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Today's PUNCH colour cover. Inspiration.... Russell Brockbank 1961
#aviation
#planes
#aircraft
#science
#scientists
#design
#industry
#designers
#triangles
#industrial
#flying
#flight
#innovation
#STEM
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Norman Thelwell painted his idea of the perfect allotment for PUNCH back in 1954. Now that's relaxing!
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#RIP
legendary cartoonist Bill Tidy who has died at the age of 89. He drew scores of iconic cartoons for PUNCH...
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@tortoiseneck
@markcwalton
@bryanpready
It was 'Miss Triggs'..... not 'Snodgrass'... Here's the cartoon, a perennial favourite. PUNCH cartoon by Riana Duncan 1988
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#RIP
So sorry to hear of the death of the brilliant Tony Husband, one of the greatest of PUNCH cartoonists...
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. "Just run 'ome an' fetch me my small 'ammer, Albert." Oh... Arthur Watts 1929
#steeples
#churches
#repairs
#work
#workplaces
#craftsman
#architecture
#buildings
#pinnacles
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RIP the brilliant PUNCH cartoonist Peter Birkett who has died at the age of 80. Every cartoon was a winner, but he may be best remembered for his unforgettable Daleks from 1981. "Well, this certainly buggers our plan to conquer the Universe."
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. The sun is shining, the roses are out and you remember why you love
#WFH
... William Sillince 1960
#work
#employment
#jobs
#lifestyle
#WorkLifeBalance
#gardens
#gardeners
#enjoyment
#relaxation
#commuting
#commuters
#community
#comparisons
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As it's
#DoctorWho60
Day it's time for one of PUNCH's best-loved cartoons..."Well, this certainly buggers our plan to conquer the Universe." Peter Birkett 1981. And yes, we know
#Daleks
could get up stairs, but not in 1981! Or so we've been told.
#DrWho
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. Keeping tuned... Fougasse (Kenneth Bird) 1929 Almanack.
#communications
#radio
#antennae
#night
#listeners
#listening
#wireless
#BBC
#city
#cities
#windows
#dark
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William Sillince produced some wonderful cartoons for PUNCH, including this 1960 classic, one of the mag's best-loved cartoons showing the work-life balance of a gardener and his harried commuting businessman time-poor employer!
I do love these 1940/50 cartoons!
"No proper Englishman would jump a queue" (ladies first? 😝)
"English cats were a revelation"
"Too much salesmanship doesn't go down too well I in this country " note the canons!
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It's
#NationalGardeningWeek
. Best gardening cartoon ever? Gardening without tears by Norman Thelwell. PUNCH cartoon 1954
#gardens
#allotments
#gardeners
#relaxing
#leisure
#enjoyment
#green
#plants
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Still
#NationalGardeningWeek
! By popular demand here's William Sillince's wonderful sequence on the benefits of gardening vs the commuting rat race. PUNCH cartoon 1960
#gardens
#gardeners
#business
#wellbeing
#lifestyle
#commuters
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. As allotments are flourishing Norman Thelwell found someone with leisure in mind! Still, he'll have to mow that lawn at some point... 1954
#gardens
#gardening
#gardeners
#green
#lawns
#plants
#growing
#growth
#vegetables
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One of Norman Thelwell's best-loved cartoons for PUNCH from 1954. A reminder of summer days in the mist of leafy green! And that blue garden shed is very now.
#allotments
#gardens
#gardeners
#gardening
#relaxation
#trees
#classics
#summer
#growing
#illustration
#icons
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. Commuting vs
#WFH
? No contest. According to William Sillince in this much loved illustration from 1960.
#work
#jobs
#employment
#wellbeing
#commuters
#gardens
#gardeners
#mentalhealth
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A New Year, another of PUNCH's top ten Cartoon Classics. The unforgettable Miss Triggs by Riana Duncan 1988 "That's an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it."
