Welcome to my website
I am course leader and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University where I teach media law and investigation skills. Prior to teaching journalism skills I worked as a news reporter for The Sheffield Star and Yorkshire Post and spent four years working as a Press Officer in local government. My Ph.D is in Folklore and was completed at the National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield, in 1999. My interest in folklore and the supernatural goes back to my childhood and I've been researching and writing about strange phenomena for as long as I can remember. Since 2008 I have been working with The National Archives (TNA) as their consultant for the ongoing release of the UFO files created by Britain's Ministry of Defence. My book, The UFO Files, was published by TNA in September 2009.
Magonia Blog- LABOURING UNDER A DELUSION? June 18, 2013
- INVENTING UFOLOGY June 17, 2013
- CERTIFIABLY SERPO June 16, 2013
- NO COMMENT June 13, 2013
- THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY June 11, 2013
- Mark Pilkington & John Lundberg – Folklore & Deception in the UFO Age
- Untitled May 11, 2013
- Coming soon October 3, 2012
- Area 51 Viewers Guide August 4, 2012
- From the vaults August 4, 2012
- Ebe’s Paranoia July 20, 2012
- Bob Sheaffer’s Bad UFOs
- Guerilla Skepticism - Now We Have Klass' Wikipedia Back June 9, 2013
- That "Citizens Hearing" on UFO Disclosure Got the Respect it Deserved - (Very Little) May 13, 2013
- Greer's "Sirius" Documentary - no "Bombshell," just Nonstop UFO Claims April 23, 2013
- That "Citizen Hearing" on UFO "Disclosure" April 16, 2013
- Greer Documentary "Sirius" Promises Free Energy and a Dead Alien April 4, 2013
- The Skeptic magazine
- SitP Hackney - Robin Ince: Robin Ince comes to Hackney Skeptics! June 19, 2013
- One Life: BHA Event this Friday June 18, 2013
- My latest Guardian Science column June 18, 2013
- Volume 24 Issue 3: Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou June 17, 2013
- Alasdair Hopwood & Kim Wade on False Memories, Warwick Arts Centre, 1 pm, 13/6/13 June 11, 2013
- Andrew May’s Forteana blog
- Agatha Christie’s Séances June 16, 2013
- Not Even Wrong June 9, 2013
- Precog Fiction June 2, 2013
- Spooky Action at a Distance May 26, 2013
- Paranormal Shakespeare May 19, 2013
Tag Archives: Amazing Stories
Aliens in the imagination
What explains our continuing fascination with aliens? Wandering (or was it wondering) around the British Library’s excellent Out of this World exhibition, I was struck by the long and deep debt the current cultural obsession with UFOs and ET visitors … Continue reading →
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Tagged Alex Fitch, aliens, Amazing Stories, Arthur C. Clarke, Bermuda Triangle, British Library, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Flight 19, Gareth Edwards, Gwyneth Jones, Jack Williamson, Mark Pilkington, Mike Ashley, Monsters, science fiction, steven spielberg, Through the Purple Cloud, Wonder Stories
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Out of this World
This summer the British Library are staging a major exhibition entitled ‘Out of this World: Science Fiction but not as you know it‘ (20 May-25 September). Plans are underway for a major display that will explore sci-fi through literature, film … Continue reading →
