Discover history through postcards

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b52cb5ac-5352-49bb-b0b6-06fd806547d6/9A590FCE-67B0-4885-B2B8-D5D4B077AA85/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/080508b.html" href="http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/080508b.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ox.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/080508b.html"><STRONG>The Bodleian Library is launching a new book series, <EM>Postcards from…</EM>, depicting some of the most defining events in the history of the 20th century through postcards.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/080508b.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ox.ac.uk/img/A521D128-1D1E-4149-9C25-30135E9E6BB6" alt="Reforms or Revolution, from 'Postcards from the Russian Revolution', part of tbe Bodleian's 'Postcards from...' series" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/080508b.html"><DIV>Reforms or Revolution, from 'Postcards from the Russian Revolution'</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2008/080508b.html">The first two titles in the series features images drawn from a collection of postcards which has recently been donated to the Bodleian Library. The collection is the work of John Fraser, who began assembling it at the age of 12. Over the past sixty years, he amassed a remarkable collection of thousands of cards from around the world, particularly rich in political propaganda.</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/news/2008_may_06" href="http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/news/2008_may_06" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ouls.ox.ac.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/news/2008_may_06"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/img/4BE783BB-9CD5-42F1-84C9-8A10EF4A5BF8" alt="trenches" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/news/2008_may_06"><I>Postcards] are of great historical and social interest… [They] can also be a profound artistic medium as well as projecting powerful political propaganda. At their best, they can recreate the immediacy, excitement and emotion of great historical events.</I> – Andrew Roberts</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9A590FCE-67B0-4885-B2B8-D5D4B077AA85/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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