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2021 Summer Newsletter ISSN 1744-3180 Summer 2021 Series 3, no. 49 News from the Chair Welcome to the Summer issue of the LIHG newsletter. While we wait for news on when in-person events may again be possible, this issue contains two features which encourage us to reflect on the success of our online events. Having regaled us with an excellent talk at our last work-in-progress session, Alistair Black has contributed an article that further explores the depiction of librarianship in post-war cinema. Eleanor Kelly has provided a write-up of Alice Ford-Smith’s virtual “Lonely hearts…” walk, which was a wonderful way to spend a virtual Valentine’s day evening. This issue also has us looking forward to our annual conference on Saturday 3rd July, again taking place online. Please consider joining us if you can. Many thanks in advance to all our speakers, and to Angela Platt for putting together such an excellent programme. Finally, this issue also throws a spotlight on other ways in which LIHG supports research into Library and Information history – the essay prize, and the James Ollé award. Please share these with others who may be interested. Jill Dye Chair, CILIP Library & Information History Group Table of Contents What can the film Only Two Can Play (1962) tell us about post-war public librarianship in Britain? ................................. 2 Library History Essay Award 2021 ................................................................................................................................................ 5 Lonely hearts, wedding bells and illicit pleasures: a far from sentimental journey into how London loved in print ........... 6 James Ollé Awards .......................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Power and Resistance in Library History: .................................................................................................................................... 8 CILIP LIHG Conference 2021 ........................................................................................................................................................ 8 Events ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 9 SIG Library History Oral Histories Project ................................................................................................................................... 9 Publications ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Author Query .................................................................................................................................................................................. 10 Historic Libraries Forum (HFL) statement on cuts to staff and services in libraries with Unique and Distinctive Collections (UDC) .......................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Back Matter ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 1 ISSN 1744-3180 Summer 2021 Series 3, no. 49 What can the film Only Two Can Play (1962) tell us about post-war public librarianship in Britain? Figure 1. Peter Sellers and Mai Zetterling in a scene from Only Two Can Play (1962). Courtesy of STUDIOCANAL. Since roughly the middle of the twentieth century, light on the periods in which they were created, rich the development of history as a subject has seen as they are, as the historian Arthur Marwick a commensurate diversification in the type of reminds us, in their potential to not only record primary sources investigated and referenced by everyday practices but also reveal contemporary historians. This widening conceptualisation of what “attitudes, assumptions, mentalities, and values”.2 constitutes a legitimate primary resource has Librarians and the library have been making included feature films.1 Treated with appropriate appearances in films since the early days of methodological care, cinematic productions throw cinema. However, the vast majority of roles 2 ISSN 1744-3180 Summer 2021 Series 3, no. 49 allocated to what Tevis and Tevis call “reel” amateur dramatics group and she is looking for librarians or libraries have been of the “backdrop” books on medieval Welsh dress to lend or “cameo” kind.3 Classic and much cited authenticity to one of the group’s upcoming examples of films that display such roles include productions. Unable to satisfy her enquiry, a young It’s a Wonderful Life (1947), Breakfast Club (1985), female library assistant calls John, her senior and The Day After Tomorrow (2004). Television colleague, over to help. Flirting ensues and a productions that fall into this category include Buffy romance between the two is born (Figure 1). the Vampire Slayer (seven seasons, 1997-2002) However, it is a romance doomed to failure. John and The Librarian (3 films, 2004-08), neither of and Elizabeth never manage to get into bed. Each which are primarily about the institution of the planned tryst in the film ends in comic disaster and library or the occupation of the librarian. Listings of “failed consummation”, portrayed in scenes that such productions are many,4 and in 2007 the make the most of Seller’s slapstick skills set. contents of such lists were brought to life in the The romance between the two is complicated documentary The Hollywood Librarian.5 By by John’s decision to apply for the vacant post of contrast, very few films have featured the librarian sub-librarian (“deputy librarian” in other library as a main protagonist or librarianship as a major settings). Elizabeth is married to a colourless, driver of the plot. The very few films that fall into muted businessman, Vernon. He is a local this category include Storm Center (1956), Desk councillor and serves on the council’s public Set (1957), Party Girl (1995), The Public (2018), libraries committee. Elizabeth is thus able to pull and, if a slight stretching of the parameters is strings, to John’s advantage. Although uncertain allowed, The Music Man (1962). about applying, being disillusioned with the You don’t need to be a film buff to know that monotony of work and an unfulfilling career, John these five productions were set in the United is ultimately persuaded to do so by his long- States. The only film set in a British context that suffering wife, Jean (played by Virginia Maskell), in can be identified as belonging to the category in the hope that the family can earn the extra money question is Only Two Can Play (1962).6 Directed needed to escape their dreary surroundings and by Sidney Gilliat and a success at the British box lives. John and Jean have two young children. office, Only Two Can Play was a production of They live in three cramped and grubby rooms on British Lion Films, a cornerstone of the post-war the top floor of a Victorian terraced villa converted British film industry. British Lion Films’ catalogue into flats. They share a bathroom with other flats included such famous films as The Third Man and have to put up with the intrusive gaze of an (1949) and Lord of the Flies (1963). Among its interfering landlady. So, we see that the Lewis comedy productions were I’m All Right Jack (1959) family is not poor, but they are hardly “well off”. and Heavens Above! (1963). Both these films “Hard up” would be a fair description of their starred Peter Sellers, who also fronted Only Two situation. At the end of the film we find that John, Can Play. It too was a comedy but, like the other having turned down the job of sub-librarian, has two, not one of the “laugh out loud” kind. opted instead for a peaceful life on a mobile library, In Only Two Can Play, Sellers plays the visiting country villages where, away from city life character John Lewis, a librarian in the fictional and the drudgery of life in the central library, the Aberdarcy Public Library. The town of Aberdarcy temptations offered by women other than his wife was based on Swansea, where Kingsley Amis, the can be presumably be resisted. author of the 1955 novel That Uncertain Feeling John’s sexual and career frustrations, played (1955) that gave rise to the film, lived between out in a framework of light comedy, drive the 1949 and 1961, working as a lecturer at the storyline forward. What gives the film an university. Many of the exterior scenes in the film undoubted impact, however, is that its central were shot in Swansea. character is a librarian. Audiences at the time In the scenes that precede the opening would have largely expected a librarian to be credits, John, our leading protagonist, is shown to sexually conservative. They would also expect a have a wandering eye for the opposite sex. In the librarian to enjoy a comfortable standard of living. scenes that immediately follow these credits, his Even if they were not comfortable in this regard, credentials as a lothario are firmly established. the expectation would have been that they were One morning, the character of Elizabeth Gruffydd- cheerfully engaged in their vocation due to a Williams, played by the Swedish actress Mai certain intellectual motivation. The
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