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On my way to the reading room in the National Archives in Kew, I see a set of filing cabinets that carry headings of implausible exactness.
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Diaries: 1922-1959
From an auction house in Nottingham, I buy a series of 18 diaries running across the early to mid-20th century, kept by a man called Samuel who lived in…
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The Irony Shed
Open up a modern edition of Shakespeare’s Pericles to the chorus at the start of act 3, and you’ll find the narrator Gower alone on stage, standing (as…
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Coincidence
In about 2004, I moved from London to Houston, Texas.
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Boxes!
Boxes! I’ve been opening lots of boxes recently, and finding surprising things inside.
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Photograph of a picnic
I love photographs and this is one of my favourites (it’s a digital scan of an old-fashioned print).
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The Book-Makers - out and about
Hello Readers!
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literature, archives, material texts, culture, with varying degrees of 1st personness
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