Issue 206
Winter 2024
£20.00
In this issue: What twelve boxes of ephemera… revealed about early radio listening, Beaty Rubens / One hundred years in ephemera from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, Matt Lamont / Accidents do happen, Nick Fry / An ephemeral day in Canton, Patrick Hickman-Robertson / Tales of a ‘printer stationer’ in Sarah Burgess, renowned souvenir paper napkin printer of London, Ellie Reid / Quarterly Notes, Mrs Pepys / Notes & Queries, Graham Hudson / Classified
Welcome to the Winter issue Nº 206 of The Ephemerist. We start the year with some important changes to the Society to share… please read more about our exciting future plans in ‘Society News’ on pages 2 & 3, and share your views with our Chair, Dickon Weir-Hughes. Readers should not miss the new exhibition displaying ephemera about early radio at the Bodleian Library’s Special Collections, some of which is illustrated in Ruben’s article on p4. Reid describes the unusual career of a female ‘printer stationer’ of Islington, Sarah Burgess, who leaves a legacy of celebration napkins, and Hickman-Robertson has picked up the ‘Ephemeral day in —’ baton with tales of collecting ephemera in 1970s Canton (Guangzhou). Regular columns N&Qs and Mrs Pepys complete a varied and interesting issue.
