Editorial
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Alan Powers
Undercover surrealism
| The story of Pollock's Toy Museum
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Jonathan Day
Life on the open road
| Robert Frank's The Americans
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Jonathan Bell
Fetishising format
| The CD and the seven-inch single
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Marilynn Gelfman Karp
Loving the unloved
| A passion for collecting
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Laurel Blossom
Freeze-frame
| The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
American Museum of Natural History, New York
10 April - 11 October 1999
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Jonathan Key
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Thorsons, London
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Stephen Escritt
Modern or modernist?
| Modern Britain 1929-1939
Design Museum, London
20 January - 6 June 1999
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Tuva Korsstrom
| Alena V.Ledeneva: Russia's Economy of Favours: Blat, networking and informal exchange
Cambridge University Press
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Rosemary Hill
| Mummy of an Egyptian cat
Museum number EA373348
British Museum, London
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Esther Leslie
Craft and power
| Tanya Harrod: The Crafts in Britain in the 20th Century
Yale University Press
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Andrew Biswell, Jonathan Key, David Morley, Peter Davidson
| How to make a paper aeroplane
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Flora Samuel
Beyond our Ken
| Marco Tosa: Barbie: Four Decades of Fashion, Fantasy and Fun
Pavilion Books, London
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Robert Graves
The devil's advice to storytellers
| Poem
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Douglas Coupland
| The TWA 800 air disaster
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Reginald Reynolds
Snack attack
| Poem
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Samantha Matthews
Dead letters
| A ghostly autograph book
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Louis de Bernieres
Cat-atonic
| Extract from the short story Labels
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Liz Boggis
Flash bulb
| Anna Pavord: The Tulip
Bloomsbury, London
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Viivi Luik
Words for words
| Extract from the novel Ajaloo ilu (The beauty of history)
Translated from the Estonian by Hildi Hawkins
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Charles Barclay
Wings of desire
| Brian Johnson: Classic Aircraft: A Century of Winged Flight
Channel 4 Books, London
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David Greenslade
Cardboard box
| Poem
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Laurel Blossom
| Souvenirs of the Shackleton Exhibition
American Museum of Natural History, New York
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Hildi Hawkins
What we can know
| Poem
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Hugh Pearman
| Revisiting Berlin's military airport
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Philip Graham
Confessions of a collector
| Extract from How to Read an Unwritten Language
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Rosemary Hill
| The henge at Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk
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Eva Hills
Cock-a-do-dle-doo
| The Zeppelin raid of 23 September 1916
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Hildi Hawkins
| Elliott Erwitt: Dogdogs
Phaidon Press, London
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B. Rimanov, Military Personnel, Vitebsk
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Chris van Scheltinga
| Ben Osborne: The A-Z of Club Culture
Sceptre, London
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Sophie Hannah
Mountains out of small hills
| Poem
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Jonathan Bell
Plane sailing?
| Chris Burden: When Robots Rule: The Two-Minute
Aeroplane Factory
Tate Gallery, London
18 March - 18 July 1999
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| From the collections of Marilynne Gelfman Karp
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Lisa Hirst
Peace on earth?
| 'From the Bomb to the Beatles'
Imperial War Museum, London
25 March 1999 - 29 May 2000
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Leena Krohn
The son of the chimera
| Short story from Pereat mundus. Romaani, ernlainen
(Pereat mundus. A novel, sort of)
Translated from the Finnish by Hildi Hawkins
online article / amazon.co.uk link / gallery link
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