#women
#work
#equality
#boardrooms
#sexism
#management
@wmarybeard
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Today's PUNCH colour cover, in honour of birthday boy Quentin Blake from 1960
@QuentinBlakeHQ
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#BookLoverDay
“We’re rather worried about William.” PUNCH cartoon 1954 by William Sillince
#reading
#readers
#books
#families
#family
#tv
#television
#socialchange
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "Yes?" Tony Husband 1989
#RIP
#elephants
#feet
#biggame
#restitution
#animals
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This stunning illustration by Leslie Illingworth appeared as a double page spread in the 1940 PUNCH Almanack & prompted scores of heartfelt letters from readers who felt it perfectly reflected their fears as the Nazi menace spread across Europe.
#WW2
#HomeFront
#war
#Nazis
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Today's PUNCH colour cover... Regrets? We've had a few.... Norman Thelwell 1967
#railways
#railroads
#Beeching
#cars
#transportation
#canals
#traffic
#country
#walking
#walkers
#environment
#green
#fields
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#RIP
the brilliant cartoonist Wally Fawkes (Trog) who died on 1 March 2023 at the age of 98. He produced a succession of stunning covers and caricatures for PUNCH mainly in the 1970s-1980s
#politics
#politicians
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "We like the plot, Miss Austen, but all this effing and blinding will have to go." J W Taylor 1982
#Jane
#JaneAusten
#writers
#authors
#literature
#literary
#publishers
#books
#icons
#legends
#English
#language
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "Nothing personal, Mr. Knight, but I was hoping to speak to one of the others." Quite! By the late great Tony Husband 1989
@tonyhusband1
#law
#legal
#lawyers
#solicitors
#names
#effectiveness
#justice
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon.
#BBC
💯 By 1929 almost everyone was listening to the radio. Fougasse (Kenneth Bird)
#wireless
#culture
#popularculture
#homes
#houses
#antennae
#night
#communications
#media
#massmedia
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "I must say, Mr Baskerville, we had expected something larger." Us, too! Michael ffolkes (Brian Davis) 1973
#Sherlock
#SherlockHolmes
#HoundoftheBaskervilles
#ConanDoyle
#literary
#literature
#books
#mystery
#mysteries
#detectives
#classics
#dogs
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. It's all in a name... "Nothing personal, Mr. Knight, but I was hoping to speak to one of the others." Tony Husband 1989
@tonyhusband1
#law
#legal
#solicitors
#lawyers
#professions
#clients
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "Winnie the 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁?" by John Donegan 1987
#books
#literary
#WinniethePooh
#bears
#ThreeBears
#literature
#childrensbooks
#characters
#culture
#woods
#disbelief
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. "Just run 'ome an' fetch me my small 'ammer, Albert." Arthur Watts 1929
#work
#workers
#working
#workplaces
#heights
#steeples
#steeplejacks
#repairs
#tools
#churches
#buildings
#architecture
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic... Oops... “How’s the Psalms’ title-page coming along?” We've all done it! Nick (Nicholas Hobart) 1986
#religion
#monks
#manuscripts
#culture
#medieval
#MiddleAges
#art
#artists
#spelling
#culturalheritage
#mistakes
#painting
#painters
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Close to the bone... The late great Tony Husband on Young Conservatives... “Shortly, Henry, our immigration spokesman, will be talking to you.” From 1989
@tonyhusband1
#politics
#politicians
#Tory
#Tories
#KKK
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More cartoons from PUNCH by the legendary cartoonist Bill Tidy who has died at the age of 89.
