Cartooning the First World War in Wales

Cartooning the First World War in Wales An HLF funded project at Cardiff University to digitise the Western Mail's wartime cartoons by leading cartoonist J.M. Staniforth.

During the First World War the Western Mail published over 1300 cartoons by the artist J.M. Staniforth, providing a unique day-by-day record of the war and the responses of the people of Wales to its momentous events. Each of these cartoons is now being digitised in an exciting new project run by Cardiff University's School of History, Archaeology and Religion, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and called 'Cartooning the First World War in Wales'. The project will make all the cartoons available to the public via the internet and will encourage participation and engagement with the collection, allowing everyone to voice their opinions about the images and their possible meanings. Visit the website to live through the war day by day and see it unfold as those back home in Wales would have done.

Our Visual Culture of the First World War Conference was a great success. Here are some photos from the final day of the...
20/11/2014

Our Visual Culture of the First World War Conference was a great success. Here are some photos from the final day of the event, including: Professor Chris Williams and Dr Rhianydd Biebrach of the Cartooning the First World War Project; the Heritage Lottery Fund, Blaenau Gwent Libraries, Mike Oliver of Lewis School, Joanna Wenman of the Firing Line Museum, Dr Gethin Matthews of Swansea University, Nick Mansfield of the University of Hertfordshire First World War Engagement Centre and the winner of our school competition Sophia Campion of St Clare's School, Porthcawl.

27/08/2014
If you haven't visited our new website yet please take a look. You can search all Staniforth's cartoons from the end of ...
19/08/2014

If you haven't visited our new website yet please take a look. You can search all Staniforth's cartoons from the end of July 1914 to the end of November 1915 and more are being uploaded all the time. Each cartoon is accompanied by a commentary, but we need more volunteers to help us with this so please get in touch if you're interested. www.cartoonww1.org.

Cartooning the First World War brings together all the wartime newspaper cartoons of Joseph Morewood Staniforth, which originally appeared in the British Sunday paper the News of the World and the Cardiff daily paper the Western Mail.

19/08/2014
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11/03/2014

Brilliant news! The Wales Millennium Centre will be hosting the Cartooning the First World War exhibition to coincide with their production of Warhorse during June and July. Don't miss this great opportunity to get up close and personal with JMS!

27/02/2014

Cartooning the First World War in Wales visited the good ladies and gentlemen of the Gwent branch of the Western Front Association in Abergavenny last night to discuss things Staniforth. Such a wealth of knowledge about the war and how it affected Wales. Here's hoping they'll be good friends to the project.

See these cartoons for Staniforth's take on the Zeppelin raids of this week in 1915. Did the Welsh public share his appa...
22/01/2014

See these cartoons for Staniforth's take on the Zeppelin raids of this week in 1915. Did the Welsh public share his apparent mixture of outrage and scorn?

22/01/2014

Last week's Project Steering Group and Management Board meetings went very well. Lots of great ideas and plenty of optimism and excitement about the project.

15/01/2014

Looking forward to the first Project Steering Group meeting tomorrow, 16 January 2014, with Professor Chris Williams, Dr Angela Gaffney, Dr Rhianydd Biebrach, Professor Lorna Hughes, Dinah Jones, Dr Toby Thacker, Dr Gethin Matthews and Dr Nick Hiley. Lots of exciting ideas to share about the project and what we hope to achieve in the next 12 months, and lots of brains to get in one room!

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