSto6GsG46HROamg/s320/14206-IMG_BG_POST-leonora_carrington.jpg" width="215" /></a></span></b></div><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /> </span></b><br /><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">One
of Britain’s most acclaimed esoteric artists, Leonora Carrington
(1917-</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">2</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">011)
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">was in the vanguard of
Surrealist art. Her themes included feminism, ecology and the
interconnectedness of everything; she had a fascination with myth and
symbolism, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">including Tarot</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Carrington’s cousin </span><b>Joanna Moorhead</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
author o</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">f </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington</span></i><span style="font-weight: normal;">,
takes us through her art, and the many places that inspired her
across Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the US,
and finally Mexico, where the artist lived for more than 60 years. </span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This richly illustrated talk
includes </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Carrington’s
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">relationship with </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Max
Ernst </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">and her </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">friendships
with a host of </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">other </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">artists
including Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and André Breton. </span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Joanna’s new book, </span><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Surreal
Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, is published by Thames & Hudson. For 30% off visit Thames & Hudson online and enter the code SURREAL30 at checkout. Code valid from 1 June 2023. </span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;">Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX</span></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;">Date: Tuesday May 30th 2023</span></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;">Time: 7.30 for 8pm</span></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;"></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;">Tickets: £5/£3 from https://www.wegottickets.com/event/579511/</span></b></span>
Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-27833200511929162792023-02-24T10:35:00.002+00:002023-02-24T13:34:28.075+00:00<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;">The
Croglin Grange </span></span><span><span style="font-style: normal;">Vampire</span></span></span></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;">Tuesday April 25th at the Bell </span></span></span></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyi-rFnlCxyNr-j20fRVYD3csYAVom-d8LiArb0vC_-GAIBVtVTmY3DsRiM_hGlt_EyzXc7-IT_QlzXAsoXrZKJAvSxFg_Ay5deEg9F5_GKSKIf8pTLq_BvGNwXn1mRAkbxCoCRNZKBrkhH0DCzlV0eGRRpCEyiQFazHUNtTfSp7yC29EndY68ZO0ltg/s900/Croglin%20Grange.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="900" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyi-rFnlCxyNr-j20fRVYD3csYAVom-d8LiArb0vC_-GAIBVtVTmY3DsRiM_hGlt_EyzXc7-IT_QlzXAsoXrZKJAvSxFg_Ay5deEg9F5_GKSKIf8pTLq_BvGNwXn1mRAkbxCoCRNZKBrkhH0DCzlV0eGRRpCEyiQFazHUNtTfSp7yC29EndY68ZO0ltg/w550-h548/Croglin%20Grange.jpg" width="550" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><br /></span></b>In
1875, a flame-eyed creature picked at the lead in a window pane to
let himself in to a remote farmhouse in Cumberland. Thus started a
campaign of menace against a young woman: a campaign which only
stopped when her brothers tracked the creature down to its resting
place in a local crypt. <br />
The Beast of Croglin Grange has entered
our folklore as one of England’s very few home-grown vampires. So
let’s take a look at the story see if we can work out what </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><i>really</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">
happened. <br />
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Deborah
Hyde</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">,
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">former
editor of the</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><i>
Skeptic</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><i>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">wants
to know why people believe in weird stuff. She attributes her
fascination with the supernatural to having spent her childhood with
mad aunties. She approaches the subject using the perspectives of
psychology and history. </span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;">Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX</span></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;">Date: Tuesday April 25th 2023</span></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;">Time: 7.30 for 8pm</span></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: Calibri, serif;">Tickets: £5/£3 from <a href="https://www.wegottickets.com/event/573870" target="_blank">https://www.wegottickets.com/event/573870</a> </span></b></span>
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<h1 class="card-title flex-grow-1 font-weight-500" style="font-size: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 0.1rem;" title="Event title"></h1>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-25594029590995629822023-01-25T16:06:00.003+00:002023-01-26T23:40:31.391+00:00<p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>The
Brutality of Spectacle – <br />A Brief History of the Execution Postcard</b></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXVvZb_j6fiDH1EdoHGOzerQnahz06Ik3ge8Qsh-545g6tV1-iPUVkkTr5ebktub3b7JgN-3i6-TO1-YjAJvR-FwE_6iMHxU6ks9xOYnjAnmo8JSQr8hTMHnAPMqemOKzjz7m2u2w3aOzMEKZdPnAG3p8P3YhKoNyy79J3is4M1z0bu4lueCUZufHkqQ/s760/Execution%20postcard.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="760" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXVvZb_j6fiDH1EdoHGOzerQnahz06Ik3ge8Qsh-545g6tV1-iPUVkkTr5ebktub3b7JgN-3i6-TO1-YjAJvR-FwE_6iMHxU6ks9xOYnjAnmo8JSQr8hTMHnAPMqemOKzjz7m2u2w3aOzMEKZdPnAG3p8P3YhKoNyy79J3is4M1z0bu4lueCUZufHkqQ/s320/Execution%20postcard.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Tuesday 28 March 2023 at the Bell</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">We
send and receive postcards between friends and family. But alongside
images of sandy beaches and idyllic landscapes, another kind of image
proliferated in the early 20th century. The depiction of execution
and torture in postcard form was relatively common in the early
1900s, especially in China and the United States, a practice grounded
in Western imperialism. The images on the postcards offered a
persistent replaying of human degradation.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">Conceptual
artist <b>Jason B Bernard</b> and historian <b>Jennifer Wallis</b>
illuminate the history of these macabre souvenirs, including the
ethical issues surrounding their study today.. How can we begin to
comprehend these images? Were they a kind of <i>memento mori</i>? A
deterrent? Or simply revelling in the cruelty of spectacle? </span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Venue --</b></span> The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX (Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East)</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Date --</b></span> Tuesday 28 March 2023 – 7.30 for 8pm<br /></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Tickets --</b></span> £5/£3 concs https://www.wegottickets.com/event/570104/</span>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-29507494053723990252023-01-24T16:11:00.001+00:002023-02-21T17:38:28.531+00:00 The Haunted Gallery: Untold Stories of Art & Magic<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Magic is a dark vein running through the history and practice of art. Join us for a selection of talks and discussions on artists and magic in art. Talks include occult art in the archives of Tate Britain and The College of Psychic Studies, the lives of Madge Gill and Austin Osman Spare, and the making of apotropaic genderqueer deities and how they ended up on walls across Britain</span>. