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The Wipers Times, Tatler, and the Identity of ‘Violet’ from Violet’s Chronicle of Fashion: An Exposé
Apr 27, 2023 · 24 min read · FWW The Wipers Times Trench Journals Tatler Violet's Chronicle of Fashion Nottingham Riddle of Wipers Shipstones Brewery Sherwood Foresters 1928 1916 Dorothy Violet Hall Henry Cecil Hall Sabretache Ypres 24th Division Gilbert Frankau Herbert Jenkins Propaganda Nottingham Girls' High School Ruddington Women in War ·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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The ‘Budding Bairnsfathers’ : First World War Soldier-cartoonists Published in Blighty
Mar 27, 2023 · 15 min read · Propaganda Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons Cartoon History Morale FWW FWW Publications ·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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Looking for cartoons drawn by soldiers in the FWW
Mar 14, 2022 · 9 min read · FWW WW1 Blandford Camp Cartoons Soldiers cartoons FWW Art Dissertation Sapper T.Allison Lens ·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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Are YOU in this ? Part 1: An Introduction
Nov 7, 2021 · 6 min read · FWW WW1 NSPCC 1914 1889 1888 Home Front CHARLIE CHAPLIN T.E.Lawrence Gladys Cooper Paul Nash Verena Holmes Growing Up David Sibley NSPCC ·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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