Add to ORKGThis paper will consider a key interface between the military and civilian worlds, the militia, and the ways in which this military instituion was visually represented in popular culture. The milita was a favourite subject for printmakers in the second half of the eighteenth century. The amateur soldier was undoubtedly an easy target for visual mockery, but this paper will suggest that the relationship between the satirical print and the militia was a close and reciprocal one. The classic ‘caricature’ and the ‘New Militia’ were the creation of one man, George Townshend, and their subsequent fortunes paralleled and intersected with one another. Visual representations both reflected and contributed towards the ongoing debate about the i...
Anyone who has worked on the military history of the eighteenth century will be familiar with office...
In the decades between the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) and World War I (1914–1918), military art...
Many commentators have noted the similarities between dance and military drill. For William MacNeill...
James Gillray's ‘Supplementary Militia, turning out for Twenty-Days Amusement’ of 1796 (fig. 1) is t...
This paper forcuses on a key military institution in eighteenth-century Britain - the New Militia - ...
The militia in eighteenth-century England was an institution that straddled the civil and military w...
"War, nationalism and the Georgian political print" is a study of some three thousand prints and car...
The study of material culture is a growth area within the wider discipline of history but, to date, ...
In the early nineteenth century, the British army placed a high priority on maintaining a splendid o...
This article explores the role of gender in the debates around the creation of a ‘New Militia’ at th...
This article destabilizes previous assumptions of the inherent masculinity of war play by examining ...
This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who ma...
This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who ma...
In the late-nineteenth century, Britain saw the development of a mass culture consumed by a new publ...
The ‘New Militia’ came into being in 1757, at the beginning of the Seven Years War. I have argued el...
Anyone who has worked on the military history of the eighteenth century will be familiar with office...
In the decades between the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) and World War I (1914–1918), military art...
Many commentators have noted the similarities between dance and military drill. For William MacNeill...
James Gillray's ‘Supplementary Militia, turning out for Twenty-Days Amusement’ of 1796 (fig. 1) is t...
This paper forcuses on a key military institution in eighteenth-century Britain - the New Militia - ...
The militia in eighteenth-century England was an institution that straddled the civil and military w...
"War, nationalism and the Georgian political print" is a study of some three thousand prints and car...
The study of material culture is a growth area within the wider discipline of history but, to date, ...
In the early nineteenth century, the British army placed a high priority on maintaining a splendid o...
This article explores the role of gender in the debates around the creation of a ‘New Militia’ at th...
This article destabilizes previous assumptions of the inherent masculinity of war play by examining ...
This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who ma...
This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who ma...
In the late-nineteenth century, Britain saw the development of a mass culture consumed by a new publ...
The ‘New Militia’ came into being in 1757, at the beginning of the Seven Years War. I have argued el...
Anyone who has worked on the military history of the eighteenth century will be familiar with office...
In the decades between the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) and World War I (1914–1918), military art...
Many commentators have noted the similarities between dance and military drill. For William MacNeill...