Excited to take part in the "Night of the Witch" at Delft University on Friday 23 October!
Tickets are free and open to everyone. 😊
www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/...
#hextag #earlymodern
Tickets are free and open to everyone. 😊
www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/...
#hextag #earlymodern
Night of the Witch
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September 28, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Excited to take part in the "Night of the Witch" at Delft University on Friday 23 October!
Tickets are free and open to everyone. 😊
www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/...
#hextag #earlymodern
Tickets are free and open to everyone. 😊
www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/...
#hextag #earlymodern
Dutchies! I recently discovered this excellent (Dutch) #hextag podcast on the last witches of Schiedam whose trial brought the #earlymodern witch-hunt to an earlier end in the Dutch Republic. Definitely worth a listen!
stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/podcast/podc...
stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/podcast/podc...
Heksen in Schiedam - Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl
September 22, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Dutchies! I recently discovered this excellent (Dutch) #hextag podcast on the last witches of Schiedam whose trial brought the #earlymodern witch-hunt to an earlier end in the Dutch Republic. Definitely worth a listen!
stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/podcast/podc...
stedelijkmuseumschiedam.nl/podcast/podc...
Really enjoying this #hextag discussion. Wanted to ask @janmachielsen.bsky.social a propos this ep, does the coincidence between the renewed publication of the MM and the resurgence of the plague in Italy and Eastern Europe in the 1570s mean anything? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
4. Who Invented Witches?
Podcast Episode · Witches - Truth, Trials and Terrors · 29 August · 45min
podcasts.apple.com
September 7, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Really enjoying this #hextag discussion. Wanted to ask @janmachielsen.bsky.social a propos this ep, does the coincidence between the renewed publication of the MM and the resurgence of the plague in Italy and Eastern Europe in the 1570s mean anything? podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
Who knew there was a witch panic in Geneva in 1571? These incredibly rich and revealing witch trials have been hidden from view and deserve further research. #skystorians #earlymodern #hextag #16thC
Check out www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/MFNVU...
Check out www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/MFNVU...
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
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September 2, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Who knew there was a witch panic in Geneva in 1571? These incredibly rich and revealing witch trials have been hidden from view and deserve further research. #skystorians #earlymodern #hextag #16thC
Check out www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/MFNVU...
Check out www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/MFNVU...
Oh!! #earlymodern #hextag
Pleased to share the publication of my challenge to claims that Reformation Genevan authorities were skeptical of witchcraft! #hextag #earlymodern #16thC Check out:
"Aggressive Prosecution of Witches in Reformation Geneva," Sixteenth Century Journal 57, 3 (2026): 639-655
"Aggressive Prosecution of Witches in Reformation Geneva," Sixteenth Century Journal 57, 3 (2026): 639-655
September 2, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Oh!! #earlymodern #hextag
Pleased to share the publication of my challenge to claims that Reformation Genevan authorities were skeptical of witchcraft! #hextag #earlymodern #16thC Check out:
"Aggressive Prosecution of Witches in Reformation Geneva," Sixteenth Century Journal 57, 3 (2026): 639-655
"Aggressive Prosecution of Witches in Reformation Geneva," Sixteenth Century Journal 57, 3 (2026): 639-655
September 1, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Pleased to share the publication of my challenge to claims that Reformation Genevan authorities were skeptical of witchcraft! #hextag #earlymodern #16thC Check out:
"Aggressive Prosecution of Witches in Reformation Geneva," Sixteenth Century Journal 57, 3 (2026): 639-655
"Aggressive Prosecution of Witches in Reformation Geneva," Sixteenth Century Journal 57, 3 (2026): 639-655
If the devil appears as a horrible deformed black person to Europeans then he must appear to the Moors as a lily white Englishman - or they wouldn't be scared of him!
So argues Cornelius Loos in his delightfully sarcastic 1592 anti-witchcraft treatise De Vera er Falsa Magia.
