WHAT’S NEW

We’ve just uploaded a batch of new articles from NE86 through to NE92, covering a range of topics such as astrological interpretations of a Minoan fresco, investigation of a Cheshire long barrow, time-slips, pennystones, round tables, folk medicine in Lancashire, spirit roads, the nature of place, the Curse of Carlisle, Mayburgh’s legends, and sites and […]

Tickets are now available for Gareth E Rees’ talk at Hebden Bridge Library (HX7 8EP) from 5pm on Saturday June 15th! (doors open 4.30). https://northernearth.co.uk/books/  and The Bookcase, Hebden Bridge   Dreaming Valleys & Northern Earth are pleased to welcome author Gareth E Rees back to Hebden Bridge, to speak on and discuss his new

NE’s sister platform of Dreaming Valleys aims to have two-yearly all-day events, and subsidiary events in between. This June we will be hosting Gareth E Rees, speaker at the last DV conference in 2023, and author of Marshland, Unofficial Britain, Car Park Life: Britain’s Unexplored  Wilderness and other books. His new book, Sunken Lands, is an exploration

Matters of succession *STOP PRESS! As of April 2024 editorial handover has been negotiated for later in the year. Please watch this space or the magazine for further details as available* In NE173 last September I issued an invitation to anyone who might like to take on the editorial role of NE. I was concerned

Apotropaic or protective marks have featured in much recent historical research, in which NE editor John Billingsley has been active with co-founding the Hidden Charms conference and publishing his book Charming Calderdale, investigating protectives in his area of West Yorkshire. Here, he turns his attention to what happens when a mark loses its contemporary religious significance,

The landscape zodiac was one of the more outré concepts of the 20th century romantic landscape, and has not fared well in the harder-headed materialism of the 21st century. But there may be more to ponder in the concept that might appear at first sight…. https://northernearth.co.uk/walking-myth-into-place-the-damned-zodiac/

Funeral paths, popularly known as corpseways, became a familiar topic in neo-antiquarian research in the 1980s when they entered discussions about leys as spirit roads. The association with leys faded, but they are still recognised as spirit paths of a kind, and often interact with hauntings and other supernatural encounters. In this book, John Billingsley

To tie in with the Sowerby Bridge Rushbearing Festival on the first weekend of September, we are pleased to be able to offer again Garry Stringfellow’s brief history of rushbearing customs in Sowerby Bridge and N England. https://northernearth.co.uk/books/ Also available by courtesy of the publishers is Peter Harris and Thomas Gough’s revised and heavily illustrated

New uploads of articles by Janet Bord on holy wells in Wales, Bob Trubshaw on ways of seeing place, Eileen Roche on Treacle Mines, and John Billingsley on Britain’s last coal mine and mining traditions.

The September issue of Northern Earth will be finding its way to subscribers and shops by the end of August. Our lead article comes from Ceri Houlbrook, with an investigation of the attentions paid to the imaginary grave of Dobby, the house elf in the Harry Potter series. Other features address the fascinating appearance of