Nicholas Campion

Dr Nicholas Campion

Nicholas Campion (born 4 March 1953),^[1] is an historian with particular expertise in cultural history and the history and contemporary culture and practice of astrology.^[2] He is the author of a two volume history of Western Astrology.

He is a native of Bristol, England.^[1] As an author and lecturer, he has written on the history of astrology, apocalyptic and millennial beliefs, and New Age culture. He studied history at Queens' College, Cambridge and took his MA at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.^[3] He is Senior Lecturer in the School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, director of the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, and course director of the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.^[4] He also taught on the degree programmes at Kepler College, Seattle, Washington.^[5] He is on the international executive committee of the conferences on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena^[6]; the editorial director of the Sophia Centre Press, and has acted as a past chairman of the Advisory Panel of Astrological Education.^[3]

Books

Author of several books on the history of astrology, including:

• Campion, Nicholas: "An Introduction to the History of Astrology" (1982) ISBN 0-9508412-0-X
• Campion, Nicholas: "The Great Year: Astrology, History and Millenarianism in the Western Tradition" (London: Penguin, 1994) ISBN 1357908642
• Campion, Nicholas: "Astrology, History and Apocalypse" (2000).
• Campion, Nicholas: "A History of Western Astrology" 2 Volumes (London: Continuuum, 2008,9) ISBN 1-85285-257-7.
• Campion, Nicholas: "What Do Astrologers Believe?" (London: Granta Books 2006).

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Garry Phillipson (1999), Interview with Nick Campion, The Astrological Association of Great Britain
2. ^ Miller, Martin. Best of British Men (Bath Press, 1993) p.269 ISBN 0951863118
3. ^ ^{a b} Lewis, James, R. The astrology encyclopedia, p.105. Gale Research, 1994. ISBN 9780810389007.
4. ^ Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology at School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
5. ^ Tebbs, Carol MA. President's Address, Kepler College, Seattle, WA (2004) "The Faculty – Lee Lehman and Dennis Harness, Deans. Nicholas Campion, Demetra George, Georgia Stathis and Mark Urban-Lurain." www.kepler.edu
6. ^ Corsini, Enrico Maria, The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series Vol. 441, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, San Francisco, 2011, p. xiii, ISBN 9781583817629

External links

• Nick Campion website
• Staff page at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David

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