Hallowe’en Blog Post 

Hallowe’en Blog Post 

In celebration of Hallowe’en, we are highlighting four titles in the IHR Library covering ghosts, the devil, and witchcraft. These range from a collection of 17th century broadside ballads about spectral phenomenon to a book on historical interpretation,...

Invisible Halloween?

A search of Connected Histories for the word ‘Halloween’ produces only 13 results for the whole period 1500-1900. Similarly there are only 15 mentions of ‘All Hallows Eve” – with all of these simply referring to it as a date (for example...