IslandMagee Witches 1711 Project

Join us for the release of new #supernatural graphic novel set in 1711 Co #Antrim, The #Witches of #Islandmagee! Meet authors & artist (@SnedAndrew @Vic_McC @OldJackBurton74) @FPBelfast @FPinternational on Feb 25, 2pm. Limited tickets now available! eventbrite.co.uk/e/graphic-nove…

Great free event on 30 June 2024 at Great hall, @UlsterUni Magee campus, The Rise of Maqoma: a staged reading and Q&A Tickets here: events.humanitix.com/the-rise-of-ma…

Fascinating overlaps between symbols of magical and pagan groups, Freemasonry, friendly societies and trades unions at the People’s History Museum, Manchester

Just got a look at the book cover for my #Islandmageewitches book, Possessed by the Devil, the revised and expanded second edition: looking suitably spooky! Out November 2024 #hextag w1711.org #witchcraft

At a @CWGC commemoration of D-Day today and noticed the range of naval careers on Plymouth’s war memorial - Writer (HR, records), Blacksmith, Plumber, Cook, Telegraphist (signals, communication). All remembered here #WW2 #history

Our exhibition is back at beautiful Kirk of Calder, Mid Calder on Sundays. Free no need to book, just go anytime between 2-4pm. There are exciting additions and more to come in next few weeks. We’re working with @WithesInWordND planning a wee event on 9th June. Details to follow

The website for our project PARISH (Preserving and Recording Ireland's Sacred Heritage), a collaboration between @MaynoothHist and @NDIrishStudies is now live: parishproject.nd.edu. Database to follow!

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

This will be great - do go along if you are in the area! #magic #history #event #Virginia

It’s official, the first @performingmagic book will be published this summer! Congratulations to all of the contributing authors - @nonbinarynate, Solveig and I couldn’t have asked for a better group of scholars to work with.

Come join is in Copenhagen this October for a conference on witchcraft and authority! ✨ @Nationalmuseet @SyddanskUni #twitterstorians #witchcraft #hextag #Renaissance #CFP #earlymodern

Interested in learning more about the history of family? Join us either online or in person in Limerick tomorrow for this 2.5 hour event. Everyone welcome. (If you are overseas this link will help you with the time differences: tinyurl.com/2s4wzwd) @UL @Limerick_ie

This is a fascinating snapshot of some of the things that witches and the idea of witchcraft mean to people today. Whatever your views, it’s worth reading if you’re interested in witchcraft in history, historical research and teaching or contemporary politics

Absolutely thrilled to congratulate Professor @Leannemcck and Senior Lecturer @Katheri79403351 on their fabulous and well earned promotions. They let me have some of their cake. Yay! @at_ulster @UUHistory @UUHistorySoc @ulsterarts

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.

25 years ago I saw the "portraits" of witch suspects Agnes and Joan Waterhouse in a 1566 news pamphlet - re-labelled generic images of women. TODAY I found a book where the woodblocks were used before: a 1506 publication by printer Richard Pynson. If you wait long enough...

Favourite document of today: I’ve been wanting to look at this for a while. John Lowes, 17th century Vicar of Brandeston in Suffolk, falls out with his neighbours and sues them. Later they’ll accuse him of witchcraft…

💜 To mark #InternationalWomensDay, we're celebrating our #BadBridgets. Learn more about their stories, each one's unique and also part of a bigger chorus. We Bad Bridgets deserve a chapter in the Irish American Story. → bit.ly/48GwVQA

This afternoon @SnedAndrew and @Vic_McC led the Slandmagee Witchcraft 1711 Digital and Creative Project VR demo based on the graphic novel 'The witches of IslandMagee'. #HAP24

We are in the Slandmagee Witchcraft 1711 Digital and Creative Project VR demo led by @SnedAndrew and @Vic_McC based on the graphic novel 'The witches of IslandMagee'. #HAP24

I had a go on this game yesterday and it was amazing. A great way to teach history.