WARNING: Talk contains adult images
Tuesday 27 August 2024
8pm (Doors 7.30)
£5 / £3 concessions (Advance tickets)
The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX
(Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East)
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Dr
Eric Dingwall was a friend, associate, rival, and occasional enemy of
the more publicity-hungry Harry Price. Appointed Research Officer for
the Society for Psychical Research, Dingwall's specialism was
physical mediumship, a mainstay of numerous mediums' performances
before, between, during and after the two World Wars. In public,
Dingwall could be frustratingly sceptical (much to the chagrin of his
SPR colleagues), but private communications tell a different story.
Certain mediums had impressed him with their displays of apparently
fraud-proof and inexplicable phenomena.
At
the end of the War he was appointed Honorary Assistant Curator of the
British Musuem's Private Case, a secret collection of erotic,
pornographic, libellous and blasphemous literature. Dingwall was an
acknowledged expert in this area, consulted by a number of police
forces investigating cases with unusual sexual or occult overtones.
Librarian
and author Chris
Josiffe
(Gef!
The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking
Mongoose) reveals all about this unusual and intriguing character.
Mongoose) reveals all about this unusual and intriguing character.
Tuesday 27 August 2024
8pm (Doors 7.30)
£5 / £3 concessions (Advance tickets)
The Bell, 50 Middlesex Street E1 7EX
(Tubes: Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Aldgate East)
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