Ronald Hutton

rdf:langString Ronald Hutton

rdf:langString Ronald Hutton

rdf:langString Ronald Hutton

rdf:langString Ootacamund, India

rdf:langString English folklore, pre-Christian religion, contemporary Paganism

rdf:langString The Royalist war effort in Wales and the West Midlands, 1642-1646

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rdf:langString Magdalen College, Oxford

rdf:langString Pembroke College, Cambridge

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rdf:langString Ronald Edmund Hutton

rdf:langString History

rdf:langString Shamans

rdf:langString The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles ,

rdf:langString The Rise and Fall of Merry England ,

rdf:langString The Stations of the Sun ,

rdf:langString The Triumph of the Moon ,

rdf:langString Historian, author

rdf:langString "Predictably, Hutton finds himself defending his position on two fronts. Neo-pagans, clinging to the notion that their beliefs are part of an ancient nature religion, and radical feminists upholding the idea of a primeval matriarchal society , scorn Hutton's refreshingly cheerful acceptance that there seems little evidence for either of these. And his less unbuttoned colleagues shake their heads at his optimism about Druidry and other 'alternative spiritualities' as valid contemporary religions."

rdf:langString "My colleagues would kill me for saying this, but historians are increasingly conscious of the fact that we can't write history. What we can write about is the way in which people see history and think history happens."

rdf:langString Gary Lachman, 2007.

rdf:langString Hutton on his views of European witchcraft, 2010.

rdf:langString Hutton on history, 2007.

rdf:langString Professor of History

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rdf:langString Margaret Murray and the Distinguished Professor Hutton

rdf:langString A Reply to Ronald Hutton’s Commentary 'What did Happen to Lindow Man?’ TLS 30 Jan

rdf:langString Ronald Edmund Hutton (born 19 December 1953) is an English historian who specialises in Early Modern Britain, British folklore, pre-Christian religion and Contemporary Paganism. He is a professor at the University of Bristol, has written 14 books and has appeared on British television and radio. He held a fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, and is a Commissioner of English Heritage. Born in Ootacamund, India, his family returned to England, and he attended a school in Ilford and became particularly interested in archaeology. He volunteered in a number of excavations until 1976 and visited the country's chambered tombs. He studied history at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then Magdalen College, Oxford, before he lectured in history at the University of Bristol from 1981. Specialising in Early Modern Britain, he wrote three books on the subject: The Royalist War Effort (1981), The Restoration (1985) and Charles the Second (1990). In the 1990s, he wrote books about historical paganism, folklore and Contemporary Paganism in Britain; The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles (1991), The Rise and Fall of Merry England (1994), The Stations of the Sun (1996) and The Triumph of the Moon (1999), the latter of which would come to be praised as a seminal text in the discipline of Pagan studies. In the following decade, he wrote on other topics: a book about Siberian shamanism in the western imagination, Shamans (2001), a collection of essays on folklore and Paganism, Witches, Druids and King Arthur (2003) and then two books on the role of the Druids in the British imagination, The Druids (2007) and Blood and Mistletoe (2009).