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Adam Twycross
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Press historian and educator, author of British Newspaper Strips: A Contextual History
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Great to come across these original sketches of a WW2 land girl by Leslie Illingworth today. Fab!
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April 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Daily Mirror illustration by Frank Wilkins, 1907... those Harmsworth papers had style!
#history #dailymirror #skystorians
April 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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A copy of Trunk Call, produced by the British Army's Persia and Iraq Command, from 1944. Complete with the stamp of the Welfare Committee in Baghdad and a double helping of the Daily Mirror's Jane!
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A copy of Trunk Call, a British military newspaper from WW2, produced by the British Army's Persia and Iraq Command in 1944
April 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Looking forward to hosting an evening at the Cartoon Museum in London on Thursday- where we'll be unveiling a lost audio drama from 1945, starring British comics' first female superspy, Jane!

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Event: 3rd April- Norman Pett's Jane
Norman Pett’s Jane has been called the most popular comic strip of the Second World War and “the world’s first super-model, page three gi...
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March 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM