Tarot as Living Heritage: Preserving Britain’s Living Tarot Culture
Finbarre Snarey
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Regular (more than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional speaker / journalist and researcher
- Fee:
- Paid: From £75, plus agreed travel expenses where applicable. Online talks by arrangement.
- Category:
- Humanities
- Updated:
- 13th August 2026
- Tagged:
- Tarot | Rider Waite Smith | British Cultural History
Tarot is often treated as a collection of historic images, but its history also lives in the people who read, teach, adapt and pass on the cards. Drawing on the British Tarot Archive and the UK Rider-Waite-Smith living-heritage submission, Finbarre Snarey explores how tarot can be documented and understood as a continuing cultural practice.
Views: 10 | Enquiries: 0About Finbarre Snarey
Finbarre Snarey is an arts and culture journalist, producer and tarot researcher based in Nottinghamshire. He is the founder of the British Tarot Archive and creator of Tarot Interviews, an interview project that uses tarot cards and chance to create unusual conversations with writers, musicians, artists and other cultural figures.
His research explores tarot as cultural history and living heritage, including the Rider-Waite-Smith tradition, the work of artist Pamela Colman Smith, the preservation and circulation of tarot decks, and the changing place of tarot in British culture.
Finbarre has presented his tarot research at Goldsmiths, University of London, and works across journalism, podcasts, archives and festivals.
His talks explore unusual aspects of tarot, cultural history, interviewing and creative technology, combining original research with his experience of building independent arts and cultural projects.
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