# Ellic Howe

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{{Short description|British astrologer and writer}}
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'''Ellic Paul Howe''' (20 September 1910 – 28 September 1991) was a British astrologer and writer on [occultism](/source/occultism) and the [Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn](/source/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn) as well as on [typography](/source/typography) and [military history](/source/military_history).<ref>{{Citation
| last = Howe
| first = Ellic
| title = Papers of Ellic Howe
| accessdate = 2012-03-21
| year = 1930
| url = http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20Add.9820
}}</ref> During [World War II](/source/World_War_II) he worked for Britain's [Political Warfare Executive](/source/Political_Warfare_Executive) on [psychological warfare](/source/psychological_warfare) and [forgery](/source/forgery) techniques under the name 'Armin Hull'.<ref>{{Cite journal
| last = Friedman
| first = Herbert A.
| title = Conversations with a Master Forger
| journal = Scott's Monthly Stamp Journal
| accessdate = 2012-03-21
| date = January 1980
| url = http://www.psywar.org/forger.php
}}</ref>

==Partial bibliography==

===Books on occultism===
* ''Urania’s Children: the strange world of the astrologers'' (1967)
* ''Astrology: a recent history including the untold story of its role in World War II'' (1968)
* ''Astrology and psychological warfare during World War II'' (1972)
* ''Magicians of the Golden Dawn: A Documentary History of a Magical Order, 1887-1923'' (1978)
* ''Alchemist of the Golden Dawn: The Letters of the Reverend W. A. Ayton to F. L. Gardner and Others, 1886-1905 (Roots of the Golden Dawn Series) edited by Ellic Howe'' (1985)
* ''Merlin Peregrinus: Vom Untergrund des Abendlandes'' (with Helmut Möller), Würzburg 1986
* ''Fringe Masonry in England, 1870-1885 (Golden Dawn Studies Series; No 12) (with Darcy Kuntz)'' (1997)

===Books on military history===
* ''The Black Game: British Subversive Operations Against the Germans During the Second World War'' (1982)

===Books on typography and bookmaking===
* ''Newspaper Printing in the Nineteenth century'' (1943)
* ''The Trade – Walter Hutchinson'' (1943)
* ''London Bookbinders: Masters and Men, 1780–1840'' (1946)
* ''The London Compositor: Documents Relating to Wages, Working Conditions and Customs of the London Printing Trade, 1785–1900'' (1947)
* ''The London Society of Compositors (Re-established 1848): A Centenary history'' (1948)
* ''French Type Specimen books'' (1951)
* ''The British Federation of Master Printers, 1900–1950'' (1950)
* ''The Society of London Bookbinders, 1780–1951 (British trade union history collection)'' (1952)
* ''The Typecasters (The Monotype recorder)'' (1957)
* ''The Sales Conference: The Second of Richardsons' Newcastle Chapbooks, Telling how the Chairman and the Chief Chymist Invented a Bronze Blue Ink which Tasted Like Vintage Port, and Containing a Recital of the Subsequent Events, Transactions and Proceedings'' (1958)
* ''Harry Kweller and the Harkwell Press: A Fragment of Biography'' (1960)

==References==
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