thoughts of a
Retired Curator
Now working towards
Tower Maven-hood
"You do not become a Maven overnight"
41 Years at The Royal Armouries in the Tower of London is just the start
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Is the plump evening -suited chap, pipe firmly clamped, recalling his South African War service of the previous decade, his Officer Training Corps days...
...to modern eyes the petticoated boy draped along the cigarette barrel of the cruiser while casually igniting it is incongruous to say the least and rather...
Cavander’s followed Ogden’s lead in employing the bayonet’s advertising thrust, albeit twenty-four years later - this time with accompanying rifle and...
Ogden’s military advertising campaigns of the Boer war launched in the Illustrated London News magazine (hereafter ILN) of 9 September 1899, a month before...
In January 1900 Britain was at war in the Transvaal, and Ogden’s re-deployed their 1897 Maxim gun advert, suitably updated and unsubtle in its promotion...
Ogden’s “Guinea-Gold” Illustrated London News advertising campaigns, 1891 and after.
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