An old photograph of Hull, one of the few streets in ‘the UK City of Culture’ that is very much as it always has been. Lydia is about to go to there for the day to look at the letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain; these have never been published as a complete collection. (And then she can go to Beverley, twenty minutes away, to look at the beautiful Fred and Mary Elwell’s  – every reader of the Persephone Post will know who they are).