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Saturday 25 March 2023<br /><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL<br />Doors, books stall, and coffee from 10.30am<br />Talks 11am - 5pm<br />£18 / £15 concessions. <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173636783" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book in advance</a></span></h4><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrDf1YGW-43hyXqLAY3Cgxe5JSZ1xyWy_QFqGWMW7jh2uJfJqPUnRxXVMNe1aaGdgF2zG7Km59kyUWIPRsYCbFWKqLdM5vAgZLd0ELjqsy6S7Lu9TAbN_Ej9NuKyQbW6MCxwCLkBFYpUiUJ96ZD8vEHruvQmILDuC3WlrHQVj0ckQV34UGFIwHnGQw/s7377/ID_064MM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5509" data-original-width="7377" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrDf1YGW-43hyXqLAY3Cgxe5JSZ1xyWy_QFqGWMW7jh2uJfJqPUnRxXVMNe1aaGdgF2zG7Km59kyUWIPRsYCbFWKqLdM5vAgZLd0ELjqsy6S7Lu9TAbN_Ej9NuKyQbW6MCxwCLkBFYpUiUJ96ZD8vEHruvQmILDuC3WlrHQVj0ckQV34UGFIwHnGQw/w640-h478/ID_064MM.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic</span></b></h2><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Archivist <b>Victoria Jenkins</b> presents her major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects, and ephemera in the Tate Archive. This talk offers an in-depth exploration of the occult and its relationship to art and culture including witchcraft, alchemy, secret societies, folklore and pagan rituals, demonology, spells and magic, para-sciences, astrology, and tarot.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">She reveals some of the 150+ unseen esoteric and mystical pieces, never-before-seen by the public and</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebTrYThOyoucgtbKpL3oUwWPqJ9nJy4Of3Dtt237m6TENrDoEQNOUFWfIkJBdaf8Y-GLRKKVkeQuhWyc41vdEdCpushuQy7hFys00v6Xs52jtAAg6hHjiiRCayY86oObKxbzj3od9vcLfiWHagCSCUM5eBqKMZL6k-n177UIlPt24ILp8V2UwgZOF/s556/visions-of-the-occult-27225-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="556" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebTrYThOyoucgtbKpL3oUwWPqJ9nJy4Of3Dtt237m6TENrDoEQNOUFWfIkJBdaf8Y-GLRKKVkeQuhWyc41vdEdCpushuQy7hFys00v6Xs52jtAAg6hHjiiRCayY86oObKxbzj3od9vcLfiWHagCSCUM5eBqKMZL6k-n177UIlPt24ILp8V2UwgZOF/s320/visions-of-the-occult-27225-01.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /> brings a new understanding to the artists in the Tate collection and the history and practice of the occult. The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects, and ephemera in the Tate Archive.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Her lavishly illustrated magical volume, <i><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/show-and-share-visions-of-the-occult" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic</a></i> (Tate Publishing 2022), explores the hidden artworks and ephemera left behind by artists for the first-time idea and will shed new light on our understanding of the art historical canon. Expect to find the unexpected with artists such as Ithell Colquhoun, John Nash, Barbara Hepworth, David Mayor, Max Armfield, Cecil Collins, Jill, and Bruce Lacey, Francis Bacon, Alan Davie, Joe Tilson, Henry Moore, William Blake, Leonora Carrington, and Hamish Fulton. For the first time, the clandestine, magical works of the Tate archive are revealed with archivist Victoria Jenkins acting as the depository of its secrets.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Vivienne Roberts: Lost Artists at The College of Psychic Studi</b>es </span></h2><p></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://madgegill.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Ethel-Le-Rossignol-Visions-of-Wonder-exhibition-2-2-768x609.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="609" data-original-width="768" height="508" src="https://madgegill.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Ethel-Le-Rossignol-Visions-of-Wonder-exhibition-2-2-768x609.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Vivienne Roberts is the curator and archivist at <a href="https://www.collegeofpsychicstudies.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The College of Psychic Studies</a> in London where she cares for their large collection of spirit-inspired art, photographs, and artifacts from 1850 to the present day. This unusual archive, along with the College’s specialist esoteric library, has offered Vivienne the opportunity to immerse herself in a wealth of primary material and has been instrumental in helping her curate a series of large exhibitions, including <i>Encounters with the Spirit World</i> (2016), <i>Art & Spirit: Visions of Wonder</i> (2019), <i>Strange Things Among Us</i> (2021) and <i>Creative Spirits</i> (2022).</div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Vivienne’s art specialism is the history of mediumistic art with particular attention to its women practitioners. She has established the websites <a href="http://mediumisticart.com">mediumisticart.com</a>, <a href="http://georgianahoughton.com">georgianahoughton.com</a> and <a href="http://madgegill.com">madgegill.com</a> and her independent research has led to the rediscovery of several spirit-inspired artists who have fallen into obscurity such as Alice Pery and Alice Essington Nelson. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Vivienne is a member of the <a href="https://visionarywomenresearchgroup.wordpress.com/author/vwresearchgroup/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visionary Women Research Group</a> and the <a href="https://britishartnetwork.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">British Art Network</a>.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Vivienne Roberts & Sophie Dutton: Madge Gill and Myrninerest</span></b></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtQIwKnrbPnQl_K96Y5voln2rPwxSJsQYtHS4b3YyuIUNaAPITXAbcxhboKdjaDYksHMucMHO3ajOpVnAbRI4LCi1GdwPQDe5c6ZICJFG7kJtUsWD4_SdbhaZ_9eg75o5ATSH9GklIGwKWQsCWP8p53C2QerjpHFKcPZpJu3cVGMvOu7JHDUu4ejCv/s2048/48537908822_9fed060fd1_k.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtQIwKnrbPnQl_K96Y5voln2rPwxSJsQYtHS4b3YyuIUNaAPITXAbcxhboKdjaDYksHMucMHO3ajOpVnAbRI4LCi1GdwPQDe5c6ZICJFG7kJtUsWD4_SdbhaZ_9eg75o5ATSH9GklIGwKWQsCWP8p53C2QerjpHFKcPZpJu3cVGMvOu7JHDUu4ejCv/w480-h640/48537908822_9fed060fd1_k.jpg" title="Detail from 'The Transformation'; Madge Gill William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow By Goggin on flickr." width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Detail from 'The Transformation'; Madge Gill</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By <a href="https://flic.kr/p/2gX8tfW" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goggin on flickr</a>. </div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Madge Gill (1882-1961) was one of Britain’s most creative and visionary self-taught artists. An outstanding exponent of mediumistic art and one of the foremost British Outsider artists. She was born in the East End of London, where she spent the greater part of her life. On 3 March 1920, Madge was first ‘possessed’ by Myrninerest, her spirit-guide. Her contact with this phantom figure would be maintained without interruption throughout the rest of her life. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Roger Cardinal, who coined the term Outsider Art in 1972, writes in his latest biography ‘The Life of Madge Gill’: Gill’s frenetic improvizations have an almost hallucinatory quality, each surface being filled with checkerboard patterns that suggest giddy, quasi-architectural spaces. Afloat upon these swirling proliferations are the pale faces of discarnate and nameless women, sketched perfunctorily, albeit with an apparent concern for beauty, and with startled expressions.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Working under the control of Myrninerest, Madge’s art remains an enigma. <b>Sophie Dutton</b> joins <b>Vivienne Roberts</b> to discuss Gill’s life, work and magical working. Sophie is the editor of Madge Gill by Myrninerest; a personal journey through the extraordinary archives of Madge Gill. Consisting of conversations, exclusive interviews, essays from outsider art specialists, family photographs and hand-written correspondence—plus rare and unseen works, including her revelatory large-scale embroideries— her book takes us ever closer to the enigmatic, troubled, and inspirational artist, Madge Gill.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Sophie is the editor of <a href="https://roughtradebooks.com/products/madge-gill-by-myrninerest-edited-by-sophie-dutton" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Madge Gill by Myrninerest</a>.</span></p><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rachael House – Creating Genderqueer Deities</span></b></h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoUz1LeSNFCVh75bwDdAV-z_dP_6g8PH18MxMq7giml920qw6cEyD-REbtLB4v-Qp0moy9vLuyY1mmg46KAfCYuio4Euexiz_xihuZicPUyt78-fASeQQFa6wg3KPJB0P4VChHbsPPWeB-EHOjdba5LYInKwd3fCepzKuXO15zEXcxM0OOi9FCCdag/s677/gqd.