It’s a truism that the higher you climb in society or show biz the more you have to lose to blackmailers or stalkers. But this is not a phen...

From the L.R. Reeve collection - this worthy piece about Caroline Graveson of Goldsmiths’ College. She is commemorated at their library  sit...

I first encountered Ian Hamilton  (1938 – 2001), poet, critic and famously combative editor of The Review , via Geoffrey Grigson. That is, I...

Ashdown Forest*  These are the first two chapter of The Secret Places (Elkin Mathews & Marrot London 1929) - a chronicle of the ...

Found -- an old diary that was sold at D. H. Evans department stores--   Ladies' Year Book and Diary for 1932 . It had no diary entries ...

Militant ramblers will be familiar with the title of this booklet and perhaps with the name of its author, Phil Barnes, even though it is ...

In his autobiographical Everyman Remembers ( 1931), the litterateur Ernest Rhys recalls his friendship with Frank Podmore, one of the mor...

Found in the Jimmy  Kanga  hoard These Thy Gods (Longman, Green and Co., London, 1949) by William  Purcell , illustrated by Arthur Wragg. ...

From the L.R. Reeve* collection of short sketches of people he had met - this affectionate piece about psychologist C.W. Valentine  (1879-19...

From the L.R. Reeve* collection of short sketches of people he had met - this affectionate piece about psychologist May Smith O.B.E (1868-19...

From the extensive archive of Peter Haining , this doggerel by an unknown writer and a snapshot of scarecrow with brolly... These are from a...

From the Peter Haining papers, this typed manuscript outline of a Billy Bunter vampire story by the great researcher and expert on Briti...

In the December 1959 issue of the British magazine Prediction is a remarkable attempt by an astrologer named Katina Theodossiou to predict t...

From the Reeves* collection, this study of the slightly  neglected writer L.P.Jacks  (Lawrence Pearsall Jacks 1860-1955). His best known boo...

‘We could, I suppose, fall back on a woman…’ The words of John W Carter, scholar, bibliophile, author of the excellent ABC for Book Collec...