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4 unusual facts about William Thomas Stead


Julius and Agnes Zancig

The spiritualists Arthur Conan Doyle and W. T. Stead were duped into believing that the Zancigs had genuine psychic powers.

Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet

The paradoxical finding left doubts hanging over Dilke's respectability, and investigative journalist William Thomas Stead launched a public campaign against him.

William Stead

William Thomas Stead (1849 - 1912), English journalist, victim of RMS Titanic disaster

William Thomas Stead

Stead was an Esperantist, and often supported Esperanto, the international language, in a monthly column in Review of Reviews.


Charles Marson

While at Whitechapel, Marson began writing articles and reviews for the Pall Mall Gazette and was offered a job (which he declined) alongside William Thomas Stead and Edward Tyas Cook on its staff.


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