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  • Home
    • Brian Hoggard
    • Contact
    • Media work
    • Lectures
    • Some further reading
    • Dorset Survey
    • Ralph Merrifield
    • Links
  • SHOP
  • Hidden Charms Conference
    • 2025 Hidden Charms 5
    • 2023 Hidden Charms 4
    • 2021 Hidden Charms 3
    • 2018 Hidden Charms 2
    • 2016 Hidden Charms 1
  • Concealed Objects
    • Witch Bottles
    • Shoes >
      • Concealed Shoes - an article by June Swann
    • Dried Cats
    • Horse Skulls
    • Written Charms
  • Protection Marks
    • Circles and daisy-wheels
    • Deliberate burn marks
    • Marian Marks >
      • Goatchurch Cavern marks
    • Mesh marks
    • Hand and shoe outlines

Hidden Charms: the bi-annual conference on magical house protection and related topics

Every two years there is a conference on this wonderful topic. Expert speakers from around the world converge on an historic British city to share their research on magical house protection in a friendly and supportive environment. The format is that each of our speakers get 20 minutes to deliver a focused piece of research and then there are 10 minutes for them to field questions from the attendees. One of the other things people really enjoy about the day is that there is a 45-minute break in the morning and in the afternoon where everyone can mingle, chat and enjoy tea/coffee and biscuits!

Our first conference was in 2016 in Norwich, the second was in 2018 in Salisbury. The third Hidden Charms conference, delayed due to covid, took place in 2021 in Chester. For more info on any of these please follow the links:
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2025 Cardiff
Saturday 12th April, 2025.





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2023 York

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2021 Chester

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2018 Salisbury

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2016 Norwich




The transactions of the Hidden Charms 1 & 2 are available free of charge on Academia.edu which you can find via my profile page there.
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