List of publications and articles written by
Bob Trubshaw

Books, booklets and electronic publications

  1. Ancient crosses of Leicestershire and Rutland Heart of Albion 1990
  2. Holy wells and springs of Leicestershire and Rutland Heart of Albion 1990
  3. Standing stones and mark stones of Leicestershire and Rutland Heart of Albion 1991
  4. Good gargoyle guide - medieval church carvings in Leicestershire and Rutland Heart of Albion 1991
  5. The quest for the omphalos (with John Walbridge) Heart of Albion 1991
  6. Grimr's year Heart of Albion 1991
  7. Putting things straight - ancient aligned sites in Leicestershire and Rutland Heart of Albion 1992
  8. Dragon slaying myths ancient and modern Heart of Albion Press 1993 (Reprinted Dragon's Head Press 1998)
  9. Gargoyles and grotesque carvings of Leicestershire and Rutland
    Heart of Albion 1995
  10. Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland Heart of Albion 1995
  11. Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland - the hypertext (on 3.5" discs) Heart of Albion 1996
  12. How to Write and Publish Local History Heart of Albion 1999
  13. Interactive Little-known Leicestershire and Rutland (CD-ROM) Heart of Albion 2002
  14. Interactive Gargoyles and Grotesque Carvings of Leicestershire and Rutland (CD-ROM) Heart of Albion 2002
  15. Explore Folklore Heart of Albion 2002
  16. Explore Mythology Heart of Albion 2003
  17. Rutland Village by Village Heart of Albion 2003
  18. Good Gargoyle Guide (2nd edn) Heart of Albion 2004
  19. Leicestershire Legends retold by Black Annis Heart of Albion 2004
  20. How to Write and Publish Local and Family History Successfully Heart of Albion 2005
  21. Sacred Places: Prehistory and popular imagination Alternative Albion 2005
  22. Horn dance or stag night? Folklore and myth in the age of blogs Heart of Albion 2007
  23. Gargoyle Hunting Guide Heart of Albion 2008
Sorry, all those without hypertext links are now out of print!

Books and booklets edited or co-edited

  1. Wolds Reflections
  2. 2000 Years of the Wolds
  3. Explore Phantom Black Dogs
  4. The WHO's What, Where and When

Articles (excluding reviews, letters and reprints)

