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TitleResearch Material.
Reference codeMS912/1
Date1806-1986
Scope and ContentScrapbooks (A-Z) and loose material comprising press cuttings, articles, advertisements, letters, references and some photographs reflecting Dingwall's work in psychical research, his efforts to discover those with genuine psychic ability and the exposure of fraudulent practitioners; those involved in the paranormal and parapsychology, and his interests in anthropology, medical issues and the criminal justice system. The material covers a wide range of subjects including seances and ouija sittings, mediums and spiritualists, hauntings, poltergeist activity, mesmerism, materialisations, parapsychology, fortune telling, palmistry, tarot readings and spirit and psychic photography. Other subjects include murder, child abuse and paedophilia, transgender and transexual people, prostitution, racism, crime, tribal cultures, artificial cranial deformity, circumcision, female chastity, evolution and religion. Reference numbers, issued by Dingwall, on the material can be cross checked with the index cards in series three of the catalogue however, please note some reference numbers appear to be missing and in some instances items are mis-numbered or have not been given a reference number. (A second series of scrapbooks referenced R-Z have been transferred to the Harry Price Collection).
Conditions governing accessOpen, subject to conditions outlined at fonds level.
Extent131 scrapbooks, 254 folders, 5 notebooks, 1 volume and 1 thesis
Level of descriptionseries