#RIP
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "Yes?" By the sadly missed Tony Husband 1989
@tonyhusband1
#elephants
#animals
#wildlife
#conservation
#visitors
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Something to ponder... "There must be more to the After-life than hanging around the British Museum." Peter Birkett 1982
#museums
#Egyptology
#Egypt
#AncientEgypt
#mummy
#mummies
#artefacts
#exhibits
#culture
#repatriation
#restitution
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "I must say, Mr Baskerville, we had expected something larger." Michael ffolkes (Brian Davis) 1973
#literary
#literature
#books
#Sherlock
#Holmes
#SherlockHolmes
#HoundoftheBaskervilles
#legends
#crimes
#detectives
#dogs
#ConanDoyle
#icons
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "If you can read this you could read a whole book. Buy one today." Rip Matteson 1988
#WorldBookDay
#reading
#readers
#bookshops
#culture
#literature
#literary
#retail
#shops
#bookstores
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. What does your allotment look like? It's all grow, grow, grow at the moment. Norman Thelwell 1954
#gardens
#gardening
#gardeners
#plants
#growth
#greenfingers
#growing
#leisure
#relaxation
#enjoyment
#lawns
#trees
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Today's PUNCH colour cover. How's the gardening going? Norman Thelwell 1964
#gardens
#gardeners
#homes
#houses
#magazines
#reading
#readers
#inspiration
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. From the ever fertile imagination of Jean-Jacques Sempé 1957
#arguments
#disputes
#audiences
#cars
#drivers
#motorists
#fish
#accidents
#crashes
#fascination
#shops
#anger
#watching
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Given the news on the still huge
#GenderGap
in pay for women think it's time for Miss Triggs! "That's an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it." Riana Duncan 1988
#work
#employment
#equality
#women
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. In case you've been wondering.... Tony Reeve 1988
#art
#Magritte
#paintings
#painters
#Surrealism
#Surrealism
#SonofMan
#artists
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "We'll soon have you up and about, Mr Pycroft - this ward is closing down tomorrow." Pete Dredge 1989
#NHS
#funding
#finance
#financial
#economics
#health
#budget
#government
#PublicHealth
#spending
#hospitals
#patients
#doctors
#medicine
#medical
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. Allotments are busting out all over. Open days galore. How's yours? Norman Thelwell 1954
#gardening
#gardeners
#gardens
#relaxing
#relaxation
#plants
#growing
#lawns
#illustrations
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Ideas! “Why don’t they just hold one of those exciting penalties competitions, and then, if the scores are still level, hold a match?” David Hawker 1985
#football
#sport
#EURO2024
#EUROS2024
#tv
#television
#suggestions
#couples
#EnglandEuro2024
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. By the ever-wonderful Jean-Jacques Sempé 1957.
#motoring
#motorists
#cars
#driving
#drivers
#accidents
parking
#arguments
#fish
#audiences
#spectators
#streets
#petshops
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "I must say, Mr Baskerville, we had expected something larger." Michael ffolkes (Brian Davis) 1973
#Sherlock
#Holmes
#HoundoftheBaskervilles
#mystery
#detectives
#Watson
#books
#literary
#literature
#classics
#ConanDoyle
#dogs
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Today's PUNCH colour cover. Ready for the weekend? Or has it already started for you? The English Weekend as seen by Quentin Blake 1969
@QuentinBlakeHQ
#leisure
#work
#play
#athleisure
#leisure
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Road rage - in the inimitable style of Jean-Jacques Sempé. 1957
#cars
#motoring
#motorists
#drivers
#driving
#parking
#accidents
#fish
#pets
#streets
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. The back of Mount Rushmore. Mike Williams 1990
#monuments
#sculptures
#women
#men
#culturalheritage
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@LBFlyawayhome
Or.... "No sir, it ain't gale-force till the tree touches the 'ouse." PUNCH cartoon by William Sillince 1950
#StormIsha
#StormJocelyn
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Today's PUNCH colour cover. The way of the wise this Bank Holiday Sunday. Norman Thelwell 1967
#traffic
#motoring
#motorists
#trafficjams
#driving
#drivers
#cars
#walking
#walkers
#rambling
#ramblers
#footpaths
#railways
#canals
#Beeching
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. “I think I preferred it when he just did voices.” Peter Birkett 1982 🥸
#pets
#birds
#parrots
#Groucho
#couples
#imitations
#performances
#performers
#homes
#couples
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. One from the master, Ronald Searle in 1955
#death
#life
#undertakers
#funerals
#reading
#readers
#magazines
#religion
#burials
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. “There’s a furry thing in here eating cheese. I understand that’s your department.” John Donegan 1986
#pets
#cats
#dogs
#jobs
#work
#employment
#workplaces
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#RIP
Cartoonist Ken Mahood who died 30 December 2020. Ken was a longtime contributor to PUNCH which published his first cartoon. His contributions ranged from some of the magazine's best covers to political and gag cartoons. Some of Ken's early covers.
