London Fortean Society

We are repeating this event on Tuesday 19 May in partenrship with Conway Hall. Details and tickets are available from the following link:   The Improbability Principle 19 May 2015 . 8pm (doors 7.30pm) Thursday 26 February 2015 This event has now sold out. Sorry if you did not get a ticket. We will hopefully be booking it again this year. Please watch this space! The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NR Bus / train / tube: Liverpool Street Coincidences happen, incredibly unlikely things occur, and the apparently miraculous comes about. The improbability principle says that such extraordinarily improbable events are commonplace. It shows that this is not a contradiction, but that we should expect identical lottery numbers to come up more than once, lightning to strike twice, and financial crashes to occur. Professor David J. Hand is Senior Research Investigator and Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College, London. His applications...

We are repeating this event on Tuesday 30 June in partnership with Conway Hall. Details and tickets are available from the following link:   The Terror of London: Spring-heeled Jack and the Victorian Metropolitan Press .  8pm (doors 7.30pm) Thursday 29 January 2015 £3 / £2 concessions. This event has now sold out. Sorry if you did not get a ticket. We will hopefully be booking it again this year. Please watch this space! The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NR Bus / train / tube: Liverpool Street One of London's greatest monsters, Spring-heeled Jack has held the city's imagination in his claws since he first appeared as "a ghost, a bear, and a devil" right up to contemporary comics and internet radio dramas  featuring the leaping horror of legend . This talk explores Spring-heeled Jack’s appearances in and relationship to Victorian London. It considers his origins in the capital, and the way the metropolitan press gave life ...