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A glorious phrenology<a href="http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=28776" target="_blank"> masterclass</a> by the "the well-known astrologer and psychologist" Miss Gabriel Dee, captured by Pathe in 1932 (and here's more <a href="http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=28991" target="_blank">Mrs Dee</a>, for those of you who can't get enough!).

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And, curiously, more phrenology, this time the history of the Psychograph, an automated phrenologiser. Miss Gabriel, I'm sorry to report that you're fired!

<a href="http://www.yorku.ca/christo/podcasts/TWITHOP.AHAP.mp3" target="_blank">Listen to David Baker</a> on the Psychograph

<em>Thanks </em><a href="http://www.catharyneward.com/" target="_blank"><em>Cathy Ward</em></a><em>, </em><a href="http://wellcomelibrary.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><em>Ross Macfarlane</em></a><em> and </em><a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/31/audio-history-of-the.html" target="_blank"><em>Boing Boing</em></a>