Winning with Laughter: How Britain's cartoonists helped win the First World War

Published on 6 June 2021
Submitted by Luci Gosling

In this talk, which was delivered 'live' to an online audience, Luci Gosling considers the importance of cartoons and illustration in boosting morale, and the role of drawing for the ordinary soldier. 

It is often said that a picture is worth a thousand words but during the First World War magazine illustrations were worth even more, not only conveying the news to anxious families at home and soldiers in battle, but also entertaining and lifting the spirits of a nation at war.

Winning with Laughter: How Britain's cartoonists helped win the First World War
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