Owen Davies
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British social historian
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- Bachelors History University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Owen Davies is a British historian who specialises in the history of magic, witchcraft, ghosts, and popular medicine. He is currently Professor in History at the University of Hertfordshire and has been described as Britain's "foremost academic expert on the history of magic".
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Published Works
- Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (2009) (59)
- Witchcraft, magic, and culture, 1736-1951 (1999) (49)
- Witchcraft Continued : Popular Magic in Modern Europe (2004) (44)
- The Haunted: A Social History of Ghosts (2007) (41)
- Beyond the Witch Trials: Witchcraft and Magic in Enlightenment Europe (2004) (40)
- The Nightmare Experience, Sleep Paralysis, and Witchcraft Accusations (2003) (38)
- Methodism, the Clergy, and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic (1997) (35)
- Cunning-folk in the medical market-place during the nineteenth century. (1999) (32)
- Palgrave advances in witchcraft historiography (2007) (29)
- Popular Magic: Cunning-folk in English History (2003) (28)
- Cunning-folk : popular magic in English history (2003) (27)
- American Renaissance: Our Life at the Turn of the 21st Century (1989) (27)
- Hospitality 2010: The Future of Hospitality and Travel (2005) (24)
- Newspapers and the Popular Belief in Witchcraft and Magic in the Modern Period (1998) (23)
- Cunning-Folk in England and Wales during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (1997) (21)
- Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft: An Examination of London (1997) (18)
- Comparing the Costs and Revenues of Transformation to Continuous Cover Forestry for Sitka Spruce in Great Britain (2015) (18)
- Charmers and Charming in England and Wales from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century (1998) (15)
- Healing charms in use in England and Wales 1700-1950 (1996) (14)
- Paganism: A Very Short Introduction (2011) (13)
- The Costs and Revenues of Transformation to Continuous (2011) (12)
- Trends now shaping the future (2005) (12)
- A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in Nineteenth-Century Somerset (2012) (12)
- Probable Tomorrows: How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years (1997) (12)
- COVID-19 Impact on the Future of Hospitality and Travel (2021) (11)
- Hag-riding in Nineteenth-century West Country England and Modern Newfoundland: An Exalllination of An Experience-centred Witchcraft Tradition (1996) (11)
- Witchcraft: the spell that didn't break. (1999) (10)
- ‘A virtue beyond all medicine’: The Hanged Man's Hand, Gallows Tradition and Healing in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century England (2015) (10)
- Omni On Line Database Directory (1983) (9)
- Transition Care: what is it and what are its outcomes? (2007) (9)
- America Bewitched: The Story of Witchcraft After Salem (2013) (8)
- Skills and the quality of work in Wales, 2006-2012: Main results (2013) (8)
- Working Patterns in Wales: Gender, Occupations and Pay (2014) (7)
- The Material Culture of Post-Medieval Domestic Magic in Europe: : Evidence, Comparisons and Interpretations (2015) (7)
- Special Report: 50 Trends Shaping the Future. (2003) (7)
- A Supernatural War: Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War (2018) (6)
- Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the Wizard (2005) (6)
- The marketing approach to purchasing (1974) (6)
- Crystal Globe: The Haves and Have-Nots of the New World Order (1991) (6)
- Executing Magic in the Modern Era: Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine (2017) (6)
- Magic: A Very Short Introduction (2012) (5)
- Female healers in nineteenth-century England (2007) (4)
- Mastering Information in the New Century (1994) (4)
- A Comparative Perspective on Scottish Cunning-Folk and Charmers (2008) (4)
- State of the Future, 19.0 (2018) (3)
- French Charmers and Their Healing Charms (2004) (3)
- The University of Hertfordshire: Sixty Years of Innovation (2012) (3)
- Angels in elite and popular magic, 1650-1790 (2006) (3)
- English agriculturalists’ attitudes towards grassland vegetation, 1780-1914 : an ecological perspective (1996) (3)
- An anatomy of inequality in Wales (2011) (3)
- Decriminalising the witch : The origin of and response to the 1736 Witchcraft Act (2008) (3)
- Executing Magic in the Modern Era (2017) (3)
- Cunning-Folk and the Production of Magical Artefacts (2015) (2)
- Talk of the Devil : Crime and Satanic Inspiration in Eighteenth-Century England (2007) (2)
- Forecasting the Impact of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction (2017) (2)
- Researching Reverse Witch Trials in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century England (2018) (1)
- Shaping the future of hospitality and travel: trends in energy, environmental, and labor force and work (2020) (1)
- Witchcraft accusations in France, 1850–1990 (2018) (1)
- Ghosts: A Social History (2010) (1)
- Introduction: Beyond the witch trials (2018) (1)
- Magic, Custom and Local Culture in Hertfordshire 1823- 1914: an Exercise in Nominal Record Linkage (2003) (1)
- Job skills, qualification use and training in Wales (2013) (1)
- The wider picture: Parallel evidence in America and Australia (2015) (1)
- Witchcraft and the Somerset Idyll: The Depiction of Folk Belief in Walter Raymond's Novels (2015) (1)
- Finding the Folklore in the Annals of Psychiatry (2022) (1)