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="677" data-original-width="571" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoUz1LeSNFCVh75bwDdAV-z_dP_6g8PH18MxMq7giml920qw6cEyD-REbtLB4v-Qp0moy9vLuyY1mmg46KAfCYuio4Euexiz_xihuZicPUyt78-fASeQQFa6wg3KPJB0P4VChHbsPPWeB-EHOjdba5LYInKwd3fCepzKuXO15zEXcxM0OOi9FCCdag/w270-h320/gqd.png" width="270" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Rachael House</b> describes the creation of her genderqueer deities and how they ended up on walls across<br /> Britain. They are wall-hanging apotropaic sculptures, some are embellished with beads woven from queer newspapers, bottle tops and stamped ceramic charms. All the stamps used to decorate the deities are handmade, and highly charged with meaning. They include goddess symbols, trans and feminist symbols and stamps of the objects used to protect the maker from harm in witches bottles- pins, sharp things, hair, salt and herbs.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Rachael House’s work is informed by her research into witch bottles, often made from Bellarmine jugs in the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Rather than warding against witches spells, her genderqueer deities protect us from gender conformity and those who would attack the rights of women, womxn and all of those with less power than the ruling elites.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rachaellhouse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachael House</a> is a UK artist who makes events, objects, performance, drawings and zines. Events have been curtailed over the past years, and drawing has taken centre stage, with her first book, Resistance Sustenance Protection, published in May 2021. Rachael House’s work focuses on feminist and queer politics and resistant histories/herstories, aiming to reach as many like-minded people as possible, inside and outside of the art world. She uses humor, personal engagement and events to draw in those who may not be like-minded too – she recruits.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrjQxK4eVrqQdUicwE4hgB35qRtaixDoImm-j3L041CQqZtWZlvSxxbKAVPrL7c4genSy5KxAwcwn6hfbthho-Brhg9B0U-VJsSKjZ6aBU1qeoIhAZ2-iC-5fbwmGlhAu8NbNH-szuq4wMA5S7Mcc5h-w7BiTnZ5vRvy1sbQThu9ike1qexElJLHB/s1264/gender%20queer%20deity%20rachael%20house.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1264" data-original-width="843" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNrjQxK4eVrqQdUicwE4hgB35qRtaixDoImm-j3L041CQqZtWZlvSxxbKAVPrL7c4genSy5KxAwcwn6hfbthho-Brhg9B0U-VJsSKjZ6aBU1qeoIhAZ2-iC-5fbwmGlhAu8NbNH-szuq4wMA5S7Mcc5h-w7BiTnZ5vRvy1sbQThu9ike1qexElJLHB/s320/gender%20queer%20deity%20rachael%20house.jpg" width="213" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkyCtfsHe6_I_L2eMgKFV-12NtLubwE4Mav6PdqzZajibrtqYaxZUZ3QwADaAvufDUO5XfvXHvEAKdoNMqZoFo_z-f4Fqy8SFuaHVmO_2cYvwv0yYFBA8q3PL3h3JGsiS9nORcnfdgi-49ir-PnxFVvQ5o1OJqQsuv09swsjn_-suME8YG9NAPxp2/s618/9781583947166.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPkyCtfsHe6_I_L2eMgKFV-12NtLubwE4Mav6PdqzZajibrtqYaxZUZ3QwADaAvufDUO5XfvXHvEAKdoNMqZoFo_z-f4Fqy8SFuaHVmO_2cYvwv0yYFBA8q3PL3h3JGsiS9nORcnfdgi-49ir-PnxFVvQ5o1OJqQsuv09swsjn_-suME8YG9NAPxp2/s320/9781583947166.jpg" width="207" /></span></a></b></div><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Phil Baker: Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist</span></b><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">A controversial enfant terrible of the Edwardian art world, the young Austin Osman Spare was hailed as a genius and a new Aubrey Beardsley, while George Bernard Shaw reportedly said “Spare’s medicine is too strong for the average man.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">But Spare was never made for worldly success, and he went underground, falling out of the gallery system to live in poverty and obscurity south of the river. Absorbed in occultism and sorcery, voyaging into inner dimensions and surrounding himself with cats and familiar spirits, he continued to produce extraordinary art while developing a magical philosophy of pleasure, obsession, and the subjective nature of reality.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Phil Baker is a writer based in London. His books include <i>The Devil Is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley</i> and <i>Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London's Lost Artist</i> (<a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/shoppe/austin-osman-spare-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Strange Attractor</a>), called by Alan Moore “little short of marvelous.”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><h4><br /></h4></div><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Saturday 25 March 2023</span></h4><div><h4><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL<br />Doors, books stall, and coffee from 10.30am<br />Talks 11am - 5pm<br />£18 / £15 concessions. <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173636783" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book in advance</a></span></h4></div>Scott Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236379157762055215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-34953772630743064762022-11-26T16:00:00.000+00:002022-11-26T16:00:29.085+00:00John Schorn: the Rector Who Conjured the Devil Into A Boot <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-91KRxV5RdvcYzwIzDuIgFwGbuUhE-tW1bysJ8gRi4mMx2MQEIJ1NvYOAjKiRJ_6w4zodcmHzRaRuCz42P9dibHY1ax2UPa8xv95WK66EFFNVT0dQKYW-AMdRxqBonhPzrglb-aJjVgmmN6ICxrIU_Gza9sWOYHIHA_qOvk0HHd5Zw3a4aees6Rk5Q/s482/John%20Schorn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ-91KRxV5RdvcYzwIzDuIgFwGbuUhE-tW1bysJ8gRi4mMx2MQEIJ1NvYOAjKiRJ_6w4zodcmHzRaRuCz42P9dibHY1ax2UPa8xv95WK66EFFNVT0dQKYW-AMdRxqBonhPzrglb-aJjVgmmN6ICxrIU_Gza9sWOYHIHA_qOvk0HHd5Zw3a4aees6Rk5Q/s320/John%20Schorn.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">This
is t</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">he
story of one of England’s “folk saints” to whom many miracles
were attributed. In the 14th century his shrine became the third most
popular after Canterbury </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">and</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">
Walsingham yet, mysteriously, he remained uncanonised.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: small;">“<span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Master”,
“Maister” or “Sir” John Schorn(e), Rector of North Marston,
Buck</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">s</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">,
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">was
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">reputed
to have miraculous powers of healing sickness. He is said to have
struck the ground with his staff </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">and</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">
a spring gushed forth; </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">t</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">he
water was excellent for curing the “ague” (malaria) and gout.
Medieval drawings and wall paintings show him carrying a boot
containing a small devil which he made appear </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">and
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">disappear
as symbol of his power – supposedly the origin of Jack-in-the-Box.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">Following
his death, the little church of North Marston became a place of
pilgrimage. A number of wayside Inns held the name The Boot as
pilgrims made their way to and from North Marston on their way to
Canterbury.</span></p><span style="font-size: small;">
</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">Archae</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">o</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">logist
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><b>Wayne
Perkins</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">
delve</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">s</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">
deep into the psychogeography of the pilgrims’ mythic landscape </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">to</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;">
learn the truth behind the John Schorn legend.</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Venue:</b></span> The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX (Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East)</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Date:</b></span> 28th February 2023</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Time:</b></span> 7.30 for 8pm</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Tickets:</b></span> £5/£3, https://www.wegottickets.com/event/564586/</span><br /></span></span></p>
Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-37996738239815598922022-11-26T15:04:00.007+00:002022-11-26T15:18:07.686+00:00I've Got a Dybbuk Box and I'm Gonna Use it!<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #444444;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhH8dereUXdoHOrEWDOuHbMu_DfdFGowxhD98428Nvh3nyxwf37mG4weeEF3lHow2f0lNRT0yZLI0I00Miu3VgBCJLCPoSsiAU1qDdU5sAZidzDeEovMrhp91UzF278BvESsaOmXQMdEqOlkHvfiWC6HXuGW_rwrql-3ywloNngoYZ2K5SH6XIYKY9Q/s500/Dybbuk%20box.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhH8dereUXdoHOrEWDOuHbMu_DfdFGowxhD98428Nvh3nyxwf37mG4weeEF3lHow2f0lNRT0yZLI0I00Miu3VgBCJLCPoSsiAU1qDdU5sAZidzDeEovMrhp91UzF278BvESsaOmXQMdEqOlkHvfiWC6HXuGW_rwrql-3ywloNngoYZ2K5SH6XIYKY9Q/s320/Dybbuk%20box.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><br /> </span><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A
