How Old Is The Magic Circle?

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You mean you don't know? No, it doesn't count if you had to Google it.

The Magic Circle is 105 this year.

It was founded in 1905, when stage magic was incredibly popular with the theatre-going public and was initially proposed by Neil Weaver and Martin Chapender, both magicians, who felt that there was an open risk of the exposure of trade secrets.

In the wake of Chapender's untimely death at the very young age of 25 a group of amateur and professional magicians assmebled to found an...