Upcoming Events
Greenwich Skeptics in the Pub
Wednesday 19th March
The Duke of Greenwich: ‘The Green Children of Woolpit’
Two children appeared in the harvest fields of twelfth-century East Anglia. They were wearing strange clothes, they didn’t speak English … and they were green. We would probably dismiss this as a story or strange imagining, except that there are two independent and reputable sources for the tale. What can we say today about this strange event? Were the people of Woolpit visited by the fairies?
ASSAP Webinar
Thursday 22nd May
Online: ‘The Green Children of Woolpit’
Keep an eye on ASSAP’s events web page to see how to join us.
Viktor Wynd Museum
Monday 9th June
Online: ‘The Hull Werewolf’
In 2016, a peculiar story hit local headlines – a werewolf was loping around Barmston drain, an eighteenth century canal in Hull. Such tabloid gold couldn’t stay local for long and national newspapers amplified the reports to the point that international publications like the Huffington Post repeated them. Rock start Alice Cooper even commented on social media. But what lay behind the sensational spin? How many eye-witnesses were there and what did they really say? The Hull Werewolf’s context – both folkloric and contemporary – is rewarding to examine, to illuminate the content and transmission of this popular twenty-first century cryptid tale.
Humanists UK 2025
13th – 16th June
Octagon Centre, Sheffield: ‘Heresy to Witchcraft’
The legal and conceptual path from heresy to witchcraft laws.
