Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
Sherlock Holmes
Christabel Pankhurst
Captain Scott's Diary
G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion
Suffragettes protest
Wilfred Owen: WWI poetry
Art in poetry
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Nottinghamshire dialect
BBC English
Wanted poster for Hitler
World War II ultimatum letter
Make Do and Mend
Immigration from India
Chinese restaurants
Paul Robeson's Othello
Sylvia Plath
The Beatles in the USA
Man lands on the moon
Women's liberation magazine
J.G. Ballard, Crash
Punk fanzine
The Sex Pistols
J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
Angela Carter, Wise Children
'Sniffin' Glue', the first punk fanzine, was produced by Mark Perry in July 1976 a few days after seeing US punk band The Ramones for the first time at the Roundhouse in London. He took the title from a Ramones song 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue'.
Perry's fanzine was the perfect punk form. It reported the moment immediately as it happened, from an insider's point of view. Because Perry used everyday tools that were immediately to hand, 'Sniffin' Glue' fitted with the do-it-yourself ethos which was already an important part of punk culture. A flood of punk zines followed, with identifiable cut and paste graphics, typewritten or felt tip text, misspellings and crossings out. Photocopying also contributed to the punk zine look by limiting graphic experimentation to black and white tones and imagery based on collage, enlargement and reduction. 'Sniffin' Glue' demonstrated that anyone could easily, cheaply and quickly produce a fanzine.