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Melbourne Punch was an illustrated magazine founded by Edgar Ray and Frederick Sinnett in 1855. Modelled closely on London's Punch, which had been founded fifteen years earlier, the magazine was known simply as Punch from 1900 onwards.
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The Satirical Press of Colonial Australia : A Migrant and Minority Enterprise
2020
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Transnational Voices of Australia’s Migrant and Minority Press 2020; (p. 19-36)'This chapter re-assesses the colonial Australian versions of the London Punch, making a case for their importance as essentially migrant and minority publications. Founded as a means of maintaining a sense of Britishness, and as a direct link to the culture of Metropolitan London, these magazines were staffed overwhelmingly by migrants (from Britain and elsewhere), directed to a predominantly migrant readership, and filled their pages with migration-themed jokes, cartoons, and pieces of doggerel. The everyday worries of a stranger in a strange land could be soothed by reference to the humour of the local satirical magazine, and a sense of shared community built through regular recourse to the pages of Melbourne Punch, Sydney Punch, Tasmanian Punch, Ballarat Punch, Adelaide Punch, Queensland Punch, or even Ipswich Punch.'
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Colonial Networks and the Periodical Marketplace
2017
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criticism
— Appears in: Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain 2017; (p. 203-223) -
Alice in Oz - Please, Ma'am, is This New Zealand? Or Australia? : The Lewis Carroll Alice in Wonderland Books in Australia
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Biblionews and Australian Notes and Queries , September 2013; (p. 71-86) -
Reading in Colonial Australia : The 2011 John Alexander Ferguson Memorial Lecture
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , December vol. 97 no. 2 2011; (p. 119-135) Elizabeth Webby looks at reading in the first decades after settlement in Australia as well as 'worries about the reading of fiction, reading of newspapers and periodicals, and the practice of reading aloud.' (p. 120) -
Colonial Satire
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Ballarat Punch at the Mechanics' , no. 1 2007; (p. 9-13)
- y The Loaded Line : Australian Political Caricature 1788-1901 Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 1973 Z1175979 1973 single work criticism
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Origin of 'Melbourne Punch'
1907
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— Appears in: Punch Jubilee , 27 August 1907; (p. 7-8) -
The Development of Punch
1907
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— Appears in: Punch Jubilee , 27 August 1907; (p. 10-11) -
The Roaring Days of Victorian Politics : The Progress of 'Punch'
1907
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— Appears in: Punch Jubilee , 27 August 1907; (p. 12-13) -
An Appreciation of 'Punch'
1907
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— Appears in: Punch Jubilee , 27 August 1907; (p. 15-16)
PeriodicalNewspaper Details
Vol. 1 no. 1 (2 August 1855) - vol. 92 no. 2336 (3 May 1900)
New Series v. 92 no. 2337 (10 May 1900) - vol. 133 no. 3394 (19 August 1920) under title Punch [Melbourne, Vic.]
Vol. 133 no. 3395 (26 August 1920) - 3 November 1921 under title New Punch
10 November 1921 - new series, vol. 1 no. 52 (10 December 1925) under title Punch [Melbourne, Vic.]
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