Censor Collection

Marcus Porcius Cato, Roman statesman
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO (234-149 BC), Roman statesman, known as Censorius (the Censor), Sapiens (the Wise), Priscus (the Ancient), or Maior (the Elder)

Appius Claudius the Censor (340-273 BC). Engraving. Colored
Appius Claudius the Censor (340-273 BC). Roman Censor. Engraving by Sabattini after a fresco by Cesare Maccari. The Iberian Illustration, 1898. Colored

Cato the Younger
MARCUS PORCIUS CATO of Utica (the younger) great grandson of Cato the Censor : praetor, supporter of Pompey. A Stoic, he killed himself rather than accept Caesars pardon

G A Redford new censor and Examiner of Plays'. Studio portrait, in formal jacket and tie. G A Redford was formal Examiner of Plays, responsible for censorship for the Lord Chamberlain

Hemline Regulations
A female swimmer having the hemline of her bathing costume inspected at Palm Beach. Date: circa 1925

Illustration by Norman Morrow, of Aino Ackte as Salome, with empty platter. Captioned, Salome without the Baptist's Head'

Ticket booth in German underground station
Solitary lady in hat buying a ticket from a uniformed lady in the booth.Caption explains that it is a woman doing a man's job while the men are away at war. Cleared by Censor. Date: circa 1914

Cameo portraits of seven Allied Generals
Posted from the BEF in France the card shows the team United against the Barbarians'. Passed by Censor 1332. WW1 Date: 1915

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Heres another blue-pencil P. C
The Caption refers to..another blue pencil postcard. In WW2 Bue Pencil referred to the Censor who crossed out in indelible blue any text that he thought might be of use to the enemy

Passed by the censor. Article in Britannia & Eve, 1942, giving advice about writing to men posted abroad in wartime. Date: 1942

Cartoon, The Censors Dream after a course of pantomimes. 1870

Cartoon, Dora Discomfited -- when peace returns after the end of World War One, we are once again free to write what we like without fear of the censors black pencil. Date: 1919

Cartoon, The Censor at Work, WW1
Cartoon, The Censor at Work as he is seen by the Press, with a quotation from The Taming of the Shrew: Heres snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, and slash, Like to a censer in a barbers shop

LAELIUS, Gaius (ca. 235-170 BC). Roman consul
" LAELIUS, Gaius (ca. 235-170 BC). Roman consul. He accompanied Scipio Africanus in the campaigns of Spain, Sicily and Africa.; CATO The Elder or The Censor, Marcus Porcius (234-149 BC)

Censored Lets censor our conversation about the war Censore
Censored Lets censor our conversation about the war. Poster suggesting careless communication may be harmful to the war effort, showing a letter from a soldier stamped examined by 42

Passed by the Censor
Officers of an unknown battalion and regiments pose for their official photograph. Nobody can see who they are however as they are all wearing gas masks

Censorship in the book Ratione Conscribendi Epistle by Erasm
Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536). Dutch humanist. Ratione Conscribendi Epistles. Page with censorship and registration by the censor of the Inquisition, 1747. Basel edition, 1522. Episcopal Library

Italy. Rome. Appian Way. 312 BC. Initiated by the censor Appius Claudius and completed by Augustus. Connected Rome with Brindisi

Italy. Rome. Basilica Aemilia. Built in the 2nd century BC by the censors M. Fulvio Nobilior and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. Rebuilt later. Roman Forum

Postal censorship during World War I
Photograph showing condemned goods taken from the mail and stored to await the decision of the Prize Court. Date: 1917

Postal censorship during World War 1
Photograph taken in the Censors Museum which shows attempts which used to be made to smuggle food into Germany through the newspaper post

The campaign against Evil Communications
Page showing a series of photographs depicting the elaborate work of the postal censorship during WW1 in Britain: the laboratory where suspicius matter is chemically examined

The postal censorship: sorting mails and examining letters
Page showing a series of photographs which depict aspects of the postal censorship during WW1 in Britain. The first two photographs show preliminary distribution of mail bags

The postal censorship: deciphering languages
Page showing a series of photos depicting some medals intercepted from Germany, as well as letters marked as photographs which contained rubber and leather instead

