Instead this site is devoted to a few of my arcane interests, as listed below. Welcome!
'Weeping Cross' is a term from English folklore. It can mean either a wayside cross which has lost one of its arms, or one where funeral processions halted
on their way from outlying country districts towards the parish church. I can't remember why I selected it for my online identity, but I still like it enough to keep it.
Despite the confusion with the town in Staffordshire.
I've been converting my old website writings to downloadable pdfs, and so the website is now a portal for those rather than having any additional material on it.
Some of the items are available in print form as well as digitally and I am always willing to get rid of print copies if I have them!
I hope you find something to interest you here. Do contact me if you have any questions.
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 (2003)
- the first book examining holy and ancient wells
in Buckinghamshire.
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 (2003)
- the same sort of thing for Kent!
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 (2008)
- a third exhaustive county survey of wells,
this time for Surrey. Print copies still
available.
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 (2019)
- Holy Wells
of Dorset
is a more substantial book in a different
format and is only available in print.
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 Exuviae
(2004)
looks
at the meaning and nature of Gothic
through the things that have been
interpreted as Gothic over a
long, long time - 'from Shakespeare to
Siouxsie', as we
say! Print copies still available.
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 Mixed
Signals (2013) reflects on the alleged and
real contradictions between
Christianity and the Gothic - by someone who
finds themselves with
a commitment to both.
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 In
Wild and Pleasing Horrors (2022) we
encounter twelve
designed landscapes in Britain, and explore
their role in the development of the Gothic
imagination.
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 From
2007, the
London Goth Meetup
Group went on many strolls around the capital
examining abstruse
aspects of its history. Dark Capital (2023)
includes some of them! |
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 (2009)
Something Other Than We
Are tells
the story of the Catholic Movement in the
Church of England in an accessible way.
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 (2022) She may or may not really have existed, but St Catherine of Alexandria is one of the most revered holy figures in Christian tradition. Christ's Athene examines why. |
PLANNED - the
history of the Catholic Movement in the Diocese of Guildford |
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 Kissing
Your Sister (1993) is a history of the
Oxford University Liberal Club - the oldest
student political society in Britain.
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 The
FOULD Papers (2022) contains the stuff
that didn't make it into Kissing Your Sister!
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 Rockfall
(2022) - a medium-length poem written in
response to the case of Gaia Pope, whose body was
found on a Dorset cliff in 2017.
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Past Presence (2022) - a former museum
curator reflects on ten years of museum visiting.
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 Dorset Deco (2022) - The Art Deco buildings of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. |
 FORTHCOMING
- a woman
and her
narrowboat, by
Mortimer Bones |