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Cartooning the First World War in Wales
Digriflunio’r Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf yng Nghymru
Chris Williams
Cardiff University / Prifysgol
Caerdydd
Bruce Bairnsfather, ‘Well, If You Knows of a Better ‘Ole, Go To It!,
Bystander, 24 November 1915’
Will Dyson,
Daily Herald,
17 May 1919
DAI PEPPER
ON THE SOMME
Capt. T. E. Elias (ed.), New Year Souvenir of the
Welsh Division (Cardiff and London, 1917), p. 55
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000
Sunday Times (1918)
The Times (1915)
Observer (1916)
Daily Express (1918)
Daily Chronicle (1916)
Daily News (1915)
Daily Mail (1916)
Daily Mirror (1916)
Daily Sketch (1915)
News of the World (1917)
British Newspapers: Wartime Circulation (000s)
Staniforth’s First World War Cartooning
Year Western
News of the
World
Total
1914 120 7 127
1915 277 34 311
1916 276 41 317
1917 284 39 323
1918 215 44 259
Total 1171 165 1336
JMS’s First World War cartooning
120
277 276 284
2157
34 41 39
44
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50
100
150
200
250
300
350
1914 1915 1916 1917 1918
Western Mail News of the World
Western Mail, 31 March 1915
LOWER THAN BARBARISM
Western Mail
12 November 1918
RIGHT
TRIUMPHANT
Western Mail, 22 September 1914
THE PIED PIPER OF CRICCIETH
Western Mail, 28 January 1903
THE PIED PIPER OF SOUTH AFRICA
THE PIED PIPER OF SOUTH WALES
Western Mail, 4 November 1910
A338, News of the World, 17 February 1918, ‘An Unwelcome
Message’
Reverse of A338
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Welcome to Cartooning theFirst World War
Cartooning the First World War brings together all the wartime newspaper
cartoons of Joseph Morewood Staniforth (‘JMS’), which originally appeared in
the British Sunday paper the News of the World and the Cardi! daily paper the
Western Mail. Over 1300 cartoons document the war’s changing fortunes and
the ways in which the conflict was experienced and represented by one of the
most popular visual artists of the time. Each cartoon is presented with
explanatory notes and with an open invitation to users to comment on the
image and its possible meanings. The cartoons are accompanied by a range of
resources which help to contextualise the cartoonist, his work, and the
newspapers which published him.
Please note that the website currently holds cartoons up to the end of May
1917, with some from June 1917. In most cases these are accompanied by
commentaries: any remaining commentaries will be supplied in the very
near future. In the next phase of work we will be uploading further
cartoons and commentaries up to the end of 1917.
Cartooning the First World War is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery
Fund and based at Cardi! University, where it is led by Professor Chris
Williams, Head of the School of History, Archaeology and Religion.
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THE PIED PIPER OF
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Western Mail, 22 September
1914
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A Double Event
Western Mail, 15 May 1915
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A Futile Dodge
Western Mail, 2 June 1915
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A Labour Of Love
Western Mail, 12 April 1916
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A Tug Of War
News of the World, 5 November 1916
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Absolutely Reckless
Western Mail, 6 February 1915
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Between the Devil and the
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Western Mail, 27 July 1915
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Clutching at Straws
News of the World, 6 June 1915
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No Thoroughfare To Pirates
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Major categories of JMS wartime cartoons
Theme Examples
Celebratory Of British and allied progress in
various theatres of war
Vilification of
enemies
Being very rude about the Kaiser, the
German people etc
Recruitment Encouraging voluntary recruitment,
supporting conscription etc
Mobilising the war
economy
Supporting increased taxation, state
control, war loans etc
Aimed at neutral
countries
Pressurising the USA (mostly) to enter
the war against Germany
Minor categories of JMS wartime cartoons
Theme Examples
Sympathy towards
allies
Russia, France, Belgium, Italy
Boosting public
morale
Endorsing the justice of the cause, stiffening
resolve to see it through
Endorsing political
action
Shift to Coalition government, to Lloyd
George leadership, appointment of D. A.
Thomas as Food Controller
Condemning
dissent
Industrial action, pacifism, food hoarding, Irish
Republicans, peacemongers
Acknowledging
failure
Dardanelles, Mesopotamia, air defence,
sacking of Churchill
Western Mail, 22 July 1916
OCCURRING TOO OFTEN
JMS’s ‘Welsh’ wartime cartoons
Theme Examples
Celebratory Of prominent Welshmen, of Welsh
troops’ deeds
Recruitment Praising, encouraging, chivvying
recruitment in Wales specifically
Mobilising the (Welsh)
war economy
Munitions, coal industry
Condemning dissent Rev Thomas Rees, ILP,
‘peacemongers’, striking miners
Articulating patriotism Welsh martial tradition and the war
effort in Wales
Western Mail, 5 December 1916
ST GEORGE AND THE DRAGON
(Not the Welsh one)
Western Mail, 23 November 1914
THE MEN WHO STICK IT
Western Mail, 18 February 1915
MAKING GROWTH
Western Mail, 29 May 1915
A WILLING WORKER
Western Mail, 19 July 1915
FAME AND SHAME
Western Mail, 2 October 1914
THE TWO MOTHERS
Western Mail, 13 February 1915
AN HONOUR FOR WALES
‘Our Cartoonist: Exhibition of Mr J. M. Staniforth’s Art’, Western Mail, 1 June
1918
It is the business of the newspaper cartoonist
in these days to reflect all the moods and
phases of the war. … The piquancy and
pathos of the war, the brightness and the
gloom, the virtue and the vice, all find an apt,
expressive, and illuminating reproduction in
the cultured mind and facile pencil of the
artist.
David Lloyd George, Western Mail, 19 December 1921
I am deeply grieved to hear of the death of
Mr J M Staniforth – undoubtedly one of the
most distinguished cartoonists of his
generation. His work has always given me
great pleasure … . Cartoonists of this type
render great national service and no one has
served his country more devotedly with the
pen than ‘JMS’ …
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