Glamour and Mystery: 100 Years Of The Cottingley Fairies

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London Fortean Society, in partnership with Conway Hall, present a night marking the centenary of the Cottingley Fairies case. Michael Terwey of the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford discusses how the photographs were taken and how they fitted in to the Spiritualist culture of the time and Professor Diane Purkis asks why Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, along with many others, so wanted to believe in fairies. Image credit: Kristian Nordestgaard - Frances and the Fairies

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