#earlymodern #hextag 🗃️
So argues Cornelius Loos in his delightfully sarcastic 1592 anti-witchcraft treatise De Vera er Falsa Magia.
#earlymodern #hextag 🗃️
August 20, 2026 at 10:19 AM
If the devil appears as a horrible deformed black person to Europeans then he must appear to the Moors as a lily white Englishman - or they wouldn't be scared of him!
So argues Cornelius Loos in his delightfully sarcastic 1592 anti-witchcraft treatise De Vera er Falsa Magia.
#earlymodern #hextag 🗃️
So argues Cornelius Loos in his delightfully sarcastic 1592 anti-witchcraft treatise De Vera er Falsa Magia.
#earlymodern #hextag 🗃️
The first copies have arrived!!!
The second, updated edition of the Science of Demons has arrived, featuring two new chapters and a fresh epilogue that together continue the history of demonology from its heyday to its demise.
www.routledge.com/The-Science-...
#hextag #earlymodern #medievalsky 🗃️
The second, updated edition of the Science of Demons has arrived, featuring two new chapters and a fresh epilogue that together continue the history of demonology from its heyday to its demise.
www.routledge.com/The-Science-...
#hextag #earlymodern #medievalsky 🗃️
August 10, 2026 at 8:18 AM
The first copies have arrived!!!
The second, updated edition of the Science of Demons has arrived, featuring two new chapters and a fresh epilogue that together continue the history of demonology from its heyday to its demise.
www.routledge.com/The-Science-...
#hextag #earlymodern #medievalsky 🗃️
The second, updated edition of the Science of Demons has arrived, featuring two new chapters and a fresh epilogue that together continue the history of demonology from its heyday to its demise.
www.routledge.com/The-Science-...
#hextag #earlymodern #medievalsky 🗃️
Yo creí que ni siquiera me iban a responder el mail de la propuesta para publicar. No sólo respondieron, sino que unos meses después firmamos el contrato. Sale entre Agosto y Septiembre, pero la preventa va a estar disponible desde el 10/8 👇:
www.routledge.com/Feeling-with...
#hextag #earlymodern
www.routledge.com/Feeling-with...
#hextag #earlymodern
August 3, 2026 at 4:56 PM
Yo creí que ni siquiera me iban a responder el mail de la propuesta para publicar. No sólo respondieron, sino que unos meses después firmamos el contrato. Sale entre Agosto y Septiembre, pero la preventa va a estar disponible desde el 10/8 👇:
www.routledge.com/Feeling-with...
#hextag #earlymodern
www.routledge.com/Feeling-with...
#hextag #earlymodern
The second episode has just dropped! I'm on this one discussing the many myths surrounding the (definitely not #skymedieval!) witch-hunts.
Give us a try! New 🪄🧹🧙 episodes drop every other Saturday. 😊
#earlymodern #hextag 🗃️
Give us a try! New 🪄🧹🧙 episodes drop every other Saturday. 😊
#earlymodern #hextag 🗃️
🚨 New Podcast Alert! 🚨
Robin Briggs, Alison Rowlands and I join broadcaster Jon Briggs (yes, a relation!) for a series of wide ranging discussions of #earlymodern witchcraft. Between the three of us, we've spent some ninety years researching the history of witches and demons.
#SkyStorians #hextag
Robin Briggs, Alison Rowlands and I join broadcaster Jon Briggs (yes, a relation!) for a series of wide ranging discussions of #earlymodern witchcraft. Between the three of us, we've spent some ninety years researching the history of witches and demons.
#SkyStorians #hextag
August 3, 2026 at 8:54 AM
The second episode has just dropped! I'm on this one discussing the many myths surrounding the (definitely not #skymedieval!) witch-hunts.
Give us a try! New 🪄🧹🧙 episodes drop every other Saturday. 😊
#earlymodern #hextag 🗃️
Give us a try! New 🪄🧹🧙 episodes drop every other Saturday. 😊
#earlymodern #hextag 🗃️
🚨 New Podcast Alert! 🚨
Robin Briggs, Alison Rowlands and I join broadcaster Jon Briggs (yes, a relation!) for a series of wide ranging discussions of #earlymodern witchcraft. Between the three of us, we've spent some ninety years researching the history of witches and demons.
