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 […]
Daily Archives: May 21, 2021
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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, […]
Dr Efram Sera-Shriar, Science Museum Group When friends and colleagues speak with me about my research on modern spiritualism, I am often asked if I can show them a cool example of a spiritualist artefact, and to their immense disappointment, I usually hand them a piece of chalk. While at […]