Dr Tony Shaw

I may have taken all of these images of New York City, although I'd have been unaware of the existence of most of them without Kevin W...

The postcard above shows a drawing of Netherwood in Hastings by ‘Barbara’, and has been posted to a blog entitled ‘ Old Postcard Art ’. It ...

This photo shows Cyril and Mary (née Hunt) Britton at an unknown outing in 1924, with Cyril's sister (Kathleen Ethel) Ivy below Ida. I ...

British Mills in Redditch was a large needle and fishing tackle factory on Prospect Hill founded by Samuel Thomas senior – the great-grandfa...

St Stephens School in Redditch was where working-class writer Lionel Britton was educated. He stayed there until he was about twelve, later...

The above photo is probably the poet and solicitor John James Britton, although it is by no means clear. Many thanks to Jane Matthews and Ro...

Cyril Britton was born in Bournemouth and died in London. He was the son of Richard and Irza Britton and the brother of Lionel Britton. Many...

Ivy Britton was born at Astwood Bank, near Redditch, and died in Islington. She was the daughter of Richard and Irza Britton and the sister ...

Irza Vivian Geraldine Britton was Lionel Britton's mother and the daughter of Samuel Thomas junior of Redditch, Worcestershire. The date...

This is the earliest known photo of the working-class writer Lionel Britton, when he was in his twenties. The bizarre thing is that he is w...

The photo above is a rare picture of the poet, journalist and solicitor John James Britton, the father of Richard Britton and the paternal g...

Last night, Robert Hughes told me that his mother, Flora Hughes (née Britton), died yesterday morning. She was the daughter of Reginald Perc...

Lionel Britton inscribed the above on the f.e.p. of his Spacetime Inn (1932) to his niece, Flora Britton (later Hughes), when she was 13 ye...

Karl Salsbury Wood was born at Kings Newton, Derbyshire, in 1888. He later moved to Nottingham for several years, where he worked as a pack...

May 2008 of course marks the fortieth anniversary of les événements , the often violent protests which spread across France in reaction agai...

The photo above shows Mary Ann Elizabeth Thomas, née Quartly (1866–1943) on the left, and Irza Vivian Geraldine Britton, née Thomas (1866–19...

James Kelman is one of the most important living British novelists. If not the most important. Theo Tait interviewed him for the Guardian R...

Kathleen Ethel Ivy Britton was born at Astwood Bank, on the border of Worcestershire and Warwickshire, in 1886. She was the daughter of Rich...

When Britton & Son, a legal company in Alcester (John James Britton) and Astwood Bank (Richard Waddams Nimmo Britton), went bankrupt in ...

These two images are from old postcards of Hewell Road, Redditch, although today most if not all of the houses no longer exist. They're...

Well, OK, this was in the 1970s and I was teaching in France at the time (Lycée Technique d'Etat Louis Rascol, Albi, in the Tarn), but...

The literary critic Dr Harry Slochower (1900–91) is perhaps better known for his book No Voice Is Wholly Lost (1946) rather than his Three ...

Below, I have already provided a link to this wonderful photo, although it clearly merits a more direct viewing. The above scene was taken ...

As I mentioned in a post below, Lionel Britton and Bertrand Russell wrote a number of letters to each other. One dates from about eighteen m...

Bertrand Russell was very impressed with Lionel Britton's novel Hunger and Love , to such an extent that – very unusually – he wrote a f...

There were several Thomas families in Redditch in the nineteenth century, but the relevant one here has Samuel Thomas senior as the head, a ...

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...