Book Launch: The Devil in the 19th Century & Film: Dead to Rights
Last night - couldn't find anything really appealing in person, but Watkin's , which I hadn't been at an event with in years , had a free online discussion about The Devil in the 19th Century , the book discussing a publication that was a hoax, designed to convince the Catholic Church that there was a secret society of Satanists. Now, I was supposed to be in the office - but with the strike , we were let work from home for the week. So that was handy. Hell, the night before, I felt the benefits of a late start, with not having to go to bed as early! Signed off my work computer, and booted up my personal one, about five minutes before start time - which was just as well, as it turned out I needed to install Zoom ! Which took forever.. so even at that, I was late: but just for the introduction. The speaker, Aurélie Dekoninck , was remote - somewhere - and we saw her on screen after the intro. Ah my, what a tale of derring-do was spun by the author...