A biography of Katterfelto. Hundreds of newspaper advertisements made him one of the notorious men of his time. Their outrageous claims included discovering a c

History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.

In Wonder Shows, Fred Nadis offers a colorful history of these traveling magicians, inventors, popular science lecturers, and other presenters of “miracle sci

This collection explores how location shaped sociability in the Romantic period.