by Lies Lanckman In February of this year, I was asked to contribute to the launch event of the BFI’s Barbara Stanwyck season – an invitation I very happily accepted, since I frequently describe Stanwyck (along with Ingrid Bergman) as “my Norma before I met Norma”. While Norma Shearer ended up becoming “my” primary star, and the topic of my…
Second Digitizing The War Illustrated Workshop
Our second free Digitizing The War Illustrated Workshop will take place on the 24th of July, 10am-4pm, in Jarman Studio 7 at the University of Kent in Canterbury. During the workshop, we will give volunteers some background information on the important World War I magazine The War Illustrated (August 1914-February 1919). We will help them to familiarise themselves with the…
Links to The War Illustrated on the Internet Archive
We are very pleased that the National Lottery Heritage Fund has granted us money to digitize the important World War I magazine The War Illustrated (August 1914-February 1919) and make it available forever, for all, for free. Please visit the following links to 6 month sections of the publication which have been uploaded thus far on the Internet Archive. 1914Aug-Dechttps://archive.org/details/TWI1914…
First ‘Digitizing the War Illustrated’ Workshop Roundup
Our next workshop on the World War I magazine The War Illustrated will take place on Wednesday the 24th of July. (More details will be posted in due course, please keep checking this blog!) It is not necessary for people to participate in all three workshops, but I thought it might be helpful to those thinking of attending the next…
Dates for Further Digitizing the War Illustrated Events Confirmed
Ahead of our first workshop on 27 June, we are delighted to confirm some of the dates of our other free history events (funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund) which are taking place at the University of Kent in Canterbury over the Summer. The second workshop exploring the online archive of the important World War I magazine The War…
The War Illustrated on the County of Kent
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). The page from the 12th of December issue is headed ‘The War-Fired Imagination of Berlin’. Kent is mentioned in the first…
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,…