Harry Price Timeline - 1936-1939
 

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            Harry Price & Related Events World Events
1936

 January 23 G.P.J. L'Estrange gives radio talk on Borley Rectory on In Town To-Night programme

 February Confessions of a Ghost Hunter is published

 March Rev. A.C. Henning becomes rector of Borley

 March The Haunting of Cashen's Gap collaboration with R.S. Lambert is published

 March 10 HP makes live broadcast from a haunted house in Meopham, Kent

 Autumn HP writes first article for Enclyclopædia Britannica

 November HP's library transferred on permanent loan to University of London as 'Harry Price Library of Magical Literature'

 June 12 Classic ghost story writer M.R. James dies

1937

 January 22 Dinner held in HP's honour by University of London Council for Psychical Investigation at Hotel Splendide

 March Termination of lease at 13 Roland Gardens; new offices open at 19 Berkeley Street, Mayfair

 March 20 University of Bonn offer HP Department of Psychical Research

 April 7 Televised fire-walking experiments with Ahmed Hussain at Carshalton & Alexandra Palace 

 April 9 Fire-walking experiments with Ahmed Hussain

 April 13 HP entertained at the University of Bonn

 April 20 Fire-walking experiments with Ahmed Hussain

 May 7 Rev. A.C. Henning writes to HP expressing willingness to rent Borley Rectory for unspecified period

 May 19 HP tenancy of Borley Rectory begins

 May 25 HP places advert in The Times for observers to visit Borley

 May 31 Sidney H. Glanville becomes first 'official observer' at Borley

 June 2 HP visits Borley Rectory with Ellic Howe

 June 16 HP makes all night visit to Borley

 June 19 Sidney Glanville and son Roger visit Borley for first time

 June 26 Mark Kerr-Pearse visits Borley for first time

 July 2 Sidney Glanville visits HP at Pulborough

 July 5 HP entertained to dinner by University of London at Athenæum

 July 21 Visit by HP to Borley

 November Laboratory & equipment transferred to University College, University of London

 

1938

 March 15 First dinner of revived Ghost Club with HP as Chairman

 March 27 'Sunex Amures' planchette message at Sidney Glanville's house in Streatham, South London

 May 9 HP tenancy of Borley Rectory ends

 May 26 Stanley Moger inventory of Borley Rectory sent to Ecclesiastical Commission

 July 15 Experiments at Carshalton with Rahmen Bey

 November 1 HP gives radio talk on Borley

 December Capt. Gregson buys Borley Rectory

 

1939

 February 27 Borley Rectory is destroyed by fire

 March 28-30 HP visits Borley & interviews witnesses

 Easter First visit by Cambridge Commission to Borley

 April HP meets Sir George & Lady Whitehouse

 April 15 Capt. Gregson broadcasts on Borley on In Town To-night radio programme

 March Telepathy tests organised through John O' London's Weekly

 June 21 'Psychic Fête' held in grounds of Borley Rectory

 October Fifty Years of Psychical Research is published

 October Berkeley Street offices closed

 December HP produces Draft Bill for the regulation of psychic practitioners

 

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