All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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Striking Images: Cartoons, Coal and Commentary in South Wales, 1898-1921
| According to art historian Peter Lord, Joseph Morewood Staniforth (1863-1821) was ‘the most important visual commentator on Welsh affairs ever to work in the country’ (The Visual Culture of Wales: Industrial Society, 1998, p. 164). According to the Western Mail obituarist (21 December 1921) he was ‘the doyen of British political cartoonists’, who could stand comparison with Hogarth, Gillray, Leech and Tenniel and Prime Minister David Lloyd George paid tribute to him as ‘one of the most distinguished cartoonists of his generation’. This paper will examine Staniforth’s output in relation to the theme of industrial relations, from his immensely successful cartoons of the 1898 strike (subsequently published under a separate cover as Cartoons of the Great Strike) down through the years of the ‘labour unrest’ to the First World War and its immediate aftermath. Though the Western Mail was commonly regarded as the coalowners’ newspaper, Staniforth did not fail to criticise what he considered to be both the excesses of capitalism and the hypocrisy of certain capitalists, and although he was very unsympathetic to socialist currents within the miners’ union, he was more tolerant of the less confrontational style of the older, Lib-Lab leaders. An appraisal of these ‘leading articles in tabloid form’ (Staniforth himself in the ‘Foreword’ to Cartoons by J. M. Staniforth, Volume II (1910)) facilitates a movement away from the crude caricatures that have sometimes been offered of the protagonists during this period of industrial relations turbulence.
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