Found in the Haining archives - this slightly scaremongering article by Edgar Wallace  from Nash's Pall Mall Magazine in March 1931. Ed...

The second and last part of this booklet by Shaw Desmond (1877-1960). He was an Irish novelist, poet, founder of the International Insti...

Two more chapters of  The Secret Places  (Elkin Mathews & Marrot London 1929) - a chronicle of the 'pilgrimages' of the auth...

There are now no popular magazines in the UK covering the field of rare and antiquarian books. Just seven years ago there were two— Rare B...

Found in - Vladimir Nabokov: a Descriptive Bibliography by Michael Juliar (Garland, N.Y. & London 1986) this description of Nabokov...

Maybe I haven’t looked hard enough, but the only photos I’ve seen that feature Harold and Desmond have also included other Bloomsberries...

Found - a 1935 theatre programme for  Young England , a play by Walter Reynolds often cited as the worst play ever. Nevertheless it was...

Begging letters from debtors don’t usually survive, although there are at least three reasons why they might. Perhaps the writer was a ...

Few wives in literary history can have been as devoted to their famous husbands as Lilly Frazer was to the great anthropologist James Frazer...

Found among the papers of L.R. Reeve* this affectionate portrait of Dorothy Brock  much admired educationalist and the headmistress  of ...

It’s bad enough to learn that nineteen British prime Ministers attended Eton College without learning recently, as I did, that one Eton man ...

Found in the Coleman collection this striking pamphlet. The collection consisted of 3000+ books and booklets on parapsychology, spiritualis...

Henry Harben's Dictionary of London is a detailed gazetteer of over 6000 street and place names in the City of London; their location,...

To mark the terrible events of seventy years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, here are some postcards bought by my late father while visitin...

Two more chapters of  The Secret Places  (Elkin Mathews & Marrot London 1929) - a chronicle of the 'pilgrimages' of the autho...