  1. 'Hallaton: Leicestershire's most pagan parish?' The Cauldron No.52 March 1989
  2. 'Black Annis - by herself' Earth No.13, April 1989
  3. 'One for every day of the week - and two for Sunday?' Moonshine No.17 May 1989
  4. 'Ancient and modern myths of dragon-slaying saints' Hidden History Vol. 2 No.2&3 October 1989
  5. 'Leicestershire dragon slayers gazetteer' Hidden History Vol. 2 No.2&3 October 1989
  6. 'Mercian Mysteries Group Inaugral Field Trip and Meeting' Mercian Mysteries No.1, October 1989
  7. 'Standing stones and mark stones of Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.1, October
  8. 'Holy Wells of Leicestershire - Ab Kettleby' Mercian Mysteries No.1, October 1989
  9. 'Abbot's Bromley Horndance - Monday 11th September 1989 Mercian Mysteries No.1, October 1989
  10. 'Hallaton Hare Pie Scramble and Bottle Kicking' Northern Earth Mysteries No.41, January 1990
  11. 'The quest for the omphalos - finding the mystical middle of England, part 1' Mercian Mysteries No.2, January 1990
  12. 'Mercian Mysteries field trip and meeting No.4: Charnwood at Yuletide' Mercian Mysteries No.2, January 1990
  13. 'The medieval church - our pagan heritage' Albion's Sacred Heritage No.6, February 1990
  14. Mercian Mysteries field trip and meeting No.5: Leicester Mercian Mysteries No.3, April/May 1990
  15. 'The quest for the omphalos part 2: High Cross' Mercian Mysteries No.3, April/May 1990
  16. 'Prima mater' [poem] Mercian Mysteries No.3, April/May 1990
  17. 'Beeby holy well, Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.3, April/May 1990
  18. 'Ancient crosses' Hidden History Vol.3, No.1, June 1990
  19. 'Surprises in churches' Mercian Mysteries No.4, August 1990
  20. 'The quest for the omphalos part 3: Croft Hill' Mercian Mysteries No.4, August 1990
  21. 'Grace Dieu's ghost' Mercian Mysteries No.4, August 1990
  22. 'Straight thinking' Northern Earth Mysteries No.43, September 1990
  23. 'Early European Goddesses' Moonshine No.23, September 1990
  24. 'Is George-Michael a God?' Albion's Sacred Heritage No.8, October 1990
  25. 'Are earth mysteries art?' Markstone No.3, October 1990
  26. 'Incognito magical methods' The Cauldron No.58, November 1990
  27. 'Church orientation' Mercian Mysteries No.5, January 1990
  28. 'The quest for the omphalos Part 4 - Royston' Mercian Mysteries No.5, January 1990
  29. 'Yuletide quiztime' Mercian Mysteries No.5, January 1990
  30. 'Amulets' Moonshine No.24, January 1991
  31. '"New" pagan activities in eastern England' Albion's Sacred Heritage No.9 February 1991
  32. 'The quest for the omphalos Part 5' Mercian Mysteries No.6 March 1991
  33. 'EM in MK' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  34. 'DIY astro-archaeology' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  35. 'Angel or shaman?' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  36. 'Long-lost Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  37. 'Does magnetism distort your dreams?' Mercian Mysteries No.6, March 1991
  38. 'Tune in and turn Earth on' Mercian Mysteries No.7, April 1991
  39. 'Rutland' [field trip No.9] Mercian Mysteries No.7, April 1991
  40. 'St John's or Little John's Stone, Leicester'Mercian Mysteries No.7, April 1991
  41. 'The riches of a "prehistoric desert"' Mercian Mysteries No.7, April 1991
  42. 'Reality or illusion?' Northern Earth Mysteries No.46, May 1991
  43. 'Losing my innocence in Wiltshire' Touchwood Vol. 4 No.13 May 1991
  44. 'Memories from stones' Markstone No. 5 July 1991
  45. 'Market Harborough' (field trip No.13) Mercian Mysteries No.8, August 1991
  46. 'New Age or new order?' Mercian Mysteries No.8, August 1991
  47. 'Son of stones' Mercian Mysteries No.8, August 1991
  48. 'Old and 'new' stone circles in Oxfordshire' Mercian Mysteries No.8, August 1991
  49. 'The hills are alive...' Touchwood Vol 4 No.14 August 1991
  50. 'Godmanchester's astronomical temple' Mercian Mysteries No.9 October 1991
  51. 'What can we learn from the words of the Prophet?' Mercian Mysteries No.9 October 1991
  52. 'Ritual deaths of Anglo-Saxon kings' Hidden History Vol.3 No.4 October 1991
  53. 'Dacre's bears' Northern Earth Mysteries No.48 November 1991
  54. 'Standing stones of Leicestershire' Village Voice Winter 1991
  55. 'Initiations' Talking Stick Winter 1991
  56. 'Getting stuck in' The Unicorn (no number or date) January 1992
  57. 'Joint Mercian Mysteries and Northern Earth Mysteries Moot Saturday and Sunday 26th & 27th October' Mercian Mysteries No.10 February 1992
  58. 'Magnetism does distort your dreams' Mercian Mysteries No.10 February 1992
  59. Wreake Valley field trip Mercian Mysteries No.10 February 1992
  60. 'Sneaky snooper-camera susses spook?' Mercian Mysteries No.10 February 1992
  61. 'Where Earth and sky meet' Northern Earth Mysteries No.50 April 1992
  62. 'Santiago de Compostela' Mercian Mysteries No.11 May 1992
  63. 'Warwickshire corpse ways' Mercian Mysteries No.11 May 1992
