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Tim Benson (born 8 July 1959) is Britain’s leading authority on political cartoons. A former history teacher, Benson completed in 1998 a PhD on the cartoonist Sir David Low (1891 - 1963) and his relationship with his proprietor at the Evening Standard, Lord Beaverbrook. In 2000, in order to raise funds for a David Low exhibition in Westminster Hall, Benson founded the Political Cartoon Society. The Society is an organisation for those interested in history and politics through the medium of editorial cartoons. The Society is also a publishing house for books on political cartoons. Publications include cartoon histories of the Labour and Conservative Party’s, two volumes of Dave Brown’s Rogues Gallery, An Independent Line and a three volume opus on Victorian cartoonists. In 2001, Benson founded the Political Cartoon of the Year Awards which take place annually in early December. The Awards are held in St John’s Church in Smith Square. Previous winners include Peter Brookes, Steve Bell, Morten Morland and Dave Brown. In 2019, The Guardian’s Rebecca Hendin became the first woman in Britain to win an award for political cartooning.
In 2004, Benson opened the Political Cartoon Gallery in Store Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1. The gallery was the only one in the world dedicated to political cartoon art. In 2015, the gallery moved near to the River Thames in Putney SW15. Benson has produced several biographies of political cartoonists including those on Leslie Illingworth, Sidney Strube, Sir David Low, George Butterworth and Philip Zec. He has also produced numerous books on the history of cartoons, including Giles’s War, Churchill in Caricature, Suezide: A cartoon history of the 1956 Suez Crisis, Low and the Dictators, Low Censored, The Cartoon Century: Modern Britain through the Eyes of Its Cartoonists, Drawing the Curtain: The Cold War in Cartoons, How to be British: A Cartoon Celebration and Over the Top: A Cartoon History of Australia at War. Since 2013, Benson has edited the anthology, Britain's Best Political Cartoons.
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