Kindle Book 25 - The Book of English Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm and Sir Richard Heygate. Mostly a quick leaf through rather than a read, but I liked these moments::
"Treadwell’s stocks plenty of second-hand books, which Virginia Woolf called ‘Wild Books, Homeless Books’, because, explains Christina, ‘they have already had a journey, so they have extra energy in them from where they have been before, and they’re looking for a home’"
"‘the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will’"
"By magic, Man shows that he is not content to be simply a pawn in the Great Game, but wants to play on his own account. Man the meddler becomes Man the Magician, and so learns the rules the hard way, for magic is concerned with Doing, while mysticism is concerned with Being’"
"In 1781, Henry Hurle founded the Ancient Order of Druids at the King’s Arms Tavern in London’s Poland Street."
"In 1908 the young Winston Churchill was initiated into the Order and, by 1933, incredibly, over one and a half million members called themselves Druids. The lodges produced engraved certificates, rings and even porcelain tea sets, which can still sometimes be found in antique shops or are dusted down as ancestral heirlooms"