Rupert Besley is a British illustrator working since 1980, best known for nearly 400 postcard illustrations for
J. Arthur Dixon and later
John Hinde. He also illustrated cartoon panels for
Isle of Wight County Press
The ''Isle of Wight County Press'' is a local, compact newspaper published every Friday on the Isle of Wight.
It is the biggest selling local weekly newspaper in the United Kingdom as of 2025. The paper had been owned locally from its foundation ...
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Bibliography
*Besley's Britain
*Scotland for Beginners
*Isle of Skye for Beginners
*Ireland for Beginners, Or, Get Lost in Ireland, 1994
*'Haud Yer Wheesht!': Your Scottish Granny's Favourite Sayings 1997
*Whaur's Yer Wullie Shakespeare Noo?': Scotland's Millennium Souvenir 1999
*'Ye Cannae Shove Yer Granny Aff a Bus!': Scots Grandchildren on Their Grannies, 1999
*Dead Jammy!: The Life and Deaths of Glasgow Undertaker Jammy Stewart, 2004
*Scotland for Beginners: 1314 An' A' That 2007
*Terribly English: A Guide for Baffled Natives and Bookish Visitors 2012
*You Know You Are a Dog Lover..., 2013
*The Cannae Sutra: The Scots 'Joy of Sex' 2017
*Awa' an' Bile Yer Heid!: Scottish Curses and Insults, 2017
See also
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Charles Grigg
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Donald McGill
Donald Fraser Gould McGill (28 January 1875 – 13 October 1962) was an English graphic artist whose name has become synonymous with the genre of saucy postcards, particularly associated with the seaside (though they were sold throughout the U ...
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External links
Rupert Besley - cartoonist
20th-century British illustrators
21st-century British illustrators
British postcard artists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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