#illustrations
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#WorldEnvironmentDay
"This is serious - even Shit Creek's up shit creek." PUNCH cartoon by Ray Lowry 1990
#environment
#pollution
#water
#waterpollution
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. Remembering
#WW2
on
#RemembranceSunday
'The Combat' by Leslie Illingworth 1940
#WWII
#Nazis
#Freedom
#menace
#airforce
#battles
#swastikas
#planes
#aircraft
#war
#threatening
#history
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A New Year, another PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "I must say, Mr Baskerville, we had expected something larger." Michael ffolkes (Brian Davis) 1973
#SherlockHolmes
#HoundoftheBaskervilles
#Sherlock
#books
#literature
#literary
#classics
#crime
#detectives
#dogs
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. "Yes?" By the much-missed Tony Husband 1989
#elephants
#conservation
#wildlife
#environment
#feet
#foot
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Your PUNCH Cartoon Classic. How to be a Surrealist. Posing for René Magritte's 'The Son of Man'. Tony Reeve 1988
#art
#artists
#Surrealism
#painters
#paintings
#culture
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#RIP
legendary cartoonist Bill Tidy who has died at the age of 89. As well as the scores of iconic cartoons he drew for PUNCH he produced such series as 'Sam Hinchcliffe Looks Back' - the memoirs of a Northerner.
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Today is
#BookshopDay
. So read the sign and remember... PUNCH cartoon by Rip Matteson 1988
#books
#reading
#bookshops
#bookstores
#readers
#literature
#literary
#readers
#shops
#retail
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Today's PUNCH colour cover. Waiting for the sun.... The English Weekend by Quentin Blake 1969
@QuentinBlakeHQ
#weekends
#leisure
#relaxing
#work
#play
#WorkLifeBalance
#home
#office
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Happy Birthday to the NHS at 75 "Let me put it this way. If this were America you couldn't afford to be as ill as you are." Ken Mahood 1964
#NHS75
💙💙
#health
#healthcare
#medical
#medicine
#doctors
#patients
#money
#financial
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Today's PUNCH colour cover. On the 40th anniversary of
#TorvillandDean
's sensational win at the
#Sarajevo
#Olympics
in 1984
#skating
#skaters
#Bosnia
#winterolympics
#ice
#sport
#penguins
#couples
#pairs
#explorers
#Antarctic
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Welcome to the Age of Anxiety? 🤖 "The 4.30 a.m. time check is brought to you by the spirit of mounting personal problems, anxieties and hostile vibes." Henry Martin 1976
#psychology
#mentalhealth
#health
#sleep
#dreams
#nightmares
#awake
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. We hope there's lots of this going on... "Well don't just stand there — negotiate!" Roland Fiddy 1968
#negotiations
#management
#talking
#talks
#cats
#mice
#animals
#behaviour
#business
#unions
#strikes
#crowds
#cornered
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. “Fetch me the law for the rich, will you?” Riana Duncan 1986
#law
#legal
#lawyers
#barristers
#judges
#crime
#criminals
#justice
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Art, and how it was done. Magritte painting 'The Son of Man'. Tony Reeve 1988
#artists
#painters
#paintings
#culture
#Surrealism
#Surrealists
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A New Year, another PUNCH top ten Cartoon Classic. The kind of lawyer you need! "Nothing personal, Mr Knight, but I was hoping to speak to one of the others." Tony Husband 1989
@tonyhusband1
#law
#legal
#solicitors
#professions
#professionals
#clients
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. “I’ll serve the parrot, but the rest of you are drunk!” Another brilliant cartoon by Bill Tidy 1967
#drinking
#drinkers
#pubs
#bars
#publicans
#alcohol
#discretion
#appearances
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. We honour artist Rene Magritte, born
