Heath Robinson's Home Front: How to Make Do and Mend in Style
W. Heath Robinson, Cecil Hunt
List price £9.99
Product Details
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781851244447
- Published:
- 29 Dec 2015
- Publisher:
- Bodleian Library
- Dimensions:
- 136 pages - 185 x 120mm
- Number of Illustrations:
- 125 Illustrations, black and white
- Availability:
- Available
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How does one play bridge in a gas mask? Or enjoy motoring without consuming petrol? Or deal with a nationwide shortage of pea-sticks? For this compact little book Heath Robinson joined forces with writer Cecil Hunt to show civilians ‘how to make the best of things’ during the air raids, rationing, allotment tending and blackouts of the Second World War. The result is a warm celebration of the British population’s ability to ‘make do and mend’.
For this compact little book Heath Robinson joined forces with writer Cecil Hunt to show civilians ‘how to make the best of things’ during the air raids, rationing, allotment tending and blackouts of the Second World War. The result is a warm celebration of the British population’s ability to ‘make do and mend’.
William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines for achieving simple objectives.