Putting magic in place: a knowledge exchange event Oxford University
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This podcast will feature selected materials presented in part at a one-day symposium bringing together academics from different disciplines (archaeology, history, folklore) with English Heritage staff and representatives from the National Trust and other heritage bodies.
The subject of the symposium was the supernatural in place. Presenters examine the residue of supernatural sites across the land, their loss, their ruined visibility, and what layered multifarious posterity reads into them and tells stories about them. The goal was to begin the process of recoupling the idea of unexplained story to sites in the landscape as its anchor. Contributors also discussed and investigated questions of contested ownership and contested rights, alongside questions of curatorship or its lack, local versus national identity, generational engagement, and competing layers of story, some of which directly concerned magic and others that explained it away.
Held on Friday 4th December 2020.
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Final Roundtable: Into the Hills
Diane Purkiss, University of Oxford, chairs the final roundtable discussion of the conference.
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Is there such a thing as an authentic myth? Folklore in heritage interpretation at prehistoric places
Susan Greaney (English Heritage), gives the second presentation in the sixth panel of the conference, Show and Tell: What is Real? Chaired by Oliver Cox.
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Tangible and intangible heritage: exploring magic, folklore, and the supernatural in the places, spaces and collections of the National Trust
Sally Anne Huxtable (National Trust), gives the first presentation in the sixth panel of the conference, Show and Tell: What is Real? Chaired by Oliver Cox.
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Telling Tales: Inspiring Creativity through the Myths, Legends and Folklore of England
Kate Armstrong and Hannah Keddie (English Heritage) give the third presentation in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox.
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Teaching the Folklore of British Landscapes
Owen Davies (Hertfordshire), gives the second presentation in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox.
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Crowd-sourcing England's legends: The English Heritage Myths and Legends Map
Mary Bateman (English Heritage), gives the first talk in the fifth panel of the conference, Teaching and Learning, chaired by Oliver Cox.