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Britain's Best Ever Political Cartoons

Tim Benson

A rip-roaring collection of Britain's finest political satire from Hogarth and Gillray to Martin Rowson Steve Bell Peter Brookes and Nicola Jennings. Between Waterloo and Brexit cartoons have been Britain's most famous antidote to the chaos of public politics. Skewering the issues and characters that have dominated the news over three centuries these cartoons have united those who love and those who hate their politicians. A wild journey through the scandals that made a nation this is the ultimate book of sketches which have stood the test of time.>

  • Classification : Politics & Current Affairs
  • Pub Date : SEP 14, 2023
  • Imprint : John Murray
  • Page Extent : 208
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781529334401
  • Price : INR 1,050
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Tim Benson

Dr Tim Benson is Britain's leading authority on political cartoons. He runs the world's largest gallery for original pen-and-ink political and satirical cartoons. He has produced numerous books on the history of cartoons, including David Low Censored, Suezcide: A Cartoon History of the Suez Crisis, Giles's War, Churchill in Caricature, Low and the Dictators, The Cartoon Century: Modern Britain through the Eyes of Its Cartoonists, Drawing the Curtain: The Cold War in Cartoons, Over the Top: A Cartoon History of Australia at War, How to be British: A Cartoon Celebration, Churchill: A life in Cartoons and over ten volumes of Britain's Best Political Cartoons.

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