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            Harry Price & Related Events World Events
1940

 January The 'Locked Book' deposited in the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature at the University of London

 August 3 Rev. G.E. Smith dies

 October The Most Haunted House in England is published

 HP begins work on autobiography

 

1941

 January W.J. Pythian-Adams sends HP an analysis of the haunting

 August 9 Most Haunted House discussed by Sir Ernest Jelf in the Law Times

 

1942

 September Search for Truth is published

 

1943

 June 28 First visit of Polish officers to Borley

 July 28  Second visit of Polish officers to Borley

 August 17, 18 & 30 HP excavates Borley Rectory cellars & discovers human remains

 September 13 HP takes human remains to be photographed at Coopers studio in London

 

1944

 January 3-6 Oxford undergraduates H. Marshall & J.H. Russel visit Borley

 April Ruins of Borley Rectory demolished

 April 5 HP visits Borley with reporter from Time-Life magazine - 'flying brick' photograph taken

 
1945

 April 18 Rev. Lionel A. Foyster dies

 April 18 Talk by Mrs A.C. Henning on Borley at the Dorethy Café, Cambridge

 May 29 HP & Rev. Henning bury the Borley 'Nun' at Liston

 May 30 HP at Borley & Liston interviewing witnesses

 October Mrs G.E. Smith writes to Church Times stating disbelief in Rectory hauntings

 Poltergeist Over England is published

 

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