The talk will take a fresh look at how the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was founded, who inspired and led it, and how its rituals were developed.

This talk is designed to show why this is, and what forms it takes. Three patterns are very clear.

This talk is designed to show how it was created, and dispersed, and to reveal the rich literary tradition that it had inspired by the nineteenth century

This talk looks at how and why it came to be written, and at the story of Grahame himself, the outwardly boring and conventional bank clerk who created it

This talk is designed to introduce readers to his often rather dark story, and complex character

This talk is devoted to a particular form of ancient pagan goddess, one who is at the same time associated with love and sex, and with warfare

This talk is a quest in itself, for the origins of the story, which can be pinpointed quite specifically

This talk is intended to show what was so different about him that made him so famous in world culture while other outlaws

This talk is designed to explain when and how our familiar midwinter customs developed, and why

The classic fairy tale is a story about how a person or a group of people copes with a supernatural event or a supernatural being,

The purpose of this talk is to find out why the early folklorists had such an interest in ancient paganism and such a conviction that traces

This talk is designed to consider those interactions, and the representations since 1700 of Druids as patriotic heroes, sages and scholars

This presentation looks at the evidence for one in historical texts and archaeological finds and also at the way in which

This talk looks at its history, in those three nations and in Scotland and at its wider context, as a possible ancient pan-Celtic

This talk is designed to ask when it originated, how it developed, and whether there was a real man behind it.

This evening’s presentation maps out their history, and that of the rituals associated with them

You are invited this evening to explore the original sources of his legend, and see if we can understand where it began and how it developed

This talk is to discover what the actual evidence is of both and to see whether a closer relationship can be made with either in the process

This talk is designed to look at the evidence for both goddess and saint, and the possible relationships between them.

This talk is intended to discuss the origins of Freemasonry, and the development of its ritual, and its relationship with the occult

Prof. Ronald Hutton will reveal a complex and fascinating world rich in magical tradition, in which cunning folk and charmers flourished

Explore the history of Halloween—from its murky pagan past and supernatural associations—with Professor Ronald Hutton on Zoom

Examining the older, darker, more scary and more serious world of traditional British and Irish peoples who lived alongside fairies

Professor Ronald Hutton examines Dragons in Myths & Legends

In this Zoom Lecture Prof. Ronald Hutton opens a door onto a world in which ritual nudity has been, since ancient times, a constant feature of Magic & Initiation

Prof.Hutton on how and when the modern Western world came to have its most common image of what a goddess should be

Ronald Hutton zoom lecture on the main form of male divinity found in modern Paganism: the horned god of nature and of fertility

Prof.Hutton Will examine our Magnificent Pre-Christian Heritage and examine how much of this it is possible to recover - Zoom Lecture