…worth a thousand words

I appreciate cartoons. As a History student they are the best kind of primary source. What might take hours to learn from text you can grasp almost instantly from a cartoon, and it’s much more fun. I do a lot of eighteenth/nineteenth Century poltical history, and Punch cartoons are my first port of call. I in fact have two punch cartoons on my wall of Robert Peel, his walk to free trade and his cheap bread legacy. They tell you everything you need to know. To lift as much information from text, you’d have to hide in the library for hours. It’s the same with current affairs. Nothing sums up the poltical scene as well a cartoon, like this one of Blair below…