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VISUAL RESOURCES: An International Journal of Documentation
Vol. XXIV, No. 2, June 2008 (ISSN 0197-3762)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
101 Editorial: History (including a tribute to Helene E. Roberts)
103 Murtha Baca, News
BOARD-APPROVED SPECIAL ISSUE
Visual Collections as Historical Evidence, edited by Craig Horner,
Katy Layton-Jones and David Stewart
105 Katy Layton-Jones, Introduction: Visual Collections as
Historical Evidence
109 Stephen Connolly, Unseeing the Past: Vision and Modern British History
119 Robin Usher, Reading Architecture: St. Andrew's Church,
Dublin, 1670-1990
133 Nick Mansfield, The Contribution of the National Banner
Survey to Debates on Nineteenth-Century Popular Politics
145 David Clampin, "The war has turned our lives upside-down":
The Merit of Commercial Advertising in Documenting the Cultural
History of the British Home Front in the Second World War
159 John Walton, Commemorating the Co-op: Nostalgia, Identity and
the Visual Traces of the Co-operative Movement in Twentieth-Century
Britain
173 David Stewart, The British Labour Party, "Parliamentary
Socialism," and Thatcherism, 1979-1990: A Visual Perspective
189 Katy Layton-Jones, Referencing Visual Sources as Historical Evidence
REVIEWS
201 Laura Baudot, reviewing City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in
Eighteenth-Century London, by Vic Gatrell
207 Victoria E. Thompson, reviewing Household Gods: The British
and Their Possessions, by Deborah Cohen
210 Sarah Winter, reviewing Charles Darwin and Victorian Visual
Culture, by Jonathan Smith
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Murtha Baca, News Editor
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