This article will examine the relation between popular ghost-hunting and scientific psychical research in interwar England. It focuses on the way in which Harry Price conveyed ghost-hunting as a legitimate science while seeking to retain its popular appeal. Price's efforts in this regard allow historians to trace some preliminary connections between the ideas and practices of the 'occult' in the period and certain broader themes including that of the relation between heritage and modernization, as well as the public perception of science and the supernatural.
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