Ladybird Histories: British History

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The exhibition is based on my own collection of artwork and artefacts – and the only Humphris artwork I own is this visual recount of Mutiny on the Bounty from a 1970s edition of Look and Learn magazine. I put it on display when the exhibition opened in Canterbury but since then I have had to cut down the number of artists included and, without the original Ladybird artwork, he didn’t make the cut. Original artwork for Look and Learn Magazine – Mutiny on the Bounty a b joint venture with Amperwelle Studio München Programmanbietergesellschaft, Axel Springer AG, Burda, Studio Gong, m.b.t. Mediengesellschaft der bayerischen Tageszeitungen für Kabelkommunikation, Medienpool and Radio Bavaria Rundfunkprogrammgesellschaft. Highlights from the collection now feature in the Ladybird Gallery at The Museum of English Rural Life, which opened in 2016, generously funded by Ladybird Books Ltd. Touchstone to Publish an American Version of the Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups Series". AdWeek. 5 July 2016 . Retrieved 5 August 2016. Spoof Ladybird books target adult market". BBC News Online. 12 October 2015 . Retrieved 12 October 2015.

In the 1960s, Ladybird produced the Learnabout series of non-fiction (informational) books, some of which were used by adults as well as children. Ladybird Books to close Loughborough plant". 30 November 1998. Archived from the original on 27 September 2003 . Retrieved 24 February 2014. The Ladybird Books Ltd. Collection was put on long term loan at the University of Reading in 2004 and forms part of the designated British Publishing and Printing Archive. Since then, the collection has benefited from additions and acquisitions by both Ladybird Books and the University of Reading, and also includes a reference library of editions. Wills & Hepworth began publishing Ladybird books in 1914. Their range of children’s books evolved into Ladybird books the 1940s. Ladybird books today

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By August 1914, Wills & Hepworth had published their first children's books, under the Ladybird imprint. [1] From the beginning, the company was identified by a ladybird logo, at first with open wings, but eventually changed to the more familiar closed-wing ladybird in the late 1950s. The ladybird logo has since undergone several redesigns, the latest of which was launched in 2006. Armitstead, Claire (22 September 2015). "The flyaway success of the Ladybird art prank". The Guardian . Retrieved 30 December 2015. Johnson, L. and B. Alderson (2014). The Ladybird Story: Children’s Books for Everyone . The British Library, pp. 1-66. See also “ A Definitive Guide to Ladybird Books” by Robert Mullin (2005) for more information about the history of the company and their books.

Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies. The Ladybird imprint publishes mass-market children's books. Ladybird drops gender-specific children's book titles". BBC News. 21 November 2014 . Retrieved 24 November 2014. Flood, Alison (20 November 2014). "Ladybird drops branding books 'for boys' or 'for girls' ". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 November 2014.In particular Ladybird books have captured a period of British social history. Read more . . . The publishers joint venture with Funk & Fernsehen Nordwestdeutschland, Antenne Niedersachen and Niedersachsen Radio. As a child, I was particularly fond of the History series and he illustrated Henry VIII, Drake and Hannibal. The illustrations have all the colour and gusto you would associate with a classic Ladybird history book. But for some reason they never felt like old friends to me – I expect it was because my eye was tuned-in to the style of artist John Kenney who had illustrated almost all the previous history books. After the company was sold in the 1970s, a number of the original history titles were completely re-written and re-illustrated and Humphris produced a couple of these. But to a child who has grown up with one version, a new edition feels like an outrage. Before 1965 Ladybird books were published with dust-wrappers. After 1965 the books were produced with a matt-finish pictorial board. In the 1980s the books began to have gloss-finish boards.