Author: dawncole

Yuri Gagarin There are more years between us and Yuri Gagarin's first orbit than there were between his launch and the Wright Brothers first flight. A Soviet pilot, Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space, orbiting the Earth in Vostok 1 in 1961. This is a very simple pencil drawing of him, … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1961 by Dan Thompson

Paper Moon One of my earliest memories was hearing the moon landing on the radio with my brother - I was 7. Around this time I was also making little drawings on small pieces of paper, invariably depicting life under rocks, below the ocean and out in space. I had, from an early age, a … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1969 by Paul Hazelton

Convoy My family’s evasion of a Nazi roundup of Spanish republican exiles at Anguoulême on August 20th, 1940, to the Mauthausen camp, is my focus as I build my Paper Trail response. It’s suddenly gone from a tiny sketch (inkjet print on tracing paper which I’ve clipped to the 1940 paper sample) to an ambitious … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1940 by Sonia Boué

2001   2001 will always be remembered for the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the USA.  Nearly 3,000 people lost their lives that day and the repercussions are still being felt throughout the world.  For me, 2001 was also a year of enormous personal loss.  My father died in the May of that year.  As someone … Continue reading Paper Trail: 2001 by Kate Murdoch

In 1982, the Commodore 64 Computer became the highest-selling single computer model of all time.  It was used in offices and made computers popular in the home a common thing, to play games, type letters and formed the beginnings of emails as a form of communication.  Time Magazine made Man of The Year - The … Continue reading Paper Trail: 1982 by Clare Dales