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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 ·
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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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The ‘Budding Bairnsfathers’ : First World War Soldier-cartoonists Published in Blighty

Mar 27, 2023 · 14 min read · Propaganda Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons Cartoon History Morale FWW FWW Publications ·
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Figure 1. Blighty, 14 June 1916, p.1. 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 …

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