Deep in the countryside of East Anglia, in a village called Raveningham near the Norfolk-Suffolk border, it would be understandable
to think you were in just another small and obscure British farming village that boasts nothing but agriculture and a population you can count on your fingers.
But take a closer look. A set of buildings tucked away on the Raveningham Estate that from the outside seem an ordinary barn complex has on one side a small plaque that reads: “THE HISTORY OF ADVERTISING TRUST.”
If you step into those buildings, you will enter a fully functioning, environmentally controlled archive that holds the largest collection of British advertising in the world, with more than 10 million assets relating to advertising history. From Beanz Meanz Heinz to John Lewis at Christmas, the promotions of every brand you can think of from our country’s commercial history are carefully preserved by the History of Advertising Trust (HAT).
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THE FEW ON SCREEN
Steven Taylor looks at the Battle of Britain across film and TV
Table Service
Rachel Toy looks at the history of Ridgway Homemaker tableware
Hever Forever
Claire Saul studies the newly refurbished Boleyn Apartment at Hever Castle & Gardens - a castle fit for a queen
Shining a Light
Tony O’Neil tunes into the history of the last manned lightvessel
The Man With the Goldeneye
Film stills photographer Keith Hamshere describes how he came to enter the world of James Bond
THE ORIGINAL GOLDEN BALLS
lan Wheeler looks back on 70 years of Tiger comic and Roy of the Rovers, and chats to the man who edited and oversaw both titles
To Play the Queen
Chris Hallam looks back on the life of one of the UK’s best known lookalikes
POOLING RESOURCES
Martin Handley looks at what life was like after the Vernons Girls
POSTCARD FROM= SUSSEX
Bob Barton indulges in pleasure piers and fairground delights, as well as fulfilling a long-held ambition to visit the home of Rudyard Kipling
Oh, Miss Jones
Chris Hallam looks back at the origins and legacy of Rising Damp, ITV's most successful sitcom