Dr Dingwall's Casebook, Part One: A Sceptical Enquirer; Part Two: ‘Dirty Ding’.

Josiffe, Christopher (2013) Dr Dingwall's Casebook, Part One: A Sceptical Enquirer; Part Two: ‘Dirty Ding’. Fortean Times (299 & 300) .

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Eric John Dingwall, author, anthropologist, librarian, psychic investigator, and, to some, the ‘British Kinsey’ is less well-known than his erstwhile colleague and sometime adversary, Harry Price, but is a figure of equal interest. Part one deals with Dingwall’s long and sometimes fractious relationship with Price, and with his colleagues in the Society for Psychical Research. Part two opens with a detailed examination of a particularly impressive and perplexing case of physical mediumship that Dingwall investigated -the Mina Crandon or ‘Margery’ mediumship. It also looks at Dingwall’s post-WW2 work for the British Library, as Honorary Assistant Keeper of its ‘Private Case’ (erotica and other obscene literature), and his friendship with Alfred Kinsey.

Item Type	Article
Additional Information	Dr Dingwall's Casebook, Part One: A Sceptical Enquirer. Fortean Times (299); Dr Dingwall's Casebook, Part Two: ‘Dirty Ding’. Fortean Times (300).
Keywords	Eric Dingwall, Society for Psychical Research (SPR), parapsychology, spiritualism, physical mediumship, Harry Price, Margery, Mina Crandon, British Museum, Private Case, Alfred Kinsey
Subjects	History Sociology & Anthropology
Divisions	Senate House Library
Date Deposited	15 Jul 2013 08:50
Last Modified	05 Aug 2024 23:58