Magician John Henry Anderson died in 1874, the same year Harry Houdini was born - yet despite the two never meeting, Anderson ...

“Because of magic,” she said, “we move from being strangers to friends in the flip of a card!” Her favourite routine was one of her dad’s top picks, Chinese Linking Rings. This ...

A famous stage magician, recruited by the British military to use his mastery of illusion to help defeat the Nazis. From illusory harbours to vanishing canals, dummy tanks to an entire fake force ...

"Some years ago there was in the city of York a society of magicians. They met upon the third Wednesday of every month and read each other long, dull papers upon the history of English magic." ...

British magician Nick Einhorn stumped two of the ... best tricks in an attempt to fool both the studio audience and famous comedy-magic duo. Einhorn began on stage with three tables and three ...

John Henry Anderson, born near Torphins, went on to become a huge name in magic both in the UK and overseas. Given the moniker 'The Great Wizard of the North' by Sir Walter Scott, his name is still ...

Dave Goulding is a magic historian, escapologist, and Aberdeen Magical Society's vice-president. "He was the most famous variety act in the UK for a while," he told BBC Scotland News of Anderson.