Fruits and Fallacies: The Spiritualist Revival of the Interwar Years Following the end of the First World War, families processed the loss of loved ones and re-assessed their relationships with life, death and the great beyond. Within this chaos, Spiritualism offered a lifeline of community and comfort, professing to be able to reunite the living with the dead, and appease any fears of an eternity of nothingness. Within Spiritualist home circles, communities were made, relationships nurtured, and a new religion found a second life within an increasingly secular populous. While messages of comfort emerged from these spirit realms, so did ghosts, animals, objects and ectoplasm. Fortunes were found and lost at the edge of a séance table, and while deceased celebrities made a habit of visiting some of the country’s most popular mediums, others looked on in bafflement.