The significance of ephemera collections often comes from their social history and cultural context. To best capture this often means they require careful thought in the the initial cataloguing … [Read more...]
Why catalogue your collection?
Why catalogue your collection? It’s rewarding, cheap, simple, and everyone can do it – yet not many collectors take this step. Philip Moorhouse is proprietor of The Collecting Bug, a website where … [Read more...]
Mastercraft
SWEET TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? You can see an article about the confectionery in Australia in the soon to be released issue of The Ephemera Journal of Australia. OK there may be a … [Read more...]
Manual for railway workers
IS IT EPHEMERA? LOVELY AND RARE PUBLICATION, Instructions re working of the St. Kilda and Brighton electric street railway 1915. Published by Victorian Railways 94 numbered pages with about the same … [Read more...]
No fair; not fair
SUNDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2020 EPHEMERA FAIR HAS BEEN CANCELLED with the stage 4 lockdown taking us to mid September and so it is highly likely that by 22 September, we will still be quite limited in our … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #3 reporting infectious diseases
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #2 1890s
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Unprecedented #4
STRANGE TIMES 2020 - have we been here before? This is one of a series of posts inspired by the 2020 Covid 19 pandemic. You can also see an article about the ephemera of the Spanish Flu in … [Read more...]
Webinar How Models Work
LECTURE SERIES Why Models Work - The History Edition WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2020 6PM–7.30PM Part of the "Why Models Work" lecture series featuring curators, … [Read more...]