Click the following links to read examples of previous L&AA student's Commonplace Substack posts.
The British Library
"Water pumps and bad land"
Brixton and the Black Cultural Archives
"On Friday 17/1/2026 (the number of times I had to correct…"
Swiss Cottage Library
"Not Swiss. Not a Cottage. Definitely a Library."
Commonplace Essay: Oxford, Part 1, Item 6
"Day 6, Item 6"
Book Making
London Centre for Book Arts
Commonplace Essay: Yes We BarbiCAN, Item 10
"Hey Kids!"
Bookmaker, bookmaker…
"I love making books, so I was very excited about…"
The Bodleian Libraries
"The ancient, the old, and the new"