cursory search on eBay will turn up any number of Dybbuk Boxes,
allegedly cursed items that it is unwise to open lest you release the
entity within. Are these real? Where do they come from? And what is a
Dybbuk anyway? A tortured tale of demons, holocaust survivors, TV
stars, unlucky rappers and online bargains. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Fortean
Times</i></span><span style="font-size: small;">
news editor </span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ian
Simmons</b></span><span style="font-size: small;">
explores the bizarre origin and legends behind these strangely
popular haunted items.</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Venue:</b></span> The Bell, 50
Middlesex Street E1 7EX (Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate
East)</span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Date: </span></b>31st January 2023</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Time:</span></b> 7.30 for 8pm</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Tickets:</span></b> £5/£3, https://www.wegottickets.com/event/564582/</span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <br /></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="color: #444444;">
</span>Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-52085790730459703132022-10-16T16:08:00.001+01:002022-10-16T16:08:50.704+01:00Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic<p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive.</span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">7.15pm Thursday 1 December 2022 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">£8 / £5 concessions (<a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173634295" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Advance tickets</a>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">£5 Live Stream (<a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173634295" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Tube: Holborn</span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Directions</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blogspot.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b8c6e1eb1af3ac31bf00a56f0&id=30dd6edb27" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Mailing List</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1495583690868570" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Facebook event page</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVcyNNwJ_eHGWapPhNvHebJqhxL15_7skup9F2MMx90eE2YozR2bLNCxaNFkE8cpO9KNgp9cPsLoXA4RO-LDIk84xGxzLhZZpgnj45ABZMUNVN5-YSSS-jFu4aJqXXRLHKPMhNahP5JL6YixXvjkWV0tN8J6kZrx8JC95bu47PfmJIgkh_5WHs0kth/s7377/ID_064MM.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5509" data-original-width="7377" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVcyNNwJ_eHGWapPhNvHebJqhxL15_7skup9F2MMx90eE2YozR2bLNCxaNFkE8cpO9KNgp9cPsLoXA4RO-LDIk84xGxzLhZZpgnj45ABZMUNVN5-YSSS-jFu4aJqXXRLHKPMhNahP5JL6YixXvjkWV0tN8J6kZrx8JC95bu47PfmJIgkh_5WHs0kth/w640-h478/ID_064MM.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Archivist <b>Victoria Jenkins</b> presents her major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive. This talk offers in-depth exploration of the occult and its relationship to art and culture including witchcraft, alchemy, secret societies, folklore and pagan rituals, demonology, spells and magic, para-sciences, astrology and tarot.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnnQGPiIJm5y8aimx09_km-ft4GxMQJB0YB66sH99T9-Da5Xc4rt9c7l45WH4dTCJ7azW6BmkV39Gtf38R4OXLOwAGhdpocPhXtRbR4moKPJ66pwq6ZAD5KSglb2kd0Rqdu5NikZX2Zad4sFcfi3zUIFRCMXZ2BGyt02EpA4ty8-_SqwN5VhBwG2cV/s556/visions-of-the-occult-27225-01.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="556" data-original-width="556" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnnQGPiIJm5y8aimx09_km-ft4GxMQJB0YB66sH99T9-Da5Xc4rt9c7l45WH4dTCJ7azW6BmkV39Gtf38R4OXLOwAGhdpocPhXtRbR4moKPJ66pwq6ZAD5KSglb2kd0Rqdu5NikZX2Zad4sFcfi3zUIFRCMXZ2BGyt02EpA4ty8-_SqwN5VhBwG2cV/s320/visions-of-the-occult-27225-01.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">She reveals some of the 150+ unseen esoteric and mystical pieces, never-before-seen by the public and </span><span style="text-align: left;">brings a new understanding to the artists in the Tate collection and the history and practice of the occult. The first major survey of the occult collection of artworks, letters, objects and ephemera in the Tate Archive.</span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Her lavishly illustrated magical volume, <a href="https://shop.tate.org.uk/visions-of-the-occult/27225.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic</a> (Tate Publishing 2022), explores the hidden artworks and ephemera left behind by artists for the first-time idea and will shed new light on our understanding of the art historical canon. Expect to find the unexpected with artists such as Ithell Colquhoun, John Nash, Barbara Hepworth, David Mayor, Max Armfield, Cecil Collins, Jill and Bruce Lacey, Francis Bacon, Alan Davie, Joe Tilson, Henry Moore, William Blake, Leonora Carrington and Hamish Fulton. For the first time, the clandestine, magical works of the Tate archive are revealed with archivist Victoria Jenkins acting as the depository of its secrets.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZkFjZ2CanCmhRCERW5FvN1LQSDlEKoH-Ph_0P30gFMlxWZzPylrfjZC2blNkUiNKshxncu2I2xDXOrtUxZFUxbldt6FrY883YipR4JI3OZ2zdifkPtAyoWUWs4BkQ35TC9_LMHF1uf3092-HBv2-UwLL5jJFy7cstaydyS4Gd9FwJfNPhKl79OXu/s6818/ID_150MM.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6818" data-original-width="4785" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeZkFjZ2CanCmhRCERW5FvN1LQSDlEKoH-Ph_0P30gFMlxWZzPylrfjZC2blNkUiNKshxncu2I2xDXOrtUxZFUxbldt6FrY883YipR4JI3OZ2zdifkPtAyoWUWs4BkQ35TC9_LMHF1uf3092-HBv2-UwLL5jJFy7cstaydyS4Gd9FwJfNPhKl79OXu/w226-h320/ID_150MM.jpg" width="226" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Victoria’s book, <i>Visions of the Occult: An Untold Story of Art & Magic</i>, will be available at this event.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">7.15pm Thursday 1 December 2022 </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">£8 / £5 concessions (<a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173634295" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Advance tickets</a>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">£5 Live Stream (<a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173634295" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tickets</a>)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Tube: Holborn</span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Directions</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blogspot.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b8c6e1eb1af3ac31bf00a56f0&id=30dd6edb27" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Mailing List</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1495583690868570" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Facebook event page</span></a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Scott Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236379157762055215noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-46971937752886477362022-09-26T19:21:00.010+01:002022-11-18T16:43:03.054+00:00The Haunted Landscape: Folklore, Monsters and Ghosts<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The Haunted Landscape calls again with demons in the landscape, kings sleeping beneath the ground, and the ghosts that have followed us through all of human history. Join the London Fortean Society at <a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-haunted-landscape-folklore-monsters-and-ghosts/">Conway Hall</a> (or on the live stream) for a day of talks and short films on the folklore of Britain and beyond. </span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Saturday 19 November 2022 </span></h4><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Doors, books stall, and coffee from 9.30am.<br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Talks 10am - 5 pm.<br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Lunch 1pm-2pm <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>(ish)</i></span></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">£25 / £18 concessions. £15 live stream. <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173633495" rel="nofollow">Advance tickets</a><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-haunted-landscape-folklore-monsters-and-ghosts/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: trebuchet;" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Tube: Holborn</span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Directions</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A link to all live streams will be sent out to all online participants after booking. