21 September 2021, 6 pm | Launch Event | Short Film | online Dr Nik Taylor and Ashton Carter will bring their theatrical experience ‘Séance: A View through the Veil’ to film for the first time! Watch as they recreate a selection of spirit contact vignettes where guests would appear to glimpse through […]
Events
27 January 2022, 6:30–8pm | Live Talk | Café Scientifique, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford During the opening decades of the twentieth century, William Hope was a well-respected medium amongst the spiritualist community in Britain, with positive endorsements from major scientific figures such as the chemist William Crookes and […]
24 November 2021, 6:15–9pm | Live Talk | Lates, Science Museum, London ‘Is the invisible visible?’ was the first question posed to Wilhelm Röntgen in an interview conducted shortly after his sensational discovery of X-rays in 1895. This new technology enabled the eye to penetrate solid flesh, revealing the living skeleton hidden […]
30 September 2021, 6:30–8pm | Live Talk | Café Scientifique, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford In December 1920, The Strand Magazine published a series of sensational photographs taken by two young girls from Cottingley that allegedly showed real-life fairies dancing at the bottom of their garden. Their authenticity was vouched by no less […]
30 June 2021, 6–7 pm | Digital Lecture In this talk, award-winning photographer Shannon Taggart discusses the history of spirit photography and its influence on her own documentary work with the Lily Dale Spiritualist Assembly, recently published in her Fulgur Press book Séance. An artist based in St. Paul, MN, […]