Author: Julia Gillen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000903915
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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This monograph offers a novel investigation of the Edwardian picture postcard as an innovative form of multimodal communication, revealing much about the creativity, concerns and lives of those who used postcards as an almost instantaneous form of communication. In the early twentieth century, the picture postcard was a revolutionary way of combining short messages with an image, making use of technologies in a way impossible in the decades since, until the advent of the digital revolution. This book offers original insights into the historical and social context in which the Edwardian picture postcard emerged and became a craze. It also expands the field of Literacy Studies by illustrating the combined use of posthuman, multimodal, historic and linguistic methodologies to conduct an in-depth analysis of the communicative, sociolinguistic and relational functions of the postcard. Particular attention is paid to how study of the picture postcard can reveal details of the lives and literacy practices of often overlooked sectors of the population, such as working-class women. The Edwardian era in the United Kingdom was one of extreme inequalities and rapid social change, and picture postcards embodied the dynamism of the times. Grounded in an analysis of a unique, open access, digitized collection of 3,000 picture postcards, this monograph will be of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of Literacy Studies, sociolinguistics, history of communications and UK social history.
Author: Eric Krieger
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781872226040
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: Brian Lund
Publisher: Thomas Reed Publications
ISBN:
Category : Children
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Emily Stevenson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003809596
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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Combining ethnographic and archival research, this book examines the lives of colonial-period postcards and reveals how they become objects of contemporary historical imagination in India. Picture postcards were circulated around the world in their billions in the early twentieth century and remained, until the advent of social media, unmatched as the primary means of sharing images alongside personal messages. This book, based on original research in Bengaluru, shows that their lives stretch from their initial production and consumption in the early 1900s into the present where they act as visual and material mediators in postcolonial productions of history, locality, and heritage against a backdrop of intense urban change. The book will be of interest to photographic historians, visual anthropologists, and art historians.
Author: Martin Willoughby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: Patricia Southern
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445624613
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Tells the story of Trafford Park in vintage photographs, once the largest industrialised area in Britain and the workshop of Greater Manchester.
Author: David Gwynn
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445631938
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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This book provides a unique and enchanting look at the beauty of Wales through a collection of Welsh postcards, beautifully capturing every aspect of Welsh life.
Author: William Crookes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 956
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Author: A. W. Coysh
Publisher: ACC Distribution
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Full of relevant information, this book covers the whole field of picture postcard production in Britain. It is an indispensable reference to a vast amount of collectable pictorial material.
Author: Paul Hindle
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445699478
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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A fascinating collection of images showing how Prestwich and Whitefield have changed across the last century.
