THE GHOST OF SHOPPING PAST IS THE TITLE OF AN EXHIBITION ABOUT SHOPPING at the Albury Library Museum. The exhibition finishes on 7 September 2014. If you cannot get to Albury in that time, don't … [Read more...]
New book about war time advertising
THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY HAS PUBLISHED A BOOK OF INTEREST TO EPHEMERISTS. The Huns have got my gramophone! Advertisements from the Great War, the authors, Amanda Jane Doran and Andrew McCarthy, advise … [Read more...]
Fictional police detective finds some collectors
Dorothy Simpson is a Welsh born detective fiction writer; born in 1933, she wrote from 1975 to 2000. Perhaps not a great writer, but her books are engaging and consciously set in the events of the … [Read more...]
Hippies unite: you have nothing to lose but this society
IT IS A HIPPIE THING FROM THE VERY TAIL END OF THE MOVEMENT. Yellow poster with flowers and hands shaking from San Francisco and perhaps unsurprisingly without any issuing organisation … [Read more...]
The spickanspan folk
HERE ARE THE COVERS OF TWO BROCHURES PROMOTING HOUSEHOLD CLEANING. The first is English and from 1914; the second is an Australian edition painting book "Old Dutch Cleanser" is an … [Read more...]