The Bodleian Library is launching a new book series, Postcards from…, depicting some of the most defining events in the history of the 20th century through postcards.
Reforms or Revolution, from 'Postcards from the Russian Revolution'
The first two titles in the series features images drawn from a collection of postcards which has recently been donated to the Bodleian Library. The collection is the work of John Fraser, who began assembling it at the age of 12. Over the past sixty years, he amassed a remarkable collection of thousands of cards from around the world, particularly rich in political propaganda.
Postcards] are of great historical and social interest… [They] can also be a profound artistic medium as well as projecting powerful political propaganda. At their best, they can recreate the immediacy, excitement and emotion of great historical events. – Andrew Roberts
clipped from: www.ox.ac.uk 
