Magic
The
Real Da Vinci Code![]()
Millions of readers have been hooked by Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code,
but what do historians think of the book and do its major claims stand up to
scrutiny?
- Magic
at War
The story of Jasper Maskelyne, a star magician, whose sleight-of-hand techniques came in useful during the World War II campaign to defeat Rommel in north Africa. - Masters
of Darkness

The barely believable stories of four men – John Dee, the Marquis de Sade, Rasputin and Aleister Crowley – whose sexual escapades, obsession with magic and radical ideas earned them the fear of their contemporaries and a place in modern culture. - Pagans

Delve deep into the pagan past, find out whether the old religions were obsessed with sex, learn about modern followers of the faith, and discover how many traces of ancient paganism remain in 21st-century culture. - Real
Wizards: The search for Harry's
ancestors
An investigation into the reality of magic, from its 40,000-year-old beginnings to the present-day, including Merlin, Druids and Shamanism. - The
Spell Binder

Discover the secrets of Elizabethan science and magic. - Witchfinder General
According to Malcolm Gaskill, this 1968 film set in Civil War England – a period-piece about love and loss, exploitation and vengeance – self-consciously manipulates the known facts.

