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The Wipers Times, Tatler, and the Identity of ‘Violet’ from Violet’s Chronicle of Fashion: An Exposé
The Wipers Times — its story and humour immortalised in a 2013 BBC film of the same name, based on the stage play by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman — is one of the most famous of trench journals to appear during the First World War.1 However, there exists a mania around these publications, that began as soon as they first …
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Blighty: A Budget of Humour From Home, was a charitable ‘soldiers-newspaper’ that ran between May 1916 and March 1919 (and later became a short-lived mainstream publication until its bankruptcy in 1921). In the foreword for the first issue, the origin of the magazine was attributed to an unnamed journalist who was …
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Blandford Camp Autograph Book, 21 December 1918. Private collection. © RSJS. Updated May 22 Thank you to all those who have got in touch so far. This page has been updated both in the dissertation scope and with the addition of an FAQ. Dissertation Research A survey of British First World War cartoons, drawn by …
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Figure 1. 1915 Recruitment Poster designed by Sir Baden-Powell. © IWM (Art. IWM PST 2712). Introduction In 1914, on the eve of the war, the population of the United Kingdom was approximately forty-five million with just under fifty percent aged twenty-five and under.1 This series of articles is going to investigate …
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