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PunchCartoons

  1. Happy Jubilee celebrations Queen Elizabeth and everyone!! - hope you have as much fun as she does in this cartoon - bit.ly/KR7eOC - 8:50 AM Jun 1st via Tweet Button
  2. 75 years ago Elizabeth II's father George VI had his Coronation - bit.ly/Lfp4K2 - see our British Royalty Cartoons gallery from Punch 9:20 AM May 30th via Tweet Button
  3. Child makes his own union jack flag - bit.ly/LeNfs6 - 1953 Coronation cartoon from Punch 6:51 AM May 30th via Tweet Button
  4. ...and ofcourse this wonderful front cover of Elizabeth as a Pearly Queen - bit.ly/LHBrBk - Punch jubilee number 1977 5:35 AM May 30th via Tweet Button
  5. Lovely illustration of Queen Elizabeth I speaking to Princess Elizabeth - "Princess and Queen" - bit.ly/LenMPD - 1944, Punch #jubilee 5:08 AM May 30th via Tweet Button
  6. "When I worked for the NHS I used to think it was disgusting the way the British look after their teeth" - bit.ly/N3grUH - cartoon 1:40 AM May 29th via Tweet Button
  7. 100 years ago - Lloyd George (as terrier) buries 'surplus' as indignant Churchill (bulldog), looks on - bit.ly/KXBV7h 12:40 PM May 28th via Tweet Button
  8. "The British Character: Love of Keeping Calm" bit.ly/KXtwRi - classic Punch cartoon, 1937 - passengers on sinking ship 12:21 PM May 28th via Tweet Button
  9. "The British Character: Absence of the gift for Cooking" - bit.ly/KknNnF - Punch cartoon by Pont, 1934, in tomorrows Daily Mail 11:34 AM May 28th via Tweet Button
  10. On Dickens and fallen women, reminds me of this suggestive Punch cartoon of Gladstone cosying up to France re Egypt bit.ly/LsIOMm 4:13 AM May 24th via Tweet Button
  11. @VictorianCrime - I wonder if William Gladstone had an involvement, as he too had an urge to help fallen women. 12:56 PM May 23rd via web in reply to VictorianCrime
  12. @BFI Ahh yes - "A Matter of Life and Death"- one of the greatest films made and in my top 5. Isn't Scorsese meant to be doing a re-master? 12:51 PM May 23rd via web in reply to BFI
  13. ...And one of my all-time favourite books is "Voices From The Third Reich: An Oral History" by Johannes Steinhoff - bit.ly/Joeu6B 12:43 PM May 23rd via Tweet Button
  14. Observer review of "Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949", by Virginia Nicholson - bit.ly/KUA93c 12:39 PM May 23rd via Tweet Button
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