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Elliott O'Donnell: Strange Cults and Secret Societies of Modern London

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7.45pm Thursday 30 August 2018
This event has completely sold out! We're really sorry if you did not get a ticket and we shall attempt to run this popular talk again. 

 The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX.
Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. 
Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East

 In 1934 Elliott O'Donnell, the world-famed prince of ghost hunters published Strange Cults and Secret Societies of Modern London. It tells strange stories behind many covert organisations including the Thirteen society, the Black Brothers, Chinese secret societies and black magic, the Mafia, the Tree cults, the Suicide Society, the Cult of Cruelty, The Goats and Sophienism. 

 Fr Alan Walker revisits O’Donnell’s classic book in the light of modern thinking about religious cults, moral panics and enthusiasm for the esoteric. Is his work fiction masquerading as fact, or should it be read more critically as a picture of contemporary fears and social experiments?

 7.45pm Thursday 30 August 2018
This event has completely sold out! We're really sorry if you did not get a ticket and we shall attempt to run this popular talk again. 

The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX.
Train and Tube: Liverpool Street. 
Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East
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