It will take a while to load, especially today, but this gives an interesting slice of the media response to the news of last night. (Sun-Times here in Chicago isn’t on there, but they just ran an image of Bin Laden with “DEAD”, and that was it.)
(HT to the teacher who let me do my initial classroom observations for this one.)
“Small Talk v. Large Hats” by W.K. Haselden, 1910. A silly cartoon that pokes fun at the ridiculously large hats that were in style during the Edwardian era.
Heh. Heheh.
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l. o. l. (laughing out loud)
(source: The Atchison Globe, April 26, 1878.)
Abbreviations as the upper-class version of cockney slang?
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~ The World Today, vol. 4, January - July 1904
No commentary necessary. How very late Victorian/Edwardian.
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Image of Giant press, Vauxhall factory, Luton, Bedfordshire, 1935
This one’s for the Victorianist and Victorian newspaper junkie in my life, FS.
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