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The Society for Psychical Research Founded in 1882
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The Society for Psychical Research was founded in Britain in 1882 to investigate claims concerning apparitions, telepathy and related phenomena. Its formation belongs to a period when spiritualism, scepticism and attempts at systematic inquiry were publicly debated.
The society’s existence documents the history of investigation and belief, not the truth of any particular supernatural claim.
Source trail: Society for Psychical Research institutional history and nineteenth-century cultural scholarship.
Related Journal article: British Ghost Stories.
Catalogue reference HKA-001652
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