Author: dawncole

We are very excited to reveal our latest donation to the Thanet Press archive. These two wonderful mini posters by the renowned designer Gregory Brown.  These small versions of the original posters were created in 1933 for a publication 'The Technique of the Poster' which included an essay by Brown. Frederick Gregory Brown (1887 - … Continue reading Gregory Brown

The future looks gr... I've use an original cover of the 1951 Festival of Britain exhibition brochure - the original ‘tonic for the nation’. The ‘Paper Trail sample’ acting as a megaphone to reinforcing/reiterating the 1951 ethos. This shouts at our current political issues in the UK, 60 years after the exhibition.  ‘The future looks gr…’ is an invitation … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1951 by Graeme Campbell

Portrait of Ruth Ellis Ruth Ellis was hung in Holloway Prison in 1955 for shooting her lover, David Blakely, in broad daylight outside a London pub. In court her defence tried to convince the jury that there was imitating circumstances to the murder in that Ruth was ‘not of sound mind’, but she was unwilling … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1955 by Iona McCuaig

Peace For Our Time On 30th September 1938 Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to London from Munich having signed the Anglo-German Declaration with Chancellor Adolf Hitler in an attempt to prevent war in Europe. Mr Chamberlain declared to a jubilant London crowd, “I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1938 by Reem Acason

1991 Letter I remember 1991 as being a time of world political upheaval. The Berlin wall was set to come down, and the times felt hopeful, if somewhat uncertain. The dissolution of the USSR, resulting in fifteen independent republics, took place that year and also chimes with more current debate around the value of union … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1991 by Neil Armstrong

Summer of Love 1967 was the summer of love when 10,000, mostly young, people gathered in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco to cast off the conservative morals of the time and experiment with drugs.  In Britain it was the year two significant Acts were passed through Parliament. The Abortion Act made abortion legal under … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1967 by Jennifer Merrell

TV Tupi This piece of work was inspired by the launch of TV Tupi in São Paulo (Brazil) on September 18, 1950. That was the first television network in South America. The new media intensified the spread of ideas that was initially made possible by the invention of paper. If the television has enabled a … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1950 by Carol Balthazar