Talks

We take a look at Emery Walker (1851-1933), the 'Universal Samaritan' of England's Arts and Crafts and private press movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which were both propelled and led by the remarkable creative hub on the north shore of the River Thames at Hammersmith, in which Walker was a principal […]

In his talk Jonathan discussed how witchcraft cases in Elizabethan Essex were reported in pamphlets of the time and what readers might have made of the strange stories they were told. Jonathan Durrant is a historian who has written and taught widely on witchcraft in Germany and England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including […]

Rachel Morris talked about her new book, The Year of the Wizard, a lyrical and highly atmospheric history of Renaissance magic. It is also - by an act of historical imagination - an account of the lives of the wives, daughters and servants of the Magicians; and because John Dee had a spectacular library it […]