Haunted Britain

Name: Haunted Britain
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ISBN: 9781526194954

Spiritualism, psychical research and the Great War

Kyle Falcon

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Manchester University Press
29 April 2026

20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural history; First World War; Spiritualism

Series: Cultural History of Modern War

Haunted Britain offers a new emotional and cultural history of the Great War as told through the spiritualist and psychical research movements between 1914 and 1939.

The Great War haunted the British Empire. Shell shocked soldiers relived the war's trauma through waking nightmares consisting of mutilated and grotesque figures. Modernist writers released memoirs condemning the war as a profane and disenchanting experience. Yet British and Dominion soldiers and their families also read prophecies about the coming new millennium, experimented with seances, and claimed to see the ghosts of their loved ones in dreams and in photographs. On the battlefields, they had premonitions and attributed their survival to angelic, psychic, or spiritual forces.

For many, the war was an enchanting experience that offered proof of another world and the transcendental properties of the mind. Between 1914 and 1939, an array of ghosts lived in the minds of British subjects as they navigated the shocking toll that death in modern war exerted in their communities.

By: Kyle Falcon
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 391g
ISBN: 9781526194954
ISBN 10: 1526194953
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 29 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kyle Falcon is a Historian specialising in the British Empire during the First World War. He is based in Ontario, Canada.

Reviews for Haunted Britain: Spiritualism, psychical research and the Great War

'This is a rich academic study... it shows an impressive skill in locating individual case studies to explore in both printed and archival materials in ways that can illuminate larger historical trajectories.' Prof. Roger Luckhurst 'Drawing upon a range of archival sources as well as the voluminous relevant published literature from the period, Falcon has cast valuable new light on some familiar subjects. Haunted Britain will be welcomed by First World War historians exploring faith and religion, and also by those interested in the wider cultures of science and spiritualism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.' Owen Davies, Journal of British Studies -- .