Category Archives: Stationery, Filofax, Journals & Notebooks

Notebooks of 2024

The start of the year means that I need to find some time to run though my notebooks of the last year and check for any outstanding notes that need attention. There has been a few tweaks to my previous … Continue reading

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Introducing Web Wednesday

Our ancestors and forebears did not live in isolation of the social, economic, and political stability or instability of their global communities. Whether you are researching your own ancestry, conducting a specific study or piece of research relating to One-Place … Continue reading

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Notebooks of 2023

It is New Years Eve and I usually find some time to run though my notebooks of the year and check for any outstanding notes that need attention. What is unusual for the notebooks of 2023, is that I concluded … Continue reading

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Advent – Day 10

I promised my last Pharos students a peek at my notebooks, well in this case it is a peek at my current book. Anyone who has been reading this site for a while will no doubt recall how I began … Continue reading

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Stationery Joys

Over the years I have shared about my notebook and writing obsessions and thought that I might share with you the ones I have enjoyed over recent months.  Some of these have been new, some extracted from my stash of … Continue reading

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Papergang Stationery Box

What is there not to love about stationery? I stumbled across the Papergang Stationery boxes last year, when the August box had the theme of fish. There was a discount on the first box, so I subscribed so I could … Continue reading

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Desk Ramblings (29)

The last Desk Ramblings post, which you can read HERE, was written as the UK went into COVID-19 lock-down, on 26 March. Since then it has been a strange time to be living in and I wonder what historians of … Continue reading

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Stationary Memories – Biddles of Guildford

This morning I went online for my Twitter fix and noticed a post from a stationary shop of my childhood, Biddles in Guildford. Instantly I was plunged back into a series of happy memories. This shop undoubtedly helped me develop … Continue reading

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Q & A – Keeping a Journal

One of the readers who asked about blogging, also asked about how they could journal. Julie, I have admired over the years your posts about journalling and am amazed that you have kept a journal for decades. How do you … Continue reading

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Farnham Papers – Removal Orders (5)

Ann PALMER, single woman to Buniton, Southampton – 8 December 1804 William LOVELAND Examination is for Settlement – 22 January 1805 Sarah KING, single woman to Windlesham, Surrey – 2 February 1805 Sarah CRANHAM – Note attached. Thomas ELSEY, labourer … Continue reading

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