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1902Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
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1904Sherlock Holmes
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1908Christabel Pankhurst
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1912Captain Scott's Diary
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1913G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion
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1914Suffragettes protest
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1917Wilfred Owen: WWI poetry
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1925Art in poetry
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1925Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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1928Nottinghamshire dialect
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1929BBC English
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1939Wanted poster for Hitler
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1939World War II ultimatum letter
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1943Make Do and Mend
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1948Immigration from India
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1955Chinese restaurants
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1959Paul Robeson's Othello
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1960Sylvia Plath
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1964The Beatles in the USA
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1969Man lands on the moon
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1970Women's liberation magazine
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1973J.G. Ballard, Crash
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1976Punk fanzine
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1976The Sex Pistols
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1984J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
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1991Angela Carter, Wise Children
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Intro
This front page of the Daily Mirror from 1939 is presented as a 'WANTED' poster for Adolf Hitler - the 'reckless criminal ... wanted - dead or alive'. The newspaper appeared on 4 September 1939, just one day after Britain and France declared war on Germany. The British press had the difficult task of reporting the news of war to its readers.
Using a 'Wanted' poster layout, the journalist cast the Nazi dictator as a classic Wild West criminal. This was powerful propaganda. The intention was to present Hitler as the common enemy, and to strengthen the resolve of the country against him. This format has been popular with newspapers ever since, and was used by The Times to cover the global search for Osama Bin Laden in 2001.
Image Copyright: John Frost Newspapers.
Shelfmark: British Library Newspaper Archive.
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