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The Wipers Times Exposé: Jack Johnson, the Private Who Discovered the Press
Jul 31, 2026 · 9 min read · Sherwood Foresters Wipers Times Contributors Ypres Ypres Ramparts Wipers Times Staff Jack Johnson Boxing Private Jack Johnson Printing Press Buxton Talbot House Reverend Meyer Charles Brown National Free Church Council Winston Churchill Baden-Powell Home Office Race Imperialism Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton Eye-Witness Official Press Bureau Soldier Slang Soldier Humour BBC Chris Rainbow Buxton Advertiser George Critchlow Ernest Goodwin Compositor Chapel-En-Le-Frifth Field Punishment No 2 ·
In 2025, Talbot House obtained the original proof copies of the Wipers, which were once owned by Frederick Roberts. At the time of writing, they have been republishing the issues and sending them out via subscription on the original dates they were published. I was privileged and honoured to be asked to write the …
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Ephemera: Winnie Mary Knight’s Autograph Book: A Glimpse of Bromley in the First World War
Jul 1, 2024 · 16 min read · VAD Red Cross KENT COUNTY TERRITORIAL ASSOCIATION The 7th London Regiment Honourable Artillery Company Welsh Guards Auxiliary Hospitals Ontario Military Hospital ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY COUNTY OF LONDON TERRITORIALS ARMY SERVICE CORPS QUEENS OWN (ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT) WEST KENT YEOMANRY LONDON AIR DEFENCES SCOUTS BBC IVOR NOVELLO AYLESBURY ROAD SCHOOL MOSS BROS ADVERTS SCRAPBOOKING ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART LAMBETH SCHOOL OF ART BROMLEY BOROUGH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Royal Scots Fusiliers Sunday School Shortlands Bromley Parish Church BROMLEY KENT LONDON LONDON REGIMENT HOME FRONT AUTOGRAPH BOOK ·
For the fifth entry in this series, while this autograph book is a modest affair, with just 26 entries, it is one of the more interesting and insightful, books I have come across and was beneficial during my Master's research. The book belonged to a Winifred Mary Knight (1899-1981), a 1914 Christmas present from her …
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The Wipers Times Exposé: Staff, Suspects, and Witnesses
Jul 29, 2023 · 21 min read · Wipers Staff Violet's Chronicles of Fashion Sapper E. J. Couzens Gilbert Frankau Stanley Melborne Mohr C.J. Lodge Patch Jack Pearson J.O. Twiss Frederick Roberts Richard Donald Bell Woods Sherwood Foresters Dorothy Violet Hall Henry Cecil Hall Annie Selena Hall Nottingham Nottingham Evening Post Table Tennis Dan Todman Thomas Emmanuel Ward Sergeant Tyler Sergeant Turner T.S. Leslie Allen BBC Chris Rainbow 1964 The Wipers Times The Wipers Times Film The Wipers Times Play Ypres Times Balkan News Ian Hislop Nick Newman Nottingham Archives Nottingham Local Studies Library Nottingham Guardian Captain E.J. Neale Major Harry Shirwell Wipers Printers Mi7a Official Press Buereau Herbert Jenkins Captain Muller SS Emden ·
This post has become the entry point for most people who stumble across my Wipers Exposé, and it was originally intended to be more of an appendix than an article in the series. The whole exposé began when I came across a lead that the writer behind ‘Violet’s Chronical of Fashion’ in the Wipers Times, was not in fact …
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