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Research 

This is a representative selection of my published research which is available on line. Please click on an image or bold title to go to the relevant website

Robert James lees sitting at typewriter The Psychic Hunt for Jack the Ripper

presented to The Whitechapel Society
London, October 2005


An analysis of the evidence available to support the claims that the Victorian medium Robert James Lees assisted the police in their investigations into the Whitechapel Murders of 1888
Theatre poster for Bernardo and Georgiana Eagle

Georgiana Eagle - Queen Victoria's clairvoyant revealed

published in Psypioneer Vol 1 No.15-16 with earlier material in
NewStead, the Journal of the W.T.Stead Society
July/August 2005

The first published account of the life of the elusive Georgiana Eagle. Other researchers have claimed she never existed. With references to original source material, this article proves that she was a very real person, the daughter of travelling magician George Barnardo Eagle

The Guildhall in Leicester Music, Bricks and Mortar

The Guildhall, Leicester
Friday 28 August 2009


Music for the Kings and Queens of England, presented as part of the 2009 Castle Park Festival.  Stephen Butt and the Longslade Consort directed by John Bence, with some reflections on the historic buildings of the Leicester Guildhall area and Royal Music from the times of Richard III to George II
Robert JamesLees Robert James Lees, Queen Victoria and Jack the Ripper –myth and reality

The Theosophical History Conference
London 2-3 July 2005


Details of the conference programme at which the above talk was presented to the Foundation for Theosophical Studies
Robert James Lees with his sons Robert James Lees and the Revd Thomas Ashcroft

in Psypioneer Vol 5, No 12. Published December 2009

An account of the public dispute between two young men regarding Spiritualism and Christianity in the North of England in the mid 19th Century. This link is to Woodland Way which provides an archive of all previous Psypioneer journals which can be download free of charge as PDF files. 
Highcross Shopping Development (Cinema de lux) Highcross Leicester

The history beneath Leicester's newest shopping centre and mall, published on the centre's website.  Material derived from Leicester Chronicler

Some further published articles


The Leicestershire Magazine
- Building on the Past (Spring 2008 issue)

The Newsletter of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society (download the last issues edited by Stephen Butt)

My current books in print