{"id":733,"date":"2018-02-01T21:13:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2018-08-29T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T16:40:04","slug":"harry-price-and-the-ghosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsparkes.com\/blog\/harry-price-and-the-ghosts\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Price and the Ghosts"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’ll be talking about my time as a research fellow\u00a0at the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature for the South East London Folklore Society<\/a> this Thursday 8th Feb at 8pm, The Old Kings Head, 47-49 Borough High Street SE1.\u00a0 Talk starts at at 8pm, arrive earlier to get a good seat. Further details below.
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\nGhost hunting in the Magical Library: Harry Price and the Ghosts of Senate House
\n<\/strong>Psychical researcher, magician and paper bag salesman Harry Price left his Library of Magical Literature to the University of London on his death in 1948. The library includes some of the oldest books on magic, both of the paranormal and legerdemain variety. The collection also contains Prices own publications, detailing his research into a number of the famous mediums and paranormal phenomena of the times.
\nBetween 2008 \u2013 2011 artist and curator Sarah Sparkes was a research fellow at the University of London, Senate House, where her research centred on the Harry Price Library. During her fellowship and in response to Prices\u2019 ghost hunting legacy Sparkes co-hosted a series of research seminars \u2013 the GHost Hostings <\/a>\u2013 featuring many prominent experts on ghosts, collected and archived Senate House ghost stories <\/a>with Chris Josiff and wrote an academic paper on the visualisation of ghosts in popular culture and visual arts. Sparkes relationship and interest with Price and Senate House has continued to date, including participation in the Bloomsbury Festival as the Psychic Librarian in 2013 and a commission for s\u00e9ance month at Senate House in 2014<\/a>.
\nSparkes will talk about Harry Price, his Magical Library and psychical research as well as her extraordinary experiences of being an artist \u2018making ghosts\u2019 at the Magical Library.
\nSparkes runs the arts and research project GHost<\/a>.\u00a0 She has talked widely on ghosts and GHost both across the UK and internationally including The Ghost Club, London Fortean Society, Tate Modern, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and Williamson Tunnel\u2019s Heritage Centre.\u00a0 Her recent commission \u2018The GHost Formula\u2019 included a project to collect and archive undocumented Liverpool ghost stories.
\nThe event is held in the upstairs room of the Old King\u2019s Head & costs \u00a35\/1.50 concession
\nemail cunningfolkmusic@gmail.com to book a place in advance or chance your arm & roll up on the night<\/div>\n
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