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Found --  a slim volume of poetry from 1927 Lodequest: A Ballad of the Grail (Ancient House, Ipswich 1927) by Herbert Hudson. His wife prod...

The Red Lion in the 1930s A Georgian Giles Coren Extracts from an anonymous ‘ Review of Taverns , Inns, Coffee Houses and Genteel E...

New Brighton Beach, Capitola Having returned to Northern California recently I noticed a new phenomenon on a beach that I regularly wa...

Found in an old Sunday Observer colour supplement from December 1967 this glossary of (then) very recent hippy and 'underground' s...

Here is a short note from the Conservative politician and former soldier Sir Henry Edwards (1812- 86) to his physician, which was found amon...

A press-cutting for June 1961 found among the papers of Daniel ('Dannie') Abse, CBE, FRSL (1923 – 2014) well respected Welsh and Jew...

Found in Christoper Herold’s Mistress to an Age. A Life of  Madame de Stael (Hamish Hamilton, London 1959) a list scribbled on the front en...

( Merci, Surbouquin ) An excerpt slightly  abbreviated, from Student Magazine issue (January 1963.) Quite prophetic as almost all the b...

This, the third and last part of this strange account, is a follow up to an earlier  jot. January 15 th . For the sake of those who, in ...

Found- a British paperback 144 Piccadilly (NEL, London 1973) a novel by the American film director Samuel Fuller . It concerns a group of L...

Found - a mimeographed 4 page typed set of instructions for stewards at the royal ceremony. It reveals the amount of detail and planning tha...

Found - a scrapbook of press-cuttings mostly from the Irish newspaper the  Cork Gazette.  This cutting entitled Bon Mot dates from about 1...

Before he made the big time as a fully fledged comic novelist David Lodge was principally a literary critic who wrote the occasional novel....

We have posted many portraits of the famous people that L.R. Reeve (1895? - 1980?) had met or seen. Sadly there are no more. He appears to h...