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French healing charms and charmers
Davies, Owen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) -
From Chartist Newspaper to Digital Map of Grassroots Meetings, 1841-1844: Documenting Workflows
Navickas, Katrina; Crymble, Adam (2017-04-03) -
Gender Perspectives on the Elderly in Town and Countryside in Victorian England
Goose, Nigel (Routledge, 2013-09) -
Ghosts
Davies, Owen (Routledge, 2017-06-16) -
Ghosts : A Social History
Davies, Owen; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; School of Humanities; History; Centre for Regional and Local History (Pickering and Chatto, 2010)Despite the scientific and intellectual advances of the past five hundred years, populist belief in the supernatural, as evidenced by media investigations into the paranormal, continues to be culturally and socially relevant. ... -
Grimoires
Davies, Owen (Routledge, 2015) -
Grimoires : A History of Magic Books
Davies, Owen (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2009) -
Hag-riding in Nineteenth-Century West Country England and Modern Newfoundland : An Examination of an Experience-Centred Witchcraft Tradition
Davies, Owen (1996-01)Up until the early twentieth century, in parts of western and southern England, the dialect terms ‘hag-riding’ and ‘hagging’ were popularly used to describe a terrifying nocturnal assault by a witch. In Somerset and Dorset ... -
The Haunted : A Social History of Ghosts
Davies, Owen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) -
Healing Charms in use in England and Wales 1700-1950
Davies, Owen (1996-01)The collection and analysis of Anglo-Saxon and early medieval healing charms has long generated an active interest in their content and application. However, despite the quite extensive ethnographic evidence concerning the ... -
Hexereivorwurfe im England des 19. und fruhen 20. Jahrhunderts
Davies, Owen (Fink-Verlag, 2006) -
A History of Doughty's Hospital, Norwich, 1687-2009
Goose, N.; Moden, L. (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010)Doughty’s Hospital, an almshouse in Norwich, was founded by a bequest in the will of William Doughty in 1687 and continues to thrive to this day. In this detailed history, the Hospital itself is contextualised within the ... -
Introduction : Consumer Countries
Morris, Jonathan (Rowman and Littlefield, 2013-10) -
Introduction: Building Magic : Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures
Houlbrook, Ceri; Davies, Owen (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021-09-21)Buildings contain many secrets and hidden histories concealed from the human eye. We may think we know our homes intimately and then one day renovations, the cleaning of an old chimney, or the investigation of an obscure ... -
Jacobites and Jacobins : Two Eighteenth Century Perspectives
Navickas, Katrina; Oates, Jonathan (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 2006)The Memoir of Walter Shairp: The Story of the Liverpool Regiment During the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745; and the Writings of the Cragg Family of Wyresdale -
John Knight (1762-1838), radical, of Oldham, Lancashire
Navickas, Katrina (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018-10-11) -
Joys of the Cottage : Labourers’ Houses, Hovels and Huts in Britain and the British Colonies, 1770-1830
Lloyd, Sarah (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)What uses, meanings and rituals did plebeian occupants create around their dwellings and gardens? The following discussion offers some tentative answers to such questions. Labouring and elite interests were not congruent. ... -
Lancashire Britishness : Patriotism in the Manchester Region during the Napoleonic Wars
Navickas, Katrina (2014) -
Legal and historical geographies of the Greenham Common protest camps in the 1980s
Navickas, Katrina (2023-10-30)This article examines the women's protest camps at RAF Greenham Common cruise missile base, Berkshire, England, between 1981 and 1990. Using new evidence from government correspondence in the Home Office archives, it argues ... -
Living heritage : Universities as anchor institutions in sustainable communities
Parham, Susan; Green, Alix; Lloyd, Sarah (2013)The term ‘heritage’ has many meanings across the English-speaking world, but what is not in doubt is the importance of history as a living tradition. As a channel that connects people imaginatively, often emotionally, with ...