Fear and loathing in the Detective Magazine (1925)
The fantastic front cover of the Amalgamated Press’s Detective Magazine from 13 March 1925. Edited by the crime aficionado George Dilnot, the magazine ran from November 1922 until May 1925.
Airships and agriculture (1929)
The British airship the R100 moored to its mast at Cardington in Bedfordshire. Built in Howden as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme, the R100 made its first flight in … Continue reading
Perhaps! A little fashion fantasy (1922-3)
Perhaps! A little fashion fantasy (1922-3) Something a bit different today: as always I’m slightly late but yesterday marked 90 years since the British archaeologist and his wealthy patron Lord … Continue reading
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside (1922)
Not exactly seasonal but I liked this weirdly vibrant colour postcard of Marine Terrace in Margate in 1922.
The hubris of the conman turned criminologist (1927)
The hubris of the inveterate confidence trickster Netley Lucas takes material form in the front page of the first (and only) issue of The Criminologist in the spring of 1927. … Continue reading
Luring lips, he loves me not (1921)
A scene from the 1921 film “Luring Lips,” featuring Edith Roberts and Darrel Foss.
Lives, stories and histories
I bought these three scrapbooks online a few years ago. There are three of them, each full of individual photographs and pages cut from magazines and newspapers and laboriously pasted … Continue reading
A magistrate masquerades as the “typical vagrant” (1926)
A lesser-known example of the well-established genre of slumming: in 1926 the Weymouth Magistrate decided to find out more about the condition of the men sleeping rough in the streets … Continue reading
Signs and street furniture in Exeter High Street (1926)
The signs and street furniture that regulate and ease the movements of everyday life are striking in this view towards Exeter High Street in 1926. There traffic lights and white … Continue reading
Sail bogies on the Spurn Head Railway (1922)
Leaving modernity behind? A group of men and women exchange their automobile for an older form of transport to travel out to Spurn Head in the Humber Estuary on this … Continue reading
The Trickster Prince 