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Sophia Adamowicz

Jan 157 min read

“At the edge of promises and prophecies”: a paranormal investigation of Oliver Cromwell’s house

“I don’t like being here in the dark,” says one of the house’s staff members, who has ironically been given the job of keeping us company...

Sophia Adamowicz

Nov 25, 20227 min read

A Night in the Haunted Room

Everywhere you look in the Great Hall at Kentwell, something stares back at you. Suits of armour cast looming shadows in the musician’s...

Sophia Adamowicz

Sep 23, 20225 min read

Soaking up the forest: A botanical bathe in Thetford

“You don’t get wet during forest bathing,” I’d said, when my partner asked why I was leaving my swimming costume in the cupboard. “Unless...

Sophia Adamowicz

May 31, 20224 min read

Folk Without the Horror: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Garland King

With the Platinum Jubilee around the corner, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the only royal on everyone’s mind is Elizabeth II. Not...

Sophia Adamowicz

Feb 3, 202211 min read

Interview with Brian Sykes, Production Designer on Inside No. 9

For as long as I’ve been alive, Brian Sykes has been building up an impressive portfolio in the television and film industries [1]. This...

Sophia Adamowicz

Dec 23, 20215 min read

How to make a ‘biblically accurate’ Christmas tree angel

It’s rare that my academic interest in esoteric spirituality coincides with my partner’s devotion to internet meme culture, but when it...

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Sophia Adamowicz

Oct 26, 202111 min read

Aloof from the commonplace: reflections on the working notes of Robert Murray Gilchrist

By Sophia Adamowicz One of the standout pieces of dialogue in Alan Bennett’s The History Boys is uttered by Hector, a damaged yet...