Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Your guide to London's culture and transport news and events taking place across the city.

Margaret Murray and Modern Witchcraft

This event has finished Took place on: Tuesday, 3rd Mar 2020

 £5.50

For the last 20 years or more, modern Witches have been involved in a project of historical revisionism. They’ve rejected the claims made by Margaret Murray, and borrowed by Gerald Gardner, that modern Witchcraft is a direct continuation from an archaic pan-European fertility cult. Instead, they follow the arguments of historians that Murray’s work was heavily flawed; for some her work provides a valuable foundation myth, while others prefer to reject it altogether in search of more realist histories.

However, Murray’s arguments are also intricately woven into histories and practices of modern Witchcraft, and continue to be interpreted as histories of Witchcraft are rewritten and shaped over time.

Anthropologist Dr Helen Cornish of Goldsmiths College shows how responses to Murray’s work since the turn of the millennium help us consider what counts as history (good, bad, speculative or otherwise) as well contemporary Witchcraft.


Contact and Booking Details

This event has finished Took place on: Tuesday, 3rd Mar 2020

 £5.50

Booking details and information at this website.

Reserve tickets at this website or send an email to forteansociety@live.co.uk or telephone 07952 012 487.

Disclaimer: All information given is correct at the time of compiling the listings. Any questions about the event should be directed to the event organiser. Photos and images used in this listing are supplied by the organiser.

2020-03-03 2020-03-03 Europe/London Margaret Murray and Modern Witchcraft Anthropologist Dr Helen Cornish shows how responses to Murray’s work since the turn of the millennium help us consider what counts as history and as Witchcraft. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/calendar/2020/03/03/margaret-murray-and-modern-witchcraft-229071 The Miller,96 Snowsfields,London Bridge,London

Location

The Miller,

96 Snowsfields,
London Bridge,
London,
SE1 3SS

Map
Map of

Nearest tube and train stations to The Miller

What else is hapening in London on 3rd Mar 2020

NEWSLETTER

Be the first to know what's on in London, and the latest news published on ianVisits.

You can unsubscribe at any time from my weekly emails.