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Depictions of Landships in "Look and Learn"
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Anyone old enough to remember Look and Learn, the educational magazine/comic/newspaper for children? It published from 1962 to 1982, when it ceased.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_and_Learn

At some point it relaunched - or at least someone began using the title - as a picture library, like Getty, Pathé, etc., selling images.

https://www.lookandlearn.com/

You can probably guess what was the first thing I searched for.

https://www.lookandlearn.com/history-images/search.php?t=1&q=tanks

Some very interesting stuff, in particular a series of covers of the Italian weekly magazine La Domenica Del Corriere, beautiful hand-painted scenes depicting, amongst other things, Italian military history. Some of the WWI stuff will ring a bell with Landshippers:

Daytrip.jpgM278760_La-fine-pacifica-di-una-formidabile-macchina-di-guerra.jpgM278677_Il-primo-tank-degli-Unni-catturato-dai-francesi.jpgM278785_Emozioni-per-gli-ospiti.jpg

And also some mistakes. This is captioned "The Battle of the Somme, 1916":

A568153_The-Battle-Of-The-Somme-1916.jpg

And this shows British tanks supposedly operating against rebels in Tripolitania. I suspect this is a mix-up with the Fiat 2000.

M278753_Una-sorpresa-per-gli-arabi-in-Tripolitania.jpg

 

Anyway, happy searching. All comments and observations welcome.

 



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