In a former incarnation I worked as a TV critic on the short lived London listings magazine Event . It was owned by Virgin and one of Branso...

In a world of cellphones with cameras as powerful as Leicas, sites like Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest  etc., the problem still remains - what...

George Melly jazzman, writer and critic wrote about the now disgraced DJ Jimmy Savile in the book The Media Mob (Collins 1980) which was il...

From the now rare book  Elizabethan Demonology  (Chatto, London 1880) by Thomas Alfred Spalding, this piece about an attempt to deify St. V...

Number 9, Roller Tennis This snap of a doubles match shows that along with previous sports in this series, which included Naked P...

His name is Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, and he is based at the Department of Psychology, Cambridge University, where he is a world authorit...

This was entered for a New Statesman competition in 1944. It may have won a prize but its author Edward Marsh  notes that it wasn't a f...

Sent in by a loyal jotwatcher, writer and collector of ephemera. Look out for Shillibeer bus tickets!: Rarer than a copy of Oscar Wilde’s ...

A rare photograph of the Reverend Doctor E. E. Bradford, devotee of 'Lads Love', posed outside his very humble Fenland church at Nor...

BIBLIOMANCY Found in A.E. Waite's Occult Sciences (1891) between Belomancy and Capnomancy (divination by smoke) this method of detec...

Another 'once met' jot - this from tireless jotter RMR. He reminds me there was anthology of such meetings edited by Michael Ondaatj...

Two press cuttings about a sale of papers belonging to  Dennis Wheatley (1897-1977) writer of thrillers and occult novels. Dated 5th August ...

Samuel Charters was a London based American writer on the Blues and ethnic music. He was also a poet and on Sunday, February 11, 1973 he dec...

From Gone Abroad (London 1925) by the somewhat forgotten travel writer Douglas Goldring. The chapter 'In Liguria' has much on the be...

  Interview with the jot101 team                    Q. Where did the idea of jot101 and 'jotting' come from? A. Back in t...