James Hamilton

Fabulous image.

Some of our prizes from the Edinburgh Book Fair: the album from which the last two images are taken was shot 1911-1912 by someone very capable and I'll probably digitise it in due course

SciTexing it was called then, 1985. The most fun I had with it was the “some lawyer” monologue I wrote to start the article.

Stopped at a second - hand store in Olten today & nearly swooned. I have been wanting this book for a long time & there it was, as if waiting for me. The woman selling it said she could not imagine why anyone would want it & practically gave it away. A good end to a hard week.

IT’S OUT!! ‘Fairies: A History’ is published today in the UK, with publication in North America coming on 26 May 🧚📚🥳 politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

An 1895 photo showing ships leaving the port of Swansea at high tide. There was a local pub named "The Cape Horner" until quite recently... Image: RD Rhodes (copy).

It's #ThingThursday! This week this is my Kodak Retina II Type 142 - made between 1937-39 in Stuttgart - I bought this just before I went on school trips to the First World War battlefields, Auschwitz and Munich. Some really haunting photos, like the ones at Hooge Crater Museum, and the gate outside Auschwitz I.

Throughout the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, an SEC worker travelled all over Melbourne each day along with his Super 8 camera to meticulously document the city's history/events over 30 yrs. All 150+ reels, along with photos/slides have been donated to me. I will digitise and put online.

The Italian photographer and Renaissance man Guido Guidi channels his training as an architect, painter, and draughtsman into quiet studies of European towns and landscapes. aperture.org/editorial/the-…

A very poignant postcard. "Two mules that went all through the war with 8th Seaforth [Highlanders]" #ThingsThatFallFromBooks

Barbican, salvage work from failed slide development.

You can also read more about the collection and how we worked on it in our latest blog post: dundeecityarchives.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/the…

To say the least of it, this does not disappoint. Dazzling work. Congratulations to all involved.

The bygone view of Westminster Bridge

If you call into @VereyBooks in Pooley Bridge #Cumbria you can now buy a signed paperback of The Postal Paths, pick up a free route map to a couple of the local Postal paths and also buy the best homemade scones in the UK!

An extraordinarily clean copy of Vita Sackville-West's paean of love for her ancestral home, Knole. (1923 2nd imp.) Usually this book is brown and sunned all over!

We’re getting to the point where very old people (Deighton was 97) have photos in their pasts that are difficult to date. Viewing them triggers a weird sort of temporal disorientation. I guess this one was taken in the 80s or early 90s, but if you didn’t know who this man was you could easily think it’d been taken much more recently.

I wrote a book! I don't mention it much on this account but if you like landscape, folklore, magic, psychography, weirdness... you MIGHT like this 60 page experimental prose poem about walking the South Downs Way (also available via Am*z*n) brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/c…

Probably the most beautiful liturgical book I have. This is a Jericho Press work of art. I have one or two more books from that press. The Preces Privatae in Greek & English & ?

Since November I've been researching these five men and the circumstances of their tragic deaths on 22 March 1943 in Fotheringhay. Today I received letter (not shared here) from HRH The Prince of Wales for the families of these 5 men and all those who will be at Sunday's service.