Natalie Armitage Editor

Ceri Houlbrook is a PhD student at Manchester University with research interests in the archaeology of British folklore and ritual, and contemporary folkloric customs, in particularly how folkloric practices become acclimatised to different times and places, and the processes which lead to their survivals, revivals, and recontextualisations. Natalie Armitage is a PhD student at Manchester University with research interests in the historical and cultural representations of figurative image magic including aspects of race and constructions of negative stereotypes surrounding religion, magical practice and superstition.