Secret Bloomsbury

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This historical walking tour is your chance to uncover the Bloomsbury that nobody knows, where you'll encounter spiritualists, spies, sorcerers and scientists in the heart of literary London.

From nuclear bunkers to tales of teleportation, hidden scientific experiments to impregnable Victorian vaults, join your guide as he exposes the secrets of this extraordinary area.


Ross MacFarlane is a professionally qualified archivist, with over twenty years’ experience working on the history of science and medicine. He has researched, lectured, and written on a range of topics, such as aspects of the occult, the history of early recorded sound, and the collection of amulets and charms in Edwardian London. He is a regular book reviewer for “Fortean Times” and has also published in magazines and journals such as “New Scientist”, “The Lancet”, “Folklore”, “Notes and Records of the Royal Society”, and has contributed to books such as “The Morbid Anatomy Anthology” (2014) and “A Practical Course in Magnetism: The Victorian Guide to Health, Happiness, Power and Success” (2017). As well as being an Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary University London, he currently serves on the managing council’s of the Folklore Society and the British Society for the History and Science.