John will be a guest speaker at the forthcoming Cultural Futures Foundry event, which will be held in their online, immersive Cultural Futures Hub. There are two days of presentations, Q&As and discussions, which are…
Back in September I was lucky enough to be a guest at Through a Glass Darkly – a 2 day M. R. James conference in York. Of course I intended to write up some kind…
A couple of weeks ago I attended the first M. R. James and the Modern Ghost Story one day conference in the atmospheric and aptly antiquarian setting of Leeds Library. Highlights for me included meeting…
The 2nd of March (today) is Saint Chad’s Day. Chad was a prominent 7th century Anglo-Saxon churchman, who became abbot of several monasteries, Bishop of the Northumbrians and subsequently Bishop of the Mercians and Lindsey…