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  • Beatniks and Counter Culture

    How To Spot A Beatnik; or, Digging The Counter Culture

    21st September 2018

    I love counter culture material and this apparently home made book is a jewel. How to Spot A Beatnik is set in ‘broadminded’ St. Ives and is a very amusing look at the hypocrisy of mainstream culture and its attitude…

  • Brighton Students

    Brighton Students; or Students of Brighton.

    18th September 2018

    It’s freshers week for Brighton students and thousands of super-cool youngsters are sloping into town. Welcome to the party! Many of you will have suffered the sneers and abuse of the ‘straights’ in whatever provincial backwater you hail from but…

  • 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…

  • Lucy Mander

    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…

  • Phonetic Reading in 1860 and 1960

    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…

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