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The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!: Advertisements from the Great War
Amanda-Jane Doran
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Description for The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!: Advertisements from the Great War
Hardcover. These charged images from the Great War cover a wide range of products, including trench coats, motor-cycles, gramophones, cigarettes and invalid carriages, all bringing an insight into the preoccupations, aspirations and necessities of life between 1914 and 1918. Num Pages: 112 pages, 50 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; HBWN; JFDV; WZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
Fountain-Pens - The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water? When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies wasted no time in seizing the commercial opportunities presented by the conflict. There was no radio or television. The only way in which the British public could get war news was through newspapers and magazines, many of which recorded rising readerships. Advertising became a new science of sales, growing increasingly sophisticated both in visual terms and in its psychological approach. ... Read more
Fountain-Pens - The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water? When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies wasted no time in seizing the commercial opportunities presented by the conflict. There was no radio or television. The only way in which the British public could get war news was through newspapers and magazines, many of which recorded rising readerships. Advertising became a new science of sales, growing increasingly sophisticated both in visual terms and in its psychological approach. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
168g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781851243990
SKU
V9781851243990
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Amanda-Jane Doran
Amanda-Jane Doran worked as Publishing Manager and Curator for Punch magazine for fifteen years. At present, she is cataloguing Victorian illustrated books in the Royal Academy Library and is a freelance writer and lecturer. Andrew McCarthy has written articles for a range of magazines and websites on military and transport history.
Reviews for The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!: Advertisements from the Great War
A great little book.
Western Front Association (11/19/2014) Cigarettes, gramophones, even guard dogs. There was nothing that the Great War didn't provide a good excuse to buy.
Atlantic
Western Front Association (11/19/2014) Cigarettes, gramophones, even guard dogs. There was nothing that the Great War didn't provide a good excuse to buy.
Atlantic