• Staging magic – a magical book exhibition at Senate House

    Up high in the imposing Senate House in Bloomsbury, a magical exhibition of conjuring history has recently opened.The history of performing magic is often shown more often in stage materials, such as posters and music hall ephemera, but this is a very different collection – mainly of books.
    For a trade that famously guards its secrets, they are often quite easy to read about, simply by picking up a suitable book – and books on magic first appeared as early as 1584, although Reginald

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