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Leslie Illingworth, 1902-79, self portrait. Over 4,500 Illingworth cartoons have been compiled into an online archive on the National Library of Wales website. The following images are ten examples of his work.

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The established 1950s domestic order.

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The inquiry into the Aberfan disaster

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Aneurin Bevan MP working on a bill to nationalise the steel industry while Minister for Housing.

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James Callaghan's taxation and spending policies while he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.

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Churchill supports Attlee and Sinclair in a race, while Hitler and Mussolini have dropped out behind them. At the side, an army officer marked "Gen. Election" is preparing a high jump.

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Joseph Stalin after he had joined the allies following Hitler's 1941 attack on the Soviet Union.

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Harold Wilson celebrating after the publication of a promising opinion poll.

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Pigs are disgruntled by the food they have been given by a farmer. Garbage feeding to pigs was prohibited amid escalations of Spanish swine fever.

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The efforts of the former Soviet Union and the United States to win allies during the Cold War.

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The launch of an American rocket during the early years of the space race.