I am a historian and writer based in London.
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I write on the history of minority religious traditions and their relationship with the hegemonic majority.
I am particularly interested in the history of revived paganism and the history of esoteric and occult movements.
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I have a PhD and other postgraduate degrees from the University of Cambridge.
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I have many years' experience of teaching and public speaking, and I am available for talks and lectures.
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My academic CV may be seen below. I have also written for various non-academic publications.
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Academic CV
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Credentials
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• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in History, University of Cambridge
• Master of Letters (MLitt) in Classics (specialism of ancient religious history), University of Cambridge
• Master of Arts (MA), University of Cambridge
• Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Classics (specialism of ancient history), University of Cambridge
• Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classics (double first-class honours), University of Cambridge
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Publications
Books
• Paganism Persisting (2024), Exeter University Press (co-written with Francis Young)
• The Pagan Revival: A Documentary History of Modern Paganism, 1700-1950 (forthcoming in 2025), Equinox Publishing
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Articles - History of religions
• “The anti-Jewish riots of 1911”, forthcoming in Welsh History Review
• “A Case of Clerical Magic involving Treasure Hunting from 1880”, Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 19 (2024), 94-106
• “Fear and Fantasy in the Nineteenth Century”, Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism 7 (2024), 1-12
• “Where are Jews at home?” in Responses to 7 October, Rosa Freedman and David Hirsh (eds.), vol. 1 (London: Routledge, 2024), 37-43
• “The Eucharist of the Latter-day Saints”, Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 61 (2024), 271-294
• “Towards a Reception History of the Chaldaean Oracles”, International Journal of the Classical Tradition 28 (2021), 261-84
• “A Masonic Hymn to the Sun”, Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft 15.1 (2020), 92-123
• “A Microcosm of the Esoteric Revival: The Histories of the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram”, Correspondences 8.2 (2020), 1-40
• “John Fransham, the Norwich Polytheist”, Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture 6.1 (2020), 20-49
• “‘Do What Thou Wilt’: The History of a Precept”, Religio 27.1 (2019), 17-41
• “The Finding of Hidden Texts in Esoteric and Other Religious Traditions”, Correspondences 7.2 (2019), 339-66
• “Apuleius and the Esoteric Revival”, Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies 2.2 (2019), 260–76
• “An Esbat among the Quads: An Episode of Witchcraft at Oxford University in the 1920s”, The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 20.2 (2018), 157-78
• “John Henry Newman and the Uses of Antiquity”, British Catholic History 34.1 (2018), 129-54
• “Discourses of Paganism in the British and Irish Press During the Early Pagan Revival”, The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies 19.1 (2017), 5-24
• “Witches, Odin, and the English State: The Legal Reception of a Counter-Cultural Minority Religious Movement”, Journal of Law and Religion 32.3 (2017), 449-69
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Articles - Classics
• “Battlefield Epiphanies in Ancient Greece: A Survey”, Digressus 4 (2004), 1-14
• “Gender and Transgression in Sophocles’ ‘Electra’”, Classical Quarterly 53 (2003), 377-388
• “‘Sing, Muse...’: The Introit from Homer to Apollonius”, Classical Quarterly 52 (2002), 33-49
Articles: Law
• “Referendums That Time Forgot”, U.K. Const. L. Blog (17th Feb 2017)
• “Royal Assent in the British Constitution”, Law Quarterly Review 132 (2016), 495-505
• “The British Overseas Territories and ‘Direct Rule’”, U.K. Const. L. Blog (12th Apr 2016)
• “When Should the Lords Reject Secondary Legislation?”, U.K. Const. L. Blog (7th Dec 2015)
• “Socially Responsible Investment”, IPEBLA Journal 69 (2010)
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Note: Some of the above articles are published under the name of Graham John Wheeler
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Awards
2019 – Annual essay prize, British Association of Decadence Studies
2010 – Tony Thurman Award, International Pension and Employee Benefits Law Association
2009 – Annual essay prize, Association of Pension Lawyers in Ireland
2005 – British Gas Cup, Leicester De Montfort Law School
1997-2004 – Series of prizes and scholarships from University of Cambridge and Girton College, including Chancellor’s Medal for Classical Learning