Harry Price was not a scientist but someone who sold paper bags as a full time job. There's an excellent biography on Price called Harry Price: The Psychic Detective by Richard Morris.
The real Harry Price was mostly an exposer of false mediums. But he also believed that a few of them were genuine.
Indications of the time period are muddled. It seems to be 1920, but the MP is a liberal, and liberals were no longer a potential party of government after 1918. Likewise he mentions favouring votes for women, which they had after 1918, though not younger women. And there is background talk of the problem of reconciling Unionists and Nationalists, indicating a pre-1914 situation.
Or it might be 1930s, since Chamberlain is mentioned as if he were leader. Needless muddle.
Or it might be 1930s, since Chamberlain is mentioned as if he were leader. Needless muddle.
Strictly speaking, the continuity in terms of the political situation could fit. The so called "Lloyd George" liberals were a key element of the 1919-22 coalition, and in 1921 they were committed to getting better Unionist / Nationalist links up and running as part of the truce process to end the Irish War of Independence. Austen (NOT Neville) Chamberlain was an important no 2 leader in the conservative part of that coalition and he was deeply distrustful of LLoyd George in the period immediately before he became Tory coalition leader following the resignation through ill-health of his former boss, Bonar Law. So it could hang together - just.