The Encyclopaedia of Ephemera: A Guide to the Fragmentary Documents of Everyday Life for the Collector, Curator and Historian

I admit it: I am something of a magpie. But in its own small way that has helped develop at least one of my library’s special collections, where a lifetime’s interest in aviation has led to the results of my squirrel‐like propensities forming the basis of a now extensive collection. And I am confident that some day one of my successors will be glad of my request to my colleagues to keep and send to the University Library all the election leaflets, addresses and the like which fell through their letterboxes (or were pressed into their hands) during the first...