Courtesy of the SPR Facebook page, here's a short Movietone News film from 1935 entitled "Psychical Research" featuring Harry Price, billed as "Honorary Secretary, University of London Council for Psychical Research". Price - then in his James Randi rather than his Uri Geller mode - shows off his library and laboratory, and even produces Joanna Southcott's box and rummages through its contents:
(2018-06-05, 07:49 AM)Chris Wrote: [ -> ]Courtesy of the SPR, here's a recent blog post about (probably) Price's strangest case - Gef the Talking Mongoose, on the Isle of Man:
http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/201...-mongoose/
Gef was the subject of a well received book by Christopher Josiffe, and has his own Wikipedia page, website and blog.
Mysterious Universe has an article on a new book on Gef the Talking Mongoose, which seems to be a reprint of the original text by Harry Price and Richard Lambert with additional material. (Helpfully, the article has a lengthy extract from Britannica.com explaining what "Isle of Man" means, for those who don't know.):
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/12/t...-the-news/
Reviews of the book on Amazon could be described as "mixed." Three are full of praise, but the fourth says:
"This is a terrible (and legally dubious) reprint of Price and Lambert's original 1930s book. The supplementary material is atrocious, poorly-researched bilge. The whole enterprise stinks of opportunism."
https://www.amazon.com/Gef-Talking-Mongo...1606119877
I wondered myself about the copyright situation. Last year was the 70th anniversary of Price's death - 70 years after death being the UK copyright criterion - so perhaps that is what's prompted the reprint. But his co-author, Lambert, survived until 1981 (according to Wikipedia), so the original book is very much still in copyright, even in the UK.
I recently came across Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's, often terse, letters to Harry Price. They are available
here.
Harry Price included a chapter, My Struggle with Conan Doyle, in his
Leaves from a psychist's case-book.