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August, 1891 : A Remarkably Wet Month, With Very Little Sunshine.

When is a book not a book? When it’s a manuscript! The book fairs have started again and at the very first one I bought a wonderful leather-bound notebook with a record for the weather on every single day between…
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Brighton Book Fair in The News – Antiques Trade Gazette

This is just a short post to let you know that the PBFA Brighton Book Fair is in the news! The image shows the full page article from the May 15th Antiques Trade Gazette. The ATG is essential reading for…
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Follow the PBFA Brighton Book Fair on Facebook!

I have set up a facebook group for the PBFA Brighton Book Fair. I’ll be posting all sorts of interesting material on the group page as well as the latest news and details about the fair. There has not been…
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A Book Fair Comes To Brighton – October 30th, 2021

Here is some good news! I am very pleased to announce that on Saturday October 30th there will be a PBFA Book Fair in Brighton at the Racecourse. A book fair is like a huge second-hand bookshop coming to town…
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Shoreham on Sea: Lights! Camera! Glamour!

The story of Shoreham’s bohemian seaside village is well known but still remarkable. In the 1880s the shingle spit between the River Adur and the sea was used by fishermen, some working from old railway carriages bought from Brighton. One…
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The Book of Death! – Starring The Bibliomysteries

16th July 2018

Lights! Camera! Action! I was trying to find a way to put some of my bibliomysteries on display and realised that showing them one by one on film would be the best idea – quick, modern, and youth-friendly. Then my…
Bablake School, Coventry: A Former Pupil Writes.

20th April 2018

Two of us, to be accurate. I turned up at Bablake School one September morn in 1974 along with 119 other 11 year-old boys. Much the same thing had been happening, we were told, since 1344, which didn’t make the…
Fonetik Spelin, Or, Reading is Fnu.

24th March 2018

Words fail me. Certainly words like ‘ritten’ and ‘alfabet’. Mangled spellings abound in both of these well-meaning text books published a hundred years apart. The first is a very rare early example of a phonetic alphabet published by Pitman in…
Europe Then and Now: The Works of Ye Learned, 1704, Vs. The Work of The Ignorant, 2019

23rd March 2018

As you may have read recently the European Union are planning to restrict the import and export of any cultural artefact manufactured over 250 years ago. It includes art, maps, prints, ornaments, furniture, jewellery and of course that most ‘umble…
How To Pass The Driving Test; Or, Look out for that octopus!

23rd March 2018

It’s two years since I passed the Driving Test, which would be cool if I were 20 years old. As I’m considerably older than that it’s deeply unimpressive – but I’ve got an excuse. It was all those lessons, see….

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