Welcome to my website
I am a Research Fellow in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University where I specialise in teaching media law and investigation skills. Before I entered academia 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. 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 latest book, How UFOs Conquered the World: the history of a modern myth, was published in 2015.
Snopes.com – Rumour has it…- Did an ‘Anti-Fascist’ Stab a Man Over a ‘Neo-Nazi’ Haircut? August 22, 2017
- Has the Secret Service Gone ‘Broke’ Paying Agents to Protect the Trump Family? August 22, 2017
- Promoter Found Dead After Exposing Mayweather-McGregor ‘Fake Fight?’ August 22, 2017
- Did Sunlight Form a Cross During the Eclipse? August 22, 2017
- Trump Watches Eclipse from White House August 22, 2017
- Magonia Blog
- BRIEF LIVES August 19, 2017
- DIGGING THE DIRT August 15, 2017
- THE CONSUMED SOCIETY August 11, 2017
- LEAPING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION August 8, 2017
- FAIRY TALES AND RABBIT HOLES August 3, 2017
- Mark Pilkington & John Lundberg – Folklore & Deception in the UFO Age
- Mirage Men in The Guardian August 18, 2014
- Mirage Men Double Disc DVD June 16, 2014
- UFOs and F-14s over Iran May 2, 2014
- We have lift off! March 27, 2014
- Mirage Men revealed by Greenwald? February 25, 2014
- Bob Sheaffer’s Bad UFOs
- MUFON Unravels August 1, 2017
- "Disclosure" Mania Flares Up Again June 26, 2017
- In Search Of "Progress" in UFOlogy - At the End of the Road? June 19, 2017
- William Tompkins Reveals Reptilians, Nordics, Nazi Saucers, and Much More May 22, 2017
- Tom DeLonge's "Sixtyish" Days to UFO Disclosure Become "Ninetyish" May 17, 2017
- The Skeptic magazine
- Ooops! TWO errors in previous message! October 1, 2015
- October Spookiness! October 1, 2015
- Empirical Sex Talk on Dacryphilia, tonight October 1, 2015
- Little Atoms 393 – Timothy Snyder & Black Earth September 30, 2015
- Ash Pryce on "How to talk to the dead" @ Greenwich SitP, 7:30 pm, 7/10/15 September 30, 2015
- Charles Fort Institute Blog
- Exciting news from Mr X August 13, 2016
- The First Forteans: The Light of Other Days August 11, 2015
- Edinburgh Fringe 2015 August 5, 2015
- A Baby Boy! August 5, 2015
- Fortean Approaches to the Study of Religion May 6, 2015
- Curt Collins on saucers in pop culture
- General John A. Samford's 1952 UFO Disclosure August 2, 2017
- UFOs, Sea Serpents, Ridicule and Disinformation July 17, 2017
- The Saucers That Time Forgot July 11, 2017
- Dr. J. Allen Hynek: Ufology is a Mess June 30, 2017
- 1954 UFO Whistleblower: Frank E Keely June 23, 2017
- Andrew May’s Forteana blog
- Pseudoscience and Science Fiction October 9, 2016
- Astronomical debunking October 2, 2016
- Contradiction - the All-Video Murder Mystery September 25, 2016
- Sacred Porn September 18, 2016
- Astronomical computers (old ones) September 11, 2016
- Paul Kimball’s The Other Side of Truth: Don’t believe, don’t disbelieve. Think
- Haunted Extra, Vol. 1.01 - Queen's County Museum Revisited August 17, 2017
- 2017 East Coast Paraconference - Remote Viewing Panel August 15, 2017
- 2017 East Coast Paraconference - August 11, 12, 13 August 6, 2017
- Haunted - Cooper's Inn Outtake #2 August 3, 2017
- Haunted Outtake - Cooper's Inn (Part I) August 3, 2017
Tag Archives: Sheffield Hallam University
Dead Flows the Don
Dr David Clarke of Sheffield Hallam University appeared on a BBC Radio 3 documentary about the River Don. In the Sheffield Telegraph he traces the myths and legends of the river as it flows through Sheffield: One of my earliest … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Radio 3, Castlegate, Danu, Danu - Dead Flows the Don, Danum, David Bramwell, folklore, Friends of Sheffield Castle, Jarvis Cocker, Joseph Hunter, Lady's Bridge, Loxley, Megatron, Mercia, Northumbria, Porter, Pulp, Rivelin, river Don, Russell Senior, Sheaf, Sheaf-feld, Sheffield, Sheffield Castle, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield Telegraph, steelworks, Wickerman
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On the Side of the Angels
Sheffield Hallam University journalism lecturer David Clarke will present his research on the origins of some of the First World War’s best known legends at a public event in Leicester on 11 November. New Perspectives of the First World War … Continue reading
The Phantom Russian Cossacks
The fruits of my research into First World War rumours and belief legends was published in the Sunday Telegraph on 23 February under the headline: A RUSSIAN REVELATION: WHERE THE MYTHICAL COSSACKS OF WW1 WERE REALLY FROM by Jasper Copping … Continue reading
Mirage Men premiers at DocFest
Sheffield’s annual DocFest is one of the highlights of the year for documentary film-makers and investigative journalists. 2013 marks the festival’s 20th anniversary and many of the movers and shakers from the industry will be gathering at venues in the city centre, based in … Continue reading
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Tagged British Sea Power, Daily Telegraph, DocFest, From the sea to the land beyond, Jarvis Cocker, John Lunberg, Library Theatre, Mark Kermode, Mirage Men, Paul Bennewitz, psychic spies, Richard Doty, Roswell, Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, Sheffield Hallam University, Showroom cinema, The Big Melt, UFO myth, Uri Geller
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