📚 Researchers can now book appointments to consult the material in Special Collections & Archives.
📧 shl.specialcollections@london.ac.uk
(Please note: some sensitive material is included.)

In total: 309 folders of letters, ideas, disagreements, and insights into a century of paranormal inquiry.

The newly accessible files include:
• Letters on the 1930 R101 airship crash and its controversial séances
• Correspondence with the Magic Circle
• Exchanges with figures like Archibald Jarman, Kathleen Goldney, Trevor H. Hall & Marcello Truzzi

Dingwall spent his life investigating the paranormal: debunking fraud, chasing evidence, and debating with psychical researchers, sceptics, and magicians around the world.

They’ll be on display through November and December. Here’s hoping the remaining missing books find their way home too. Come see them for yourself!

Featuring work by Briony Hellon-Hughes, May Dearlove, Caroline Harris, Francis De Lima, Will Montgomery, Redell Olsen, Isabelle Masters, Verity Rowsell, Dani Salvadori, and Wilson Seiler.

Discover rare maps, early plans, and archival treasures tracing the evolution of rail transport in Britain, and learn how to use these materials for your own research.
Perfect for historians, transport enthusiasts, and anyone curious about how railways reshaped our world.

Wander through rooms reimagined as creative stages — from typewritten bat poems to poetic bird boxes and oceanic installations.
📅 11 Nov 2025 | 5–7 PM
📍 Senate House Library, London
Discover, listen, and play. Free to attend — don’t miss it!

www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Positively ghoulish 👻