
In Praise of Noise: The Deafening Silence of the Pandemic
The pandemic has made the world a quieter place. Jennifer Wallis misses the noise, and writes here about silence and the struggle to fill it.
The pandemic has made the world a quieter place. Jennifer Wallis misses the noise, and writes here about silence and the struggle to fill it.
Jennifer Wallis explores the history of children’s records, and childhood encounters with a sinister talking piano.
Scouring the Headpress shelves, Jennifer Wallis falls down the rabbit hole with probably the only book to bring together Clark Kent, Queen Victoria, and Alice in Wonderland.
Jennifer Wallis gives us a rundown of what’s playing on the Headpress screen this week, from vertigo-inducing documentaries to laconic sixties comedies.
The strange but true tale of drowning, dogs, and inflatable men. Ladies and gentlemen, Henry Silvester, the “practically unsinkable” man!
Do you like your horror homely? Jennifer Wallis picks her top three Thriller episodes and considers their nostalgic and aesthetic appeal.
Sweet and subversion – the combative cuteness of 90s pop duo Shampoo.
Trading cards are something of a US institution. Many feature sports personalities. Some don’t, such as the Terrorist Attack Educational Cards of the 1980s.
From a Victorian gentleman fascinated with working women to a pageant for barb wire, here are five top picks in History books by Jennifer Wallis.
As many of us find solace in ‘comfort reading’, Jennifer Wallis revisits teen horror fiction of the 1980s and 90s, from Point Horror to ‘spooky’ anthologies.