Spiritualism attempts to communicate with the dead through mediums.
It has been a feature of British life since Victorian times. The evolutionist Alfred Russel Wallace compiled a semi-textbook Miracles and Modern Spiritualism (1874). And the novelist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle proclaimed The New Revelation (1918).
But is it possible that the Spiritualist movement itself is not long for this world? Two traumatic events in 2010 suggested a crisis.