- French healing charms and charmers (2004) (0)
- European Folk Medicine (2009) (0)
- Sealing Memories (2021) (0)
- Book reviewCorporate planning and procurement : D.H. Farmer and B. Taylor, Heinemann, London (1975), 272 pp. £6.50 (hardback) (1975) (0)
- Transition care - a three state 2007 audit (2008) (0)
- Magic in Common and Legal Perspectives (2015) (0)
- Wesley’s invisible world: witchcraft and the temperature of preternatural belief (2015) (0)
- Commentary on Spyros Makridakis's article "Forecasting the Impact of Artificial Intelligence" (2019) (0)
- 1762-1820 : Cock Lane, common sense and morality (2010) (0)
- All in the Mind (2007) (0)
- 2. Historical perspectives (2012) (0)
- Bodies: Mummified But Not Ancient (2021) (0)
- 2. Paganism in retreat (2011) (0)
- Sound approach to empathy. (2012) (0)
- The Corpse Gives Life (2017) (0)
- The Geography of Haunting (2007) (0)
- Print Grimoires and the Democratization of Learned Magic in the Later Early Modern Period: Bricolage Tradition and the Cross-Cultural Transmission of Knowledge (2023) (0)
- The Future for Ghosts (2007) (0)
- 4. Pagans across the oceans (2011) (0)
- Visions of the Future: Almanacs, Time, and Cultural Change. By Maureen Perkins (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. viii plus 270pp.) (1998) (0)
- 1848-1914 : spiritualism and hauntings (2010) (0)
- Urbanization and the Decline of Witchcraft (2019) (0)
- Technology timeline 6.0 : predictions for your career and your life (2018) (0)
- Cultures of Witchcraft in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present (2017) (0)
- 1820-1848 : religion vs science - the debate updated (2010) (0)
- 4. Writing magic (2012) (0)
- 3. All in the mind (2012) (0)
- Roadworks: Medieval Britain, Medieval Roads (2017) (0)
- Witchcraft Accusations in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Europe (2019) (0)
- Seeking Protection: Objects of Power (2021) (0)
- President-elect's admin seems poised to privatize ATC impose GA user fees : Trump appointees trend towards private takeovers of some govt agencies and functions, be more conservative in space exploration (2017) (0)
- Corporate planning and procurement (1975) (0)
- 3. Gods in the North (2011) (0)
- Imitating the Dead (2007) (0)
- 6. Return of the old gods (2011) (0)
- Treading the Boards and Under the Covers (2007) (0)
- The miracle cures – how to deal with Dr Google (2021) (0)
- Curators and Custodians of the Revealed Concealed (2021) (0)
- Luck and Wellbeing in the Home (2021) (0)
- Strategic Technology and Social Forecasts (2015) (0)
- Slow US growth plus depressed economy in Europe and China puts brakes on bizav : tally of factors points to continued turbulence on the flightpath ahead (2016) (0)
- Building Magic (2021) (0)
- Magic and masculinity. Ritual magic and gender in the early modern era . By Frances Timbers. Pp. xii + 217 incl. 10 ills. London–New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014. £20. 978 1 78076 403 0 (2016) (0)
- Well-being, insecurity and attitudes to work in Wales: Results from the Skills and Employment Survey 2012 (2013) (0)
- TechCast's Top Ten Forecasts (2016) (0)
- 1. The Ancient World (2011) (0)
- 6. Magic and the modern world (2012) (0)
- Status report on new aircraft coming from various manufacturers : OEMs across the board are making performance breakthroughs in bizjets and turboprops (2016) (0)
- The Omni book of computers & robots (1981) (0)
- Visions of an unseen world. Ghost beliefs and ghost stories in eighteenth-century England . By Sasha Handley. (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World.) Pp. ix+287 incl. 4 figs. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2007. £60. 978 185 19688 86 (2009) (0)
- Progress in VTOL aircraft : advances in conventional helicopters, counter-rotating blades, pusher props, tiltrotors, tiltwings, ducted fans (2016) (0)
- 5. Embracing the pagan past (2011) (0)
- The Meanings of Magic: From the Bible to Buffalo Bill by Amy Wygant (review) (2022) (0)
- Student life - sound approach to empathy. (2012) (0)
- Habeas Corpus or Judicial Review (1997) (0)
- Report of findings prepared by Fieldwork for the Arts Council of Wales: to establish baseline data and to evaluate the current approach of theArts Council of Wales to supporting creative professionals in Wales (2016) (0)
- Spiritualism during the great war (2010) (0)
- Quantitative research resources within the social sciences (2011) (0)
- Chemotherapy: common myths debunked (2021) (0)
- Introduction: initial observations (2012) (0)
- Technology timeline 7.0 : information for your career and your life (2019) (0)
- 1. Anthropologies of magic (2012) (0)
- The Black Legend of Prince Rupert’s Dog: Witchcraft and Propaganda during the English Civil War, by Mark Stoyle (2014) (0)
- Travel 2015: scanning the environment—the next big thing in travel and tourism (2008) (0)
- Introduction: defining paganism (2011) (0)
- The Places and Tools of Execution (2017) (0)
- The Witch of Endor in History and Folklore (2023) (0)
- Introduction: witchcraft continued (2020) (0)
- 1660-1762 : the enlightenment? (2010) (0)
- The application of ESEC to three sources of harmonised European data (2009) (0)
- Student life - sound approach to empathy: Owen Davies recounts how students worked with older people to produce a radio play about quality care (2012) (0)
- Regions Now: Oncology (2021) (0)
- Foundation Sacrifice: The Survival of a Problem in Archaeology, Folklore, and History (2021) (0)
- 5. Practising magic (2012) (0)
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