The Green Cross Code hedgehogs have their own site, with games, and screensavers and collectable virtual cards.

Thanks to L. for finding out about this brilliant concert of music that Benjamin Britten and Walter Leigh composed while they worked for the GPO Film Unit. The highlight of the evening was obviously the full showing of Night Mail with the text of Auden's poem. We had a fantastic evening.

Times review of the evening

One of the reasons that I love Mr Happy so much is that he was used as the logo for the Glasgow's Miles Better Campaign in the 1980s. I associate it paricularly strongly with Christmas shopping trips, with my excitement mounting when we passed the banner on the Daily Record building on the way into the city. The campaign ran from 1983-1989, and was one of the most successful city promotions ever - marking Glasgow's transition from the "Mean city" of the 1960s and 1970s to the "City of Culture and Architecture" of the 1990s. In the late 1980s, even the leaders of the national polictical parties jumped on the bandwagon - or more ccurately the bus - appearing in an advertising campaign that featured them and the Mr Happy logo on a London bus.

'Glasgow's Miles Better', Glasgow City Council website

'Glasgow's Miles Better - Mitchell Library, Glasgow Collection, Bulletin Photographs,' The Glasgow Story

A history of HIV & AIDS Posters from around the world (on the Avert web-site).I'm really pleased to find that we have in stock copies of the two earliest posters warning against AIDS and HIV (or HTLV III as it was known originally):
Terrence Higgins Trust 1984
Terrence Higgins Trust / Avert 1984

Chaps Online is the latest campaign from the Terrence Higgins Trust. The campaign mini-site includes information and a game in which you have to jump or roll to avoid the risks of contracting HIV/AIDS.

The Librarian (Your Life Work series). Produced by Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. for Vocational Guidance Films, Inc. on Internet Archives site.