Journal Articles

• Memoria e Ricerca (2022) ‘Cartoons, Caricature and Conflict. The Role of British News Cartoons in the 1945 British General Election’ (1) p. 89-102
• Journal of European Periodical Studies (2020) ‘Visual Humour and Popular Culture: A paradigm shift in the British Press in the inter-war years’

Book Chapters

‘Lancaster and Low’ in Breaking the News (2022) ed Harrison, British Library.

‘The Daily Mirror and the Role of the Visual in the 1945 General Election in Britain’ in The Edinburgh History of Newspapers and Periodicals in Britain and Ireland, Competition and Disruption 1900-2017 (2020) (eds) Bingham & Conboy.

Reviews

‘Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The reporters who took on a world at war‘ Journal of British Studies (Forthcoming)

‘The English Press: A history’ Histoire Sociale/Social History ( 2020)

‘Journalism After Snowden’ book review. Information, Communication & Society (March 2018) Vol.21(12), p.1834-1835

Selected Conference Papers

• Spring 2023 – Co-Organiser of Popular Journalism Symposium, University of Sheffield
• July 2022 – New Directions in the Humanities Conference, University of the Aegean (Rhodes). ‘Multimodal Satire from Cuba to Covid’
• July 2021 – New Directions in the Humanities Conference, University of Lisbon. ‘Satire and the advent of the pocket cartoon’.
• September 2019 – Keep Smiling Through: Humour in the Second World War, University of Kent. ‘Are you trying to be funny? The role of the pocket cartoon in the Daily Express, 1939-1945’
• September 2019 – Street Trees and Politics, University of Sheffield. ‘Academia and Practitioner, and the coverage of the tree saga’. 
• November 2018 – The Press and the Vote, National University of Ireland, Galway. ‘British newspaper cartoons and the 1945 general election’.
• June 2018 – AJE Annual conference, Canterbury Christ Church University. ‘Drawing the News – the importance of the visual in journalism education’

Other

British Library – Story of the News Exhibition (2022)

Gale Primary Sources ‘Daily Mirror and Cartoons’ https://www.gale.com/intl/essays/james-whitworth-daily-mirror-cartoons

The Independent ‘John Leech: the cartoonist who gave us Christmas’ (December 17, 2017)

Research Projects

I am currently writing a book with the working title of ‘The History of the British Newspaper and Magazine Topical Cartoon 1900-2023’. This is an overview of the development of the advent of daily visual satire in the British print media including work of cartoonists ranging from David Low to Matt. It will also include a full reappraisal of the role of the pocket cartoonist and one of its greatest exponents, Osbert Lancaster. The book will consider social history and place the cartoons within both a history of the popular and so-quality press and a wider social context. There will be chapters on the strip cartoon, diverse voices and a consideration of what lies in store for the form in a digital future.

Currently working on journal articles which consider the democratisation of the newspaper cartoon and the use of metaphor and metonymy within the genre.

Also in development is a regular newspaper column which will discuss topical issues through the prism of journalism and take a light-hearted look at what these issues mean for the public.

I am always pleased to hear from anyone who would like to discuss mutual research interests