Stamping It Out (1880): Imagining the Second Anglo-Afghan War

Authors

  • Austin R. Justice
  • Artur Stasiek
  • Archana Upadhyay

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.sourcelab.v1.442

Keywords:

stamping it out, 1880, anglo-afghan war, second anglo-afghan war, political cartoon, Kandahar, john gordon thompson, fun magazine, john bull, victorian political cartoons

Abstract

Vol. 1, No. 2 (2019)

This issue of SourceLab presents a famous editorial cartoon, published in the weekly journal Fun during the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880).

This publication is part of the digital documentary edition series SourceLab, based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Our Editorial Board conducts rigorous peer-review of every edition.

Author Biographies

  • Austin R. Justice

    Class of 2020, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in History and Classics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 

  • Artur Stasiek

    Class of 2018, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Archana Upadhyay
    Class of 2020, pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in History at the University of Pennsylvania.

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2020-04-23

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