#SkyStorians #hextag
Robin Briggs, Alison Rowlands and I join broadcaster Jon Briggs (yes, a relation!) for a series of wide ranging discussions of #earlymodern witchcraft. Between the three of us, we've spent some ninety years researching the history of witches and demons.
#SkyStorians #hextag
July 20, 2026 at 5:47 AM
🚨 New Podcast Alert! 🚨
Robin Briggs, Alison Rowlands and I join broadcaster Jon Briggs (yes, a relation!) for a series of wide ranging discussions of #earlymodern witchcraft. Between the three of us, we've spent some ninety years researching the history of witches and demons.
#SkyStorians #hextag
Robin Briggs, Alison Rowlands and I join broadcaster Jon Briggs (yes, a relation!) for a series of wide ranging discussions of #earlymodern witchcraft. Between the three of us, we've spent some ninety years researching the history of witches and demons.
#SkyStorians #hextag
July 19, 2026 at 10:31 AM
🚨 New Podcast Alert! 🚨
Robin Briggs, Alison Rowlands and I join broadcaster Jon Briggs (yes, a relation!) for a series of wide ranging discussions of #earlymodern witchcraft. Between the three of us, we've spent some ninety years researching the history of witches and demons.
#SkyStorians #hextag
Robin Briggs, Alison Rowlands and I join broadcaster Jon Briggs (yes, a relation!) for a series of wide ranging discussions of #earlymodern witchcraft. Between the three of us, we've spent some ninety years researching the history of witches and demons.
#SkyStorians #hextag
New book cover alert!
The second, expanded edition of the Science of Demons is coming out at the end of this month!
It features two new chapters and an epilogue, as well as corrected and updated content.
Preorder (with a discount!) at www.routledge.com/The-Science-...
#earlymodern #hextag
The second, expanded edition of the Science of Demons is coming out at the end of this month!
It features two new chapters and an epilogue, as well as corrected and updated content.
Preorder (with a discount!) at www.routledge.com/The-Science-...
#earlymodern #hextag
July 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
New book cover alert!
The second, expanded edition of the Science of Demons is coming out at the end of this month!
It features two new chapters and an epilogue, as well as corrected and updated content.
Preorder (with a discount!) at www.routledge.com/The-Science-...
#earlymodern #hextag
The second, expanded edition of the Science of Demons is coming out at the end of this month!
It features two new chapters and an epilogue, as well as corrected and updated content.
Preorder (with a discount!) at www.routledge.com/The-Science-...
#earlymodern #hextag
SOO good to see a paperback copy of the Basque Witch-Hunt out there in the wild! Really hope it will help find the book new and interested readers. 😊
#earlymodern #skystorians #hextag 🗃️
#earlymodern #skystorians #hextag 🗃️
I just received my copy today. I can't wait to dive into its pages.
July 10, 2026 at 7:29 AM
SOO good to see a paperback copy of the Basque Witch-Hunt out there in the wild! Really hope it will help find the book new and interested readers. 😊
#earlymodern #skystorians #hextag 🗃️
#earlymodern #skystorians #hextag 🗃️
The paperback of the Basque Witch-Hunt is coming out on 9 July and @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social just shared some wonderful promotional material with me. 🥳
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/basque-wi...
#earlymodern #hextag #skystorians
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/basque-wi...
#earlymodern #hextag #skystorians
![Promotional image showing the book's cover, the award it won and the following quotes from reviews:
"Full of witty asides and fascinating stories"
European History Quarterly
"[Brings the reader] along with him"
The English Historical Review
"A rich study"
The Times Literary Supplement
"Excellent and vividly written"
Fortean Times](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gl7l32ehzipf7u5lvwxgqurt/bafkreifcsttnwmsxl7c6zild2jbqpzy7gsc2k5hjk5t7rw354kqyejworu)
June 18, 2026 at 7:33 AM
The paperback of the Basque Witch-Hunt is coming out on 9 July and @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social just shared some wonderful promotional material with me. 🥳
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/basque-wi...
