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Dr Eric Dingwall was a friend, associate, rival and occasional enemy of the more publicity-hungry Harry Price. Appointed Research Officer for the Society for Psychical Research, Dingwall's specialism was physical mediumship, a mainstay of numerous mediums' performances before, between, during and after the two World Wars.
In public, Dingwall could be frustratingly sceptical (much to the chagrin of his SPR colleagues), but private communications tell a different story. Certain mediums had impressed him with their displays of apparently fraud-proof and inexplicable phenomena.
At the end of the War he was appointed Honorary Assistant Curator of the British Musuem's Private Case, a secret collection of erotic, pornographic, libellous and blasphemous literature. Dingwall was an acknowledged expert in this area, consulted by a number of police forces investigating cases with unusual sexual or occult overtones.
Librarian and author Chris Josiffe (Gef! The Strange Tale of an Extra-Special Talking Mongoose) reveals all about this unusual and intriguing character.
WARNING: Contains adult images.

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