Find a book

A Book a Month

We can send a book a month for six or twelve months - the perfect gift. More »

Café Music

Listen to our album of Café Music while browsing the site. More »

17th November 2025

This week on the Post the theme is going to the cinema (or the "pictures" or "flicks"). It's a hundred years or so since cinemas became a huge part of weekly entertainment in the 1920s. Queuing, being seen in the queue, and having a rendezvous in the queue were all just as much as part of the excitement as the film itself, as Harold Harvey shows in Girls Outside the Gaiety Cinema, Newlyn (1925, private collection).

Back to top