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Owen Davies
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quite a few in joint position! ergot, land grab, kangaroo courts, Inquisition killed witches, etc
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Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, and popular medicine.
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Owen Davies
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quite a few in joint position! ergot, land grab, kangaroo courts, Inquisition killed witches, etc
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Owen Davies
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Teaching the history of witchcraft or the witch trials (two different, but intertwined subjects) is really challenging because there are so many engrained preconceptions to overcome.
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Owen Davies
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The Life & Times of a Witch Bottle. Do check out our free, lovely 5-minute animation based around the story of a real mid-17th century witch bottle case. Still gives me pleasure watching it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=spDF...
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Owen Davies
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I've said it before & I'll say it again - there are huge riches in the digitised PhD theses available Open Access. They don't get used enough. A wealth of research and knowledge that was never commercially published. Hats off to all those PhD students!
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will pooley
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are known modern witchcraft cases a function of available sources, or can they reveal other patterns? my latest tallies, france, 1791-1939. 1.known cases track growth of news industry 2. wars, revs etc depress numbers (press+courts otherwise occupied/non functional) BUT 3. 1930! 🗃️
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James Baker
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📣 Join us 25 June for a webinar on plant histories, the curation of flora, and botanical records as access points to complex histories of people, trans-continental and longitudinal networks of science, and colonial access to land and natural resources. Register here: forms.office.com/e/HaE7WaBBJq
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Medievalist.net
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The Reiner Musterbuch, created in Austria between 1208 and 1213, is one of the oldest known Pattern Books - you can find various graphics here including sample alphabets and geometric drawings.-Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 507
#medieval #medievalmanuscripts
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Owen Davies
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Ice cream vans. As summer finally arrives in the UK why not have a read of this FREE article exploring the history & folklore of ice cream vans - their chimes, ice cream & urban legends!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Owen Davies
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To murmer is to perform magic. One principal of oral charming was to recite the charm so that the words were not quite audible to the patient. Cursing was also sometimes based on murmering, raising the anxiety of the cursed as to what would befall them.
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will pooley
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but seriously: what is it with people in the Cher disrupting Mass by getting naked? i even saw a couple who were prosecuted for having sex in the church during the service. probably should have ordered that: it’s gotta be magic, right? why else
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Owen Davies
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Warning. Academic gripe incoming. Do research grant funders realise how much of their money is wasted by university Procurement Depts who require researchers to book hotel & transport in advance via private companies. Must run into millions. Let alone the wasted time it takes.
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Owen Davies
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Cults. I've studied American religious cults & movements from the last two centuries & the MAGA cult is the first I can think of where the Leader has absolutely no grasp of the Bible or religion. Nothing. All projection from the followers.
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Owen Davies
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British Witchcraft Act 1735/36. This erased witchcraft as a crime but reinforced the criminality of pretending to have occult powers. It was rarely invoked, though. The authorities preferred to use the Vagrancy Acts to prosecute cunning-folk, fortune tellers & spiritualists.
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REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures)
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Our second in the blog series "Early Book of the Month" by Ian Wong, "An occult tome in the West of Ireland: a first-edition copy of Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s 'De occulta philosophia' (1533) in the University of Galway’s Special Collections
#MSCA #ResearchImpactEU #H2021
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REBPAF (Re-Mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures)
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Our very own Melissa Bastian will be representing REBPAF at @univienna's annual Institutstagung der Germanistik this coming Mon 3rd June! This in-person conference is open to all – programme & more details here www.germ.univie.ac.at/institutstag...
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Owen Davies
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Enjoyable @healers18341948 team meeting today. Discussed mapping cunning-folk, witch assaults, & bone setters; the diverse nature of druggists & herbalists; archive recipe books; the New Poor Law & healers; patent medicines; & the content of domestic medicine cabinets in 1940.
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Owen Davies
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Grimoire Devil's pact. Mid 18th century. Switzerland. This was part of a written pact in a copy of the notorious Grand Grimoire. I included an image of the first part of the pact in my book Grimoires (2009). Here's the second part of the pact. Archives d'Etat de Geneve
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Margot Finn
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Seriously grim statistics from UKRI: "Just 80 black PIs applied for funding in 2021-22...compared with 160 the year before – and the lowest figure for at least six years...The number of black co-investigator applicants also dropped significantly, from 825 to 300." 1/2
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Owen Davies
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Hi Jo, Thanks - and appreciate UCUCommons prioritising this. I know it's been quite a challenge. The problem is that it is so low profile in current Headline media, whether press or UCU central communications to members..
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Owen Davies
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University crisis. The national media taking more interest now (finally). But still little mention of the removal of the Student Cap in 2015. This is a major cause of the crisis & its reintroduction should be a key part of the solution. And our Union needs to shout much more about this.
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Owen Davies
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Ghost histories. A favourite snippet from my old book "The Haunted" (2007). Advert 1936: "HAUNTED HOUSE for SALE: 16th-century house in quiet Sussex village ideal for GUEST HOUSE. Freehold £5000 or offer." I sometimes wonder who bought it & whether it is still haunted...
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Katrina Navickas
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One of my most cited articles is on the history of political symbolism in clothing and adornments. That I am wearing something Tories see as Seditious or anti-patriotic in the year 2024 is ludicrous but not surprising. The lanyard is the rosette of the 21st century.
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Brodie Waddell
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Look at the very pleasing term card our postgraduate convenors, @nikkic.bsky.social and Tiéphaine Thomason, have put together for the Society, Culture and Belief seminar!
Three great talks this term. Sign up here:
www.history.ac.uk/seminars/soc...
