MARY DAVIS welcomes a remarkable documentary about the general strike — politically spot on, and featuring accounts from the strikers themselves — that is available for screenings
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Picture This: The missing volume from the annals of British humour
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[Paula Youenes]
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The Inking Woman: 250 Years of Women Cartoon and Comic Artists in Britain
Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate
Myriad Editions
£19.99
IF THERE'S a volume missing from the annals of British humour, it certainly is the new book The Inking Woman. About time too, given that it’s been nine decades since women over the age of 21 won the right to vote.
"That’s an excellent suggestion, Miss Triggs. Perhaps one of the men here would like to make it" ( © Riana Duncan)
Its inspiration came from its authors Nicola Streeten and Cath Tate who organised an exhibition with the same title at the Cartoon Museum in London in 2016. The realisation that a celebratory anthology marking 250 years of women's cartooning should be put together was a natural progression.
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