From the moment of its arrival in Britain in 1852, modern spiritualism became hugely popular among all sections of society. As well as offering mysterious and entertaining séance phenomena, ...

The early 20th century saw the peak of the spiritualism movement, and one of the biggest names to come out of that movement ...

Franklin, J. Jeffrey 2012. The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula. Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, p. 127.

The Modern Spiritualist movement dates from 1848 when the Fox sisters of Hydesville, New York produced knocking sounds that were alleged to be messages from a spirit. Spiritualists communicate ...

Elaine Caxton plays Dolly Clout in Home Front It isn’t hard to see what would have attracted people to spiritualism at a time of such crisis. The spectre of death loomed large in wartime Britain.

It is difficult to imagine how popular spiritualism was in America 150 years ago. The notion that the living could ...

As the most famous illusionist in the world, Houdini was naturally drawn into the great debate over Spiritualism in the wake of World War I, eventually becoming one of its most vocal opponents.

Both Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle hardly need an introduction. Yet, not everyone knows that the two had a brief yet ...

People are inevitably surprised, then, to find out that the real Conan Doyle was a far more complex man, one whose fervent belief in Spiritualism dominated the final dozen years of his life.

Statues of angels are dotted around the room and ambient music plays as one of the original rockers describes how "spiritualism guided me through life". The peacefulness is a world away from the ...

The correspondence to retired marine officer and clairvoyant Capt John Bartlett shows the Sherlock Holmes' author's enthusiasm for spiritualism, and frustration with his peer and magician Harry ...