Experiencing Britain’s Ruins: Revenants and Remains at Five Northern English Religious Houses is an exciting programme of public events, tours, workshops and other activities that has been generously funded by an Arts and Humanities Research Council Follow-On Funding for Impact and Engagement Award.

As the Oxford English Dictionary defines it, a revenant is ‘A person who returns from the dead; a reanimated corpse; a ghost’.

These meanings of the term ‘revenant’ lie at the heart of Experiencing Britain’s Ruins, for, from the medieval period onwards, each of our chosen sites has been associated with tales of ghosts, spectres, visions and other forms of supernatural activity.