Five Boys: The Story Of A Picture

What story did this particular picture tell? Its minimal presentation left all interpretation to the reader, but as the News Chronicle was a left-leaning newspaper—fiercely anti-Franco, for example, in the Spanish civil war—the implication was clear enough: the picture exemplified the scandalous gulf between Britain’s rich and poor.

Author: Ian Jack
Published: Jun 21, 2010
Length: 28 minutes (7,036 words)
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