Feature: “Who ya gonna call? Spiritualism in Victorian Plymouth & Exeter”

Hypnotic séance. Painting by Swedish artist Richard Bergh, 1887 (artwork in public domain)

BY JAMES GREGORY Devonport in the early 1870s. A former Baptist minister from Bristol leads meetings in the gas-lit parlour of a tradesman. The audience gather around an ordinary cloth-covered table. But the phenomena that they are there to experience will be decidedly out of the ordinary. Over the next few years, members of various… Continue reading Feature: “Who ya gonna call? Spiritualism in Victorian Plymouth & Exeter”