IslandMagee Witches 1711 Project

The 'Islandmagee Witches 1711' Project is dedicated to finding new ways to talk about Ireland's last trial for witchcraft. Led by @Vic_McC @SnedAndrew

[IslandMagee Witches 1711 Project @Witches1711]

Join us for the release of new #supernatural graphic novel set in 1711 Co #Antrim, The #Witches of #Islandmagee! Meet authors & artist
(@SnedAndrew @Vic_McC @OldJackBurton74)
@FPBelfast
@FPinternational
on Feb 25, 2pm. Limited tickets now available! https://t.co/h0v7Q0UwF5

[Dr Andrew Sneddon @SnedAndrew]

Great free event on 30 June 2024 at Great hall, @UlsterUni Magee campus, The Rise of Maqoma: a staged reading and Q&A
Tickets here: https://t.co/rhxrAaOl0z

[Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc]

Fascinating overlaps between symbols of magical and pagan groups, Freemasonry, friendly societies and trades unions at the People’s History Museum, Manchester

[Dr Andrew Sneddon @SnedAndrew]

Just got a look at the book cover for my #Islandmageewitches book, Possessed by the Devil, the revised and expanded second edition: looking suitably spooky! Out November 2024
#hextag https://t.co/EViriC5aX7 #witchcraft

[Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc]

At a @CWGC commemoration of D-Day today and noticed the range of naval careers on Plymouth’s war memorial - Writer (HR, records), Blacksmith, Plumber, Cook, Telegraphist (signals, communication). All remembered here #WW2 #history

[TheCalderWitchHunt @CalderWitchHunt]

Our exhibition is back at beautiful Kirk of Calder, Mid Calder on Sundays. Free no need to book, just go anytime between 2-4pm. There are exciting additions and more to come in next few weeks.

We’re working with @WithesInWordND planning a wee event on 9th June. Details to follow

[Sarah Roddy @seroddy]

The website for our project PARISH (Preserving and Recording Ireland's Sacred Heritage), a collaboration between @MaynoothHist and @NDIrishStudies is now live: https://t.co/zrAiy7Clqn. Database to follow!

[Owen Davies @odavies9]

Grimoire Devil's pact. Mid 18th century. Switzerland. This was part of a written pact in a copy of the notorious Grand Grimoire. I included an image of the first part of the pact in my book Grimoires (2009). Here's the second part of the pact.
Archives d'Etat de Geneve

[Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc]

This will be great - do go along if you are in the area! #magic #history #event #Virginia

[@jenhemphill.bsky.social @JenHemphill]

It’s official, the first @performingmagic book will be published this summer! Congratulations to all of the contributing authors - @nonbinarynate, Solveig and I couldn’t have asked for a better group of scholars to work with.

[Louise Hauberg Lindgaard @LouiseLindgaar2]

Come join is in Copenhagen this October for a conference on witchcraft and authority! ✨

@Nationalmuseet @SyddanskUni

#twitterstorians #witchcraft #hextag #Renaissance #CFP #earlymodern

[Dr Rachel Murphy @rachelmurphy]

Interested in learning more about the history of family? Join us either online or in person in Limerick tomorrow for this 2.5 hour event. Everyone welcome. (If you are overseas this link will help you with the time differences: https://t.co/wzi9oDivSA)

@UL @Limerick_ie

[Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc]

This is a fascinating snapshot of some of the things that witches and the idea of witchcraft mean to people today. Whatever your views, it’s worth reading if you’re interested in witchcraft in history, historical research and teaching or contemporary politics

[Dr Nerys Young @NerysYoung]

Absolutely thrilled to congratulate Professor @Leannemcck and Senior Lecturer @Katheri79403351 on their fabulous and well earned promotions. They let me have some of their cake. Yay! @at_ulster @UUHistory @UUHistorySoc @ulsterarts

[Owen Davies @odavies9]

Famed fortune-tellers. The most famous living First World War diviner and prophet: Madame de Thèbes (born Annette Savary, d. 1916). Now largely forgotten, she became an international star for "predicting" the war. I tell her story in my "Supernatural War" book. Image from BnF.

[Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc]

25 years ago I saw the "portraits" of witch suspects Agnes and Joan Waterhouse in a 1566 news pamphlet - re-labelled generic images of women. TODAY I found a book where the woodblocks were used before: a 1506 publication by printer Richard Pynson. If you wait long enough...

[Professor Marion Gibson @witchesetc]

Favourite document of today: I’ve been wanting to look at this for a while. John Lowes, 17th century Vicar of Brandeston in Suffolk, falls out with his neighbours and sues them. Later they’ll accuse him of witchcraft…

[Ulster American Folk Park @folkparkomagh]

💜 To mark #InternationalWomensDay, we're celebrating our #BadBridgets. Learn more about their stories, each one's unique and also part of a bigger chorus. We Bad Bridgets deserve a chapter in the Irish American Story.

→ https://t.co/wh4NpdzKx8

[The National Archives Research @UkNatArcRes]

This afternoon @SnedAndrew and @Vic_McC led the Slandmagee Witchcraft 1711 Digital and Creative Project VR demo based on the graphic novel 'The witches of IslandMagee'. #HAP24

[Institute of Historical Research @ihr_history]

We are in the Slandmagee Witchcraft 1711 Digital and Creative Project VR demo led by @SnedAndrew and @Vic_McC based on the graphic novel 'The witches of IslandMagee'. #HAP24

[Dr. Chris A Williams, FRHS @OU_Williams]

I had a go on this game yesterday and it was amazing. A great way to teach history.