A lot that should jog the memory

One of the odder lots I have stumbled across in the many June book sales is a worn and soiled 12pp autograph catalogue, or calendar of “35 nude male races held on Kersal Moor [near Manchester] between 1777 and 1811”.

Naked fell running, it seems, dates back to the mid-17th century, and according to Lancashire nove…

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