Packing a Punch
01 May 2004. Inspired by .
On balance, it's probably good to see the British Library purchasing the entire archives of Punch magazine. There's some gold to be panned from the upper-class streams of conciousness, if a wise editor is put in charge.
It would be even better if said editor pushed to remove the archives from this clumsy pay-for site and placed in this illuminating (and far more valuable) den of loveliness. Either way, Britishness is well worth archiving before it becomes a historical category of its own.