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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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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