Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event
Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event
Oxford University
This podcast will feature selected materials presented in part at a one-day symposium bringing together academics from different disciplines (archaeology, history, folklore) with English Heritage staff and representatives from the National Trust and other heritage bodies. The subject of the symposium was the supernatural in place. Presenters examine the residue of supernatural sites across the land, their loss, their ruined visibility, and what layered multifarious posterity reads into them and tells stories about them. The goal was to begin the process of recoupling the idea of unexplained story to sites in the landscape as its anchor. Contributors also discussed and investigated questions of contested ownership and contested rights, alongside questions of curatorship or its lack, local versus national identity, generational engagement, and competing layers of story, some of which directly concerned magic and others that explained it away. Held on Friday 4th December 2020.
Final Roundtable: Into the Hills
Diane Purkiss, University of Oxford, chairs the final roundtable discussion of the conference.
Aug 5, 2021
26 min
Is there such a thing as an authentic myth? Folklore in heritage interpretation at prehistoric places
Susan Greaney (English Heritage), gives the second presentation in the sixth panel of the conference, Show and Tell: What is Real? Chaired by Oliver Cox.
Aug 5, 2021
26 min
Tangible and intangible heritage: exploring magic, folklore, and the supernatural in the places, spaces and collections of the National Trust
Sally Anne Huxtable (National Trust), gives the first presentation in the sixth panel of the conference, Show and Tell: What is Real? Chaired by Oliver Cox.
Aug 5, 2021
23 min
Telling Tales: Inspiring Creativity through the Myths, Legends and Folklore of England
Kate Armstrong and Hannah Keddie (English Heritage) give the third presentation in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox.
Aug 5, 2021
20 min
Teaching the Folklore of British Landscapes
Owen Davies (Hertfordshire), gives the second presentation in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox.
Aug 5, 2021
18 min
Crowd-sourcing England's legends: The English Heritage Myths and Legends Map
Mary Bateman (English Heritage), gives the first talk in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox.
Aug 5, 2021
17 min
Supernatural defences activated through death
Brian Hoggard (Folklorist), gives the first talk in the fourth panel of the conference, The Dark Side, chaired by Oliver Cox.
Aug 5, 2021
15 min
Panel 3 – The Land Remembers: Place as Keeper of Story questions
Questions and answers from the second panel of the seminar. Moderated by Alice Purkiss (National Trust Partnership and University of Oxford).
Aug 4, 2021
8 min
Remembering Irish witches
Andrew Sneddon (Ulster), gives the second talk in the third panel, The Land Remembers: Place as Keeper of Story. Chaired by Alice Purkiss.
Aug 4, 2021
12 min
Touching the Numinous: ‘fairy places’ in legend and experience of the Irish landscape
Jenny Butler (UC Cork), gives the first talk in the third panel, The Land Remembers: Place as Keeper of Story. Chaired by Alice Purkiss.
Aug 4, 2021
19 min
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