Medium and Re-Medium mb-code 1238690 Nicola Bryant

Nicola Bryant

The Man with the Golden Helmet

Fire screens kept the heat of an open fire off your face while allowing you to warm the rest of your body

St Bride's is one of Christopher Wren's churches built to replace those destroyed by the Great Fire of London

From Provincial Characters

Medium and Re-Medium mb-code 1238690 Nicola Bryant'Medium and Re Medium', 1864. Here, Punch has a topical dig at the spiritual industry and the 'idiots of fashion' for providing such a fine harvest for the practitioners. The journal's point is well made by also depicting the Irish 'witch' recently sentenced to a term of imprisonment for utilising her skills to produce apparitions. Mid Victorians were often in the midst of death and this explains the intense interest in spiritualism. The rise in