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="http://eepurl.com/hV9OAr" target="_blank">Mailing List</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/767341034326054/" target="_blank">Facebook event page (London)</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1266229197495536" target="_blank">Facebook event page (Livestream)</a></span></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Talks </span></h4><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">9am<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Registration starts. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">9.30am<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Doors</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>10am<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jasper Goodall - Into the Wild Night</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>10.30am<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Roy Vickery - Folklore and Dangerous Plants</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">11am<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Break</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>11.20am <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Dr Victoria Flood - Alderley Edge and the Dead Man</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">11.50pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Break</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>12.10pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Daniel & Clara - Avebury Imaginary: a personal history of a stone circle & hill</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">1pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lunch</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>2.00pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jeremy Harte - John Wesley and the Devil: Hell-Wrestling with the Magic Methodists</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>2.30pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Brice Stratford - The New Forest: A Pocket of Pixies</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">3pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Break</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>3.15pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lisa Schneidau - Monsters from the Deep: River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">3.45pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Break</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><b>4.15pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Irving Finkel - The First Ghosts</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">5pm<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>End</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgyJU59bcxxYgjmHOmBu1a7ULM4k8JzU9qytLJLpb3fM2ApcJKkSrMTWAiX8ccPW13vEkVJ0l-O40Q-oAU6_CpaCfeVGIAd-YfM6KeHso4rciEfeSi3_CM7R0OfemK0YmY0FM7U4ECS_8XtWLLKUHbeLzXAJ00rKW_PENK5qqDg3MuxClyJy29qKCw/s2133/Haunted%20Landscape%202022%20Conway%20Hall%20Folklore.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="969" data-original-width="2133" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgyJU59bcxxYgjmHOmBu1a7ULM4k8JzU9qytLJLpb3fM2ApcJKkSrMTWAiX8ccPW13vEkVJ0l-O40Q-oAU6_CpaCfeVGIAd-YfM6KeHso4rciEfeSi3_CM7R0OfemK0YmY0FM7U4ECS_8XtWLLKUHbeLzXAJ00rKW_PENK5qqDg3MuxClyJy29qKCw/w691-h314/Haunted%20Landscape%202022%20Conway%20Hall%20Folklore.jpg" title="He is waiting. Image Credit Iain Rowan @iainrowan / @mapsofthelost" width="691" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>He is waiting</i> Credit: Iain Rowan @iainrowan / @mapsofthelost</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Irving Finkel - The First Ghosts</h3><div><b>Irving Finkel</b> takes us back to the very beginning. A world-renowned authority on cuneiform, the form<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3FgcRlPqbF1-Z1Gj73IYzjQloPDpsn6B3h2r0X9fYkvN0a69jg5Iy98RCBrhyKXXzcGRwHT6BtWPA8kqBmwwNaihuZGZngaC7YRBxTwDRPBcY3d5uHJD2K8M0EuDnxCXbJQLsmwjXckyLGvJYgnoyU60eQYNiV_tIJ_u80XPbi4_ZWCW2C7HQhK5L/s1571/Dr_Irving_Finkel_in_2015_(cropped).jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1571" data-original-width="1289" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3FgcRlPqbF1-Z1Gj73IYzjQloPDpsn6B3h2r0X9fYkvN0a69jg5Iy98RCBrhyKXXzcGRwHT6BtWPA8kqBmwwNaihuZGZngaC7YRBxTwDRPBcY3d5uHJD2K8M0EuDnxCXbJQLsmwjXckyLGvJYgnoyU60eQYNiV_tIJ_u80XPbi4_ZWCW2C7HQhK5L/w164-h200/Dr_Irving_Finkel_in_2015_(cropped).jpg" width="164" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">creative commons</span></td></tr></tbody></table>of writing on clay tablets that date back to 3400BC, Finkel has embarked upon an ancient ghost hunt, scouring these tablets to unlock the secrets of the Sumerians, Babylonians, and Assyrians to breathe new life into the first ghost stories ever written. In his book The First Ghosts, he uncovers an extraordinarily rich seam of ancient spiritual wisdom which has remained hidden for nearly 4000 years, covering practical details of how to live with ghosts, how to get rid of them and bring them back, and how to avoid becoming one, as well as exploring more philosophical questions: what are ghosts, why does the idea of them remain so powerful despite the lack of concrete evidence, and what do they tell us about being human?</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVCkSAPMQcdCl3_DjKFKI17YK5JTlgQvquHA0rJK9z6AQt4xsODNdR6Dfpqlg4zC7N0H-Opu-gA_z2THRa6SnMffwnO4VAkj-f1u-j_omfB04NJtlesrXiKZ6rwKmOvirwYupGXm8t3XA4TYdLAuyBI5svmTgaBLy9WpOWqZ6oi_agzyDx3iAuh_iO/s675/hbg-title-9781529303278-82.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="441" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVCkSAPMQcdCl3_DjKFKI17YK5JTlgQvquHA0rJK9z6AQt4xsODNdR6Dfpqlg4zC7N0H-Opu-gA_z2THRa6SnMffwnO4VAkj-f1u-j_omfB04NJtlesrXiKZ6rwKmOvirwYupGXm8t3XA4TYdLAuyBI5svmTgaBLy9WpOWqZ6oi_agzyDx3iAuh_iO/w131-h200/hbg-title-9781529303278-82.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br /></div><div>Dr. Irving Finkel is Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian (i.e. Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian) script, languages, and cultures Department: the Middle East at the British Museum, headquartered in London's Bloomsbury. He is the curator in charge of cuneiform inscriptions on tablets of clay from ancient Mesopotamia, of which the Middle East Department has the largest collection - some 130,000 pieces - of any modern museum. This work involves reading and translating all sorts of inscriptions, sometimes working on ancient archives to identify manuscripts that belong together, or even join one another.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Brice Stratford - The New Forest: A Pocket of Pixies</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaTRSWad7zvfzr5oa-ia7tiyBYEdAEua2K6Blp9pN0HLVfSAxheYNUyKVyHBCA4eGOTFPYf4qYN_EWUQSLPK1lIGvZNFReCGHyRU6Xxn8IAq2zRbF7YmQVG7iiiH1weikvvGdaP1Xecl9URq9IASQhNx3aJwnN1PEHvxgOc1OcyR1jtYrekfeVIwQ/s6000/DSC03151.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaTRSWad7zvfzr5oa-ia7tiyBYEdAEua2K6Blp9pN0HLVfSAxheYNUyKVyHBCA4eGOTFPYf4qYN_EWUQSLPK1lIGvZNFReCGHyRU6Xxn8IAq2zRbF7YmQVG7iiiH1weikvvGdaP1Xecl9URq9IASQhNx3aJwnN1PEHvxgOc1OcyR1jtYrekfeVIwQ/w400-h266/DSC03151.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><b>Brice Stratford</b> discusses the specific pixie traditions of the New Forest, which survive strongly today in genuine, lived belief as a real exception to the rest of the country. Most are familiar with the folkloric survival of the Cornish and Devonian pixie traditions and are aware that pixie belief once extended from there across the entire south coast, but the survival of it in the New Forest as a distinct pocket has not been commented on, and the character of the pixies there has evolved in a different direction to that of Cornwall and Devon, wilder and more reflective of the New Forest “Commoning” practices and culture, in whose community the stories have survived,<br /><div><br /></div><div>Brice is an English director, writer, historian, folklorist, actor-manager, and heritage campaigner. He is the author of <a href="https://www.batsfordbooks.com/book/anglo-saxon-myths/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anglo-Saxon Myths: The Struggle for the Seven Kingdoms</a> and <a href="https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/new-forest-myths-and-folklore/9780750998703/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Forest Myths and Folklore</a>.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Lisa Schneidau - Monsters from the Deep: River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland</h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5YhVtcSMT7yk8-bYgdfb4vo1_jAN-BmTEjwbbcfCt-Zkex7ICyLvaIlEe2FwExTkEKsLXan7fwVkScHGchPXWheer1vtCOI6rXzmJoaOXJ_IP1cxD5ulUSQAuiCYwmCpMlJHlRdYyZySXiHdoGYruTLP1ZOpNmchXx05qZujKg2KJix5qFsfR2CK/s1280/thumbnail_River%20Folk%20Tales%20final%20cover%20copy.