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#7: What’s the editor on about? Earth mysteries, phenomenology and psychogeography

ALT-ANTIQUARIAN /

Paul Screeton asks, quite reasonably, what’s the editor on about? Modern understandings of the past, says the editor…   Paul Screeton, Seaton Carew: What to call ourselves collectively is a topic which not only has its peaks of discussion while forever in flux, but also there are also elements of cultural tracking. Neo-antiquarianism distinctly takes inspiration […]

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#6: That obscure object of desire: Leys, Watkins and ‘energies’

ALT-ANTIQUARIAN, EARTH MYSTERIES, PERCEPTION /

  (ill. Davina Ware) In 1972, walking up Glastonbury Tor, I was talking with a chap who, like me, had just hitch-hiked into town. As we approached the tower, he started talking about leys, which he’d just read about. For some reason, the topic sparked off something inside me; the next day I headed home

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#4: The Ancient Spectacle Updated

ALT-ANTIQUARIAN, ARCHAEOLOGY /

Continuing our editorial musings on modern antiquarian implications Last time, our alt-antiquarian found themself side by side with a psychogeographer, contemplating the landscape and its variant pasts, real and spectral. And, our psychogeographer will point out, some of those pasts we imagine today are well-managed, staged dramas for a populace weaned on screened stories. There

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#3: The Society of the Spectre

ALT-ANTIQUARIAN, PLACE /

Places predate monuments; monuments imply a concrete materialisation of narratives that over time becomes more codified – the narratives become myths, become scriptures etched on to place. Journeys between places infused with narratives become less nomadic, more pilgrimages. Dominant cultures are taking shape, and represented on a landscape; alt-antiquarians need to note that the objects

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Strange Phenomena

EXPERIENCE /

Thomas Hanley’s fascinating account of aerial apparitions of military manoeuvres first appeared in the Yorkshire Folk-Lore Journal in 1888, and remains of much interest in the annals of northern forteana. On the 18th of January, 1792, a singular meteoric appearance was observed near Stockton-on-the-Forest, about four miles from York, which resembled a large army in

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