In my last piece, about the Printer and the Presses , I mentioned that I had come across a signpost in the second to last issue of the Wipers,now named the Better Times, in relation to the printing of the final two issues. This was the signpost: Our new paper is born in very different circumstances to the old Wipers …

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This post has become the entry point for most people who stumble across my Wipers Exposé, and it was originally intended to be more of an appendix than an article in the series. The whole exposé began when I came across a lead that the writer behind ‘Violet’s Chronical of Fashion’ in the Wipers Times, was not in fact …

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