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Owen Davies
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Execution magic. Reminder. FREE BOOK on magic & medicine regarding executions & hangmen in Europe & USA. Find out about: Hangman Friday; witch as criminal body; mandrake; human fat trade; blood drinking; ghosts of the executed etc What more do you want! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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British History Online
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Really infuriating news, and a blow to the UKs already dismal #DigitalHistory infrastructure:
JISC Historic Texts is being shut down.
historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/news#2024-02...
#History 🗃️
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Owen Davies
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Famed fortune-tellers. The most famous living First World War diviner and prophet: Madame de Thèbes (born Annette Savary, d. 1916). Now largely forgotten, she became an international star for "predicting" the war. I tell her story in my "Supernatural War" book. Image from BnF.
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Owen Davies
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You can read the original early 19thC "Newgate Calendar" of sensational crimes on Google Books, but who wouldn't want to read my Panther Books edition of 1962 instead!
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Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾
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REMINDER: I'm an experienced, freelance, London-based academic who has worked across History, Media, Sociology, and Politics depts. If you're an organisation or an academic looking for a paid researcher to work on a current or future project, please get in touch! (1/4)
#skystorians 🗃️ #polisky
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Owen Davies
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Irish exorcism rampage. 1824, Father John Carroll, Curate of Ballymore, was prosecuted after a violent day of casting out devils, with a young girl dying from his exorcism. The girl's father believed that Carroll could "bring the child to life again.’ See my "Troubled by Faith"
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Society for the Study of Labour History
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Professor Chris Williams was a good friend and colleague to many members of the Society. We are shocked and saddened by his untimely death, and send our condolences to all who knew and loved him. sslh.org.uk/2024/04/08/c...
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Tim Hitchcock
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Really pleased to have been asked to write an appreciation of the life of Arthur Burns for History Workshop Journal
academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
I keep hearing his voice in my head.
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Owen Davies
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Folk medicine. I see an old chapter of mine on European folk medicine is floating freely, if you are interested in such things...
ndl.ethernet.edu.et/bitstream/12...
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Owen Davies
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In the @folkloresociety.bsky.social archives. "Do not open!"
Reader - I opened it. What is it?
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Owen Davies
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April Fools' Day - 1790s style. 1 April 1790 "Asked an old woman in Cheapside, what was the matter with her hat? - She took it off; and while I was calling her April fool, a boy ran off with my handkerchief in his hand."
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Owen Davies
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Media reporting on the HE crisis is woefully ignorant, fails to consult properly with academics across the sector, & is actually harmful. This isn't just about academics, but life-long learning, access, cultural enrichment, knowledge creation & local economies.
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Owen Davies
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What does AI think of me as: "owen davies historian of witchcraft" "owen davies historian of ghosts" "folklorist of ice cream vans" Results... hmmm ... Trying to choose which one is best.
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will pooley
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Day of teaching, meetings, presentations today and I completely forgot that I scheduled the next post in my ongoing series of reading notes for this morning. It’s an unusual one in that the author… doesn’t exist. Read on to find out more williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/03/13/r... 🗃️#FrHistory
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Owen Davies
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Thanks for the insider info Anna. All the explanations are dodgy! I couldn't find much on early 20th bingo calling. Another research project ...
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Owen Davies
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Folklore of ice cream vans. Interested? My Open Access article is out today! Link below. Covers chimes as folk music, crime & legend, monkey blood & why a 99 is called a 99 ... and much more!
"A Folklorist Looks at Ice Cream Vans" Why not take a tour?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Jane Winters
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#DigitalHumanities #DigitalArchives CFP alert: Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory, London, 2-4 April 2025 (deadline for submissions 15 May 2024). Contributions welcome from researchers & practitioners involved in any way in accessing or developing born-digital collections and archives.
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Owen Davies
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Office watch! Some might remember that my Humanities colleagues were ordered to vacate their offices & hot desk last July. Updated everyone with a pic in December. Checked today & something has happened!!! Can you spot the differences? December March
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Owen Davies
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I think it says something about the narrow pool that get into national journalism positions. Few of them have a clue about 90% of the HE sector.
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Owen Davies
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Higher Education in crisis, jobs cut across the sector, universities on the brink of collapse, but The Guardian continues its obsession with Oxbridge access. Why not campaign for the many universities offering brilliant education & widening access?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Owen Davies
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My dream archive find? The client letters to a 19th century cunning man or woman. The glimpses we have are fascinating about emotions. Consider this to Cunning Murrell (d. 1860): "Sir, - The spring is nearly gone but no sign of happiness for me yet. Deceit deepens upon me."
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Dr Mary McAuliffe
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The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn | The History Show - listen back to Harriet @RCPIArchive and I discuss Kathleen, her diaries, life and times. I discuss why the National Children’s Hospital should be named after her #iriahwmnhist #kathleenlynndiaries www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
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Owen Davies
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Folklore Studies. Well, well. Our MA Folklore Studies is listed No 2 in the world's most unusual degrees list!!! We'll take this as a win I think.
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Jennifer Winch
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Texas is a preview of the breeding-chattel status women will be reduced to nationwide if Trump & the GOP win in November & take theofascist dictatorship national. Vote Blue to save women's lives.
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Katrina Navickas
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The disappearance of the student union gig circuit in the 2000s is a thing I think a lot about. When I started work at my current institution they'd just built a huge new SU building. A few years ago the main venue was converted into a lecture theatre....
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Owen Davies
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Hatfield Poly was such a major venue in the New Wave era. When we did the 2012 anniversary events we had archive footage of the Police playing in Edward Hall etc.
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Owen Davies
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British folklore. So ... @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social & I are busy writing a major commissioned book on British folklore past & present. Rethinking how we understand what British folklore means & how it can be understood (in an engaging way of course!). More anon.
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