1880s

Annie Besant | Biography

Annie Besant, the London-born freethought lecturer, Knowlton Trial defendant of 1877, Fabian Society founding member, Theosophical Society President from 1907 to 1933, and founder...

Daniel Dunglas Home | Biography

Daniel Dunglas Home, the Scottish-born Connecticut-raised medium of the Victorian period who produced phenomena across the drawing-rooms of London, Paris, Saint Petersburg, Rome...

Eusapia Paladino | Biography

Eusapia Paladino, the Italian peasant-born materialisation medium whose seances were investigated across the 1890s and 1900s by Cesare Lombroso, Charles Richet, Camille Flammarion,...

F. W. H. Myers | Biography

Frederic William Henry Myers, classical scholar, Cambridge Apostle, Inspector of Schools, and co-founder of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882. Coined the term telepathy in...

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky | Biography

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the Russian-born co-founder of the Theosophical Society in New York in 1875 with Henry Steel Olcott and William Quan Judge. Author of Isis Unveiled...

Henry Steel Olcott | Biography

Henry Steel Olcott, the American Civil War officer, agricultural-investigation journalist, and lawyer who became the first President of the Theosophical Society at its founding in...

Joseph Rodes Buchanan | Biography

Joseph Rodes Buchanan, the Kentucky-born physician who founded psychometry in 1841 through experiments with a sensitive who described the properties of metals and chemicals from...

Jules Verne | Biography

Jules Verne, the Nantes-born French writer whose Voyages Extraordinaires across the 1863 to 1905 period are the substantive cultural-grammar source of three documented...

Leonora Piper | Biography

Leonora Evelina Piper, the Boston-born trance medium whose eighteen-year working partnership with Richard Hodgson at the American Society for Psychical Research produced the two...

Marie Curie | Biography

Marie Skłodowska Curie, the Polish-born French physicist and chemist who co-discovered polonium and radium with Pierre Curie in 1898, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics, won...

Nikola Tesla | Biography

Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American electrical engineer, inventor of alternating current and the Tesla coil. The wireless-power years at Wardenclyffe, the 1899 Colorado Springs Mars...

Sir Oliver Lodge | Biography

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, the Liverpool and Birmingham physicist who built the Lodge coherer in 1894 and transmitted wireless signals across an Oxford lecture-theatre before...

Pierre Curie | Biography

Pierre Curie, the Paris physicist who co-discovered piezoelectricity in 1880 with his brother Jacques, shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics with Marie Curie and Henri Becquerel...

Richard Hodgson | Biography

Richard Hodgson, the Australian-born Trinity College Cambridge classical scholar who became the most consequential Society for Psychical Research investigator of his generation....

Sigmund Freud | Biography

Sigmund Freud, the Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis whose private interest in telepathy and thought-transference ran from the 1890s through to his death in London...

Thomas Edison | Biography

Thomas Alva Edison, the Ohio-born American inventor of the phonograph (1877), the practical incandescent light (1879), and approximately 1,093 patented devices across a working...

W. T. Stead | Biography

William Thomas Stead, the Northern Echo, Pall Mall Gazette and Review of Reviews editor whose Maiden Tribute investigation of 1885 raised the British age of consent and whose...

Sir William Crookes | Biography

Sir William Crookes, the chemist who discovered thallium in 1861, invented the Radiometer in 1872, gave his name to the vacuum tube Wilhelm Roentgen used to discover X-rays in...

William Stainton Moses | Biography

William Stainton Moses, the Lincolnshire-born English clergyman who served as a master at University College School London from 1871 to 1889 and produced under the pen name M.A....

Journal of the Society for Psychical Research

The members' journal of the Society for Psychical Research, London, published since 1884 for shorter reports and society business. The companion to the Society's Proceedings.

Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research

The research series of the Society for Psychical Research, London, published since 1882. The companion to the Society's Journal, carrying its longer studies and major reports.

Wonders

Wonders covered cryptozoology and anomalous phenomena with contributions from Mark A. Hall and other researchers, spanning material from the 1870s through the 1990s.