From the Reeve* collection. D.W. Brogan's  books have become somewhat hard to sell but he is here recalled as a great lecturer by a conn...

Found in the vast Jimmy Kanga* collection a signed presentation copy of Robert Lynd's The Sporting Life and Other Trifles . Lynd (1879-1...

Eric Korn (1933-2014) seems to have been a much admired man, if all the many recent tributes in the Letters pages of the TLS to the polymat...

How and where does one begin when describing such an exceptionally experienced public woman as the  Duchess of Atholl ? I* might do worse ...

It’s a long way from East Anglia, to Sydney, New South Wales, but Thomas Townshend, who was born in Raynham, Norfolk, in 1733, and who beca...

The Magnetor, according to this advert placed in the Winter 1958 issue of Tomorrow , the quarterly review of psychical research, is a ...

Found with the press cutting  about Anthony Burgess inventing a grunt language for the 1980 movie Quest for Fire , this reader's report...

Found- a press-cutting from 9th November 1980 about Anthony Burgess and the making of the movie Quest for Fire  - which came out in 1981. Bu...

Has it ever been acknowledged that the memorable and now iconic line of Wilfred Owen- ‘the pity of war’ is actually the title of a novel fro...

Fell out of a book - this curious souvenir of what is now known as  The Burma Campaign  - which raged from 1941 to 1945 with the Japanes...

Origin of the species of word cloud, a summary of all around Jot101, seditiously aimed at foxing the meanderer with buzzwords. In a world wh...

The Meaning of the Missiles ---a Cold War warning from American peace organisations. If the cease fire in Eastern Ukraine fails and the US...

One of the most crass and insensitive planning decisions made in 2012 was the demolition of Dollis Hill House in NW London. The fact that...

Bits and Pieces: The Penguin Book of Rock and Pop Facts and Trivia (Steve Smith 1988) has a useful section on silence in music. Naturally...

From the L.R. Reeve* collection of short sketches of people that he had met - this affectionate piece about teacher Florence Hancock. There ...