Welcome!

Do you collect ephemera? Menus, football programmes, valentines, railway timetables, bookmarks, election leaflets, travel brochures – or perhaps items related to magic or women’s suffrage? Maybe you are preserving pizza flyers, store catalogues, or paper tickets before they vanish forever.

Do you study particular aspects of social, cultural or business history, or are you just as interested in graphic design and printing and the ways in which ephemera have evolved over the years?

Do you simply love old documents and find yourself fascinated by the paper trails left by past generations?

Whatever your passion, The Ephemera Society is for you. Founded in 1975, we are dedicated to the collection, conservation, study, and educational use of ephemera – what we define as ‘the minor transient documents of everyday life’.