Andrew Simpson

Saving the copper, date unknown Now there will be those who mutter this is not really much to do with history. But there I would di...

In an age of cheap air travel, package holidays, and reality tourism, the art of the hotel label has all but gone. Once, whether it was a se...

Now as picture postcards go, this one of the Hotel Pitter is Salzburg has captured my imagination. Hotel Pitter It was one Dad must h...

Now I don’t even know if hotels still give away suitcase labels. If they don’t that is a shame because I am sitting beside some of the ...

Now, history comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and today I am back with the humble luggage label. * They were something I grew up...

I collect hotel luggage labels, which I know marks me off as odd, especially as I have never visited any of the hotels in the collection. Bu...

Now I don’t even know if hotels still give away suitcase labels. If they don’t that is a shame because I am sitting beside some of the ...

There is always something special about coming across a place that has a link to your family. In the case of  The Westin Europa & R...

To be accurate it was our cellar rather than the attic, but the principle remains the same, which is that all sorts of stories can be conju...

Now I have been following my dad around Europe in the 1950s using the hotel suitcase labels that he collected. They are fascinating lit...