History & Culture

Summer Scholars: Wags, Comics and Fast Food

The British Library

30 July 2026

Free

A lunchtime talk pairs two unlikely stories: a short-lived 1930s British comic that quietly trained future stars of American comics on their way to fame, and the fast-food chain that rolled into Britain decades later and made every high street look the same. One historian, one PhD researcher, an hour well spent either way.