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- LIFE OF PSI May 15, 2013
- A GOOD GUIDE TO STRANGE STUFF May 12, 2013
- REMEMBERING DOCTOR DEE May 8, 2013
- ART OF ALCHEMY May 5, 2013
- SECRETS OF ALCHEMY May 3, 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
- 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
- UFO Sightings Debunker Claims UFOs Are Not Real! March 24, 2013
- The Skeptic magazine
- SitP Sheffield - Jennifer Saul: Implicit Bias and Scepticism May 18, 2013
- Little Atoms 279 – Chris Marsden and Ian Brown & Regulating Code May 17, 2013
- SitP Newcastle - Will Storr: Adventures with the Enemies of Science May 17, 2013
- SitP York - Dr Graham Smith: Scientific Evidence and Government Decision Making May 17, 2013
- The Incredibly Interesting Psychology Book ebook by David Webb - Kindle edition FREE!!!! May 17, 2013
- Andrew May’s Forteana blog
- 200 Years of Forteana May 12, 2013
- The Frieze of Parnassus May 5, 2013
- The Strange Death of General Sikorski April 28, 2013
- Big Black Cats: Physical or Paranormal? April 21, 2013
- A 19th Century Contactee? April 14, 2013
Tag Archives: science fiction
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 →