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="859" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA5YhVtcSMT7yk8-bYgdfb4vo1_jAN-BmTEjwbbcfCt-Zkex7ICyLvaIlEe2FwExTkEKsLXan7fwVkScHGchPXWheer1vtCOI6rXzmJoaOXJ_IP1cxD5ulUSQAuiCYwmCpMlJHlRdYyZySXiHdoGYruTLP1ZOpNmchXx05qZujKg2KJix5qFsfR2CK/w214-h320/thumbnail_River%20Folk%20Tales%20final%20cover%20copy.jpg" width="214" /></a></div>Weed-strewn crones, just waiting to pull you into the river. Swans with serious grudges and eels with <span style="text-align: left;">drinking problems. Hideous creatures that never see the light of day… until you fish them out of the river.</span><b style="text-align: left;"> Lisa Schneidau</b><span style="text-align: left;"> tells tall tales from the dark side of our freshwater folklore.</span></div></div><div><a href="https://www.lisaschneidau.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br />Lisa Schneidau</a> is a storyteller and environmentalist based in Dartmoor. She seeks out, and shares, traditional stories about the land and our complex relationship with it. Lisa is the author of <i>River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland</i>, <i>Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland,</i> and <i>Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland</i> (all History Press). </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div>She tells stories at events, nature reserves, art centers, and schools, including performance storytelling, training, and storytelling development within education, as well as helping to run South Devon Storytellers and Dartmoor Storytellers. Lisa trained as an ecologist and has worked in British nature conservation for twenty-five years. </div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Jeremy Harte - John Wesley and the Devil: Hell-Wrestling with the Magic Methodists</h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPy1IL9wT8bRWr3ttoAI637cm1s_88lxnFFmp-UJ7lf_-yDLwS4MjUkD6MmUTzPpp_TKynV1VA8QNJ0ROCA_mTrLWRznvT7FS5cO9Bb3R305_HeCN_npF4dMB8CjGoUfAUg6sIxoLAVcTVJopA466AYOJXBubF_vIJytpuAdePx7ov6KCb9aBFgmrd/s3273/IMG.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3273" data-original-width="3047" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPy1IL9wT8bRWr3ttoAI637cm1s_88lxnFFmp-UJ7lf_-yDLwS4MjUkD6MmUTzPpp_TKynV1VA8QNJ0ROCA_mTrLWRznvT7FS5cO9Bb3R305_HeCN_npF4dMB8CjGoUfAUg6sIxoLAVcTVJopA466AYOJXBubF_vIJytpuAdePx7ov6KCb9aBFgmrd/w373-h400/IMG.jpg" width="373" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">no idea... ask Jeremy</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>The black flapping thing at the end of the lane was no trivial superstition but the Devil in person. Had not John Wesley himself grown up in the fear of the Lord through living in a haunted house? Many giants great and tall went stalking through the land, his followers sang; and if the thunder of the ogre’s voice usually reduced itself into the catcalling of an unregenerate mob, that only confirmed its diabolical nature. </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZWWP96DV6oFV3cuIvgE4g1AZ1IpsNIAsLt-O1mi7H3S8nlQpJeInbe9O0thwyJ5MRh95EwbRcOnS-8IJVQkjaqLdufxc_H3dBIH_xTCcQQPPNRV8MSgIOogWe-AzaG0PV5OdjA4SPImxHJmpMv9-A1UN7rq6CJzgQA7pjK05Sk0qf0EdCZu6iDbw/s1874/9781789146509.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1874" data-original-width="1190" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNZWWP96DV6oFV3cuIvgE4g1AZ1IpsNIAsLt-O1mi7H3S8nlQpJeInbe9O0thwyJ5MRh95EwbRcOnS-8IJVQkjaqLdufxc_H3dBIH_xTCcQQPPNRV8MSgIOogWe-AzaG0PV5OdjA4SPImxHJmpMv9-A1UN7rq6CJzgQA7pjK05Sk0qf0EdCZu6iDbw/w203-h320/9781789146509.jpg" width="203" /></a></div></div><div>Satan was a physical presence who clutched and dragged; supernatural visitants gave not just advice<br /> and solace but enough light to illuminate a cottage room; spiritual progress was noisy and physical, trembling, crying, struggling. Men of the people, the popular preachers dreamed of what was to come and were guided by special providences, shadows of the fortune-telling tracts that they had condemned. Through grace, they cast out fiends, dispelled ghosts, and crushed the horrid powers of witches. Everything claimed for magic by the unworthy was done for the saints by zeal.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Jeremy Harte</b> is the curator of the <a href="https://www.epsom-ewell.gov.uk/visitors/bourne-hall-museum-0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bourne Hall Museum at Epsom and Ewell</a>. He is secretary of the Romany and Traveller Family History Society and created the Surrey Gypsy Archive. He is the author of <a href="http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789146509" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape</a> (Reaktion, 2022).</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Jasper Goodall - Into The Wild Night</h3><div><b>Jasper Goodall</b> describes his work as portraying the haunted nightscape. Inspired by, among many things, the historical Swedish folk tradition of Årsgång, translated as ‘the omen walk’. It is traditionally performed on new year’s eve or the winter solstice. At midnight one must walk alone and in the dark through woods to a specific location, often the village church. Inside the woods, one was said to encounter entities or manifestations that acted as omens for the coming year. His photographs are an attempt to capture stillness, solitude, and the sense of a hushed, waiting presence that is perhaps more palpably felt in the hours of darkness.<br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzrk0Yp8LHWpAokTEz3UJ0d3fU1yDflAPP4LS8lvXwPfWPtXL3K2MmXAaiigmR-Y8l_iNmcRgLRL0z0kNOOQr1Zdmg9YKPc_TdePWOZIXDF_BUC8632AmOp1u1ldtZsqujtE1mBw2Normb4AEUSifswhkAdI-lHWMyPzRrGBWViFS2LJngxWaT8YT/s2300/Augury_2021.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1725" data-original-width="2300" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzrk0Yp8LHWpAokTEz3UJ0d3fU1yDflAPP4LS8lvXwPfWPtXL3K2MmXAaiigmR-Y8l_iNmcRgLRL0z0kNOOQr1Zdmg9YKPc_TdePWOZIXDF_BUC8632AmOp1u1ldtZsqujtE1mBw2Normb4AEUSifswhkAdI-lHWMyPzRrGBWViFS2LJngxWaT8YT/w640-h480/Augury_2021.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: left;">Jasper Goodhall</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Goodall’s <a href="https://www.jaspergoodall.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nocturnal photographs</a> have been described as at once beautiful and terrifying. The images reference the idea that a kind of thrilling delight can be gleaned from viewing something eerie or disconcerting — imagining yourself in the dark places he visits. He teaches creativity and visual communication. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton where he has taught generations of visual communicators for almost 20 years</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Dr. Victoria Flood - Alderley Edge and the Dead Man</h3><div>Alderley Edge in North-east Cheshire (UK) is a red stand-stone escarpment above a subterranean network of mines, associated with a long-lived legend of sleeping heroes, who will awaken at a time of national crisis. A non-built heritage site, now managed by the National Trust, the Edge is intensely meaningful to a relatively small group of local stakeholders alongside a worldwide audience of readers engaged with the works of the novelist Alan Garner. Garner is perhaps best known for his <i>Weirdstone</i> trilogy, set in (and underneath the surface of) Alderley Edge, and his 2022 Booker prize-longlisted novella <i>Treacle Walker</i>, which is similarly engaged with the haunted and mythologically resonant landscape of the wider region. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7RvNGwu0r9lw4zA-HIgbz0xpUs88v4Cm9gf3llPRggeJdXMdqAttlnSNuzZ4ULAtjRFs24VbtKQ_woN2qQzlm5m6NCZDVCwoNl0ntcGKRMHpNiEsIjgGg-v4UMRBuJp6ZNnUneJ78zTehZiNdlq4RfO68M9cv0lgBUWjcBGW3tms9r-BxLOE4GLEq/s544/Mines%20(1).jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="544" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7RvNGwu0r9lw4zA-HIgbz0xpUs88v4Cm9gf3llPRggeJdXMdqAttlnSNuzZ4ULAtjRFs24VbtKQ_woN2qQzlm5m6NCZDVCwoNl0ntcGKRMHpNiEsIjgGg-v4UMRBuJp6ZNnUneJ78zTehZiNdlq4RfO68M9cv0lgBUWjcBGW3tms9r-BxLOE4GLEq/w400-h300/Mines%20(1).jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Credit : Nigel Dibben</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Based on research undertaken as part of the Arts and Humanities Research-funded <a href="https://www.invisibleworlds.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Invisible Worlds</a> project, this paper traces engagement with medieval prophecy at the Edge from the eighteenth century to the present, exploring the emotional resonance of its multifaceted medievalisms. It takes as it center the contested uses of the figure of the (un)dead man, the waking sleeper beneath the Edge.