Well, we’re not doing brilliantly with our resolution to reduce the number of postings on Vulpes Libris. Once again we have a full week. Hurray.
King Arthur, Cuba, Alice in Wonderland (ballet version), pimps, prostitutes and a thesaurus. Just an average week on Vulpes Libris then…
Monday 7th: Jackie tries to find a synonym for thesaurus in her review of Joshua Kendall’s bio of Roget; The Man Who Made Lists.
Tuesday 8th: Nikki ponders the enduring popularity of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.
Wednesday 9th: Hilary explores her reaction to seeing ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ as a ballet, and asks – words into steps – how does that work?
Thursday 10th: We follow in the steps of Castro and Guevara as Kirsty recounts her own (somewhat wimpier) Sierra Maestra story.
Friday 11th: Anne gets down and dirty with the prostitution, pimps and pornography filling the pages of Jonathan Kemp’s London Triptych.
Saturday 12th: Eve is back with a review of another Young Adult title.
In the spirit of supporting our libraries, this excellent poster is by Phil Bradley and can be found here.
That is a really nice poster, it keeps the original feeling while updating the slogan. I like the style & color of it.
Is the poster from World War I or II? I’m guessing I. What is the significance of the Indian-looking woman? Is she a servant? A representative of Empire?
Hi SilverSeason. Thanks for your comments (& sorry for the delay in replying – the notification email was swamped by spam).
Phil Bradley came up with this new twist on the old posters. I’m afraid I don’t know much about the originals but it might be worth checking out Phil’s blog for more info, as he says on his Flickr page:
“What if the #savelibraries campaign had taken place between 1914-18? Then I expanded that out to World War 2 posters as well. I wrote a blog post about them which you can reach via my blog at http://www.philbradley.typepad.com“