Nicholas Campion

Dr Nicholas Campion

Campion in 2010
Born 4 March 1953
Bristol, England
Residence United Kingdom
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Institutions
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Website
www.nickcampion.com

Nicholas Campion (born 4 March 1953), is a British astrologer and historian of astrology and cultural astronomy. He is the author of a number of books and currently pursues an academic career.

Career

Astrology

Campion is a former Daily Mail astrologer, where he took over from John Naylor, the son of R. H. Naylor, the first sun sign astrologer.[3] He was president of the Astrological Lodge of London from 1985–7 and of the Astrological Association of Great Britain from 1994–99.[4][5][6] He published a number of books on the practice of astrology between 1987 (The Practical Astrologer) and 2004 (The Book of World Horoscopes).

History of Astrology and Cultural Astronomy

Concurrently with his activities as an astrologer Campion researched and published on the history of astrology and cultural astronomy. His book on millenarianism, The Great Year (1994) was described by Daily Telegraph journalist, Damian Thompson, as ‘a monumental study of historical schemes’. In 1997 he founded the peer-reviewed journal Culture and Cosmos [7]

Academica

In 2005, he became Principal Lecturer in History at Bath Spa University.[8] Campion 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.[9] He also taught the history of astrology at the unaccredited Kepler College, now located in Seattle, Washington.[10]

Books

Campion is the author of many books on astrology and its history, including:

Awards

References

  1. Lewis, James, R. The astrology encyclopedia, p.105. Gale Research, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8103-8900-7.
  2. http://www.astro.com/edu/ed_soph2_e.htm
  3. "Interview with Nick Campion - Part 2". Astrological Association. Retrieved 6 October 2014.
  4. http://www.cpalondon.com/nick.html
  5. "Ariadne". New Scientist. 3 February 1990.
  6. "Check it Out: Hi-tech Alternatives". The Independent. 30 January 1999. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
  7. http://www.cultureandcosmos.org/index.html
  8. Oestmann, Gűnther, H. K. von Stuckrad, G. Oestmann and D. Rutkin (eds.), (2005) Horoscopes and Public Spheres: Essays on the History of Astrology, Walter de Gruyter: Berlin and New York, p. 275. ISBN 9783110185454
  9. Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Anthropology at School of Archaeology, History and Anthropology, University of Wales Trinity Saint David
  10. 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
  11. Burnett, Bev (22 September 1988), "Star grazing", Chicago Sun-Times, (subscription required (help))
  12. Review of The Great Year by Heath-Stubbs, John Francis Alexander, Contemporary Review, 1 November 1995 (subscription required)
  13. BOOKS / Paperbacks by Blake, Robin, The Independent, 23 October 1994
  14. Readers' round-up, The Scotsman, 9 September 2000 (subscription required)
  15. Review of Galileo's Astrology, Boner, Patrick J., Renaissance Quarterly, 22 March 2006 (subscription required)
  16. Mark Edmond Jones Award, 1992 for scholarly and innovative work for his The Book of World Horoscopes
  17. Beyond Belief? James Langton interviews Nicholas Campion, Robert Currey and Liz Greene,. (23 August 1992) Sunday Telegraph Review. "He (Campion) is accepted as a "serious" astrologer, a winner of the prestigious Marc Edmund Jones Award in Washington earlier this year for his work on "mundane astrology"."
  18. 18.0 18.1 Lewis, James R. (2003) The Astrology Book: The Encyclopedia of Heavenly Influences, Visible Ink Press, MI, USA
  19. Charles Harvey Prize 2002
  20. Regulus Award 2002 for professional image
  21. Regulus Award 2012 for theory and understanding

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