“..19th century history has never been so fresh, so entertaining or quite so surprising...”
.. The Guardian

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Professor Heard’s Peerless Magic Lantern Shows
Traditional Victorian family entertainment
Original showman’s magic lantern and amazing colourful, hand-painted Victorian picture stories, sights, frights, moral warnings and mechanical moving pictures from before the movies
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Recent winter shows 2009
The American Museum in Bath...Red House Museum & Art Gallery, Christchurch... Brewery Arts, Cirencester  and ‘Points of View’ at the British Library
 

Picture: Carlos Franco/international Gothic Association Conference 2009

Dark Lantern - Ghosts and the Gothic

In addition to family shows the ‘Professor’ presents projects drawing on material from the more sinister side of the lantern’s activities

Mervyn is the author of Phantasmagoria - the Secret Life of the Magic Lantern which examines its use by 17th century necromancers, spiritualists and stage illusionists

Follow link to Gothic for more information
 
Follow link to Pepper’s Ghost
for full details of  the Professor Pepper’s Ghost Series Talks
at the University of Westminster, Regent Street, London
A programme of free talks on aspects of optical magic
fortnightly at 7pm
 

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