The early 20th century saw the peak of the spiritualism movement, and one of the biggest names to come out of that movement ...
It is difficult to imagine how popular spiritualism was in America 150 years ago. The notion that the living could ...
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, ...
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.
The latest season of the WW1 drama Home Front explores the unearthly appetite for Spiritualism. Interest in the movement hit its peak during the First World War. As the death toll mounted ...
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.
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.
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.