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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.'
Source: Abstract.
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The Hobart Town Punch
1953
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers and Proceedings. Tasmanian Historical Research Association , vol. 2 no. 3 1953; (p. 53-54)
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The Hobart Town Punch
1953
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Papers and Proceedings. Tasmanian Historical Research Association , vol. 2 no. 3 1953; (p. 53-54) -
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.'
Source: Abstract.
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- 'Illustrated by Henri J. D'Emden to 18 May 1867; by D. Thomas thence to 9 Nov. 1867; by J. H. Manly thence to 1 Feby. 1868; by James Rule thence to end, when the publication collapsed.' (Source: Handwritten note by James Backhouse Walker in bound copy of Hobart Town Punch held, in 1953, by Clive Turnbull.)
