LOW, Sir David Alexander Cecil, 1891-1963, Knight, cartoonist and caricaturist

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 LOW
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: LOW, Sir David Alexander Cecil, 1891-1963, Knight, cartoonist and caricaturist
Date(s)	: 1906-1949
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 34 volumes and 1 parcel
Name of creator(s)	: Low | Sir | David Alexander Cecil | 1891-1963 | Knight | cartoonist and caricaturist

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in New Zealand, 1891; educated at Christchurch Boys' High School; political cartoonist, Spectator and Canterbury Times; joined Sydney Bulletin, 1911,and became resident cartoonist, 1914; cartoons published in The Billy Book (Sydney, 1918); arrived in London, 1919; political cartoonist, The Star, 1919-1926; Evening Standard, 1926-1949; joined Daily Herald, 1950-1953; Manchester Guardian, 1953; created "Colonel Blimp"; knighted, 1962; died 1963. Publications: Lloyd George and Co. (Allen and Unwin, London, 1922); Low and I (Methuen and Co, London, 1923); Low and I holiday book (Daily News, London, 1925); The best of Low (Jonathan Cape, London, 1930); Low's Russian sketchbook (Victor Gollancz, London, 1932); Low and Terry (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1934); The New Rake's Progress (Hutchinson and Co, London, 1934); Ye Madde Designer (The Studio, London, 1935); Political Parade (Cresset Press, London, 1936); Low Again (Cresset Press, London, 1938); A Cartoon History of our Times (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1939); Europe since Versailles (Harmondsworth, 1939); Europe at War (Allen Lane, Harmondsworth, 1940); Low's War Cartoons (Cresset Press, London, 1941); The World at War (Harmondsworth, New York, 1942); C'est la Guerre (New Europe Publishing Company, London, 1943); Válka Zaeala Mnichovem (New Europe Publishing Company, London, 1945); Years of Wrath (Victor Gollancz, London, 1949); Low's company (Methuen and Co, London, 1952); Low Visibility (Cresset Press, London, 1953); Low's Autobiography (Michael Joseph, London, 1956); The Fearful Fifties (Bodley Head, London, 1960); British Cartoonists, Caricaturists and Comic Artists (William Collins, London, 1942).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of Sir David Alexander Cecil Low, 1906-1949, comprising press cuttings books containing his set of copies of his cartoons for the New Zealand Spectator, The Star, The Evening Standard, The Daily Herald, The Manchester Guardian, Colliers Magazine, Picture Post, and The Leader. Also includes some press cuttings, 1919-1961, and texts of radio broadcasts, 1932-1943.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The collection consists mainly of bound volumes.

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright retained by the donor and their heirs. No documents may be photocopied.

Finding aids:

Unbound handlist available.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Given by the family in 1965 and 1967.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The BLPES holds further material relating to David Low in the papers of Edward Hugh John Neale Dalton, Baron Dalton (Ref: Dalton 5/8 and 17/4), the Royal Economic Society (Ref: RES 9/8/12-13), and the Romney Street Group (Ref: Romney Street Group 1/2 and 2/1). The House of Lords Record Office holds correspondence with William Maxwell Aitken, 1^st Baron Beaverbrook, 1924-1964 (Ref: BBK C/226); the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, has correspondence with Edward John Thompson (Ref: MSS Eng c5294).

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Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives catalogue; Who's Who 1897-1996 (A & C Black, 1996); British Library On-Line Public Access Catalogue 97; Historical Manuscripts Commission National Register of Archives. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jan 2001