Earlier this month I was contacted by a reporter from the Tokyo newspaper Chunichi Shimbun with questions on ghost beliefs in the UK. The occasion for the query was the Obon Festival – the time of the year when spirits of the dead are believed to reunite with their families –, which is currently celebrated … Read more
After the first Patreon prize draw in February, I was excited to announce the winner, Dr. Ian J. Thompson, a theoretical physicist who also happens to hold rather heretical views on the relationship between science and ‘magic’. After all, one central theme of Forbidden Histories is the problem of continuity: Contrary to popular notions according … Read more
Gabriel Finkelstein is Associate Professor of History at the University of Colorado Denver, where he teaches courses on Modern Germany, Modern Europe, History of Science, and History of Exploration. He has a degree in physics from Amherst College and a doctorate in history from Princeton University. He recently published a biography of the German physiologist … Read more