London Fortean Society

£5 plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Wednesday 11 May 2016 7.30pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn / Directions . Facebook event page John Dee’s central lie about his life is still uncritically accepted: that under Queen Mary, like other Protestants, he had been persecuted. This talk will outline the true story, which shows how Dee’s angelic magic affected not only his own life but those of the most prominent Elizabethans who shared much of his ‘occult philosophy’. Professor Glyn Parry is the author of The Arch-Conjuror of England: John Dee (Yale University Press, 2011) £5 plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Wednesday 11 May 2016 7.30pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn / Directions . Facebook event page

7.45pm Thursday 28 April 2016 £4 / £2 concessions ( Advance tickets ) The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook page   Hypnotism has fascinated people since the mid-1800s, when entertainers and medical professionals enthusiastically took up this Far Eastern practice. It inspires many questions, mostly of a personal nature such as: “Can I be hypnotised?” and “Will I lose control?” Christopher Green tackles the (relatively) reputable aspects of the subject - brain imaging, clinical trials and hypnotherapy - alongside the smoke and mirrors of stage hypnosis. He has uncovered intriguing stories about the larger-than-life characters that inhabit the world of hypnosis. From Professors of Mesmerism to Princes of Necromancy, this book explores the different guises of hypnotism as portrayed by pseudo-scientists and showmen alike. Christopher, who is trained in both hypnotherapy and stage hypnosis, examines ...

London Fortean Society in partnership with Conway Hall present Cathy Ross:  Designing Utopia: John Hargrave and the Kibbo Kift £5 plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Wednesday 13 April 2016 7.30pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn / Directions.  Facebook event page Cathy Ross, Honorary Research Fellow at Museum of London, has collaborated on the first detailed account of the remarkable British writer and artist John Hargrave and his three creations The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, The Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit and The Social Credit Party of Great Britain. Combining art, politics and design to visually stunning effect, Hargarve and his followers created a maverick but uniquely English form of modernism. Emerging from the turbulence of the twentieth century, this colourful Utopian youth movement has strong resonances with the twenty-first-century world. Cathy Ross will discuss this fascinating organisation with us. £...

London Fortean Society in partnership with Conway Hall present Subterranea: Myths, Mysteries and Magic of the Underground World £8 plus booking fee ( Advance tickets ) Saturday 9 April 2016 2.30-5.30pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL Tube: Holborn / Directions .  Facebook event page We are all lying in the gutter but some of us are gazing at the sewers.   Beneath our feet echoes another world of folklore, magic and the dead. Join the London Fortean Society for three talks on terra incognita : the world of tunnels, caves, caverns and underground labyrinths from English folklore to occult secrets to urban legends of the London Underground. Urban Legends of the London Underground: Scott Wood Just as fairy tales warn of the dangers of going in to the woods alone London’s urban legends are often horror stories about going alone down in to the London underground. Plague pits seethe beneath your feet in the most unlikely places, corpses ride o...

7.45pm Thursday 31st March 2016 £4 / £2 concessions ( Advanced tickets ) The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East Facebook page This event has sold out. We are very sorry and we hope to re-host it at a later date.