The Burslem Bulletin

In his latest Sentinel column, historian Fred Hughes reveals the existence of a long-running illustrated publication titled the Burslem Bulletin

Doulton’s contribution to Burslem’s prosperity was palpable. And the relationship between town and factory was richly featured in its house magazine, Burslem Bulletin. First published in 1947 as an irregular publicity journal, it quickly grew into an illustrated monthly newsletter promoting the activities and social life Doulton employees, most of whom were Burslem residents arriving here straight from school and remaining until old age retirement eased them out. […] I have a full set of these monthly publications telling the story of Burslem more comprehensively than any established social history book I have in my library. The whole is an archive of information that shows how well the workplace and social life blended together to make an organic community.

Sounds like a job for a crowd-funder on IndieGoGo or suchlike, to get this scanned and onto Archive.org. Otherwise there may be a risk that things like this will go into the Keele local archives and never be catalogued for decades let alone scanned and made public. For instance, look at the fate of the Proceedings of the North Staffordshire Field Club and similar local journals.

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