Clare Lesley Hughes is a York-based wortcunner, herbalist and academic. This guest post explains more…

Issue 1: Origins is the first issue of Curiositas, York St John's Postgraduate Journal for the School of Humanities, published in May 2026.

Issue 1: Origins is the first issue of Curiositas, York St John's Postgraduate Journal for the School of Humanities, published in May 2026.

When Every Hope Has Gone: Grief, Rage and Refuge in a Merciless Age

The figure of the witch (both real and imagined) is inherently political and potentially contentious. Each wave of feminism has reflected on shifting considerations of the witch as evocative of issues...

Ripples and Thing Power in Manchester by Dr Clare Lesley Hughes On Friday 10th April, I attended and presented at the Annual Conference of the British Sociological  Association in Manchester. I was sp...

We are a group of academic researchers from different disciplines including Art, History, Literature, Philosophy and Religion, and we have all been brought together by a shared interest in the figure ...