Conan Doyle vs. Kipling in the Question of Spiritualism

Experiencing History

Since the arrival of spiritualism in Britain people have been curious about it. Many went out of their way to prove it untrue, like Houdini, while others resolutely believed in it. (WikiCommons) In an anonymous letter to The Courier in 1919, the fashion for communicating with the dead was captured in a description of “mothers and friends of fallen soldiers resorting to table-rapping, creakings, automatic writing through the medium of the planchette, Ouija, heliograph et...