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How did we forget Ronald Searle's centenary yesterday. Happy 💯th Birthday! Searle cpntributed to PUNCH for years after WW2, drawing everything from political and theatrical cartoons to brilliant covers and specials like this portrait of T S Eliot!
#camouflage #WW2 #suburbia #suburban #houses #homes PUNCH cartoon by Fougasse 1942: "Yes - my husband is engaged on work of national importance." https://t.co/kIIie0mCaX
Literary superstar Rudyard Kipling died #OTD 1936. In 1935 his old friend Leonard Raven-Hill depicted him in PUNCH as "The Singer of Empire" with the chalk cliffs of Sussex and English Channel in the background #cartoon #writers #authors #literature #icons #legends @BatemansNT
#NewYearsDay #NewYearsDay2020 #sunrise #winter #nostalgia #nature #countryside #snow #WW2 Sunrise on New Year's Day by Pont in PUNCH's Almanack for 1941
#Christmas #ChristmasPresents #railways #trains #snow #postoffice Working hard to get the mail through for the festive season. Cartoon from the 1951 Almanack by Rowland Emett whose first cartoon appeared in PUNCH #OTD 1939 @RowlandEmettSoc
Sunrise on New Year's Day. An elegy for peace in PUNCH Almanack for 1941.. One of the last pictures by the brilliant artist Pont (Gavin Graham Laidler) painted before his tragic early death at the end of 1940. #NewYearsDay #cartoon #sunrise #WW2 #Peace
Dad's Army . ... and then there was 'Mum's Army' - Mrs Thatcher, Willie Whitelaw and all. PUNCH cover by Trog 1976
The original Dad's Army as seen in this PUNCH cartoon by Rowland Emett 1942 @RowlandEmettSoc #WW2 #Home_Front #Home_Guard
#NationalGardeningWeek Gardening on the Home Front in WW2.PUNCH cartoon #DigforVictory #gardening