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Knox on oysters", "url": "https://jot101.com/2020/01/e-v-knox-on-oysters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=e-v-knox-on-oysters", "published_at": "2020-01-05T18:59:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8b-ed3c-70d0-837f-9c892b8c7539", "title": "Rowling’s Professor Binns on Saki", "url": "https://jot101.com/2020/01/rowlings-professor-binns-on-saki/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rowlings-professor-binns-on-saki", "published_at": "2020-01-02T19:06:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8b-ed3c-70d0-837f-9c892bdbd668", "title": "Walking without anything to listen to..", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/12/walking-without-anything-to-listen-to/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=walking-without-anything-to-listen-to", "published_at": "2019-12-31T08:13:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8b-ed3c-70d0-837f-9c892cccb517", "title": "Laughing at Poetry", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/12/laughing-at-poetry/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=laughing-at-poetry", "published_at": "2019-12-30T23:55:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8b-ed3c-70d0-837f-9c892d155c76", "title": "eBikes: some Jottings", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/12/ebikes-some-jottings/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ebikes-some-jottings", "published_at": "2019-12-30T23:42:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8b-ed3c-70d0-837f-9c892d7557f2", "title": "Harold Wilson’s playlist for Desert Island Discs", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/12/harold-wilsons-playlist-for-desert-island-discs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harold-wilsons-playlist-for-desert-island-discs", "published_at": "2019-12-30T03:13:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8b-ed3c-70d0-837f-9c892dc46167", "title": "The Perfect Christmas eighty seven years ago", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/12/the-perfect-christmas-eighty-seven-years-ago/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-perfect-christmas-eighty-seven-years-ago", "published_at": "2019-12-24T17:36:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481bdec63049", "title": "More gleanings from Ian Fleming’s 1946 book catalogue", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/12/more-gleanings-from-ian-flemings-1946-book-catalogue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-gleanings-from-ian-flemings-1946-book-catalogue", "published_at": "2019-12-16T20:21:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481bdf441002", "title": "The Golden Urn", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/12/the-golden-urn/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-golden-urn", "published_at": "2019-12-15T00:58:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481bdf90bb95", "title": "Harold Murray—-the life of a jobbing journalist in the early twentieth century", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/12/harold-murray-the-life-of-a-jobbing-journalist-in-the-early-twentieth-century/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harold-murray-the-life-of-a-jobbing-journalist-in-the-early-twentieth-century", "published_at": "2019-12-06T16:37:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481bdfefd1dd", "title": "A survey of homosexuality in the theatre", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/12/a-survey-of-homosexuality-in-the-theatre/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-survey-of-homosexuality-in-the-theatre", "published_at": "2019-12-05T16:20:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481be0873a07", "title": "Edith Allonby—-the novelist who had to commit suicide to get published", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/11/edith-allonby-the-novelist-who-had-to-commit-suicide-to-get-published/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=edith-allonby-the-novelist-who-had-to-commit-suicide-to-get-published", "published_at": "2019-11-27T16:35:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481be0f2878b", "title": "Mad about Whistler", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/11/mad-about-whistler/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mad-about-whistler", "published_at": "2019-11-22T18:31:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481be1484001", "title": "A fascinating book catalogue of 1946", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/11/a-fascinating-book-catalogue-of-1946/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-fascinating-book-catalogue-of-1946", "published_at": "2019-11-22T18:22:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481be23319d9", "title": "Book bargains in 1908", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/11/book-bargains-in-1908/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-bargains-in-1908", "published_at": "2019-11-11T13:25:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481be2d27d75", "title": "Drug-induced mysticism", "url": "https://jot101.com/2019/10/drug-induced-mysticism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drug-induced-mysticism", "published_at": "2019-10-30T11:12:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bb8f-8f2b-71db-b95c-481be33419f1", "title": "An intriguing  letter from an unidentified  friend of W.H.Davies to Ivor Brown", "url": 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2021

Hazing, rushing and dinging: an Englishman’s impressions of American student life in the early 1950s. Part 1original ↗
5 Mar 2021
Some anecdotes from ‘Fun with the Famous’ by H. Cecil Hunt (1928)original ↗
23 Feb 2021
Some lesser known geographical facts ( useful for quizzes)original ↗
17 Feb 2021
Early Edwardian Warwickshire pea-pickersoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2021
Visionary Speech by Earl Russell (part 3)original ↗
7 Feb 2021
Covid-19 in 2021 and tuberculosis in 1939original ↗
3 Feb 2021
Max Beerbohm—practical jokeroriginal ↗
28 Jan 2021
Some lesser known facts about books and bookmen. Extracted from The Howlers Omnibus (1928)original ↗
13 Jan 2021
Some literary curiosities inspired by Aubrey Dillon Malone’s  Stranger than Fiction (1999)original ↗
8 Jan 2021
Ninety Years Ago : Christmas Books in 1930original ↗
6 Jan 2021

