Tag Archives: Bloomsbury

Cat’s out of the bag?

Posted on December 15, 2014 by

The Beast of Bodmin Moor was really just a large domestic cat according to a study commissioned by the British government. Two tabloids, The Sun and the Daily Mail, revealed the results of the 1995 investigation, based upon information taken from … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Solway Spaceman mystery is 50 years old

Posted on May 23, 2014 by

It is 50 years since Jim Templeton took the famous image of a figure in a space-suit hovering behind his daughter on the Solway Marshes in the English Lake District. Since that family outing in May 1964 when the figure … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Haunting my bookshelves in 2012:

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

Here’s my choice of other key books that floated my folkloric boat during 2012: The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack: Victorian urban folklore and popular cultures, by Karl Bell (Boydell Press).  As readers of my blog will know, the mysterious figure … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The UFO Files Rebooted

Posted on September 12, 2012 by

The second edition of The UFO files was published by Bloomsbury on 13 September 2012. You can order the book from Amazon here or via the publisher’s website here. The National Archives press release on the book can be found … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

UFO Files bought by Bloomsbury

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

As reported in The Daily Telegraph, the Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury has bought The National Archives’s entire backlist of publications. The deal includes my 2009 book The UFO Files and other best-sellers such as Genealogists’ Internet by Peter Christian. It has also … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment