Join us on a exploration of the West End, as we relive the entertainments on offer to nineteenth-century Londoners…

We’ll be particularly focusing on the venues where science met entertainment, new discoveries met traditional showmanship and audiences were entranced (and surprised) by the wonders of the age. Step this way then for a trip back to the scientific wonders of the Victorian age…

Ross MacFarlane is an archivist who has 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”, as well as “Notes and Records of the Royal Society”.