Through studies of The Mint (Lawrence's day-book of RAF life published posthumously in 1955), Johns's editorials, and The Camels Are Coming (Johns's first collection of Biggles short stories), this chapter explores their conflicting representations of airmindedness. It argues they are at least...
01 THE CAMELS ARE COMING First Published on 7th September 1932 by John Hamilton Ltd Original Price 7 shillings and 6d 02 THE CRUISE OF THE CONDOR First Published in August 1933 by John Hamilton Ltd Original price 3 shillings and 6d 03 "BIGGLES" OF THE CAMEL SQUADRON First Published ...
The first Biggles book, The Camels are Coming, was published in August 1932. Unique among children’s writers of the time, from 1935 Johns employed a working-class character as an equal member of the Biggles team - Ginger Habblethwaite, later Hebblethwaite, the son of a Northumberland ...
A web site dedicated to the children's periodical, THE MODERN BOY, that ran from February 1928 until October 1939. These issues contained a huge wealth of material from
Janet M Atwill