2020

Famous men and the books they read as childrenoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2020
Jokes Cracked by Lord Aberdeenoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2020
The ‘’Best’ in 1974, according to two Americans, one of whom had been a child prodigyoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2020
Walter Jerrold as book collectororiginal ↗
3 Dec 2020
Practical Jokes by Richard Bostonoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2020
Book collecting in 1930original ↗
17 Nov 2020
Edward Bradley’s Verdant Green, a forgotten Victorian best-selleroriginal ↗
9 Nov 2020
The British rules of etiquette in the late 1930soriginal ↗
28 Oct 2020
Memories of Herbert Asquithoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2020
The Bronte Country in Wartimeoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2020
The cream of English fiction ‘: George Moore’s surprising Bronte confessionoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2020
A significant literary discovery: an envelope associated with Toru Dutt, the Indian prodigy who died at 21original ↗
13 Sept 2020
Scams of the 1930’soriginal ↗
10 Sept 2020
Coffee and Kafka, anyone?original ↗
19 Aug 2020
Visionary Speech by Earl Russell (part 2)original ↗
11 Aug 2020
Visionary Speech by Earl Russell (part 1)original ↗
2 Aug 2020
All Souls Stories by AL Rowseoriginal ↗
28 Jul 2020
The Amateur as English Man of Letters: the salutary case of Edmund Gosseoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2020
Gilbert Harding—-the ‘rudest man in Britain ‘?original ↗
17 Jul 2020
Rupert Croft-Cooke—-novelist and dealer in rare booksoriginal ↗
1 Jul 2020
The Jesuit and the poetoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2020
Lousy condition / Cold climateoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2020
ABC of Plain Words Revisitedoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2020
The scented novel: early twentieth century book publishing in the USAoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2020
A Mass Observer visits Stevenageoriginal ↗
29 May 2020
The Cinema Serial —-early twentieth century verse in praise of a silent filmoriginal ↗
19 May 2020
Thorpe’s Water Frolic of 1824original ↗
11 May 2020
The Whitest Man I Knoworiginal ↗
7 May 2020
Marie Corelli in 1909original ↗
5 May 2020
Edward Baker, the Demon Bookfinder General of Birminghamoriginal ↗
27 Apr 2020
George Hutchinson—Mass Observeroriginal ↗
20 Apr 2020
The Lost Art of Advertising fliersoriginal ↗
14 Apr 2020
One Hundred Years Agooriginal ↗
3 Apr 2020
The fatal effects of reading Dutchoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2020
Fay Inchfawnoriginal ↗
22 Mar 2020
Autograph Collecting hintsoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2020
Who are you aiming at?original ↗
9 Mar 2020
Snobs in the Artsoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2020
Hackneyed clichés of the 1940soriginal ↗
23 Feb 2020
The Prices of Booksoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2020
Some anecdotes from Harold Murray’s Kaleidoscopeoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2020
Fluxus Manifestos of 1966original ↗
28 Jan 2020
J.R. Ogden of Harrogate—-the antiquarian who worked on Tutankhamen’s  treasuresoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2020
An Onitsha Market pamphletoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2020
 Cotswold lawyer and poet revisitedoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2020
Facts found in fictionoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2020
E.V. Knox on oystersoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2020
Rowling’s Professor Binns on Sakioriginal ↗
2 Jan 2020

2019

Walking without anything to listen to..original ↗
31 Dec 2019
Laughing at Poetryoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2019
eBikes: some Jottingsoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2019
Harold Wilson’s playlist for Desert Island Discsoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2019
The Perfect Christmas eighty seven years agooriginal ↗
24 Dec 2019
More gleanings from Ian Fleming’s 1946 book catalogueoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2019
The Golden Urnoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2019
Harold Murray—-the life of a jobbing journalist in the early twentieth centuryoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2019
A survey of homosexuality in the theatreoriginal ↗
5 Dec 2019
Edith Allonby—-the novelist who had to commit suicide to get publishedoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2019
Mad about Whistleroriginal ↗
22 Nov 2019
A fascinating book catalogue of 1946original ↗
22 Nov 2019
Book bargains in 1908original ↗
11 Nov 2019
Drug-induced mysticismoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2019
An intriguing  letter from an unidentified  friend of W.H.Davies to Ivor Brownoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2019
More good Edwardian jokesoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2019
From Acacia Villa to Xanadu—-English House Namesoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2019
A  Nazi sympathizer on The Black Artsoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2019
The church in the stationoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2019
Some favourite urban legendsoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2019
Movie triviaoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2019
Charles Morgan to Arthur Bryantoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2019
Advice to Theology studentsoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2019
Laurence Olivier’s Stage Frightoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2019
Some lesser known quotationsoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2019
More gags from an Edwardian joke bookoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2019
A letter from Lady Charlotte Wheeler-Cuffe (1867 – 1967), plant-hunter extraordinaireoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2019
London Life: a magazine for fetishistsoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2019
O Rare Amanda !original ↗
26 Jul 2019
Anarchy magazine, 1963original ↗
22 Jul 2019
A Victorian Dictionary of Blunders c 1888original ↗
10 Jul 2019
A month in the life of a RADA student in 1934: The journal of Nancy Seabrookeoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2019
Eating healthily the Focus wayoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2019
Pop triviaoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2019
Focus—a magazine for the alternative lifestyleoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2019
Neurasthenia cured by electricityoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2019
An early review of Pound’s Personae (1909)original ↗
31 May 2019
A West African Diary (195) part threeoriginal ↗
24 May 2019
A Victorian joke bookoriginal ↗
9 May 2019
Contact Magazine 1950original ↗
29 Apr 2019
On the quality on certain nineteenth century paperoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2019
Books do furnish a room: Philip Gosse on book collectingoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2019
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