Joseph Darracott
In 1971 he was one of the original founders of National Heritage , an organisation which supports and promotes museums in Britain and which since 1973 has awarded the Museum of the Year Award . In 1986 he became editor of "Museum News"; among his various articles were biographies for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . He wrote the catalogue for the exhibition 'All for Art: the Ricketts and Shannon Collection' at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in 1979 . His books include "The First World War in Posters" ( 1974 ) ; "The World of Charles Ricketts" ( 1980 ) ; "England's Constable: the Life and Letters Of John Constable" ( 1985 ) ; "A Cartoon War: the Second World War in Cartoons" ( 1990 ) ; "Art Criticism" ( 1991 ) and "Letters from Artists" ( 1997 ) . 
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