Maurice Baring with his pet budgerigar 'Dempsey' This private language, known as 'The Expressions,' was used by the writ...

This scrap of doggerel, found among a collection of holograph letters, has no name attached. It is bad enough to be by William McGonagall...

Another humorous piece from the papers of  'EVOE' i.e.  Punch editor E.V. Knox. A Kit Marlowe parody… Albert Decaris - Tamburlai...

Some more humorous writing from the papers of E. V. Knox  ('Evoe.") He was, for a while, editor of Punch (1931 - 1949) and thi...

There are many photos of C. B. Fry (1872 – 1956)---an athlete who also  represented England at football and cricket,  Classical scholar, ...

Yoxford Church Found - amongst a collection of Suffolk ephemera - this one page poem about a late lamented vet who died in the year of t...

This scrap of a letter, on paper watermarked 1824, was discovered a few years ago in a pile of autographs. It had been sent by the rather...

From the papers of L R Reeve* this affectionate portrait of a minor character in British education. She does not have a Wikipedia page and...

It’s got a toilet seat shaped like a scallop shell, a grand double bedroom and more rococo swags, flat columns and baroque touches than a...

Found among the papers of L R Reeve* this appreciation of the life of Dr Hugh Crichton Miller  Scottish psychiatrist and founder of the Tavi...

When English tourists abroad are accosted by foreigners on trains it is now more likely to be about Manchester United or Downton Abbey. Acco...

At a revolutionary printing office* Found - a review in a 'monthly magazine of bibliography'  Book Lore (1886) of  a new magaz...

Sometimes now known as 'The Psychiatrist of The Ghost Road'  W.H.R.Rivers  has a formidable reputation and holds a pivotal place i...

[More from the papers of L.R. Reeve* who writes:]  I remember, somewhere around 1907, reading a wrong prognostication in a Manchester newspa...

This photo, which is inscribed on the reverse, 'Rose Macaulay (centre) and John Hayward' was found amongst a large collection of pre...