Reflections on my life as a historian and insights into my research on some of the stranger byways of Europe's religious history and folklore...
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Spurning History
On a chequered career as a historian
In 1998 I was surprised to find myself a runner-up for the Vellacott Prize, a History award for Sixth Formers organised by Peterhouse in Cambridge. I had written an essay about the use of counterfactual...
Z is for Zennor
Folklore and religion in a Cornish village
There are few villages in Cornwall more evocative than Zennor, alphabetically the last village in Britain (and not too far from the end of Britain geographically, either). It is set at the edge of...
In the House of Pan
The front door at Westover Hall (1897)
The Decadent period in British art was short, and in architecture perhaps even shorter. ‘Decadent’ (with a capital ‘D’) is here a technical term to describe a specific aesthetic with its own art-histo...
Language death, religion death
On the limits of linguistic analogies in the history of religion
A central feature of my book Silence of the Gods is the application of the idea of ‘creole religions’ to peoples of northern and eastern Europe after around 1400 – a term whi...
The vanity of evil
A new book reveals the true moral ugliness of the Cambridge Five
There have been many books written about the ‘Cambridge Spies’, individually and collectively – the five British traitors who, between their recruitment in the 1930s and the...
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