#earlymodern #hextag #skystorians
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/basque-wi...
#earlymodern #hextag #skystorians
At Cardiff University's third annual Supernatural Event. Our excellent guest speaker Ceri Houlbrook is kicking us off with a lecture on witch bottles!
#earlymodern #hextag #folklore
#earlymodern #hextag #folklore
June 16, 2026 at 10:25 AM
At Cardiff University's third annual Supernatural Event. Our excellent guest speaker Ceri Houlbrook is kicking us off with a lecture on witch bottles!
#earlymodern #hextag #folklore
#earlymodern #hextag #folklore
I didn’t get to it at the weekend but this guerrilla-art-theatre response to the Epstein Files included a room called The Witch Files, with work from Naomi Westerman and Poppy Corbett. #HexTag
June 15, 2026 at 5:03 AM
I didn’t get to it at the weekend but this guerrilla-art-theatre response to the Epstein Files included a room called The Witch Files, with work from Naomi Westerman and Poppy Corbett. #HexTag
Missed this when it was news: in 2022 a bank employee was awarded £2 million in a case over equal pay and sex discrimination in a case referred to as “The Witch’s Hat”, because the harassment included colleagues leaving a witch’s hat on her desk #HexTag
www.osborneclarke.com/insights/lea...
www.osborneclarke.com/insights/lea...
The learnings behind the 'witch's hat': HR lessons from Macken v BNP Paribas
Where did the bank go wrong and what can we learn from the case?
www.osborneclarke.com
June 12, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Missed this when it was news: in 2022 a bank employee was awarded £2 million in a case over equal pay and sex discrimination in a case referred to as “The Witch’s Hat”, because the harassment included colleagues leaving a witch’s hat on her desk #HexTag
www.osborneclarke.com/insights/lea...
www.osborneclarke.com/insights/lea...
Last class of the semester: one student told me my #earlymodern #hextag module was her favourite of the year, another said it was a highlight of her time at Cardiff.
A lovely reminder that the jobs matters. If only our institutions valued us even half as much as our students do.
A lovely reminder that the jobs matters. If only our institutions valued us even half as much as our students do.
April 28, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Last class of the semester: one student told me my #earlymodern #hextag module was her favourite of the year, another said it was a highlight of her time at Cardiff.
A lovely reminder that the jobs matters. If only our institutions valued us even half as much as our students do.
A lovely reminder that the jobs matters. If only our institutions valued us even half as much as our students do.
Glad to see this out! It's a mighty tome, relevant to archaeologists, folklorists, #hextag peeps and more. And an impressive effort even if the functionalist argument doesn't always hold (I think, anyway).
“Killing the Dead has laid bare a subject of exceptional importance.” Great to see @janmachielsen.bsky.social’s review of John Blair's Killing the Dead in the latest issue of @thetls.bsky.social. Read more here:
High stakes
A dead body, as anyone who has sat with one will know, is an unsettling marker of the divide between life and death. The body is still the person we knew and loved, and yet no longer them. However much...
www.the-tls.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Glad to see this out! It's a mighty tome, relevant to archaeologists, folklorists, #hextag peeps and more. And an impressive effort even if the functionalist argument doesn't always hold (I think, anyway).
Nuevo articulo/New article!
ceraejournal.com/volume-12-20...
www.academia.edu/145677686/He...
#hextag #earlymodern #skystorians
ceraejournal.com/volume-12-20...
www.academia.edu/145677686/He...
#hextag #earlymodern #skystorians
January 20, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Nuevo articulo/New article!
ceraejournal.com/volume-12-20...
www.academia.edu/145677686/He...
#hextag #earlymodern #skystorians
ceraejournal.com/volume-12-20...
www.academia.edu/145677686/He...
#hextag #earlymodern #skystorians