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1939: Zoo rules

Once again George Belcher portrays people who would not be likely to read Punch. The boy just wants to get close to the lions and his big sister hasn’t tried to deter him.

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1937: Not much luck there

The cartoonist has accurately caught the boy’s reluctance. His mother hasn’t found the right form of words to get him to help her.

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1937: Latecomers’ dilemma

The guests feel the need to come up with the best excuse for being late. The top hat identifies them as being high up in the social scale. Even they need to explain their lateness.

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1924: An unexpected visitor

The nosy cow’s arrival is misunderstood. This scenario is somewhat unexpected in the pages of Punch.

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1936: Croissants for breakfast? Never!

This tendency is still present now when some Brits travel abroad. For instance there was the holiday maker in Spain who complained that all the taxi drivers were Spanish.

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1934: Pavement Artist

A surreal story in which the cat ‘consumes’ the fish but leaves the plate alone.

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1937: Does the name fit?

A neat story briefly told.

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1937: Keeping the romance going

Is her ladyship more interested in keeping Jane’s services for longer? Jane is presumably concerned to prolong the excitement of having found her mate.

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1937: Intellectuals are different

This cartoon accurately depicts the gulf between intellectuals and ‘ordinary’ upper middle class people who were likely to read Punch.

You really could tell about people’s opinions by the way they dressed.

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1937: Precocious schoolboy

It is interesting to see that splitting the atom was a recognised aspiration as early as 1937. Both boy and the master surely are caricatures?