</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Roy Vickery – Eerie Planet Folklore</h3><div>Plants have had symbolic as well as practical meanings and uses since the beginning of human<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4j1_FzUujHMeVfhZJhE74VpVLdALrNG3aObaTEYKVIRYzKSfvz5lQ30JZxOJ2AMCL3TXsPjucUkTPp2A-E-hMYlu1BWYuzXWRC88X1W-i2RSf7FjKyGXMx0PUWqf1jcpzlGz2qDjUeihSt4nuTX0johu7A1oNcE3Bgd0Xc_YdRxApV48ZvCBZUJI/s1080/FB_IMG_1657230848385.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="1080" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-4j1_FzUujHMeVfhZJhE74VpVLdALrNG3aObaTEYKVIRYzKSfvz5lQ30JZxOJ2AMCL3TXsPjucUkTPp2A-E-hMYlu1BWYuzXWRC88X1W-i2RSf7FjKyGXMx0PUWqf1jcpzlGz2qDjUeihSt4nuTX0johu7A1oNcE3Bgd0Xc_YdRxApV48ZvCBZUJI/s320/FB_IMG_1657230848385.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>civilization. This talk on the rich variety of British and Irish folklore draws on <b>Roy Vickery‘s</b> own unsurpassed archives collated over forty years and a wide range of historical and contemporary literature. Based on new material collected by Roy and showing that we still cling to the symbolic importance of plants. Putting conkers in wardrobes keeps moths away, and parsley – the Devil’s plant – only germinates if sown on Good Friday.</div><div><br /></div><div>Roy worked as a botanist at the Natural History Museum, London for over 30 years, as the museum’s curator of vascular plants. He has published five books on plant folklore and is a former Honorary Secretary of the<a href="https://folklore-society.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Folklore Society</a>. He is president of the <a href="https://www.slbi.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">South London Botanical Institute</a>.</div><div><br /></div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Daniel & Clara - Avebury Imaginary: a personal history of a stone circle & hill</h3><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzEZ-Utt9m1070p2jnZUroLO_d_HJJAw6N0ZqiIuSzwpBWmMKXL0meTgBIxvrso0-TkRTprvGcJptlK8u98AmVRPnrSmcge6r-CKvvNDlwqdP-XvSwhl7zT0dAFAXMCgOVyHjbgFkTSOzZKl0D0NehH3BvkmIs2CBUiCR8MniXTfVLcjnlFlAZCFw/s2000/Daniel%20&%20Clara.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1341" data-original-width="2000" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGzEZ-Utt9m1070p2jnZUroLO_d_HJJAw6N0ZqiIuSzwpBWmMKXL0meTgBIxvrso0-TkRTprvGcJptlK8u98AmVRPnrSmcge6r-CKvvNDlwqdP-XvSwhl7zT0dAFAXMCgOVyHjbgFkTSOzZKl0D0NehH3BvkmIs2CBUiCR8MniXTfVLcjnlFlAZCFw/w400-h269/Daniel%20&%20Clara.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Daniel & Clara </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>Artist <b>Daniel & Clara</b> take us on a personal journey to Avebury stone circle and Silbury Hill, reflecting on a body of work made in response to these ancient sites.</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><blockquote>Avebury is not just a place, it is a dream built into the landscape</blockquote></i></div></blockquote><div>Since meeting in 2010 Daniel & Clara have dedicated themselves to a shared life of creative exploration, working across moving images, photography, performance, installation, and correspondence art. Using themselves and their life together as their material, their work explores the nature of human experience, perception, and reality. Set against the backdrop of the British landscape, their work presents narratives of psychological disorientation and the human creature in crisis. Instagram: @daniel_and_clara Twitter: @DanielAndClara</div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaUt8k7Ggsno-5RCvmzX_Zg_KnqWg2KVwhN3bdyEflOFzUuzJO2f0L6GXGHazZ6eDvTH-RL7KbIFqQGN5K6C1My3bW-PrGIiXAWTz8xR5jm_CudT-glj_qOqM9VaOj4GEp-AJtwJZ4SfCH4hfhqwe1DPGt50VtkhyuwlFKMZmdAEXibLABVb39c5MA/s2160/Selva%20Oscura.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2160" data-original-width="1620" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaUt8k7Ggsno-5RCvmzX_Zg_KnqWg2KVwhN3bdyEflOFzUuzJO2f0L6GXGHazZ6eDvTH-RL7KbIFqQGN5K6C1My3bW-PrGIiXAWTz8xR5jm_CudT-glj_qOqM9VaOj4GEp-AJtwJZ4SfCH4hfhqwe1DPGt50VtkhyuwlFKMZmdAEXibLABVb39c5MA/w240-h320/Selva%20Oscura.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Jasper Goodhall</span></td></tr></tbody></table><h4><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Saturday 19 November 2022 </span></h4><h4><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Doors, books stall, and coffee from 9.30am.<br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Talks 10am - 5 pm.<br /></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Lunch 1pm-2pm <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>(ish)</i></span></span></h4><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">£25 / £18 concessions. £15 live stream. <a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173633495" rel="nofollow">Advance tickets</a><br /></span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-haunted-landscape-folklore-monsters-and-ghosts/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: trebuchet;" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Tube: Holborn</span></p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Directions</span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A link to all live stream will be sent out to all online participants after booking. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="http://eepurl.com/hV9OAr" target="_blank">Mailing List</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/767341034326054/" target="_blank">Facebook event page (London)</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1266229197495536" target="_blank">Facebook event page (Livestream)</a></span></p></div><p><br /></p>Scott Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236379157762055215noreply@blogger.com0Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL, UK51.519794 -0.118311223.209560163821152 -35.2745612 79.830027836178843 35.0379388tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-14391906302219464052022-09-25T13:57:00.010+01:002022-09-26T10:39:24.682+01:00<p><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-3cCwJfFX12CBXpWcudlnToGfF7YQe-tTB0gwQPVcMca_U5TyHn0MhlkiIezGUbU779JgYw5IG3Elhg20YQ-9nahAWbSrteazbm98Y7QlKQCeBL1C5LKZjZc8fZXGpFd6d1hepXqZXpRzHkr5RW7qc_9dx6f9o1jrRqnXO38cCGlPPL5s9TdJrdIWQ/s1300/Goldsmiths.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="1300" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6-3cCwJfFX12CBXpWcudlnToGfF7YQe-tTB0gwQPVcMca_U5TyHn0MhlkiIezGUbU779JgYw5IG3Elhg20YQ-9nahAWbSrteazbm98Y7QlKQCeBL1C5LKZjZc8fZXGpFd6d1hepXqZXpRzHkr5RW7qc_9dx6f9o1jrRqnXO38cCGlPPL5s9TdJrdIWQ/s320/Goldsmiths.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></p><p></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>The
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</span><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Following
his retirement in October 2020, </span></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>Emeritus
Professor Chris French</b></span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">
reflects on the work of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit,
founded in the year 2000. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Ever since records began, in every known
society, a substantial proportion of the population has reported
unusual experiences many of which we would today label as
“paranormal”. Opinion polls show that the majority of the general
public accepts that paranormal phenomena do occur. Such widespread
experience of and belief in the paranormal can only mean one of two
things. Either the paranormal is real, in which case this should be
accepted by the wider scientific community which currently rejects
such claims; or else belief in and experience of ostensibly
paranormal phenomena can be fully explained in terms of psychological
factors. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chris tells us about anomalistic psychology, the study of
extraordinary phenomena of behaviour and experience, in an attempt to
provide non-paranormal explanations in terms of known psychological
