These articles were featured in the PHS journal plastiquarian nos. 1 to 38 (1988-2007) and a few are accessible here as 'tasters' (just follow the link by clicking on  any title in blue link to go to a reprint of the article.)

Hard copies of  back publications (where available) can be purchased from the PHS.  They are also available in sets on CD. Follow this link to find out more.

plastiquarian 1
The Bakelite Museum; Where is it Now? p6
The Cellulosic Crisis; Urgent Attempts to Save Old Films p7
Bois Durci; A Plastics Antique p8
Were Misha Black, Wells Coats & J K White the Cat's Whiskers? p9
The Musee du Peigne et des Matieres Plastiques p10

plastiquarian 2
End of a Line; PHS Visit to the Vestry House Museum p6
The Notebooks of Alexander Parkes p8
The Plastes Story p9
Poetry from the BXL Archives p10
From Milk to Manicure Sets; The Casein Process p12
Repairing Plastics p14

plastiquarian 3
An Addicts' Evening at the Science Museum p6
An Ekco from the Past, Lecture by Dr. Tom Going p7
It's in the Can at the National Film Archive p9
Shellac Union Cases p10
Members Collections: Hazel Page is all Buttoned Up p11
Thetford Pulp Ware: Forerunner of Domestic Plasticware p12
Repairing Plastics Part 2 p13

plastiquarian 4
Dynamic Plastics - First KMV Exhibition in Dusseldorf p7
Brighton Polytechnic Takes the Cake p9
Roving Report - Australia p10
Roving Report - USA p10
Portrait of a Pioneer: E A Petersen & Erinoid Ltd p12

plastiquarian 5
The Plastics Age: Exhibition Review p7
Polymer Conservation Seminar Review p8
Oyannax Reactions p10
Celluloid Figurines p13
Post-war Plastics Industry p14
Early Days at Halex p16
Plastics Cap Badges of the British Army p17

plastiquarian 6
Pioneer Plastics Party - L G G Charlesworth Ltd p6
BIP History Day p7
US Plastics Artifacts Find a Home p8
The History of an Industry Goes on Display (USA) p9
From Bakelite to Teflon: A Life in USA Industry p10
Lid Rises on Coffin Mystery p11
A Resounding Ekco: The E K Cole Company p12
Gutta Percha: The Plastic of its Time p14
John Jesse: The Quiet Collector p16
Repairing Plastics Update p17

plastiquarian 7
From Ivorine to Olivetti: Miss Crowford Collects p8
Interplas 90 (with a history of the exhibition) p10
The Story of Lego; Danish Design Exhibition p12
The Quiet Revolution: Bex Bowls p13
The Bogus Butterfly Collector: Camphor and Early Plastics p14
Kelacoma Ltd p16

plastiquarian 8
Craft Survival; Morris & Forndran (combs & brushes) p7
Cleaning Plastics: A Guide p8
Collecting (includes Bois Durci & Radios) p11

plastiquarian 9
Dr Jekyll & Formaldehyde : A 1950s view of plastics p6
Wide Open - an approach to dental plastics p8
The Kleeware Story p9
The Ups and Downs of PVC p10
Polyethylene - the new insulating material p12
Conservation reports p13
Obituary - Gaby Schreiber

plastiquarian 10
Distillers Impact on The Plastics Industry p8
Early Artificial Fibres p11
Woodflour - the Filler p13
Permali p14

plastiquarian 11
The Building of an Industry - A Personal View of a Celluloid Business p6
Permali in Gloucester (pic) p9
Xylonite and World War I p9
History & Development of Vinyl LP's p14
An Early Celluloid Factory p17
Early Glassfibre Car Shells p18

plastiquarian 12
Horn and Plastics - The Natural Connection p4
Precursory Experiments in Electronics Encapsulation p6
A History of Fibre-Reinforced Composites p10
The Birth and Development of the 'Frido' Vinyl Playball p13
A Consultant's Role in the Plastics Industry p16
The Manufacture of Balata Belting p18
Button Making in Halesowen p20
Polymer Yarns p21

plastiquarian 13
Plastics in Dentistry p3
Cellulosics - A Classic Centenary p7 &17
Phenolics in the 1930s p11
Casting Phenolic Resin - A Short Study of the Napkin Ring p14
The Development of Mass-Produced Pens p18
The Timpo Trail p22

plastiquarian 14
From Cyanide to 'Beetle' p4
Seeing a Problem Through - 'Perspex' The First Sixty Years p8
'Perspex' - Decades of Achievement in 1930s-1990s p10
Cast Phenolic p12
Made for Each Other? Plastics in the Automotive Industry p13
Polymer Chemistry at McGill University Montreal p21
Inorganic polymers, The Work of Frederick Kipping p23

plastiquarian 15
Natural Rubber and the Years That Changed the World p3
Making Plastics Work - Two Views - Putting Polyethylene First p7
The Polyethylene Bag - It's Birth & Development p9
Celluloid and Photography p14
In a Spin at Kew - viscose rayon p20
Perspex Jewellery p26

plastiquarian 16
Decorative Laminates 1911-1981 p2
Celluloid & Photography (Part 2) p6
Some Historical Aspects of the Horner’s Craft p9
Collecting Carvacraft p10
Portrait of a Pioneer (Edwin Elliott) p12
The True Discoverer of Nylon? p15

plastiquarian 17
Plastics in Retrospect & Prospect – A 1964 View p2
Some Viscose Personalities (Part 1) p5
A Working Horn Factory p8
Celluloid & Photography (Part 3) p10
The Poppit Experience p13
The National Plastics Center & Museum – an update p15

