Postcard From The Past: The Best of the Messages with Tom Jackson

Are the days of sending picture postcards over? Since 2016, Tom Jackson’s Twitter feed, 'Postcard From The Past' - @PastPostcard – has been obligatory reading, receiving more than nine million impressions a month. For anyone with an interest in the details of how we used to live, or in eavesdropping on other people’s conversations, these postcard messages on faded views are funny, illuminating and addictive. In a talk illustrated with suspiciously blue skies, enormous Good Luck cats and a squadron of one-eared donkeys, Tom Jackson will draw on his alarmingly huge collection of everyday postcards to present the oddest, funniest, most touching postcard messages. Beyond the problem with Auntie Beryl’s legs, where Dad left his sunhat or that time Kevin fell in the swimming pool, we’ll discover hidden messages, cries for help, threats and mysteries and consider whether or not it’s too late to revive the art of postcard writing.