Buy tickets now for The Terror of London: #SpringHeeledJack and the #Victorian Metropolitan Press! One of Londons greatest monsters, Spring-heeled Jack has held the citys imagination in his claws since he first appeared as a ghost, a bear, and a devil right up to contemporary comics and internet radio dramas featuring the leaping horror of legend. This talk explores Spring-heeled Jack’s appearances in and relationship to #VictorianLondon. It considers his origins in the capital, and the way the metropolitan press gave life to a strange urban legend that went on to terrorise the rest of the country. Dr Karl Bell is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth. He has published on a variety of topics linked to magic and the supernatural in nineteenth-century Britain. He is the author of two books, The Magical Imagination: Magic and Modernity in Urban England 1780-1914 (Cambridge University Press, 2012), and The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures (Boydell & Brewer, 2012 - bit.ly/9781843837879). The latter won the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award. 8pm (doors 7.30pm) Thursday 29 January 2015 £3 / £2 concessions. Advanced Tickets (10% booking fee). The Vaults Bar, Dirty Dicks, 202 Bishopsgate, City of London EC2M 4NR Bus / train / tube: Liverpool Street | London Fortean Society
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 15:20:01 +0000
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