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Original Articles

Technology and British Cartoonists in the Twentieth Century

Pages 181-196 | Published online: 31 Jan 2014

REFERENCES

  • Roger Cooter and Stephen Pumfrey, 'Separate spheres and public places: reflections on the history of science popularization and science in popular culture', History of Science, vol. 32 (1994), pp. 237–67.
  • John Jensen, 'The end of the line? The future of British cartooning', in A Sense of Permanence? Essays in the Art of the Cartoon (CSCC: Canterbury, 1997), pp. 11–18.
  • David Kunzle, The History of the Comic Strip: the Nineteenth Century (University of California Press: Berkeley, 1990), p. 377. See also Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: the Industrialization and Perception of Time and Space (Berg, 1986).
  • Many of these cartoonists have deposited artworks in archive of the Centre for the Study of Cartoons and Caricature at the University of Kent at Canterbury - an invaluable resource.
  • 'Obstruction', David Low, Evening Standard, 17 May 1933.
  • 'Last things first', Leslie Gilbert llingworth, 3 February 1947.
  • 'All behind you, Winston', David Low, Evening Standard, 14 May 1940.
  • Uncaptioned, David Low, Evening Standard, 2 March 1940.
  • Uncaptioned, Victor Weisz (Vicky), Evening Standard, 28 February 1962.
  • 'His Masters Voice', Nicholas Garland, Daily Telegraph, 15 January 1971.
  • The policies of the then chancellor of the exchequer R.A. Butler during the 1950s. The term was coined by the Economist to imply that there was little difference between Butler's type of conservatism and the socialism of his predecessor as chancellor, Hugh Gaitskell. Brewer's Twentieth Century Phrase and Fable, p. 78.
  • Jon Agar, The Government Machine: a Revolutionary History of the Computer, (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2003).
  • 'Front bench mechanised division'. David Low, 6 March 1944.
  • Tor the man who has everything.. .'. Arthur Horner, New Statesman, 17 December 1969.
  • 'Launchings a contrast'. David Low, Evening Standard, 26 September 1934.
  • Uncaptioned. Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, 10 December 1942.
  • Geoffrey Beare, in The Brothers Robinson: Charles, Thomas Heath and William Heath (Chris Beetles Ltd: London, 1992), pp. 52–53.
  • Langston Day, The Life and Art of W. Heath Robinson (Herbert Joseph: London, 1947).
  • Ibid., pp. 163–64.
  • Ibid., p. 166.
  • Ibid., p. 169.
  • 'The everready bedside bomb extinguisher for extinguishing incendiary bombs in the bedroom without leaving your bed'. W. Heath Robinson, The Sketch, 22 January 1941.
  • James Hamilton, William Heath Robinson (Pavilion Books: London, 1992), p. 8. Hamilton argues that the machine was open to caricature in a brief period during the twentieth century; before, when children were chained to cotton machinery, there was no caricature; after, in 'with the atom', there was no caricature: in between it was safe.
  • E. David Nye, American Technological Sublime (MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 1994).
  • Mark Bryant, 'Poison pen or good-tempered pencil? Humour and hatred in 20th century political cartoons', in A Sense of Permanence? Essays in the Art of the Cartoon (CSCC: Canterbury, 1997), pp. 59–63.
  • 'London Laughs: Cottager's Commerce', Joseph Lee, Evening Standard, 10 April 1954.

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