Toni del Renzio. ARSON. AN ARDENT REVIEW. Part One of a Surrealist Manifestation. London, 1942. Although billed as 'Part One' ...

Albert Smith ( 1816 - 60 ), a qualified physician turned humorist, who unlike some of the more famous writers for Punch , is rather forgott...

Cole Porter (1891 – 1964) is arguably the greatest popular songwriter of the twentieth century. I read somewhere that he composed around 1,0...

T. Earle Welby (1881-1933) is an almost forgotten writer, columnist and character. He is at present unknown to Wikipedia although Bill Green...

Every fan of ITV’s Downton Abbey will know that is filmed at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, the ancestral home of the Earls of Carnarvon. T...

An article from the long defunct  Anglo - Italian Review , October 1918. Edited by Edward Hutton, an English  Italophile who wrote several ...

A curious find in a box of old poetry -- the completely unknown John Lennon's Rossall Hall. A Poem (Printed for the Author, Preston 1...

Found in the Chips Channon collection a pamphlet produced by the Communist Party of Great Britain attacking his friends in the Cliveden ...

A review of the Le Matelot restaurant found in  Bon Viveur's London & the British Isles  (Dakers, London 1955). Bon Viveur was a pse...

Margaret Roberts was a novelist from North Wales ( 1833 – 1919) author of at least 38 books of fiction and non-fiction, including   Mademoi...

Trivial info on the Beatles from their 'fab' days. Found in 'Fabulous' 1965.  Surely they were the first 'boy band' ...

The Ace of Clubs That’s what Mark Twain called New York ‘s famous Lotos Club, which still exists.  Founded in 1870 by a group of writers ...

 From a collection of political ephemera. A note attached to an ordinary paper bag which was intended as a sick bag. A protest at a performa...

From a book by the YBA Angela Bulloch  called Rule Book (2000). An artist's book which collects together official lists and full plain...

A review of the Connaught Hotel's restaurant found in  Bon Viveur's London & the British Isles (Dakers, London 1955). Bon Viveu...