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This turned out to be a real pleasure. I have a soft spot for works of humour from this period (published 1948) especially when they contain cartoons as well as this did. Quite a bit of this was written during the war and conveys a real sense of how humour worked in extreme circumstances. I enjoyed the first section on an imagined boyhood in the mining town of Scowle especially the Information Centre which produces information sheets and checking services to visiting novelists in search of local colour. The second section on life in the staffroom at St. Morbid’s reminded me ‘The Papers of A.J . Wentworth’ by H.F. Ellis (1949). Both authors were writers for ‘Punch’ – Hollowood in fact was editor from 1957 to 1968 as well as playing cricket for Staffordshire.