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Mark Pack

How election leaflets used to look

By Mark Pack | Thu 26th August 2010 - 10:27 am

Earlier this month I highlighted how election posters in Australia, and other countries, feature close up head shots of candidates in a way that is almost completely unknown in the UK.

Large head and shoulders photographs did, however, previously feature heavily in our election literature – on leaflets if not posters. For decades many leaflets look like this effort from Sir W Lacon Threlford who was standing for election as a City of London Alderman in 1935:

Lacon Threlford election leaflet

Pausing for a moment of sympathy for the clerical …

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