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Tracing J. S. M. Ward s extraordinary life and career from Edwardian Freemasonry and wartime spiritualism to his apocalyptic visions this biography of the famed spiritualist, mystic, historian, and lifelong collector of antiquities embodies the cultural turmoil of an age of collapsing empires, religious fragmentation, and world war. The work discusses how, in 1934 just outside of London, Ward started the Abbey Folk Park, an innovative history museum where his interest in esoteric heritage, world cultures, and the occult attracted much attention. The book then goes on to show how he was...

The Late-Victorian cultural mission to London's slums was a peculiar effort towards social reform that today is largely forgotten or misunderstood. The philanthropy of middle and upper-class social workers saw hundreds of art exhibitions, concerts of fine music, evening lectures, clubs and socials, debates and excursions mounted for the benefit of impoverished and working-class Londoners. Ginn's vivid and provocative book captures many of these in detail for the first time.

In refreshing our understanding of this obscure but eloquent activism, Ginn approaches cultural...