The poet who composed the long love poem, The Angel of  the House , which appeared in four volumes from 1854, became, like many of his gener...

Photographs exist of the famous bookstalls in Farringdon Road, dating from the nineteen forties and fifties, and the one by Moholy-Nagy that...

From the L.R. Reeve* collection- this (partly) eyewitness portrait of Jan Smuts , South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military...

The actress Annie Schletter  had a number of enthusiastic correspondents not all of whom were necessarily connected with the theatre. One of...

Found - part of a letter to Peter Haining  from W.O.G. ('Bill') Lofts  about an intended book on post-war British pulps. Neither W...

Found in the papers of L.R. Reeve (see A.J. Balfour and many others) a piece, from about 1970, about the life of a bowls champion Harold P.(...

Found in the papers of L.R. Reeve (see A.J. Balfour for background on him) this piece about the Australian writer and educationalist  Sir Fr...

Today, it is Joseph Bazalgette, father of the revolutionary sewage system for London that gets most attention from the press. But Bazalgett...

A good piece from the papers of *L.R. Reeve on A.J. Balfour, as a former U.K. Prime Minister he is the highest ranking subject so far (along...

From the L.R. Reeve papers (see A.J. Balfour). I r epeat my belief that H. G. Wells is the most quoted writer in my reading life, but the...

Found among the boundless Peter Haining  papers - this definitive piece about Teddy Edward  bears: TEDDY EDWARD Most people want to ...

The second and last part of an article on Sangorski's  ill-fated Omar Khayyam binding. It was found in Piccadilly Notes: an occasion...

From the papers of L.R. Reeve* - this profile of Thomas ('Tommy') Raymont,  an unsung educationalist. His  Principles of Education i...

It might perhaps be guessed that Conrad Noel (1869 - 1942), the 'Red Priest' of Thaxted, whose Socialist views once outraged the Tor...

The Great Omar* Found in an offprint from Piccadilly Notes (circa 1930) this article about (possibly) the most lavish binding the world...