Fanzines enter pages of history – BBC article on news that the National Library of Scotland is to start archiving 70 years of fanzine activity. The photo shows copies of Zum! and Caption, which is nice but implies the contents boxes piled up behind my wardrobe may contain a fair amount of duplicates. Still, when the time comes that I'm ready to rid myself of this precious load it's good to know sending them Chris Atton is an option.
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In June 2000 I started blogging at peteashton.com and 10 years later in June 2010 I decided to stop. Blogging here, that is. I started a clean slate over on I Am Pete Ashton and maintain all manner of other web presences which are all listed here along with my contact details.
You probably came here via a Google search or from following a link on some old blog post somewhere. I hope what you find is useful in some way, though do check the publication date - it might be rather old now.
Thanks for your eyeballs.
Pete Ashton
Chris Atton was one of our tutors on our journalism course and he really knows his stuff, but was taken aback when I presented him with a stack of old roleplaying fanzines. He’d never even heard of what for a few years was a huge scene. Nice to know he’s got the National Library interested. Think I may have to put my geeky collection to good use.
Glad to hear you’ve found a home for them. I couldn’t think where to suggest.
@anna Oh, I’ve not even contacted them or anything! Just keeping the notion in mind should I want to.