  64. 'What is "normal" anyway?' Mercian Mysteries No.12 August 1992
  65. 'St Ann's Well, Church Langton, Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.12 August 1992
  66. 'Leyhunter - some results' Andy Norfolk and Bob Trubshaw Mercian Mysteries No.12 August 1992
  67. Gloucestershire field trip report Mercian Mysteries No.12 August 1992
  68. 'The quest for the omphalos' RILKO Journal No.40, July 1992
  69. 'A review of the obvious' Small Press World Summer 1992
  70. 'The preconceptions by which we view our world' Markstone No.7, August 1992
  71. 'A new science of Earth mysteries - an overview of Rupert Sheldrake' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  72. '"Stoned" in the stone age' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  73. 'The quest for the omphalos revisited - Oxford' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  74. 'Mercian Mysteries field trip No.23 - Warwickshire' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  75. 'Yet more stones of Leicestershire' Mercian Mysteries No.13 October 1992
  76. 'Initiations v. freethought' Talking Stick No.8 November 1992
  77. 'The black stone - omphalos of the goddess' Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  78. 'The Stamford Taurus' Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  79. 'A possible alignment' (Shropshire) Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  80. 'News from the frontline' Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  81. 'Should all ley hunters drink a toast to Bonnie Prince Charlie?' Mercian Mysteries No.14 February 1993
  82. 'Dowsing - the good, the bad and the muddled' Mercian Mysteries No.15 April 1993
  83. 'Putting things straight' The Cauldron No.68 April 1993
  84. 'Avebury field trip report' Mercian Mysteries No.16 July 1993
  85. 'Hilton, Royston and Saffron Walden field trip report' Mercian Mysteries No.17 November 1993
  86. 'Lincolnshire field trip report' [with Bob Dickinson] Mercian Mysteries No.17 November 1993
  87. 'A rediscovered standing stone near Old John' Mercian Mysteries No.17 November 1993
  88. 'Vernemetum and the Anglo-Saxon cemetery' Mercian Mysteries No.17 November 1993
  89. 'Where are our myth makers?' Mercian Mysteries No.18 February 1994
  90. 'Royston cave and related caverns' Mercian Mysteries No.18 February 1994
  91. 'Them and us' The Ley Hunter No.120 February 1994
  92. 'Landscapes and mindscapes' Mercian Mysteries No.19 May 1994
  93. 'Gilgamesh' Mercian Mysteries No.19 May 1994
  94. 'Black dogs in folklore' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  95. 'Black dogs - guardians of the corpse ways' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  96. 'Otherwordly straightness' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  97. 'The Celtic fallacy' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  98. 'Oh no! They're at it again! The Birmingham Northern Relief Road and Western Orbital Motorway' Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  99. 'Wirksworth, Derbyshire' [field trip report co-authored with Norman Fahy] Mercian Mysteries No.20 August 1994
  100. 'Monuments as ideas' Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  101. 'Goddess or queen? The enigmatic carving at Braunston in Rutland' Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  102. 'Buried standing stone in Leicestershire churchyard?' (Grimston) Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  103. South Warwickshire field trip report Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  104. 'Mitchells Fold, Shropshire' Mercian Mysteries No.21 October 1994
  105. 'The metaphors and rituals of time and place: an introduction to liminality' Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
    (Revised version published as 'Why Christopher Robin wouldn't walk on the cracks' in LiminalSpace No.1 Spring 2000.)
  106. Northamptonshire field trip report Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  107. 'A possible Nottinghamshire to Northamptonshire alignment' Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  108. 'What did prehistoric people think? The science of cognitive archaeology' Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  109. 'Sing me that old, slow melody' [poem] Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  110. 'Bronze age rituals in Turkmenistan' Mercian Mysteries No.22 February 1995
  111. 'From mountain to temple to house' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  112. 'Loch Finlaggan, Islay' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  113. 'Six Hills - an Anglo-Saxon moot site' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  114. 'Dream incubation' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  115. 'Iron age shield boss from Ratcliffe' Mercian Mysteries No.23 May 1995
  116. 'Black dogs and hell hounds' Talking stick 1995
  117. 'The illusion of landscape' Mercian Mysteries No.24 June 1995
