What are the pagan beliefs and traditional tales that our modern folk revival celebrates? And what do they offer us in the 21st century?

Nigeria’s charismatic prophets can only move audiences with the help of apprentices, who assist—or, if you’re more sceptical, stage—revelations…

If spiritual practitioners can truly do magic, why do they need to work at all?

If you are looking to turn down the dial on London noise, then welcome to Little Walsingham…

I’m used to barging the charity fundraisers, but I have less experience being accosted by Christians. This is London, famously both a Godless and a multi-faith place. An urban oxymoron…

Bromley is not the sort of place you expect to find God. Its focal point, The Glades, is a classically soulless Zone 5 shopping mall…

Tall conical hats have been fashionably worn as symbols of power and magic. Elsewhere and at a different time, these hats have been used as a method of humiliation for disgraced criminals. How and why have so many different cultures attributed different meanings to the same shape?

Tucked away on a side street near Leicester Square, Watkins Books’ strange history is disguised by the same respectable green-fronted exterior as...