STRANGE TIMES 2020 – have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 202021 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #3 reporting infectious diseases
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #2 1890s
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #4
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Webinar How Models Work
LECTURE SERIES Why Models Work - The History Edition WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2020 6PM–7.30PM Part of the "Why Models Work" lecture series featuring curators, … [Read more...]
Busy studying?
FROM 1939, THIS DIARY DOCUMENTS EACH DAY IN TINY FLOWING HANDWRITING. In early February - it is all about visiting and sewing. A closer look shows that this is a student diary for 1939; from … [Read more...]
Time to use a diary again?
MANY WEEKS IN ISOLATION MEANT THAT THE DIARY HAD REALLY BECOME USELESS, NOTHING TO RECORD. NO APPOINTMENTS, NO MEETINGS, NO GET-TOGETHERS. But as we are allowed to engage with the world outside our … [Read more...]
DGH – and the misplaced footballer
LOVED AND LOST OR SHOULD THAT BE, LOVED AND MISPLACED Long time ESA member DGH remembers his first piece of ephemera. Earliest treasured (albeit untraced) item: A signed photograph of Roy Wright, … [Read more...]
Andrew H
Andrew H TELLS US ABOUT HIS CONVERSION TO PAPER - TO EPHEMERA I started with Vida Goldstein. The collecting bug bit me quite early in life. By the age of 15, having progressed through stamps … [Read more...]