plastiquarian 18
The Gutta Percha Story p2
Birkbys: A Name for 130 Years p7
Keratin Kitsch p10
Celluloid & Photography (Part 4) p12
A Post-war Plea 18;iii

plastiquarian 19
The British Plastics Federation: The Early Years p2
A History of Rotational Moulding p6
The Xylonite Catalogue 1882 – 1930 p9
A Stick in Time p12
Baekeland in Praise of Hyatt p14
Wallace H. Carothers piii

plastiquarian 20
Small is Beautiful: The Birth of ABS p2
Plastics – Power & Gender: a Swedish View p5
Manufacturing the GPO 162 Telephone p8
John Smith, Casemaker p12
When is a Greenhorn not a Greenhorn? piii

plastiquarian 21
The Early History of the Damard Lacquer Co. p2
John Trier: Artist and Craftsman in Horn p5
Some Viscose Personalities (Part 2) p8
Arthur Fleischmann: International Artist & Sculptor p13

plastiquarian 22
The Centenary of Casein p2
The SF1 System and the Elgin Estate p8
Impressions in Horn p12
Hermann Staudinger p16

plastiquarian 23
Cast Phenolic Resins p2
Chinese Lacquer : An Age-old Polymer p6
The Thomas De La Rue Story (Part 1 Early Days – 1939) p10
Lanthorns, Warnings and Whistles p14

plastiquarian 24
Hale End: Home of Xylonite p2
The Thomas De La Rue Story (Part 2 De La Rue at War) p10
Let Polymers Face the Music p15
Buttons & Bows (Horn) piii

plastiquarian 25 (Millennium edition)
Millennium Reflections on PHS p1
The Way we Changed the World p3
The First Five Years of PHS activities p8
Great Designs of the 20th Century p9
I Once Met…… p13
Looking to the Future p17
Horners at the New Millennium piii

plastiquarian 26
1851:Ebonite; The Birth of the Plastics Industry? p2
The Thomas De La Rue Story (Part 3 1945-1959) p6
Plastics Processing Machinery: the Vital Partner p10
Reviving Horn History p14
A Close Call : How ICI Nearly Lost Its Polythene Lead p16
Sustainability – Future History? piii

plastiquarian 27
Plastics setback 1948/49 p2
The Thomas De La Rue Story (Part 4 – 1959-1982) p6
In the borsch! (Horn Band) p11
Sidney Reginald Badley MBE FIM: an appreciation p12
Conserving Energy p13
The Birth of the Plastics Industry? p14
A History of the Golf Ball p16
The rubber doll: a Christmas story in verse piii

plastiquarian 28
Polythene: Discovery and Early Development p2
General Electric Company (US) and Plastics p6
Passion for Plastics p9
A 'Personnel' Account p13
Pocket Knives: simple but vital p15
Rubber (et al) in 1886 p16

plastiquarian 29
Material Movements: 1974-94 p2
Cellulosics in the USA p6
Bois Durci: a fine medium p8
The Search for the Unbreakable Doll p10
BIPEL: a pressing story p13
The Burden of Recycling p16

plastiquarian 30 - Summer 2003
DuPont Bicentennial p2
Ebonite Revisited p6
Bullo Pill: a vintage restorative p7
BIPEL: a pressing story part 2 p10
Some Notes on Bakelite Corporation p14
Nanomaterials and Polymers p16

plastiquarian 31 - Winter 2003
Bandalasta: its contribution to Art Deco plastics p2
Plastics afloat p5
Tupperware: the end of the party p8
Thomas Hancock and Marlborough Cottage p10
A view from the bridge p13
Conrad Poppenhusen p14
Let there be light! p16

plastiquarian 32 - Summer 2004
Post-war plastics: meeting the challenge p2
The Rise and Fall of Melamine Tableware p8
New Sounds in the Moulding Shop - Silence! p14
Additions to the Horner's Collection p16

plastiquarian 33 - Winter 2004
Airfix - The Early Days p2
Bakelite at Brackley p6
The World of Tomorrow: 1939 New York World's Fair p8
ICI Croydon p11
Royal Connections p13
Will the last moulder to leave the country please turn out the light p16

plastiquarian 34 - Summer 2005
The Story of ICI Plastics Division p2
PHS Makes a Start p6
Horners on Active Service p8
AH 'Woody' Woodfull p10
Metallised Helium-filled Balloons p13
The Futures Market for Plastics p16

plastiquarian 35 - Winter 2005
Pictures from the past p1
The Story of ICI Plastics Division: Part II, the closing years p2
Charles Macintosh & Co: The history of the company p6
Jessie's Story p8
Plastics Hall of Fame: Alexander Parkes p10
Progress in Auto Glazing p15

plastiquarian 36 - Summer 2006
Pictures from the past p1
The Story of Sandwich Moulding p2
The Rise and Fall of GPG International Ltd. p6
The Michelin Centenary 1905 - 2005 p8
Horners Corner p11
A Half-century of Designing with Plastics p13

RAPRA Technology p16

plastiquarian 37 – Winter 2006/7
Pictures from the past p1
Delrin half century p2
The History of Combs - an American Perspective p7
Horners Corner p13
Red Rubber p14
Polymer Training for the Future p16

plastiquarian 38 - Winter 2007 – Bakelite Centenary Edition

Picture from the past  p1

Baekeland and Swinburne: Men of genius  p2

A short history of Philite  p8

My 25 years  at Bakelite p14

Collecting Bakelite  p17