This blog post focuses on the only mention of the county of Kent revealed by my search on the August to December 1914 section of The War Illustrated archive (you can find the page on the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/TWI1914) The page from the 12th of December issue is headed ‘The War-Fired Imagination of Berlin’. Kent is mentioned in the…
The War Illustrated’s ‘Something to Smoke’ Campaign
The previous post focused on the men injured or killed in the line of duty who either belonged to a Kent Regiment during World War I or had Kent as a surname. Those with the surname Kent, and Kent regiments, also appear in issues of The War Illustrated from August to December 1914 in relation to its ‘Something-to-Smoke’ campaign (you…
Exploring The War Illustrated on the Internet Archive
We are very excited that the University of Kent’s National Lottery Heritage Funded project ‘Digitizing The War Illustrated’ will make these important world war I magazines available online. I’m in the process of writing a handout for our first workshop (the content will also be available on this blog in due course) and wanted to share a few insights as…
Digitizing The War Illustrated – First Workshop (27th June, 10am-5pm, University of Kent)
Our first Heritage Lottery-funded Digitizing The War Illustrated workshop will take place on Thursday 27th of June, from 10 am – 5pm, in Studio 7 in the Jarman Building at the University of Kent. At this session, we will introduce attendees to The War Illustrated, equip them with information about how to search the digitised collection online, and provide guidance…
Call for Papers – Audience Lost: Minority Women and Spectatorship
Dear friends of NoRMMA – today I come bearing a call for papers for a conference I (Lies) am co-organising this coming November. It would be great to receive some magazine-related abstracts! CFP – AUDIENCE LOST: MINORITY WOMEN AND SPECTATORSHIP 22-23 November 2019, Ghent, Belgium Keynote speakers: Prof. Judith Thissen (Utrecht University) Prof. Allyson Nadia Field (University of Chicago) In 2002,…
NoRMMA Receives Heritage Lottery Funding For Digitizing the War Illustrated Project
NoRMMA is very happy to announce that its members have been awarded £8,200 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to undertake its ‘Digitizing The War Illustrated’ project. (You can find out more about the National Lottery Heritage Fund on its website: https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/). This allows us to build on Public Engagement NoRMMA carried out between April and June 2017. Over the course…
Dirk Bogarde Beyond the Dirk Bogarde Collection
Today, we bring you the last of Dr Sarah Polley’s posts on the Dirk Bogarde Collection – thank you very much for this fascinating series, Sarah, and we all look forward to reading more of your work in the future! For those of you interested in Dirk Bogarde, please do also consider having a look at the Melodrama Research Group…
Dirk Bogarde coverage in the Dirk Bogarde collection
The previous post looked in detail at some aspects of the collection as a whole. I’d now like to briefly turn to some of the Bogarde-related content I found, especially UK fan magazines. As predicted in the 4th post of this series which outlined the categories I chose for my spreadsheet, I found various types of coverage. Some of these…
A summary of the magazines in the Dirk Bogarde collection
After completing my spreadsheet, I sent an edited version of it (removing the information specifically related to Bogarde to make the other data more legible) to the BFI. While most, though not all, of these magazine share something on Bogarde in common, it is worth giving an overview before turning to dates, countries/languages and other aspects in more detail. The…
Cataloguing the Dirk Bogarde collection
Our friends at the Melodrama Research Group are still in the midst of a series of Dirk Bogarde screenings – do have a look at the blog if you’re interested! In the meantime, here’s another update on the Dirk Bogarde research project, again by Dr Sarah Polley… The collection arrived and was installed in my study by the…