Sitting proudly in one of the main display pods in The Magic Circle museum is “The Discovery of Witchcraft”, written in 1584, not by a magician, but by a Magistrate Reginald Scot, and it is this book which contains the first chapter ever written in English on the subject of ‘Magic’. Published in the reign of Elizabeth I, Scott’s intention was to show that those who, at the time were being burnt at the stake for practising what we now know as the art of magic, were not heathens, wizards
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One of the advantages of being a professional magician, is that I get the chance to work with some of my true friends in Magic, and as the regular Host of The Magic Circle Close Up Show, something I’ve been doing for about 2 years now,  I get to do this on a regular basis. Below is yours truly with regular performers Robert Pound, Lewis Starnes, Chris Wood ( who came up with the idea of the show) This Friday night show (see www.themagiccircle.co.uk/events) is always sold out, and due
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The Bullet Catch that went Wrong – Chung Ling Soo (2nd April 1861 – 24th March 1918) This article is chronologically out of sequence in my series on magical history however, as you may have noted from the dates above, it is 100 years ago today, that this, perhaps infamous Magician died, so to mark the date, I have published this today. Born in Winchester County New York, William Ellsworth Robinson  became an established magician in the USA, however, at about the turn of the century an agent was looking
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On Wednesday, I was delighted to be invited to the unveiling of a Blue Plaque celebrating the first ever meeting of what was to become The Magic Circle. Dynamo was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to join Magic Circle President Scott Penrose to perform the unveiling ceremony The plaque commemorates the first meeting of 23 Magicians in 1905 who met in a restaurant called Pinoli’s at 17 Wardour Street, and it was this meeting that lead to the formation of The Magic Circle As it
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Wednesday took me up to the Burleigh Court Hotel, which is a 4* conference centre standing within the grounds of Loughborough University, where HEBCoN (Higher Education Business Continuity Network) were holding their two day conference and AGM I was asked to attend and perform Close Up Magic at the tables during the evening dinner and also a Cabaret show between the main and dessert courses. I tired to get as many people involved as I could, and it was great to feel than I had created a relaxed atmosphere where
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