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Posted: 18-04-2005 11:12 Post subject:

Secrecy during a war is no big deal right enough but something that is still secret 60 years later is a bit unusual surely? I'd love to know what they were up to!

Posted: 18-04-2005 11:39 Post subject:

Maybe the information

I know there are different rules for when certain kinds of records are released - the Thirty Year Rule for civil government stuff, one hundred years for military intelligence or indefinite withholding for very sensitive materials (feel free to correct any of this), so records for a 1944 exploration of Antarctica should hve been released (or at least, be accessible) now (after all, alsorts of WW2 records have been released): anyone interested enough could have a look through http://www.national-archives.gov.uk or http://www.iwm.org.uk

Ian

Posted: 18-04-2005 11:54 Post subject:

The fact that this went on all that time ago does not exclude from still being secret - and the reasons for it still being secret doen't necessarily imply any unusual reasons. Altho', anyone could file a FOI claim and see if anything comes up.

Posted: 10-11-2005 03:21 Post subject:

Thinking about the idea of re-prints of Doubt, there have been a couple of editions of re-prints of John Willie's Bizarre (not least the complete editions box that rests on my shelf).

I would think that if these have done wll enough, the Doubt should be able to sell.

Posted: 11-11-2005 17:14 Post subject: Doubt issues

I had a quick look through the online catalogues of the New York Public Library (www.nypl.org) and the British Library (www.bl.uk) and their holdings include Doubt numbers:

1-2, 8-12, 11-16, 17, 28-61 NYPL
1-10, 11, 14-15 BL

So numbers 13 and 18-27 are missing ... but perhaps they exist in a private collection somewhere? Perhaps someone sufficiently interested could run an add in Fortean Times and get the rest? I think the copyright should have expired by now,but that's more X's area.

They would make a lovely volume, though: "Doubt: the complete set of the Fortean Society Magazine

Ian

Posted: 19-02-2006 23:30 Post subject:

Doubt is available from William Corliss at the Sourcebook Project.