Showing posts with label Ladybird Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ladybird Books. Show all posts
Monday, October 26, 2026

A new article for Central Bylines: We shouldn’t laugh at Ladybird books but celebrate them

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I've a new article on Central Bylines this morning: it's a defence of the much-misunderstood Ladybird Books: The classic Ladybird B...
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

Alwyn Turner on the political radicalism of L. du Garde Peach

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I'm enjoying Alwyn Turner's new book A Shellshocked Nation: Britain Between the Wars , and not just because my name turns up in the ...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Ronald Lampitt: The Ladybird artist as social historian

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This illustration, A Farm in February, is not from a Ladybird book, but it is by a Ladybird artist, Ronald Lampitt . And if you're tempt...
Saturday, August 17, 2024

John Grindrod: The Ladybird Book of Postwar Rebuilding

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It's remarkable how many people have the wrong idea about Ladybird Books, dismissing them as nostalgic, conservative and twee.  Someone ...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

The Joy of Six 1232

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Lynton Crosby's divisive approach to politics has wedged the Conservative party into a corner from which they cannot escape, says Adam B...
Sunday, May 12, 2024

The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists exhibition comes to St Albans

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On Friday the exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Artists opened at St Albans Museum and Gallery. It runs until 8 September....
Thursday, April 04, 2024

Turning Over the Pebbles: Another Mike Brearley index

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They don't just have the Hallaton Helmet in Harborough Museum. Among many other things, there's a nice little exhibition about Lady...
Saturday, January 27, 2024

In praise of Ladybird Modernism and classless aspiration

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I think it was those parodies from a few years back - some of them published by Penguin, who would once have looked down their beak at the i...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

A podcast on Ladybird Books and L. du Garde Peach

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We should soon have the answer to the question of who murdered the Princes in the Tower.  A YouTube channel says it will be posting the Seco...
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Friday, February 17, 2023

Ladybird Books remembered in Loughborough

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Between 1915 and 1973, Ladybird Books' printing plant was at Angel Yard in the centre of Loughborough.  The small format for which the f...
Thursday, December 22, 2022

Jonathan Lemalu and Winchester Cathedral Choir: Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar

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This is a 19th-century German carol by the composer Peter Cornelius. It became increasingly popular in Britain as the 20th century progresse...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

In defence of Peter, Jane and Ladybird's history books

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As a video recently posted here went a long way to demonstrate, Ladybird Books were about the most progressive post-war publishers of child...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Ladybird Books and Constructing the Future Past of Modern Britain

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I have an affection for Ladybird Books, not least because my mother taught me to read with their Key Words scheme before I went to school. S...
Monday, December 13, 2021

The Joy of Six 1036

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The Police Bill is not just about curtailing the right to protest, writes Brian Paddick : "The new legislation allows the Home Secretar...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Six of the Best 907

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"Most of us know precisely what is wrong with Tickbox - that most of these measures or targets either miss the point or get finessed ...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Two Leicester exhibitions: Ladybird Books and the Imperial Typewriters strike

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I braved the rain and went into Leicester today to visit two exhibitions. The first was The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Book Art...
Thursday, February 07, 2019

Six of the Best 849

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Populists like to blame elites, but from Israel to Britain to the United States their crusade against hardworking civil servants is underm...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Six of the Best 805

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Brexiteers who look to Donald Trump for help will be disappointed. Dana Allin explains why. Oliver Stanton  has some sensible ideas fro...
Saturday, December 16, 2017

Don't blame Ladybird Books for the rise of Daniel Hannan

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Otto English is someone I retweet a lot and I was pleased when he started a blog this autumn at Pin Prick. But I have to take issue with...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Gallery devoted to Ladybird Books illustrations opens in Reading

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Good news from Maev Kennedy in the Guardian. A permanent gallery devoted the illustration from the Ladybird chiildren's books has ope...
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