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Peter Mellini

Published April 18 2007
Peter Mellini looks at a work on the influential diplomat and imperialist.
Published April 22 2004

The colourful cartoon development of British national symbols provides an acute barometer to changes in 18th- and 19th-century public opinion. By Peter Mellini and Roy. T. Matthews.

Published July 16 2003
Published April 30 1996
Peter Mellini looks at this new study of the Blitz period
Published June 30 1995
Published March 31 1990

Political cartoonists are the sharpshooters of the artistic world; theirs is a skilled but risky profession. Peter Mellini draws a line on the marksman James 'Gabriel' Friell, whose career at the Daily Worker and Evening Standard spanned the crucial years of Depression, World War, Cold War and post-war recovery.

Published February 1 1990

Roy T Matthews and Peter Mellini argue that the last 100 years have brought mixed fortunes for Britain’s family of national symbols.

Published August 31 1988
by Ross McMullin
Published February 1 1985

David Low, the cartoonist, met Horatio Blimp, a retired Colonel, in a Turkish bath near Charing Cross in the early 1930s. Many agree with C.S. Lewis that Colonel Blimp was 'the most characteristic expression of the English temper in the period between the two wars.'

Published October 1 1984

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