  118. 'Anglo-Saxon church alignments' Mercian Mysteries No.24 June 1995
  119. 'Leicestershire's holy wells' Leicestershire now! September 1995
  120. 'Secret county' [Leicestershire crosses] Leicestershire now! October 1995
  121. 'Boudica's last battle - the possibilities compared' [introduction] Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  122. 'Boudica - the case for Atherstone and Kings Cross' Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  123. Cambridge field trip report Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  124. 'Delphi, laurel leaves and altered states' Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  125. 'Mercian Mysteries: the end and the future' Mercian Mysteries No.25 November 1995
  126. 'Secret county' [Leicestershire stones] Leicestershire now! November 1995
  127. 'Pulling some pagan faces' Leicestershire now! December 1995
  128. 'Exploring past and place' At the Edge No.1 March 1996
  129. 'The fifth direction - sacred centres in Ireland' At the Edge No.2 June 1996
  130. 'Exploring past and place - where next?' [report on 17th TAG Conference] At the Edge No.2 June 1996
  131. 'The glossy pages' At the Edge No.2 June 1996
  132. 'The Green Men of Warmington' Northamptonshire Local History News Vol.III No.9 May 1996
  133. 'Paganism in British folk customs' At the Edge No.3 September 1996
  134. 'At the Edge on the World Wide Web' At the Edge No.3 September 1996
  135. 'Who's fringe now?' Assemblage No.1 September 1996
  136. 'The facts and fancies of the foliate face' At the Edge No.4 December 1996
  137. 'Cosmic Houses' At the Edge No.5 March 1997
  138. '"Far away is close at hand in images of elsewhere" - a peep at TAG96' At the Edge No.5 March 1997
  139. 'Beyond Indiana Jones versus the Mother Goddess' At the Edge No.6 June 1997
  140. 'Weaving the world' At the Edge No.6 June 1997
  141. 'Making time' At the Edge No.7 September 1997
  142. 'The altering state of rock art research' At the Edge No.8 December 1997
  143. 'Fairies and their kin' At the Edge No.10 May 1998
  144. '"Do not call it fixity" – continuity in archaeology and folklore' 3rd Stone No.34 April-June 1999
  145. 'Six Hills: an Anglo-Saxon moot site' Wolds Historical Society Newsletter August 2000
  146. Various articles about folklore, mythology and cultural studies for the Foamy Custard Web site including an overview of cultural studies, politics of culture and the English and the 'Other' (January 2003).
  147. 'From cultural evolution to cognitive linguistics: theory in British folklore studies' 3rd Stone No.45 January 2003 [closely related to the Foamy Custard article 'An overview of folklore theory']
  148. 'Dream incubation' 3rd Stone No.46 April 2003
  149. 'The Stonehenge we deserve' 3rd Stone No.47 November 2003
  150. 'Geomagnetism: from dream incubation to dowsing' 3rd Stone No.47 November 2003
  151. 'Psychology and the study of folklore and mythology' Foamy Custard June 2003
  152. 'Folklore is all about us' Local History Magazine No.95 April 2004 p23–4
  153. 'Green men and gargoyles' Leicestershire and Rutland Life March 2005 p49–51
  154. 'More and better: the impact of technology on local history publishing' Local History Magazine No.100 (Jan/Feb 2005) p25
  155. 'Gurning and tongue poking: an insight in the minds of medieval masons'. Church Building No.94 (July 2005) p48–9
  156. 'Sacred Places: prehistory and popular imagination', The Watkins Review No.11 (Summer 2005) p28
  157. 'Listening to the landscape', Pentacle No.15, October 2005 p41–3
  158. '"A funny lot": Indexing and local history books', The Indexer Vol.24 No. 4 Oct 2005 p184–5
  159. 'Thinking about places', Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in History and Archaeology Vol.1 No.2 (dated Winter 2004; published Spring 2006) p35–50
  160. 'Wymeswold's Wells', The Wolds Historian No.3 (Sept 2006) p20
  161. 'The making of a legend: Black Annis and her Bower', Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol. 80 (2006) p95–111
  162. 'Face – and flesh – of evil?', Leicestershire Chronicle, Jan 2007 p16–17
  163. 'Mawming and mooning the minds of medieval masons' Leicestershire Historian No.43 Oct 2007 p32–5
  164. 'Black dogs in folklore: Some reflections on the subject and on recent English language scholarship' Australian Folklore No.22 (2007)
  165. 'Goddess worship and shamanism' Pentacle No.26 (2008) p21–3
  166. 'The restoration of St Mary's, Wymeswold, 1955-9', The Wolds Historian No.4 (2008)
  167. 'The planning of Wymeswold', The Wolds Historian No.4 (2008)
  168. 'Wysall's "Wise Boy"', The Wolds Historian No.4 (2008)
  169. 'Rev Henry Alford while at Wymeswold', The Wolds Historian No.4 (2008)
  170. 'Phillip Brown - Wymeswold's cricket legend', The Wolds Historian No.4 (2008)
  171. 'Wysall Lane, Wymeswold', The Wolds Historian No.4 (2008)

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