📚👻 At Duke Humfrey’s Library, our chained books aren’t the only things bound to stay forever… Whispers tell of a Ghostly Librarian, said to be the spirit of Thomas Allen. Allen was a highly regarded 17th-century mathematician and astrologer. He was, in fact, so talented that rumours began to circulate that he was a magician. These rumours were amplified by Allen’s relationship with Queen Elizabeth I’s head astronomer, the occultist and atheist, John Dee. Allen was also an early supporter of ou

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