Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection
Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection
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Summary
Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection celebrates the golden age of comic postcards. It is a fascinating glimpse of post-war liberalisation, and a colourful celebration of timeless British humour.
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Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection by Marcus Hearn
The Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth & Co started producing 'saucy' postcards in 1910. These cheeky designs became synonymous with the English seaside resorts where they were sold, but were exported all over the world. After WW2, Bamforth artists began to satirise the classic comic archetypes that still resonate today - henpecked husbands, naughty nurses and randy milkmen. Contemporary concerns ranging from the contraceptive pill to the Space Race also received the irreverent Bamforth treatment. Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection celebrates the golden age of these comic gems, with a selection of more than 250 cards originally published from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The book's introduction reveals the story behind the company, and the battles with the postcard censorship committees that resulted in almost 150 prosecutions.
This collection of classic nudge-nudge scenarios.. still raises a titter... at the heart of it all is timeless Carry-On humour. * Daily Mail *
Marcus Hearn has been writing about popular culture since the early 1990s. Co-author of The Hammer Story, the company's official history, and Hammer Glamour, he also wrote the Sunday Times bestseller Star Wars: Attack of the Clones - The Illustrated Companion, and Eight Days a Week, the story of The Beatles' final world tour. He is an associate research fellow at Leicester De Montfort's Cinema and Television History Research Centre, and is the official historian of Hammer Film Productions.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781472105462 |
| ISBN 10 | 147210546X |
| Title | Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection |
| Author | Marcus Hearn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2013-07-18 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |