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The power of the political cartoon
Just like last year, has been unusual, interesting and busy in equal measure. At this time of year I am always amazed to look back and consider just how much my amazing team have achieved in the past twelve months.
We may be in the grip of a pandemic but it has done nothing to impede their dedication and enthusiasm for our collections and the service we run. Well done Team! This year has been one of changes — we have changed the way we work and now operate in a hybrid way dividing our time and our tasks between home and office.
There has been a change in the make-up of our team -we were sad to say goodbye to Tom Kennett, University Archivist for over three years but delighted to welcome Beth Astridge, our Project Archivist for the UK Philanthropy, to the post. We also changed our digitisation capability with the arrival of our new digitisation equipment — thank you to UKRI AHRC Capability for Collections funding — you will be able to see the results of this in One of the huge advantages of hybrid working is that people have been able to take advantage of working from home to spend time on processing digital collections and digital preservation.
The fruits of this labour are highlighted below by Rachel, Alex, Emma, and Mandy. Clair has taken full advantage of our new way of working and has catalogued a hybrid collection while hybrid working. The Meredith papers are now available via our online catalogue and they are definitely worth investigating.
It has also been great to be working on campus again and Jo and Christine our Honorary SC and A assistant will be telling you about the exciting things they have been getting on with including developing new seminar sessions and researching and selecting unique costume designs from the Drummond Pantomime collection for display in the Templeman Gallery.
Beth has spent most of this year consolidating the work she has been doing in developing the UK Philanthropy Archive and will continue to oversee the collection development in the coming year. And speaking of the coming year, we will be working on plans for when we will celebrate 50 years since the first cartoon collections arrived at the University — watch this space…!
Rachel Metadata Assistant, Collections Management :. This has involved a huge range of work, from making the site a lot more visual to rewriting outdated biographies and creating new areas for our digital resources.
Eliot Memorial Lectures and Keynes Seminars. This totals almost one thousand individual recordings dating back to the late s. Following on from this I have moved on to the Audio Cassette recordings which form part of the British Cartoon Archive. In addition, with grateful thanks to a generous external grant , we now have a recently installed photographic reproduction rig equipped with a state-of-the-art high-resolution camera.
This set-up will enable us to digitise both flat artwork and 3D objects within the archive collections to an optimum level. I have been working with my colleagues Matt and Clair to develop efficient digitisation workflows with this impressive new equipment. More shiny new photographic equipment in its new home. The rig setup for our new reprographics equipment. We have been practicing use of the equipment using material in various formats and have been collating questions to discuss with our contact at Phase One in the coming weeks.
We will continue to develop our workflow, ready to begin our first large scale project the Beaverbrook Collection in It turned out to be a very busy year for the UK Philanthropy Archive! A key achievement was that we were able to host the inaugural Shirley Lecture in May delivered online — where Dame Stephanie Shirley CH delivered a fascinating lecture giving us an insight into her life and how it influenced her philanthropy.
I was able to spend some time listing and cataloguing both the Shirley Foundation collection, and the collection of Amanda Sebestyen — both the catalogues will both be available in early Amanda Sebestyen is a human rights journalist and activist, and looking deeper at her archive has revealed a fascinating collection relating to her family settlement trust and the challenges of closing it down in order to donate the proceeds to ethical charitable causes in Australia.
Some great research potential there! We were really pleased to receive the archive collection of the Marc Fitch Fund in September. The fund was set up in by Marc Fitch with a focus on supporting publishing work on local history, genealogy and heraldry, and we are cracking on with getting this interesting collection catalogued and available for use. Coat of Arms for the Marc Fitch Foundation — awarded in in recognition for their support for heraldry and genealogy research.
In November I was delighted to attend the 50 th anniversary celebration of the John Ellerman Foundation. It was brilliant to hear all about the ongoing work of the Foundation and the research taking place to explore their history. We have been working with the Foundation and have supported a project to translate letters written in Afrikaans by John Ellerman as part of their history project, and we are looking forward to further collaboration in !
Emma Metadata Assistant, Collections Management :. Steve Bell, a well-known cartoon satirist, has produced cartoons for the Guardian for many years. Steve has deposited many digital copies of his cartoons with us and I have recently begun cataloguing these. Sometimes it is hard to remember life before Covid, but I have suddenly been hurled back to the pre-Pandemic political arena of and it has been a welcome break from the issues we face at the moment.
Steve has specific ways of characterising his political figures and I have had fun learning who is who. Teresa May always wears leopard sprint shoes and appears dressed as a clown and Donald Trump often has the top of his head in shape of a toilet seat!
