Tennessee William's Typewriters
By Robert Messenger Lot 323 – “An important artifact in the history of American theatre” – sold for $US37,500 (£28,400) at Sotheby’s in New York Ci...
Read moreBy Robert Messenger Lot 323 – “An important artifact in the history of American theatre” – sold for $US37,500 (£28,400) at Sotheby’s in New York Ci...
Read moreRoy Lilly is one of the fantastic team of typewriter engineers which we work with to service and restore the wide variety of machines that come thr...
Read moreBy Robert Messenger Next Valentine’s Day will mark the 50th anniversary of the launch, in Barcelona, of the iconic Pop Art portable typewriter, the...
Read moreBy Robert Messenger One of the weekend colour magazines carries a regular item called “Road Test”, in which it describes a rather obscure item for ...
Read moreBy Robert MessengerSalford, in Greater Manchester, has since 2014 been celebrating Shelagh Delaney Day (“Be Inspired”) to mark the November 25 birt...
Read moreBy Robert Messenger For the typewriter aficionado on Instagram, it soon becomes apparent that typed poetry is trending big time. And around the wor...
Read moreBy Robert MessengerLionel Shriver is a thoroughly modern journalist and writer and one with a keen eye for prophecy. She can still very much apprec...
Read moreBy Robert Messenger It's been more than a year now since brilliant British-born, American-based writer and musician Dominic Green wrote his wonderf...
Read moreBy Robert MessengerAlan Wood was a World War II correspondent who became immortalised in print in Britain and his native Australia, online by Wikip...
Read moreBy Robert Messenger Sir Alec Bedser and his twin brother and fellow England cricketer Eric were once the British Empire agents for the Blue Bird ty...
Read moreBy Robert Messenger Arthur Bott Pateman was the unsung hero of the Imperial Typewriter Company. While most of the credit goes to Hidalgo Moya fo...
Read moreBy Robert Messenger On June 23 a bunch of people who, like me, have nothing better to do with their time and money than to spend it on old typewr...
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