I arrived in Essex on Friday evening for a few more days of sorting through the old family/parents’ home. We’ve made loads of progress over past months but there is still a daunting amount to do. On Saturday morning Royal Mail collected five boxes – 80kg – of old copies of Renewal, Dissent and The Problems of Communism on their way to the Internet Archive for scanning and storage at some point in the future. Having given several other piles of journals to various archives and libraries, these, the last ones left, happily filled some Internet Archive gaps. I then went to the local library, where I’d take five boxes of local history books a few months ago, to pick up three boxes of local history books, the ones they didn’t want. So, in aggregate, the first day here was progress, but not as much as hoped. § On Wednesday evening I made the mistake of reading something at the same time as walking into the kitchen, the top of my head inevitably colliding with the low doorway. It’s been a…
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