I always find it rather humbling when my articles are illustrated with amazing original art

I've already covered it in my existing books, really

Not that I know of

Great to see my piece ‘Who Dwells Within These Trees?’, about sacred trees and fairies as tree spirits, in the latest @helleborezine.bsky.social 🌳

A screenshot of a Time Team podcast episode on Apple: "the archaeology of language"

Yours truly is the guest on the latest episode of the Time Team podcast. A subset of British Millennials will understand the feelings evoked by that old theme music, followed by my voice.

Omg how did you pull this off???

I once missed Stuart Ainsworth by 24 hours at the Roman fort of Epiacum, he’d been there walking the ground the day before. My wife (former archaeologist) is a superfan

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

Lastly for our fair on 9th May we have Suffolk FHS's stall with CDs, books ec & we will run a Helpdesk from 11-3. The Helpdesk is to help identify records (not just ours) you need to consult , not find your missing ancestor from the 15th century so 10-15 minutes chat really.

I haven't, no

Thank you!

Photograph of the book "Fairies: A History" by Francis Young, lying on the table.

Yes! It finally arrived! Browsed through it and I can't wait to start reading this! Lovely to see that @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social even takes up the UFO discussion in this book, including references to Patrick Harpur and the late Paul Thigpen. A must read!

Fairies on film: a review of ‘Rabbit Trap’ Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap (2025), which has been classified as a psychological horror film (but is in truth just a weird film) is that rare thing: a serious film about fairies. Set in Wales (altho…

I reviewed Bryn Chainey's 'Rabbit Trap' - finally, a serious film about fairies! drfrancisyoung.com/2026/04/21/f...

Paganism Persisting Paganism in Europe was not defeated by Christianity: it never went away. From the fourth century to the twentieth, against the background of a largely Christian culture, people repeatedly attempted to...

Ah, but now it's available in paperback for £24.99!b www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/pag...

“Nothing short of a treasure trove.” Eric Loefflad’s review of ‘Paganism Persisting’ by me and @robincdouglas.bsky.social in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It’s no accident that the word ‘committee’ contains ‘commi’

Pop-up books have been so dumbed down, ngl

Today we remember Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022) on what would have been her hundredth birthday.

Nonetheless, there's a certain poetic cadence there

Is this a haiku

I have no idea

I spoke to Miranda Melcher of @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book ‘Fairies: A History’ 🧚📚🎤 newbooksnetwork.com/fairies

I'm very excited for the paperback publication of 'Paganism Persisting'! 🌞📚 Thank you to everyone at @uexeterpress.bsky.social for making this possible www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/pag...

By including the number 'I' as part of his name he essentially obligated his successor to be 'John Paul II', what a baller move

Since this was published I’ve had some lovely emails from Readers, including from a 90 year-old Reader who was one of the first women licensed to the role in 1978 and still wears her father’s blue scarf that she borrowed for the occasion

And now I find myself wondering if she’s ever cited a book by me…

This feels like a red letter day as for the first time ever I find myself citing a book by Frances Young, the theologian I frequently get confused with 😆

Today on ‘All Old Strange Things’ we visit early Christian Ireland, with a review of John Carey’s breathtakingly weird 1999 book ‘A Single Ray of the Sun’ - which has recently been reissued in a new edition open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

Here’s me reading from my story ‘Sieidi’!

And they’ll refuse to let the AIs work remotely and demand they turn up at the office too