Edited by Andrew Chapman

Founded in 1979, Northern Earth is the world’s longest-running journal combining interests in archaeology, folklore, neo-antiquarianism, earth mysteries, hauntology, psychogeography, and phenomenology, exploring the many ways in which people interact with place.

This quarterly magazine looks at historical and contemporary cultural and geographical environments free from agendas or beliefs. Each issue includes features and news on megalithic sites, alignments, sacred landscapes, other landscape issues, folklore, tradition, and strange phenomena.

Northern Earth’s 183rd issue contains the following features and regular departments…

• Season’s Gleanings: News from here and there… plus our curated list of free-to-read research, features from other journals, and obituary notices

• Stanley Beckensall and Patricia Crowther: Two influential figures remembered

• Diabolical Missiles: A battle between Christianity and paganism? Frank E. Earp explores stories of the stone-throwing Devil

• The Via Francigena: A Walk Through History: Phinella Henderson’s epic pilgrimage encompassed multiple paths of tradition

• The Mystery of Merlin’s Cleuch: Paul T. Hornby goes on a quest in the Scottish Borders

• The Rise and Fall of the Baum Rabbit: Simon Young looks for Rochdale’s leporine terror

• Thoughts on the Mnajdra Temples: John E. Palmer reflects on a trip to Malta and the changing state of its Neolithic sites

• Near and Far Horizons: Megalithic Networks Across the Irish Sea: Ian A. Ingram introduces his paper on stone circles in Northern Ireland and Cumbria

• A Reinterpretation of the Aubrey Holes and Station Stone Rectangle at Stonehenge: Peter Harris expounds upon the Harris and Stockdale megalithic foot

• Having your Say: Readers’ letters and discussions

• All Things Considered: Reviews of recently released books

• The Dodman: Not Forgotten: Andrew Chapman wanders in the Oxford footsteps of the inspirational John Aubrey

 …all of it handsomely designed, with full-color photographs throughout.

The Peculiar Parish Bookshop has acquired 50 copies of this recent issue. We are excited to share it with you.

 Cover image of John Aubrey (1626–1697). Published by Northern Earth (Spring 2026). A new 40-page pamphlet in perfect condition.