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One of London's greatest monsters, Spring-heeled Jack has held the city's imagination in his claws since he first appeared.
One of London's greatest monsters, Spring-heeled Jack has held the city's 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.
This talk explores Spring-heeled Jack’s appearances in and relationship to Victorian London. 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 and Brewer, 2012). The latter won the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award.
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Date and Time: |
29 January 2015 at 7:45 pm |
Duration: | 2 hours 30 minutes |
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Venue: |
The Vaults at Dirty Dicks |
Organised by: |
London Fortean Society |
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Tickets: |
£3 / £2 concessions |
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the door |
Additional Information: |
Liverpool Street & Aldgate East stations 7.45 for 8pm start. |
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