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IF 1.1 1区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

Twentieth Century British History Pub Date : 2021-09-27 DOI:10.1093/tcbh/hwab031

G. Morris

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Abstract

Between 1899 and 1907, the medium Rosalie Thompson—giving voice to her dead daughter, Nelly—participated in a number of experimental seances with the Society for Psychical Research (SPR), which were formative in the development of the society’s theories of telepathy, personality and survival. Using the extensive séance notes taken by the researchers, and the range of published materials related to the case, this article situates psychical research as an intimate practice; its scientific method relied on the production of intimate evidence by the medium, including the intimacy of touch; its leading proponents were neighbours, friends and relatives, who began communicating via Thompson once key members began to die from 1900. By keeping the focus on the life of Thompson herself, however, the article seeks to use the ‘small history’ of Mrs Thompson to tell a bigger and more complex story about intimacy in early twentieth-century Britain.

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1899年至1907年间，媒体罗莎莉·汤普森（Rosalie Thompson）为她死去的女儿奈莉（Nelly）发声，她参加了心理研究学会（SPR）的一系列实验性降神会，这些降神会在该学会心灵感应、人格和生存理论的发展中形成了影响。利用研究人员所做的大量笔记，以及与该案件相关的一系列已发表材料，本文将心理学研究定位为一种亲密的实践；其科学方法依赖于媒介产生亲密证据，包括触摸的亲密性；它的主要支持者是邻居、朋友和亲戚，1900年关键成员去世后，他们开始通过汤普森进行交流。然而，通过关注汤普森本人的生活，这篇文章试图利用汤普森夫人的“小历史”来讲述一个关于20世纪初英国亲密关系的更大、更复杂的故事。

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Twentieth Century British History HISTORY-

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期刊介绍： Twentieth Century British History covers the variety of British history in the twentieth century in all its aspects. It links the many different and specialized branches of historical scholarship with work in political science and related disciplines. The journal seeks to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, in order to foster the study of patterns of change and continuity across the twentieth century. The editors are committed to publishing work that examines the British experience within a comparative context, whether European or Anglo-American.