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SUMMARY:Smile when Suffering: Cartoons from the Trenches\, 1914-18 - Profe
 ssor Jane Chapman
DTSTART:20131023T120000Z
DTEND:20131023T130000Z
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CONTACT:DJ Goode
DESCRIPTION:British and Dominion soldiers’ Great War field publications 
 are relatively well known\, but the way troops created cartoon narratives 
 has been neglected.  The concerns of the lower ranks about medical service
 s\, discomforts\, food and drink\, leave\, military routines\, complaints 
 about officers\, and expectations versus emerging reality\, all emerged as
  humour from adversity. The central comic character was the long suffering
  citizen soldier\, portrayed as a source of entertainment and morale boost
 ing.
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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