When the Austro-Hungarian empire was dissolved following the end of World War One the new nation of Austria came into being. The economic co...

John Heath-Stubbs by  Patrick Swift Coming across a copy of a relatively recent booklet entitled The Guide to Bayswater (Sunrise Press)...

Found in Photoplay- A British Film Magazine from  March 1964, this piece by Ken Ferguson who appears to have been the magazine's edito...

These were being published in books from at least the late nineteenth century. Peter Haining, most of whose archive we now hold, collected a...

From - The Fingerpost: A Guide to Professions for Educated Women, with Information as to Necessary Training.  (Central Bureau for the Employ...

Found in the fascinating El Mundo photo archive is this shot of a ‘pretty girl tuning in a colorcast on a color video receiver ‘before th...

A pot of Rumford’s Soup from the basic recipe: pearl barley and dried peas, water, salt, some vinegar (no potatoes). Thanks to Gestumblind...

Found - Journals and Journalism (with a guide for literary beginners) published by the Leadenhall Press (London 1880.) The author is stated...

“There is a Museum story that when a member of the staff committed suicide in this room ( the Cracherode) by shooting himself his superior...

Found - a 1967 Corgi paperback Love, love, love: the new love poetry. It was edited by Pete Roche the subject of a recent jot where he wrot...

Any Jotters who in their childhood tuned into Danger Mouse , which is about to be revived, must know that his sidekick was called Penfold. ...

Found in a  University of London College magazine from December 1921 this poem/ parody by the novelist  Stella Gibbons . She was 19 at the t...

Found in  Arrows  87 (Summer 1964, edited by Roger Ebbatson) this amusing piece about 'Beat Music.' The magazine was produced by She...

Marie Corelli (thanks  Timprasil ) It cannot be denied that Marie Corelli (1855 – 1924) was an enormous success as a writer of science f...

Found in Arrows 87 (Summer 1964, edited by Roger Ebbatson) this amusing piece about Adam and Eve. The magazine was produced by Sheffield Uni...