October 13, 2021 · 11:30 am

Books: Glasses in Literature, my piece on the best books with specs for The Idler

Glasses in Literature

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Books: An honourable mention in James Brown’s lovely review of the Laugharne Weekend Festival in The Daily Telegraph

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October 11, 2021 · 7:10 pm
October 11, 2021 · 11:43 am

Books: Audible version of Atlas of Improbable Places

Atlas of Improbable Places is now available on Audible. You can listen to a sample here:
https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Atlas-of-Improbable-Places-Audiobook/0711268312

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October 7, 2021 · 9:16 am

Pictures: The Laugharne Festival 2021

Bunnyman in Black and White - Will Sergeant, Laugharne Festival 2021

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October 5, 2021 · 4:25 pm

Listen: Hear a recording of Elizabeth Macneal speaking to me at the Laugharne Festival 2021

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October 5, 2021 · 12:42 pm

Pictures: Ecstatic Peace Library Record Fair, Bolt, N16

Thurston Moore crate digging, Ecstatic Peace Library Record Fair, Bolt, N16

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September 25, 2021 · 1:07 pm

Books: Hear me talking about Through the Looking Glasses with Neil Denny on his Little Atoms podcast

https://shows.acast.com/littleatoms/episodes/little-atoms-717-travis-elboroughs-through-the-looking-glass

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September 24, 2021 · 9:19 am

Event: Laugharne Festival, Friday 1 October, 5pm, Browns Marquee,  Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Cultural historian Travis Elborough has written books on subjects as diverse, yet central to popular experience, as Parks, Routemaster Buses and the British Seaside. The Long-Player Goodbye celebrates that endangered species, the album, from its vinyl birth in 1948 to its endangered status in the Spotify era. He will be discussing his latest book ‘Through The Looking Glasses’, a riveting, constantly surprising, intermittently hilarious history of spectacles
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Hanesydd diwylliant yw Travis Elborough. Mae’n awdur llyfrau ar destunnau mor amrywiol, ond canolog i brofiadau’r rhelyw, â Pharciau, Bysiau Routemaster a threfi glan-y-môr Prydain. Mae The Long-Player-Goodbye yn dilyn a dathlu hanes yr albwm – o ddyddiau cynnar LPs feinil yn 1948 i fformat sydd bellach mewn peryg ym myd newydd Spotify.

Full details here:
https://www.thelaugharneweekend.com/travis-elborough

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September 20, 2021 · 7:25 am

Books: Through the Looking Glasses featured in Zoe Cosby’s September highlights in Optician

Read online here: https://www.opticianonline.net/features/the-goods-a-new-start

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September 12, 2021 · 6:26 am

Books: Through the Looking Glasses featured on The Marilyn Report

In character as Pola from How to Marry a Millionaire, Marilyn is shown on the cover of Through the Looking Glasses, Travis Elborough’s new history of spectacles (alongside jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, and the ultimate short-sighted movie icon, Michael Caine.) Here’s a sneak peek at the synopsis… “We learn how eyeglasses were the making of […]

Marilyn Through the Looking Glasses — The Marilyn Report

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