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Monday, November 30, 2015

Rock and Roll Cookery

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Found - an uncommon cook book called Cool Cooking. Recipes of your Favorite Rock Stars by Roberta Ashley ( Scholastic Book Service USA 1972...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Some tall tales

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The veteran anthologist Peter Haining  (1940-2007,  pictured right ) only managed to make a decent living by having a number of different p...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

The Magus - 'a bizarre and baffling film' 1970

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A contemporary piece about this ill-fated movie, which although often slated, most notably by Woody Allen ('If I had to live my life ag...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

‘There will be no beautiful women on Mars’----and that’s official

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Speculation on whether there is life on Mars and what form it might take has been going on since the planet began to be seriously studi...
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Earthquake in England

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Found in John Thomas's Earthquake in England (Unbelievable but True) - published by Blackwood's in 1938, this press cutting from th...
Friday, November 20, 2015

The Liberty League---a campaign against Bolshevism

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This interesting cutting from the Haining archive tells some of the story of the short-lived Liberty League. Less than three years after th...

John Steinbeck and 'The Wizard of Maine'

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Found among a collection of modern first edition catalogues this offering from Bradford Morrow  in a catalogue entitled  John Steinbeck: A C...
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Thursday, November 19, 2015

An ‘innocent hoax’ played on Frank Kermode

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The late Frank Kermode is best known today as the most prominent Romantic critic in twentieth century English letters---a more intelligen...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

The Princess Alice paddle steamer disaster of 1878----why was the death toll so high?

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The late Peter Haining was one of many writers fascinated by the terrible events of the evening of 3 rd September 1878, when the padd...
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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Obscure Victorian magazines---number 3—The Pantile Papers

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If we hadn’t found this letter among a pile of other manuscripts it is unlikely that anyone else would have written anything useful on E....

The Beatles - Where do they go from here? (1965)

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Found in Photoplay from April 1965 this speculative article about The Beatles by Anne Hooper -'Where do they go from here?' Some ...
Monday, November 9, 2015

Accolades for Elvis, King of Rock

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Found in an amusing slim music trivia paperback Rock's Follies: Soundbites from the world of rock  this collection of (mostly) eulogisti...

English translation howlers

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From  Funny or Die site  (thanks) From the Peter Haining Archive. These are taken from a collection compiled by Thomas Cook employees i...
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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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