and physical factors. </span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Tuesday 29 November 2022 – 7.30 for 8pm – £5/£3 </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"> <br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">Venue: The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX</span></b> <span style="color: white;">(Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East)</span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;">Tickets £5/£3 from </span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><span><span style="font-style: normal;">https://www.wegottickets.com/event/558524/</span></span></span></span></span></b></span>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05563567846973942209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7188870781226442636.post-39728599648035422662022-09-19T12:55:00.004+01:002022-11-03T09:00:09.474+00:00The Cosmic Dance: Patterns and Pathways in a Chaotic Universe<h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> A visual journey from the minute to the infinite, exploring the relationships and harmonies between all parts of the universe and inspiring personal contemplation regarding our own place within it.</span></h4><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6PWjeHKBNgGRk9CRmoXwiNkgwZ0WelHiux1Bc-bcOeW0HEY40N5ghPYipHL6f4icGGU5otIyA8SG73bIhfkMcilrK2INqBWM0NbW8M1JkEEumBOStAks2UcS-b8L7GlqDQuAXj6MZ8K9a26t-n2loXkX2wTkSTBZ0Qs6YWEyag8ATAANhuYUG6SoJ/s960/p52%20Exhibition%20Mount%20of%20Arranged%20Diatoms%20and%20other%20material%20by%20Watson%20&%20Sons,%20London,%20c.%201885%20Science%20Museum%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="886" data-original-width="960" height="590" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6PWjeHKBNgGRk9CRmoXwiNkgwZ0WelHiux1Bc-bcOeW0HEY40N5ghPYipHL6f4icGGU5otIyA8SG73bIhfkMcilrK2INqBWM0NbW8M1JkEEumBOStAks2UcS-b8L7GlqDQuAXj6MZ8K9a26t-n2loXkX2wTkSTBZ0Qs6YWEyag8ATAANhuYUG6SoJ/w640-h590/p52%20Exhibition%20Mount%20of%20Arranged%20Diatoms%20and%20other%20material%20by%20Watson%20&%20Sons,%20London,%20c.%201885%20Science%20Museum%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br /></span></div><p>Tuesday 8 November 2022 </p><p>Doors, books, drinks from 7pm. 7.30pm start. </p><p>£10 / £7 concessions (<a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173633095" rel="nofollow">Advance tickets</a>)</p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-cosmic-dance-finding-patterns-and-pathways-in-a-chaotic-universe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</p><p>Tube: Holborn</p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Directions</a></p><p><a href="https://blogspot.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b8c6e1eb1af3ac31bf00a56f0&id=30dd6edb27" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mailing List</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2326828770802645">Facebook event page</a></p><p>A visual journey from the minute to the infinite, exploring the relationships and harmonies between all parts of the universe and inspiring personal contemplation regarding our own place within it.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVUx0n4z5pFHxq4wx13wGotBDPQv3bmiNt2yKnOxAuHBkEDv2IFm6G14EurYDN5UYywXZoTXY2mlF_GE7hE1cMMwInasCp7oaWqkv9OXdYvVrbMWhoBpIq-zXQq_Z-sMnJgUUerhxUoUFT7HJViJ-iLr8F8oRt3BK5H6f6UobLcjqV4jDNE2tgVCnA/s750/p173%20Athanasius%20Kircher.%20Mundus%20Subterraneous.%201665.%20(2).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="750" height="549" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVUx0n4z5pFHxq4wx13wGotBDPQv3bmiNt2yKnOxAuHBkEDv2IFm6G14EurYDN5UYywXZoTXY2mlF_GE7hE1cMMwInasCp7oaWqkv9OXdYvVrbMWhoBpIq-zXQq_Z-sMnJgUUerhxUoUFT7HJViJ-iLr8F8oRt3BK5H6f6UobLcjqV4jDNE2tgVCnA/w640-h549/p173%20Athanasius%20Kircher.%20Mundus%20Subterraneous.%201665.%20(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Join renowned image alchemist <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stephenellcock/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stephen Ellcock</a>, in conversation with artist and art writer <a href="http://emmabiggsandmatthewcollings.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Matthew Collings</a>, as he presents a pan-global collection of remarkable and arresting images drawn from the history of art to explore the ancient belief that the cosmos is reflected in all living things.</p><p>An eloquent introduction to his new collection <a href="https://www.welbooks.co.uk/shop/p/the-cosmic-dance-by-stephen-ellcock-signed-pre-order" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Cosmic Dance</a>, this evening provides the central themes and expert commentaries as well as bitesize information on key concepts and key thinkers – philosophers, writers, artists, and scientists interspersed throughout the artworks prompt a closer, more personal engagement with the images.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_D6ERHeA1BJfIEteLInLBbC7YR5SMX0kegh9y7GDap2bdzclr7qInDARzhG_tjbJqmwdexFYANHA2DrKjrEdfkTnOlHFF03C708XPfbcc45Aup7ApGqCr12kbdEEVDfgOT5RNNXcZ_RlNpWnUikqBZP399gxvNzkKOdi-pirBZq5Gc7nmLjb8gkxg/s500/p141%20Emma%20Kunz,%20untitled,%20ink%20and%20colored%20pencil%20on%20paper,%20circa%201945%20m%20(3).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="496" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_D6ERHeA1BJfIEteLInLBbC7YR5SMX0kegh9y7GDap2bdzclr7qInDARzhG_tjbJqmwdexFYANHA2DrKjrEdfkTnOlHFF03C708XPfbcc45Aup7ApGqCr12kbdEEVDfgOT5RNNXcZ_RlNpWnUikqBZP399gxvNzkKOdi-pirBZq5Gc7nmLjb8gkxg/w396-h400/p141%20Emma%20Kunz,%20untitled,%20ink%20and%20colored%20pencil%20on%20paper,%20circa%201945%20m%20(3).jpg" width="396" /></a></div><p>The perfect guide to a deeper contemplation of the world around us, allowing readers, in the words of William Blake, to ‘see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.'</p><p>Stephen Ellcock is a London-based curator, writer, researcher, and online collector of images who has spent the last decade creating an ever-expanding virtual museum of art that is open to all via social media. His ongoing attempt at creating the ultimate social media ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ has so far attracted more than 600,000 followers worldwide. He is also the author of <i>All Good Things</i>, <i>The Book of Change</i>, <a href="https://watkinspublishing.com/books/england-on-fire-a-visual-journey-through-albions-psychic-landscape/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">England on Fire</a>, with text by Mat Osman, and <a href="https://chosecommune.com/book/jeux-de-mains/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jeux de Mains</a>, a collaboration with <a href="https://chosecommune.com/book/jeux-de-mains/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>Cécile Poimboeuf-Koizumi.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuY-1nWh6WTykvV4s1KW8BD35iCQCJ5E83WXOlD56nCwPolAHBO2YON36X4wTOjbNu2c5XfURH7wZQbYGH2NSUS1fXLaDU173XCKUOJn_llirK6gsApLxrwM51D2H0yf2FD5vnXfdOpvfqWcJUsOIMPY5ZN7ZFolk8oODkYM4oHr3Y1ycxa_fSrBhe/s2560/p156%20Mandel%20zoom%2000%20mandelbrot%20set%20by%20Wolfgang%20Beyer%20,%20Wikimediaommons%20published%20under%20CC4%20licence.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuY-1nWh6WTykvV4s1KW8BD35iCQCJ5E83WXOlD56nCwPolAHBO2YON36X4wTOjbNu2c5XfURH7wZQbYGH2NSUS1fXLaDU173XCKUOJn_llirK6gsApLxrwM51D2H0yf2FD5vnXfdOpvfqWcJUsOIMPY5ZN7ZFolk8oODkYM4oHr3Y1ycxa_fSrBhe/w640-h480/p156%20Mandel%20zoom%2000%20mandelbrot%20set%20by%20Wolfgang%20Beyer%20,%20Wikimediaommons%20published%20under%20CC4%20licence.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>Matthew Collings is an artist and art writer. He lives in Norfolk. He has written and presented many TV series on art. His 6-part series for Channel 4, This Is Modern Art won a Bafta among many other awards.</p><p>His books on art are very popular. “<i>Blimey! From Bohemia to Britpop: The London art-world from Francis Bacon to Damian Hirst</i>” was published by David Bowie. David told Channel Five News at the launch of the book in April 1997: “It’s superficially gossipy but Matthew actually makes some very serious points.” Artforum said it was the “most popular book on contemporary art ever.”</p><p>Matthew’s collaborative abstract paintings based on patterns, done with mosaicist Emma Biggs, are represented by VigoGallery in Mason’s Yard, London. Vigo also represents Matthew’s solo drawings which are based on art and art history. They can be seen on Matthew’s Instagram page at <a href="http://matthew.collings">matthew.collings</a>_</p><p>Matthew has sold 2,000 of these drawings on the Artists Support Pledge (founded by Matthew Burrows MBE) in the last two years. Matthew is currently working on a book of drawings which he says will answer the questions, ”<i>What’s going on, why did we have souls, what is art for</i>?”</p><p>Tuesday 8 November 2022 </p><p>Doors, books, and drinks from 7pm. 7.30pm start. </p><p>£10 / £7 concessions (<a href="https://conwayhall.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173633095" rel="nofollow">Advance tickets</a>)</p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/whats-on/event/the-cosmic-dance-finding-patterns-and-pathways-in-a-chaotic-universe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Conway Hall</a>, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL</p><p>Tube: Holborn</p><p><a href="https://www.conwayhall.org.uk/visit-us/getting-to-conway-hall/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Directions</a></p><p><a href="https://blogspot.us14.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=b8c6e1eb1af3ac31bf00a56f0&id=30dd6edb27" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mailing List</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2326828770802645">Facebook event page</a></p>Scott Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15236379157762055215noreply@blogger.com0Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL, UK51.519794 -0.118311223.209560163821152 -35.2745612 79.830027836178843 35.0379388