Tom Ruffles

Digitisation of old newspapers and journals is making a wealth of hitherto difficult-to-access material available to researchers. At one tim...

Hiding the Elephant , by Jim Steinmeyer Jim Steinmeyer has provided a very entertaining look at the history of stage magic from the early ni...

Some time ago I reviewed a book called The Articulate Dead by Michael E Tymn. He had referred to Eleanor Sidgwick, a significant early figu...

This article appeared in Fortean Times No 261, a special issue dated April 2010, pp.64-65. The issue had a number of articles related to ...

Jack the Ripper: The Casebook, by Richard Jones In a crowded marketplace even the keenest student of Jack the Ripper has to ask if yet anoth...