Natural History
Landscape
History
Folklore
About the author
Adam Carew
Adam Carew is a professional author, lecturer and speaker, and has featured on radio, television and social media.
A qualified historian and passionate ecologist, Adam also has a keen interest in archaeology, landscape, folk tradition and the Arts.
He is a regular contributor to local newspapers and is perhaps best known as a community campaigner and veteran local Councillor for the new Hampshire Green Town of Whitehill & Bordon. His career has included being a Mayor, Leader, District Council Chairman, National Chairman of his former party’s Green Wing, and a prospective MP.
Talks & Walks
Adam gives lectures and talks to students and community groups on a wide variety of topics, some of which are listed below.
In addition Adam provides guided walks, wildfood forays and ghost walks by arrangement.
For further details or tailor-made lectures or events please contact Adam at TheSelbornePress@gmail.com.
History & Folklore
Christmas Customs & Folklore
Place names
William Cobbett
History of Woolmer Forest
History & Archaeology of
Whitehill & Bordon
Historic hauntings, Ghosts of:
East Hampshire; Winchester;
Farnham; Southampton;
Portsmouth; Hampshire.
Natural History
Rewilding
Wild Food & Foraging
Wildlife Gardening
Native Plants
Native Trees, their Uses & Folklore
Mammals of the British Isles
Farming & Wildlife
Habitat Management & Ecology
Guided walks & tours
Fungi Forays
Wild food & Foraging
(including cooking demonstration and tasting)
Local Heritage Tours
Discover the haunted areas of Hampshire and Surrey with Adam Carew.
Adam Carew’s Historic Hauntings Series draws together ghostly tales from right across Hampshire, putting them in their historical context.
Beautifully designed and in full colour the books are the perfect size to take exploring.
Join author Adam Carew, as he explores ghostly legends and harrowing accounts of hauntings from all over Hampshire.
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From phantom smugglers and Resurrection men in Britain’s most haunted parish of Bramshott, to the haunted tower at Warblington Castle home of one of last Plantagenets – Margaret de la Pole, brutally beheaded after 10 strokes of the axe on the orders of Henry VIII.
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As he retells the traumatic murder of Sweet Fanny Adams in Alton, the barbarous exploits of the Hawkhurst Gang at Rowlands Castle, of devil dogs and ancient curses, from the regicide of William Rufus in the New Forest to ghostly echoes of English Civil War battles at Cheriton, Alton and Old Basing.
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Through haunted lanes and taverns of Mediaeval Southampton, to Portsmouth’s infamous Wymering Manor, relive the tales of assassin John Felton who murdered the Duke of Buckingham in Old Portsmouth and “Jack the Painter” – publicly hanged from the Mast of the Arethusa for attempted arson of Portsmouth Dockyard. From the execution of Dame Alicia Lisle outside Winchester’s Eclipse Inn to the ghosts of Farnham Castle to Waverley Abbey join Adam on this chilling and fascinating ghost tour around Hampshire and West Surrey.
Historic Hauntings Series
Adam was drawn into researching ghosts and ghostlore quite by accident.
“I was due to give a lecture to a community group who erroneously booked me to a talk about local ghosts. I didn’t have a talk but did not want to let them down, I put a lecture together and it went down a storm. That became the basis of my first book Ghosts of East Hampshire (now in its fifth reprint). Other books followed and the rest is History..”
