Events

Join us for a deep dive into the folklore of standing stones. We explore Sussex’s monuments old and new with David Bramwell and Philip Carr-Gomm. Katy Soar editor of Circles of Stone (British Library Tales of the Weird) and Strange Relics (Handheld Press) will take us on a journey into the ancient rites and sights of Pagan Britain, and Simon Costin of The Museum of British Folklore will discuss folk customs, costumes and preserving folk histories with Stone Club’s Matthew Shaw. Plus a 1953 Folk Film special.

Simon Costin is the founder and director of the Museum of British Folklore and the director of the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall. He is best known for his catwalk show designs for Alexander McQueen.

Katy Soar is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at Winchester University. In addition to Circles of Stone and Strange Relics Katy has written on folk horror in the Routledge Companion to Folk Horror, Hellebore Zine and the Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain.

Philip Carr-Gomm is an author in the fields of psychology and Druidry, a psychologist, and one of the leaders and former Chosen Chief of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids.