RICHARD WEBSTER R.I.P.
Note on website www.richardwebster.net
It is with great sadness that we announce that Richard died on June 23rd 2011. He was at home in Oxford when his heart failed. A memorial service will be held in Oxford on Saturday 23rd July. For details, please contact richardwebsterexecutor@gmail.comrichardwebsterexecutor@gmail.com.
This site will continue to be available for the time being.
RICHARD WEBSTER was born in 1950 and studied English literature at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of A Brief History of Blasphemy: Liberalism, Censorship and 'The Satanic Verses', 1990; Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science and Psychoanalysis, 1995; Freud (Great Philosophers), 2003; and The Great Children's Home Panic, 1998. His most recent book, The Secret of Bryn Estyn: The Making of a Modern Witch Hunt (2005), was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. He lives in Oxford.
The Christmas Spirit in Ireland, 24 December 2005
Flat Earth News and the Jersey Child Abuse Scandal (Part 1) - 4 April 2008
Hermann Kelly's 'Kathy's Real Story' and Jersey - 10 May 2008
Casa Pia: The Making of a Modern European Witch Hunt by Richard Webster- 8 December 2010
Richard Webster - Obituary , The Guardian - 31 July 2011
In Memory of Richard Webster (Richard Webster and Ireland) - 14 August 2011
Richard Webster - Obituary, Daily Telegraph - 12 September 2011