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Barnes, Angela and O’Farrell, John, hosts. “Saucy Seaside Postcards - A Celebration of Great British Smut.” We Are History, Season 7 Episode 6, Apple Podcasts, 26 June 2023.
Buckland, Elfreda. The World of Donald McGill. Javelin Books, 1984.
Calder-Marshall, Arthur. Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill. Hutchinson, 1966.
Hearn, Marcus. The Bamforth Collection: Saucy Postcards. Constable, 2013.
Lord Kinross. “Laughter in the Kitchen.” Punch, 14 October 1953, pp. 462-463.
Orwell, George. “The Art of Donald McGill.” Horizon, 1941.
Steinhart, A. L. The Postal History of the Post Card in Canada 1871-1911. Toronto: Jim A. Hennok, 1986.
Willoughby, Martin. A History of Postcards: A Pictorial Record from the Turn of the Century to the Present Day. Wellfleet Press, 1992.
Special thanks to the British Cartoon Archive at the University of Kent. They house the Director of Public Prosecutions’ obscene postcard index, the research papers of McGill biographer Elfreda Buckland, and the Donald McGill Collection of postcards.
To learn more about Donald McGill or buy a set of his banned postcards check out the Donald McGill Museum.
October 1 is World Postcard Day!
Consider sending a postcard to a friend.
“The corner of the human heart that [comic postcards] speak for
might easily manifest itself in worse forms, and I for one should be sorry to see them vanish.”– George Orwell, “The Art of Donald McGill”
