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Sunday, November 8, 2015

Point It Out: The Picture Speech For All Nations

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Found - a handy little book Point It Out: The Picture Speech For All Nations by one Walter Sefton. It was published 'by authority o...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

Occupation: Female Companion

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Joan Fontaine in 'Rebecca' Found in   The Fingerpost: A Guide to Professions for Educated Women, with Information as to Necessa...
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Friday, November 6, 2015

John Thomas Smith as Hamlet

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‘The Keeper of the prints showing A.E.C. how the Balcony scene should be performed' (P en and ink drawing by Edward Chalon) One of ...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

The Yellow Perils - Yokohama F.C. (1909)

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'The idea of Japs playing football ----in the English Cup too- struck them as being intensely amusing …' So wrote the sports writ...
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Literary scams and pitfalls(1906)

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Found in The Fingerpost: A Guide to Professions for Educated Women, with Information as to Necessary Training (Central Bureau for the Empl...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

The £10 a year Professor----academic privations in post WW1 Austria

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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...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

I once met….John Heath-Stubbs

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John Heath-Stubbs by  Patrick Swift Coming across a copy of a relatively recent booklet entitled The Guide to Bayswater (Sunrise Press)...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

The Beatles as a religious cult

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Found in Photoplay- A British Film Magazine from  March 1964, this piece by Ken Ferguson who appears to have been the magazine's edito...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Schoolboy exam howlers through the ages

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These were being published in books from at least the late nineteenth century. Peter Haining, most of whose archive we now hold, collected a...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Tea Room Management

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From - The Fingerpost: A Guide to Professions for Educated Women, with Information as to Necessary Training.  (Central Bureau for the Employ...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Color TV in 1953 !!

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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...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

The most nourishing soup

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A pot of Rumford’s Soup from the basic recipe: pearl barley and dried peas, water, salt, some vinegar (no potatoes). Thanks to Gestumblind...
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Sunday, October 18, 2015

Amateur Journalism and Vanity Publishing (1880)

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Found - Journals and Journalism (with a guide for literary beginners) published by the Leadenhall Press (London 1880.) The author is stated...
Friday, October 16, 2015

The Suicide of Henry Symons----bookman of the British Museum

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“There is a Museum story that when a member of the staff committed suicide in this room ( the Cracherode) by shooting himself his superior...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Live poetry 1967 (Pete Roche)

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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...
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