The new £145 academic collection Magical Tourism and Enchanting Geographies: Storytelling, Heritage, Fantasy, and Folklore (2025) has the chapter “Can you hear the knights breathing? Invisible heritage and the magic of Alderley Edge”. For which I can find an abstract at least…
“… home to a legend of which variant versions are found across Europe from antiquity to the present: the legend of the sleeping king or hero and his army, who will awaken when need is greatest. [I explore] the relationship between the legend (as a distinctly medievalist imagining), its medieval precedents, and its new re-imaginings in contemporary literary and oral culture of the NW Midlands [of England], which present a new chapter in a long regional oral and literary culture of storytelling as placemaking.”
Presumably the chapter relates partly to the Invisible Worlds project (2020-23), which created a phone-app AR guide for visitors to Alderley Edge.
