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How to play in secret

In secret games the strangers around you are playing too. They just don’t know it. Read on for some great ideas for undercover fun at work, school – or almost anywhere.

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Dynamo on the past, present and future of magic

The magician takes a tour and shares stories of history and inspiration.

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When monarchs healed the sick

Our current Queen fortunately doesn’t have to spend hours laying hands on the sick to cure them. But it was a different story for monarchs of the early modern era, whose touch was a sought-after treatment for scrofula.

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Medieval doodles

Fish, lute players and defaced demons: marginal doodles in some of Europe’s first printed books provide a tantalising glimpse into the late-medieval mind.

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  • Thomas King Chambers. Photograph by E. Edwards, 1868.
  • Forty eight bishops of Chichester. Engraving by Thomas King, 1812, after T. Bernardi, 1519.
  • Saint Thomas's Hospital, Southwark: the enfilade of three courtyards, surmounted by portraits of King Edward VI, Sir Francis Prujean and Thomas Wharton. Oil painting.
  • Antiquities found in stone coffins in Chichester Cathedral, including silver chalices and gold rings. Engraving by Thomas King, 1830.
  • Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945), physician to the King. Oil painting by Harry Herman Salomon after a photograph.
  • Sir Thomas Barlow (1845-1945), physician to the King. Oil painting by Harry Herman Salomon after a photograph.
  • The shrine of Saint Thomas of Canterbury: King Henry II being scourged in penance. Coloured etching by J. Carter, 1794.
  • A catalogue of the ... library ... Which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. King and Chapman ... on ... June 29, 1789, and the eight following days / [Thomas Healde].
  • Portrait of Thomas Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench.
  • Saint Wilfred (Wilfrid, Wilfrith) the Younger (of York): he petitions King Cædwalla of Wessex to grant him land, at Selsey, which is granted. Engraving by T. King, 1807.
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