Membership to The Ephemera Society is on my list for when finances allow, but you can visit the fairs in general, either way. Being a zine creator and library type, with virtually her own archive/museum at home, it would be really useful and interesting to join up.
The Ephemera Society's annual bazaars and fairs are always full of merry artefacts. If you have any curiosity about paper articles that are snapshots in time, if you like the visual aspect of ephemera like postcards, photos, magazines, adverts, curios, and so on, it's good fun to take a look around the stalls of this fair. Membership to The Ephemera Society is on my list for when finances allow, but you can visit the fairs in general, either way. Being a zine creator and library type, with virtually her own archive/museum at home, it would be really useful and interesting to join up. I went to last year's ephemera fair and bought some amusing magazines, like the 1940s/1950s origin Lilliput, with its bizarre array of stories, adverts, and photo captions. I could be in danger of becoming a collector of this, as it's written in the kind of style and tone that the modern day Clod magazine seems to satirise. To whit: The Feathers Bumper Book for Boys and Girls was an entertaining oddity that I ended up buying for fun too: I love the drama and silliness of how this story opens: Sinister sheep in frocks, at teatime: It's all the sort of bizarre surrealness that appeals for reappropriating in a 'zine, and it's also just amusing, quirky stuff. Funny to read the tone of articles and stories, and see how things were presented and how people amused themselves in the 40s and 50s − not often you get access to such stuff, and there aren't enough museums to keep it all in, sadly.
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