Describing the events satirised within each cartoon involves using the subject hints Steve has embedded in his metadata thank you Steve to investigate what was happening in politics that day. This cartoon of Teresa May and Emmanuel Macron is one of my favourites so far.
Mandy Library Assistant — Digital Imaging :. Canterbury being rebuilt after the Blitz! More post-war building work. Christine Library Assistant — Learning Environment :. The pantomimes I grew up with were a garish, bolshy composite of slapstick, sequins and sweeties, a night of misrule where hyperactivity was encouraged, Schadenfreude was permitted, and a happy ever after was guaranteed. There was something magical about lines that rhymed, and watching a show well past bedtime!
Wilhelm and Doris Zinkeisen amongst others. The collection also represents important aesthetic and cultural shifts that played out in the theatre, from the imperial appropriation underpinning the exotic spectacles of the late Victorian stage to the fanciful historicism of the mid th century, where medieval romance or Rococo chic transported the audience to a bygone realm.
Clair Digital Archivist :. Working both on campus and from home, the nature of this hybrid collection provided the opportunity to carry out this work in both locations. Miriam Scott, a retired teacher and family historian, was inspired to research the Meredith family after admiring the Meredith Memorial at St Nicholas Church near her home at the time in Leeds.
Scott used documents and books from a number of libraries and records offices during her research, including the Public Record Office now The National Archives , the British Library, and Leeds Castle Archives.
Sir William Meredith [? His family lived at what was Leeds Abbey in Kent, from around The Abbey was built on the site of the former Leeds Priory, which was left in ruin after the dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII in the early s.
Sadly, nothing remains of the Priory buildings today, and the only remains of the Abbey are the ruins of the pigeon house and the Slype. The site is located near Leeds Castle. The Merediths were a well-established family of Denbighshire, Wales, with a branch of the family remaining there until at least Our Reading Room will reopen at the start of term week commencing 17th January Just as melodrama and popular Victorian entertainments use music in conjunction with other theatrical effects, so pantomime develops the use of music with visual storytelling even further.
At Kent, our pantomime material can be found in the incredible David Drummond Pantomime Collection alongside lots of material in our previously mentioned Melville and Pettingell archives.
This was in part due to theatre licensing regulations restricting the use of speech in performances, overturned by the Theatres Act in Music, of course, is one of the most consistently integral parts of the pantomime genre, from libretti which you could often buy as a souvenir of the performance to audience participation.
Many songs used in pantomime are familiar to their audiences and often have lyrics rewritten for a particular show. Sometimes theatregoers are encouraged to sing along and participate, with the music helping to give pantomimes a very two-way performance between its stars and the audience.
Today, we generally associate pantomime with famous stars — but did you know this, too, has musical links? In the 19th century music hall stars began to join pantomime performances — partly to bring in new, younger audiences and partly to add some celebrity glamour to the show! Stand-up comedy as a genre has its roots in both popular performance and variety. The Alternative Cabaret collective which included Tony Allen, Alexei Sayle, Jim Barclay and Andy de la Tour performed shows that lasted several hours and included musicians and comedians working together.
When the s Comic Strip group began performing, academic Olly Double notes that several publications compared their gigs as doing to comedy what punk did for the music world , pp. This comparison is further strengthened by the fact that they released an LP:. Poster, All of this music inevitably leads us to questions about how we look after such material.
Caring for music archives is a lot of fun but it can be tricky! However, audiovisual material LPs, videos, CDs, cassette tapes is generally incredibly sensitive to environmental changes not to mention the rapid development of technology that renders media obsolete relatively quickly.
So for us, managing audiovisual material is one of our key priorities at the moment; it involves knowing what material we have and in which formats and then working to prioritise items most at risk. You can read more about how we transfer collections from audiovisual to digital here. Anderson, Gillian B. JSTOR , www. Accessed 7 June Mitchell, G. New Theatre Quarterly, 33 3 , Double, Oliver. Ah, Boucicault.
Extravagant legal battles over copyright of his works? Affairs and scandal? His plays were immensely popular, in part because they nearly always contained a visual spectacle designed to draw audiences to the box office.
In an age before movies and TV, it was a pretty thrilling thing to see — for example — someone nearly drowning in a cave , almost being run over by a train , or a burning house — on stage literally in front of your eyes.
But what is possibly less well known about Boucicault is how he was one of the first playwrights to incorporate music specifically written for his works in the theatre; in The Colleen Bawn, not only does the music play alongside dialogue but it actually changes with each line.
The music itself was so popular that it was still being loaned out over twenty years after the play was first staged in Sometimes music and entertainment is a beautiful hark back to previous times, like in this David Low cartoon from where the current political situation is reimagined as a music hall variety night:.
