To celebrate our wonderful ephemera category and the unique and quirky items it holds, our World of Rare Books employees have had a chance to pick out their favourite items this week. You can read more about our Ephemera collection here in a previous blog. Here they are… Weekly Illustrated – Coronation Programme and […]
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The Rise and Rise of the Superhero.
By Verity Bird. It seems we’ve always looked for heroes, ever since the flawed deities of ancient Greece but don’t worry this isn’t a history lesson … ok maybe just a little. Since the Modern-Age of comic books, we’ve seen our mainstream caped crusaders suffer more acutely with the human condition. We’ve seen Iron-Man struggle […]
75th Anniversary of The Famous Five
Reading is a fundamental part of a child’s development and one of the greatest exponents of getting children to read was Enid Blyton, who wrote over 600 books in her time and has sold an estimated 600 million copies of her books, quite amazing. This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the publication of […]