Studio photograph of Artieme Mettrie
A studio photograph of Artieme Mettrie. On the reverse is written Souvenir de l yser 24-12-17 avec mes meilleurs amitiez Artieme Mettrie. The card has been stamped by a military censor

George Alexander Redford
GEORGE ALEXANDER REDFORD Censor Date: 1909

The Right Hon F E Smith, War Censor in Chief, WW1
The Right Hon F E Smith MP, appointed War Censor in Chief, President of the newly formed Government Press Bureau, on the outbreak of the First World War. Date: 1914

WW2 birthday card, dog in uniform, passed by censor (inside). Date: circa 1942

No Joke! by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather post- WW1 cartoon
The Censor has been most kind to me throughout the war. I have made the above drawing simply out of gratitude. I have also omitted the joke, thus ensuring complete approval

Winston Churchill at bomb site, Tufton Street, WW2
Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, inspecting damage caused by a flying bomb at Tufton Street, Westminster, 1 July 1944. On the back of the photograph are the words: Not passed by censor. Date: 1944

Sunset somewhere in. WWI drawing
Sunset somewhere in. On verso - Dearest Ciss, Just a few lines hoping you are in the best of health. I wrote you a few days ago and expect you will have received some ere this. Love. Yours always. B

A dream of the past - A large glass of beer
A dream of the past. A large glass of beer. Dear C, Going gradually to a great spot. Somewhere in France. Verso - Field Post Office TN, dated 11th May 15. Censor stamp 1560 and signed E. B. Kitching

Gott strafe England (For I can t)
Gott strafe England. (For I can t). France. Censor stamp and signed E. B. K(itching) - see No. 4489, note on Censor. Message verso - From what I read, he is taking London by storm

A roaring lion and Union Jack with nervous looking Kaiser
Roused. A roaring lion and Union Jack with a rather nervous looking Kaiser. On a card stamped Fiield Post Office, T50, 12th June 1915. Censor stamp No. 1569 and signed E. P. Kitching

Envelope from Firminy, near Dunkirk, WW1
Envelope containing a letter dated 29 January 1915 from the architect and artist Ormerod Maxwell Ayrton (1874-1960) to his uncle Alfred Ayrton at Lloyds Bank, Chester, England

As the Artist Might have Drawn it by H. L. Oakley
Silhouettes by Captain H. L. Oakley, showing two opposing views of the Great War - as the artist might have drawn it, and how the censor would certainly prefer it

Sir Stanley Buckmaster, Solicitor-General, WW1
Stanley Owen Buckmaster, 1st Viscount Buckmaster (1861-1934), British lawyer and Liberal politician, seen here at the time he served as Solicitor-General under Asquith (1913-1915)

Wartime news satire, WW1
A page which at first glance appears to be full of wartime news, but which on more detailed examination turns out to be a satire on press censorship during the First World War

F E Smith MP in uniform, WW1
Frederick Edwin Smith (1872-1930), Conservative MP and lawyer, formerly Chief of the wartime Press Bureau, now in uniform

Armstrong Whitworth Whitley VII of 612 Squadron takes off from Iceland. A censor has painted out the wing and fuselage ASV aerials

CATO The Elder or The Censor, Marcus Porcius (234-149 BC). Roman politician. Engraving

A British prisoner-of-war writing home about his conditions
" The Language of Diplomacy" Caption: Tommy (writing home from a prison camp): " Dear Maria, everythink ere is luvvly: cumfurtable quarters; fine clothes; a ome from ome

Chief Censor, C. V. Usborne, 1939
Vice-Admiral C. V. Usborne who was in charge of the government department censoring press activities in Britain during World War II

Scene from banned play, La Vierge Folle

Censorship during World War II, 1939
Squadron-Leader Elsdon on the left, censoring photographs at Senate House, London University during the early weeks of World War II. Date: 1939

The Rathaus, Basel, Switzerland
The Rathaus (Town Hall), Basel, Switzerland, showing the statue of Lucius Munatius Plancus - a Roman commander, consul and censor. Date: circa 1910s

Scottish Highlander writing home
A Scottish Highlander writing home to his beloved. The postcard carries the byline: " Oh! Hang the Censor." Date: 1917

That Queer Censation
The staff of a Fleet Street newspaper or magazine, feel the pressure of work as the spectre of a censor brandishing scissors looms over them during World War One

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