1950s issue, Many thanks John Fraser. Here’s a bit of a puzzler. Coming from the archive of Peter Haining and bearing annotations by him...

Every schoolboy knows about Sir Richard Arkwright, the pioneer factory owner from Derbyshire whose invention of the water frame contribute...

Fumetti is an Italian word (literally 'little puffs of smoke' in reference to speech balloons) which refers to all comics. In Engli...

Found - an obscure work by Robert Power, a forgotten journalist. In the 1920s and up to the early 1950s his short 'thought pieces' w...

Found- a rare piece of Beatnik ephemera, a card from New York's Cafe Bizarre with the phone numbers and name of Rick Allmen who star...

Bought a few years ago in a provincial auction house for very little, this signed drawing of Frances Molesworth by the talented amateur La...

Found- in the The common-place book of literary curiosities, remarkable customs, historical and domestic anecdotes, and etymological scraps ...

The last two chapters of The Secret Places (Elkin Mathews & Marrot London 1929) - a chronicle of the 'pilgrimages' of the aut...

Nevsky Prospect Leningrad 1960s (thanks  Transpress N.Z. ) This is the second part of an anonymous diary found in our archives.It was ...

Found- an anonymous account of a a trip to Russia on  The Salsette  in 1908 written by a young woman of an artistic bent. There is a certa...

The only other one appears to be the racing driver Lewis Hamilton, who was really born in Tewin, a few miles away, though some sites will te...

While many admirers of Anthony Trollope are busy celebrating the great novelist’s bicentenary, spare a thought for his older brother, Thomas...

"Here come I, my name is Jowett   All there is to know, I know it   I am Master of this College   And what I don’t know isn’t knowle...

Found at the front of a book catalogue ('Chat Dept.') of  J.J. Rigden from the Haining collection this well researched piece on Vict...

The penultimate two chapters of  The Secret Places  (Elkin Mathews & Marrot London 1929) - a chronicle of the 'pilgrimages' of t...