Subject Types

Billy Bunter

Character in a series of stories set in Greyfriars School, originally published in the boys weekly story magazine 'The Magnet'.

Fiction, Children, Fictional

The Wind in the Willows

Written by Kenneth Grahame, much of it based on a series of letters to he wrote to his son.  First published October 1908.

Fiction, Fictional, Literature

Three Men in a Boat

Comic novel written by Jerome K. Jerome first published in 1889.

Fiction, Literature

Ziggy Stardust

'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' is a concept album based on the story of a fictional rock star who is the human manifestation of an alien being attempting to present...

Fiction, Music / songs

Crunchy the Credit Crunch Monster

Official mascot of the global recession.

Fiction, Commerce, Fictional, Tourism / Traditions

Martin Chuzzlewit

Novel by Charles Dickens.  Originally published in serial form 1843–4.  The picture is an ilustration by Fred Barnard from the 1870s.

Fiction, Literature

Little Dorrit

A novel by Charles Dickens first published in serial form 1855 and 1857.  The title character is the daughter of a man imprisioned in Marshalsea prison for debt.

Fiction, Literature

Mother Goose

The interment register at St Olaves Hart Street records Mother Goose being buried on 14 September 1586. This is extremely strange so we did some digging.  The story of a goose laying golden eggs ca...

Fiction, Animals, Fictional

Frankenstein

Character created by Mary Shelley in her eponymous book. The Somers Town Mural supposedly shows "Head of Frankenstein". We can't see it in the mural but suspect that the head of Frankenstein's mon...

Fiction, Fictional, Seriously Famous

Great Dangaroo Flood

Fiction, Fictional