Dr Tony Shaw

Just continuing to root through what I quickly salvaged while the sale of my house on Carlton Road was going through. Did I really pay £7.50...

This photo shows one of several speakers in the former Smoke Room of the Vale Hotel, Woodthorpe, Nottingham. Of note is the 'HB' (H...

John James Britton, solicitor, minor poet, and the paternal grandfather of Lionel Britton, spent his last years (roughly 1896–1913) in Half...

Directly opposite 66 Tufnell Park Road, the house Lionel Britton owned in London, is St George's Theatre. In 2005, when I visited it wi...

This photo of me was taken by my mother Tryphena Joan Shaw (1922 –90)  in Alexandra Street, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham, in 1955. I’m just t...

The following links are to recent newspaper articles or letters about Lionel Britton: 'Family Helped Make the Town' by Robert Hughes...

Unfortunately , I didn't have the benefit of a churchwarden's guidance when I briefly visited Halford late one Saturday afternoon ...

John James Britton, the paternal grandfather of Lionel Britton, lived for about fifteen years in the small village of Halford in Warwickshi...

Lionel Britton's novel Hunger and Love has several similarities to Robert Tressell's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists , a well-...

With the exceptions of Lord Byron (whose stay in Nottinghamshire was relatively short) and D. H. Lawrence (who is of course principal...

With all the manic energy of a permanently starved squirrel on speed, Robert Hughes continues to excavate his past (1). This time he's d...

There are a number of posts about Lionel Britton here – although this blog is by no means exclusively about him and his family: its chief in...

John A. Lee (1891-1981) was a thief and a tramp in his youth, but went on to become a writer, a politician, and one of the most well-known m...

The Forest Folk, Blidworth Lushai cottage in Bingham, Nottinghamshire, was for a time the home of the novelist James Prior Kirk, who ju...

20 High View Road, home of Bob (or Percy) and Maisie Britton Robert Hughes remembers his maternal grandfather, Bob Britton: Bob was kind. He...

Richard Waddams Nimmo Britton was the son of John James Britton and the father of Lionel Britton. He was born at Gravelly Hill in 1859, marr...

For someone who was evidently renowned as a socialite and an extroverted supporter of left-wing causes, Sinead Acheson – usually known as Ac...

Cyril was the brother of Lionel Britton. During his early marriage he lived at 19 Luard Street, where he was a journeyman baker and then a d...

Robert Hughes (aka Snatch), the great-nephew of Lionel Britton, seems a little disgruntled – or possibly perversely proud – that there have ...

This rather unlikely title – Justin Thomas's autobiography How I Overcame My Fear of Whores, Royalty, Gays, Teachers, Hippies, Psychiat...

Reception of Lionel Britton's work varied widely, as the two fictional representations below clearly show. Simon Blumenfeld’s protagonis...

I noticed this description of a secondhand copy of Lionel Britton's Hunger and Love on Amazon.com for $123, and imagine that the fictio...

John James Britton was born in Handsworth in 1832. He died in Halford, Warwickshire, in 1913. Catherine Erskine Britton was John James’s fir...

Herbert E. Britton's first book of poems was The Visions of a Dreamer: Sonnets, Poems and Lyrics (Kidderminster: Edward Parry, 1912), w...

I had envisaged a rather boring drive to Burton on Trent Public Library to consult a copy of Staffordshire Poets by Russell Markland and Ch...

The indefatiguable Robert Hughes (great-nephew of Lionel Britton) has sent me census return details for a house in Winnipeg in 1911. Among o...

I usually look at google/books once a week, and I'm very rarely disappointed. Today, I learned that a forgotten writer — possibly more ...

Richard Bell has provided me with an interesting link: his Wild West Yorkshire website includes information about Karl Wood's friend, t...

 A pre-shaven me in lecture mode opposite Karl Wood's former studio in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, just a few minutes before I unveile...