Ross MacFarlane is a professionally qualified archivist, with over 20 years’ experience working on the history of science and medicine. He has researched, lectured, and written on a range of topics, such as aspects of the occult, the history of early recorded sound, and the collection of amulets and charms in Edwardian London. He is a regular book reviewer for Fortean Times and has also published in magazines and journals such as New Scientist, The Lancet, Notes and Records of the Royal Society, and Folklore, and contributed to books such as The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (2014) and A Practical Course in Magnetism: The Victorian Guide to Health, Happiness, Power and Success (2017). He is currently a Council member of both the British Society for the History and Science and the Folklore Society and an Honorary Research Fellow at Queen Mary University London.