On Monday November 8th my boxes of archive – 25 of them, plus some framed posters - finally went to John Rylands Library to join the new British Pop collection.

Back in the 1990s, I did postgraduate research at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of Law and Popular Culture. My aim was to trace the history of Manchester’s alternative press. Eventually, my thesis was published as a book, called Imprinting the Sticks.