The little black sheep who has gone astray, Baa! Gentleman Tory off on a spree, D—-d from here to eternity, Lord have mercy on such as he, Baa! With acknowledgments and apologies to the Whiffenpoof song, published by the Magna Music Co.
British Politics
You currently have JavaScript disabled in your web browser, please enable JavaScript to view our website as intended. This project will work with political cartoons and cartoonists to foster processes of meaning-making in relation to the current pandemic. Teaming up with Cartooning for Peace , an international organisation of cartoonists founded in at the UN Headquarters, we will engage young people in building a critical narrative of the crisis and its impact. The aim is to promote an inclusive social response and curriculum, in partnership with Shout Out UK, a multi-award-winning educational platform.
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Joint Committee on Public Petitions to consider petitions on adding chefs to critical skills list and saving services at Owenacurra Health Centre, east Cork. Joint Committee on International Surrogacy has published its Report. Joint Committee on Health to meet to discuss the effects of long Covid and the provision of long Covid care in Ireland. Committee of Public Accounts PAC concerned at time taken to make decisions on future of funding for public service broadcasting and reforms to current TV licence system. Houses of the Oireachtas Commission publishes Annual Report. Joint Committee on Health to meet to discuss issues relating to vaginal mesh implants. Joint Committee on Public Petitions to resume consideration of petition to ban herbicides in public areas.
How Ben Franklin's Viral Political Cartoon United the 13 Colonies
Just like last year, has been unusual, interesting and busy in equal measure. At this time of year I am always amazed to look back and consider just how much my amazing team have achieved in the past twelve months. We may be in the grip of a pandemic but it has done nothing to impede their dedication and enthusiasm for our collections and the service we run. Well done Team! This year has been one of changes — we have changed the way we work and now operate in a hybrid way dividing our time and our tasks between home and office.
British Cartoon Archive
The Behind the Lines cartoon exhibition sets out to prove one thing: you just can't predict the future. In a year where Australians sought consolation in statistical models and predictions, one thing became clear: you just can't predict the future. And that's exactly what's on display at this year's Behind the Lines political cartoon exhibition. The annual exhibition offers up a satirical summary of the year that was in politics with different artworks from more than 40 cartoonists. This year the theme of the exhibition is "prophecy and chance" — tapping into the idea that no one could have expected the year to unfold as it did. The exhibition is on show at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra and museum director Daryl Karp said the curators drew inspiration — quite literally — from the "obsession" we developed in with forecasts and predictions.
Boris Johnson’s Mounting Trouble Is Treasure For Satirists
But the tactic of using a viral image to persuade people goes back to long before the existence of the Internet or Facebook. A few years later, in the prelude to the Revolutionary War , colonists repurposed it as a symbol of their unity against British rule. The story of the first viral image in American political history began in May , when Franklin, then the publisher of a newspaper called the Pennsylvania Gazette , sought to drum up support for a unified colonial government. He wrote an impassioned editorial, in which he warned of hordes of French intruders converging on the western frontier in Ohio. Additionally, the severed snake image may have drawn upon folklore of the time, which included the belief that a snake cut into pieces could come back to life, if its various parts were reunited before sunset. The snake was a potent symbol with more positive connotations to the colonists than it might carry today, according to Donald C. Oddly, though, the snake was cut into eight pieces, rather than Franklin published the image with a specific political objective in mind.
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Abstract: The article explores British and American editorial cartoons covering the topic of Covid The material for analysis consists of cartoons used as illustrations to the articles of the British newspaper The Guardian and cartoons published by the newspaper US Today in — The purpose of the research is to carry out a contrastive analysis of sample cartoons viewed as multimodal texts that employ the same language but are set in different cultures. Cartoonists present the reality in a condensed form drawing on the images that are common for a specific social and cultural setting.
Conservative satire, humor, and jokes from today's best political cartoonists. Thomas Nast has been called the " Father of the American Cartoon. Rogers, created this cartoon. By Jack Ohman.
Edition: Available editions Global. Become an author Sign up as a reader Sign in. Political cartoonists have found their own ways of coping with a new government. The iconic image may have originated with a meat supplier named Samuel Wilson. Or not. Cartoon character Dennis the Menace has had more influence on British society than you might think.
The New Yorker was praised for its cartoon last week, which depicted prime minister Boris Johnson speaking at a podium with the Union Jack behind him. The satire strikes close to home as one of the key Brexit campaign arguments was focusing on employing British people for jobs in the UK. The government has now introduced a three-month temporary visa to encourage overseas drivers to come to Britain to work. I think this, from the New Yorker, might be closer to reporting than satire.
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