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(1) Front cover - Hearts are trumps
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/91026994
Description	This cover illustration shows a soldier, with his uniform and haversack, snuggled up with his pretty, blonde girl. They are surrounded by a huge love heart which is backed by leafy trees. The text along the bottom reads: 'Hearts are Trumps'. It cost one shilling to buy. The text on the inside of the page reads: 'This SUMMER NUMBER is made up of contributions from Sailors and Soldiers on Active Service. It is sold in aid of the funds for producing the ordinary weekly issue of "BLIGHTY" which is printed for our Fighting Forces only, and is sent out to them FREE. By purchasing this Number you help to provide amusing reading matter for our men in the Fleet and the Trenches.'

Form / genre:	Images > Design drawings > Graphic design drawings > Covers (Illustration) > Magazine covers
Subject / content:	Arrivals & departures Background Couples Girls Hearts (motifs) Knapsacks Lovers Soldiers
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Summer, 1918
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Description	This special summer edition was a selection of some of the best poems, stories and sketches submitted. A note at the back of the magazine informed readers that many of those chosen for inclusion had been written 'in the trenches and dug-outs, whilst the Hun shells are screaming overhead'.

Dates / events:	1918 [Date published]
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Blighty
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Description	A humorous weekly magazine issued free to the troops in the First World War; contained short stories, poems, cartoons, paintings and drawings, with contributions from men on active service. Distributed by the War Office, the Admiralty and the Red Cross, and subsidised through donations and sales to the general public.
Shelfmark	6.84

Form / genre:	Written and printed matter > Periodicals
Dates / events:	1916-1920 [Date published] World War, 1914-1918 [Date/event in text]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place published]
Subject / content:	Humor
Person / organisation:	Walbrook & Co. [Printer] Walbrook & Co. [Publisher] Committee of Blighty [Publisher]
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Blighty and Sea Pie
Description	Editions of 'Blighty' (1917, 1918) and 'Sea Pie' (1917-1919), First World War magazines with pictures, stories, poems and humour. 'Blighty' was sent free to the men at the front and in the fleet. Profits from sales of 'Sea Pie' went to help sailors and their families.