While doing some research for a query which seems to be getting increasingly hopeless, I tried using Google to give me some inspiration.<\/p>\n
The query in question is about a cutting depicting Hewlett Johnson<\/a> carrying a suitcase marked with ‘Havana’, ‘Peking’ and ‘Moscow’, with a tag line something like ‘Some Deans stay at home, while there are others who roam’. After some talks with Nick Hiley, Head of the British Cartoon Archive<\/a>, we suspected that if this cartoon was published in Punch<\/em>, then it would be part of ‘The Big Cut’ series in the journal. So, in an attempt to find out more, I typed ‘The big cut hewlett johnson’ into the search engine and didn’t even have to wait for the results, now that Google updates as you type.<\/p>\n Unsurprisingly, considering how much I’ve been banging on about Hewlett Johnson lately, the first result to come up was the blog post<\/a> I wrote about John’s talk a few weeks ago. The second result, however, looked much more interesting:<\/p>\n Canterbury at War\u2026starring Hewlett Johnson<\/em>….<\/strong> These were big<\/em> productions, with full scale orchestras, evil villains, courageous heroes …..<\/strong> At midnight, still cutting<\/em> their way through the jungle, they had a narrow escape …<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Perhaps it is just me, and just because it’s Monday morning, but that seemed worth sharing with everyone!<\/p>\n Sad to say, it’s actually a conglomeration of several different posts from this very blog. No, Johnson didn’t have a play or film<\/a> produced about his life (I’m not sure whether he would have been the evil villain or the courageous hero), nor did he go on any midnight excursions into the jungle<\/a>, as far as current research has shown. But I suppose it just goes to show how many exciting stories we have here in these archives, just waiting to be uncovered.<\/p>\n And, let’s face it, the moral of the story is don’t take results from Google literally!<\/p>\n By the way, if anyone has any thoughts on the Hewlett Johnson cartoon I mentioned above, please do let us know<\/a>!<\/p>\n