#OTD
21 November 1898. 'The Son of Man' - how it was done... Tony Reeve 1988.
#art
#Surrealism
#portraits
#painters
#paintings
#apples
#posing
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It's
#BackToSchool
today! PUNCH cartoon Norman Thelwell 1961
#schools
#education
#pupils
#architecture
#buildings
#Modernism
#glass
#humour
#humor
#late
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Today's PUNCH Classic Cartoon. She's been to Edith Garrud's classes.... "The Suffragette that Knew Jiu-Jitsu. The Arrest" Arthur Wallis Mills 1910
#equality
#demonstrations
#protests
#martialarts
#police
#InternationalWomensDay
#suffrage
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Today's PUNCH colour cartoon. In case you're wondering how to tell. "No sir, it ain't gale-force till the tree touches the 'ouse." William Sillince 1950
#StormCiaran
#storms
#wind
#weather
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#OTD
27 March 2002 actor and jazz musician Dudley Moore died. Here he is with his 'Beyond the Fringe' sidekicks Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Alan Bennett in this brilliant PUNCH cartoon by Ronald Searle 1961.
#stars
#comedians
#theatre
#satire
#theatrical
#stage
#performers
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Happy Birthday to one of the masters of illustration Ronald Searle, born
#OTD
3 March 1920. Searle contributed many cartoons and illustrations to PUNCH, including these covers
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Happy Birthday artist Vincent van Gogh born
#OTD
30 March 1853. PUNCH cartoon Robert Wilson 1989 does van Gogh's 'A Wheatfield with Cypresses'. "All right, have it your way, it's something to do with the greenhouse effect.'
#art
#artists
#environmental
#ClimateCrisis
#landscape
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. “Trust me - enigmatic is better.” Good advice! Tony Reeve 1987
#art
#culture
#painters
#paintings
#Leonardo
#MonaLisa
#portraits
#artists
#Renaissance
#smiling
#teeth
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#RIP
French artist Jean-Jacques Sempé who has died at the age of 89. Sempé contributed many cartoons and covers to PUNCH. Some of his colour work.
#illustrations
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Tories, elections... ‘To be honest, I only joined the party in the hope of being embroiled in a sex scandal.’ Ken Pyne 1989
#politics
#politicians
#byelections
#Conservatives
#Tory
#politicalparty
#campaigning
#candidates
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. It's the Summer Solstice. People have still gathered to watch the sunrise at Stonehenge. But in earlier days "I just live for the day when we catch those Roman bastards at it, that's all." Banx 1982
@Banxcartoons
#monuments
#history
#ancient
#Druids
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. “Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, Thigben, but your retirement was a computer error.” Not another IT fail! Harley Schwadron 1986
#pensioners
#OAPs
#IT
#work
#employment
#employees
#employers
#failures
#tech
#techfail
#infallible
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic. Another brilliant cartoon from
#TonyHusband
1990: ‘He really wanted to be buried at sea but I can’t afford that on a pension’
#money
#death
#funerals
#pensioners
#OAPs
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Today's PUNCH Cartoon Classic.Shouldn't be too difficult to make his dream come true! ‘To be honest, I only joined the party in the hope of being embroiled in a sex scandal' Ken Pyne 1989
#politics
#politicians
#Conservatives
#Tory
#Tories
#Pincher
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And the cartoon appeared in PUNCH!
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