Spirits and Socialists

Logie Barrow. Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850-1910, History Workshop / Routledge Kegan Paul. 1987.

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Home Sweet Home

Trevor Hall. The Enigma of Daniel Home, Medium or Fraud. Prometheus Books, 1984.

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It's Witchcraft

Manfred Cassirer, Medium on Trial, The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witchcraft Act. P. N. Publications, 1996.
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Things To Do When You're Dead

Trevor Hamilton.  Tell My Mother I’m Not Dead: A Case Study in Mediumship Research Imprint Academic, 2012.

Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson and Debbie James (Eds.) The Handbook of Near-Death Experiences: Thirty Years of Investigation. Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2009.

John G. Sabot.  Digging up Ghosts: Unearthing Past Presences at a Haunted Location. Ghost Evacuation Books, 2013.

Trevor Hamilton.  Tell My Mother I’m Not Dead: A Case Study in Mediumship Research Imprint Academic, 2012.

Losing the Spirit

Ruth Brandon. The Spiritualists: The Passion for the Occult in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Wiedenfeld and Nicholson, 1983.

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Historical Spirits

Janet Oppenheim, The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England, Cambridge University Press, 1985

Spiritualism and Feminism

Alex Owen. The Darkened Room. Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late 19th Century England. Virago, 1989.

Laboratories of Faith

John Warne Monroe. Laboratories of Faith: Mesmerism, Spiritism and Occultism in Modern France. Princeton University Press, 2008.

Talking to the dead

Barbara Weisberg. Talking to the Dead: Kate and Maggie Fox and the Rise of Spiritualism. Harper SanFrancisco, 2004.

Is There an Afterlife?

David Fontana. Is There an Afterlife? O Books, 2005.

The Hidden Houdini

William Kalush and Larry Sloman. The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of America's First Superhero. Atria Books, 2006.

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Spirits and Society

Jenny Hazelgrove. Spiritualism and British Society Between the Wars. Manchester University Press, 2000.

On the Night Side

Antonio Melechi. Servants of the Supernatural: the Night Side of the Victorian Mind. William Heinemann, 2008. 

Spiritualism and scandal

Barbara Goldsmith. Other Powers: the Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull. Granta, 1998.

Spiritualism and Religious Experience

John B. Buescher. The Other Side of Salvation: Spiritualism and the Nineteenth Century Religious Experience, Skinner House Books, 2004.