press, media & appearances
TALKS & APPEARANCES
Romancing the Gothic
“Romancing the Gothic is an ongoing, free-to-access online educational project run by researcher Dr Sam Hirst that explores the Gothic, horror, folklore, and supernatural fiction across different eras, media, and academic fields.”
I will be presenting my accepted talk, ‘An Introduction to Folklore from Below: Working-Class Knowledge, Everyday Belief and the Stories History Misses’, on Saturday 23rd October 2027.
TALKS & APPEARANCES
MEMRN Winter Conference 2026: Otherworlds
“Otherworlds is an interdisciplinary conference exploring literary, artistic, mythical, spiritual and social otherworlds across medieval and early modern studies.”
I will be presenting my accepted paper, ‘When the Maid Sleeps: Fairy Labour, Service and the Early Modern Household’, as part of Panel Session Six: Creatures of the Otherworld on Saturday 14th November 2026.
RESEARCH & WRITING RECOGNITION
London Writers Centre
“‘The Archive of Superstition searches Britain’s supernatural past for the ordinary lives history left behind. From ghost stories and omens to charms and strange encounters, it asks what supposedly irrational beliefs can reveal about work, danger, care, community and survival. Reading folklore as an unofficial archive of working-class experience, the book histories preserved not in institutions, but in the stories people told, remembered and passed on.”
One of six winners of There Is Only Narrative 2026 for my non-fiction proposal ‘The Archive of Superstition’.
TALKS & APPEARANCES
The Folklore Society & Royal Anthropological Institute
“‘When Loud Rumour Speaks’: Informal Communication in the Modern Online World is the Tenth Folklore Society–Royal Anthropological Institute Joint Seminar, exploring rumour, informal communication and vernacular knowledge.”
I presented my paper, ‘Haunted Estates: Supernatural Rumour, Working-Class Memory and the Informal Archive in England’, on Thursday 15th October 2026.
TALKS & APPEARANCES
Things That Go Bump In The Night
“‘Things That Go Bump in the Night’ is a scholarly conference inviting student researchers from across the world to celebrate conversations on a wide array of scary literature. Research focuses include monsters, myth and folklore, setting, frightening themes, authors, and more. Established in 2025, this annual event is free to conference presenters and auditors.”
I will be presenting my accepted paper titled ‘Who Gets to Haunt? Class, Voice and the English Ghost Story as Informal Archive’ on Saturday 24th October 2026.
RESEARCH & WRITING RECOGNITION
The Kipling Society
“The First Prize was awarded to Hannah Walton’s remarkably well written ‘The Hollow Fetch’, which like Kipling makes the supernatural appear in the everyday, so that the vividly rendered details of ordinary life communicate a true frisson, while its needy spectre is frighteningly mysterious.”
Awarded First Prize for my short-fiction ‘The Hollow Fetch’, which was published on September 1st 2026 in The Kipling Society Journal.
RESEARCH & WRITING RECOGNITION
Paul Mellon Centre for British Art
“Hannah Walton to undertake MA History of Art with Curating at Birkbeck, University of London with a research focus on ‘Everyday Hauntings: British folkloric imagery, working-class life and visual cultures of care in Britain, c.1880-present’”
Awarded the £32,000 Paul Mellon Centre MA/MPhil Studentship for 2026/27 to support my MA research at Birkbeck, University of London.
TALKS & APPEARANCES
King’s College London
“This one-day, online workshop seeks to bring together scholars and community historians, policy makers and heritage activists who are committed to the reconceptualization of asylum burial grounds, memorialisation activism, and historical analysis of their afterlives.”
I will be presenting my accepted paper titled ‘Haunted Ground: Asylum Burial Grounds, Working-Class Folklore and the Informal Archives of Institutional Death’ on Tuesday October 27th 2026.
PRESS & FEATURES
The Big Issue
“Hannah’s journey, fuelled by personal experience and driven by a genuine desire to ensure no young person faces similar barriers, makes her an exemplary candidate for recognition. Her unyielding dedication to uplifting the lives of young people across the UK, coupled with her determination and resilience, embodies the essence of a true Changemaker.”