{"id":600,"date":"2017-10-13T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=600"},"modified":"2020-05-13T18:18:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:18:16","slug":"portsmouth-darkfest-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?p=600","title":{"rendered":"Portsmouth Darkfest returns! October 26th &#8211; November 30th 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr Karl Bell, Reader in Cultural and Social History at Portsmouth, has organised another series of events this autumn as part of Portsmouth Darkfest, a creative and cultural festival that explores all things dark, supernatural and sinister. For details of the wide range of exciting events taking place, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/portsmouthdarkfest\/?fref=mentions\">click here<\/a>. Karl\u2019s research interests\u00a0cover\u00a0nineteenth-century British society\u2019s\u00a0continued fascination with supernatural beliefs, magic and folklore, and feeds into his final year Special Subject, Magic and Modernity: Witchcraft and the Occult, c. 1800-1920s.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"601\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/?attachment_id=601\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Darkfest-e1507831865518.jpg?fit=619%2C299&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"619,299\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Darkfest\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Darkfest-e1507831865518.jpg?fit=619%2C299&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-601\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Darkfest.jpg?resize=828%2C315\" alt=\"\" width=\"828\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Karl Bell, Reader in Cultural and Social History at Portsmouth, has organised another series of events this autumn as part of Portsmouth Darkfest, a creative and cultural festival that explores all things dark, supernatural and sinister. For details of the wide range of exciting events taking place, click here. Karl\u2019s research interests\u00a0cover\u00a0nineteenth-century British society\u2019s\u00a0continued fascination with supernatural beliefs, magic and folklore, and feeds into his final year Special Subject, Magic and Modernity: Witchcraft and the Occult, c. 1800-1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[100,48,14,101,104,99,274,103,102],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-darkfest","tag-folklore","tag-history","tag-magic","tag-occultism","tag-portsmouth-darkfest","tag-spiritualism","tag-supernatural","tag-witchcraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/history.port.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Darkfest-e1507831865518.jpg?fit=619%2C299&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p91PlX-9G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}