Nobody has contributed more to researching and recording magic history than Eddie Dawes (1925-2023). Yet magic ...
Talks
Magicians and historians put a great deal of effort into preparing illustrated talks which may only be delivered on one occasion. For some years we have felt it would be good to do what we can to capture some of this research and make it available to a wider audience.
To achieve this, the words and images of the presentations have been converted to PDF documents.
We are grateful to fellow collectors and historians who have made their own talks available in PDF form and allowed us to include them here.
Please contact the curator if you would like to propose your own talk for inclusion.
This section of the website is dedicated to Dr Edwin A Dawes. Eddie has inspired so many collectors and historians by his own example. The importance he attached to the three Cs of collecting – Collect, Collate, Communicate – is the approach to which this website aspires.
On 9 February 2012 Anne Goulden gave this talk at the British Music Hall study group in London. It follows Lewis ...
We are grateful to Paul Freeman who has given us permission to include this PDF version of his talk, which he has ...
Peter’s talk traces the development of magicians’ programmes from the 19th century into the 20th century. He ...
David Price is well placed to offer insight into the joys and pitfalls of collecting magic books. He has stories ...
This talk covers new insights into the private and business lives of Goldston. It is based on a study of the ...
Roy presented this talk in the History of Mystery session at the British Ring of the International Brotherhood of ...
Nobody is better placed than Donald to tell the story of Goodliffe the Magician and the magazine Abracadabra which ...
Alexander and Annie Fay (not Anna Eva Fay), who were performing in the late 1800s, might be all but forgotten ...
Anne has unearthed new information on the eight year journey that took Maskelyne and Cooke from Cheltenham to the ...
In 1994 Eddie delivered this talk in Ayr, Scotland, on the occasion of the unveiling of a plaque dedicating the ...
The magical career of Herr Adalbert Frikell, the son of Wiljalba Frikell, saw both high spots and low spots. Paul ...