By John R. Latham
I don't know about you, but I am the worst hoarder of ephemera, "those bits of throwaway paper of every day life."ยน At home I have all the brochures from the museums, art galleries, and stately homes that I have visited, show programs, wedding and funeral "menus," and my pride and joy, a copy of the British Gazette that I found in a box in my late father's dressing room. The British Gazette was the only national newspaper printed during the General Strike of 1926 in Britain, edited by none other than Winston, S. Churchill. I know that we can probably read all eight issues online in digital format, but would you not rather touch the actual document that my father picked up at the end of his shift as an auxiliary policeman? The tactile tangibility with history gives me goose bumps.
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