text by Emma Woodhouse On 12th September 1857, an incident occurred in the little market town of Much Wenlock in Shropshire, England, that was nationally reported in the newspapers across Britain: a witch had been murdered by her lover, thirty years her junior. Ann Morgan had been stabbed to death, and a manhunt had ensued […]
This month words fail us as we commemorate our mentor, colleague, friend. If you wish to share your memory of Emma, let me know and we’ll keep adding them. Like many of us, I first met Professor Emma Harris as a first-year student at her lectures on the history of England, almost four decades ago. […]
text by Dorota Osińska When Alfred Tennyson published ‘The Kraken’ in 1830, he gave Victorian poetry one of its most ambiguous images of hidden power, unaffected by history, culture, and human consciousness. Almost two centuries later, Florence + the Machine released ‘Kraken’ (Everybody Scream, 2025), a song that (consciously or not) reanimates this mythic beast […]
