The British press card
Britain had no law on journalists and no state press card. What a reporter showed was the card of his union, the National Union of Journalists, founded in 1907, whose card later became the one British police forces recognised at a cordon.
No card of the interwar years has been found: the words and layout Bearer prints are ours, and the office says so above them.
Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.
An example
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The paper
| Offered | from 21 October 1920 |
| Printed in | English |
| Sheets | 1 |
| How it is known | a reconstruction: no document of the period has been found |
A reconstruction
This paper is a reconstruction. The National Union of Journalists was founded in 1907 and its card came to be the one British police forces recognised, but no card of the interwar years has been found: the words and the layout are ours.
The same paper elsewhere
Still to be confirmed
- the whole card. What would settle it: an N.U.J. card of 1920 to 1939.
Sources
- Encyclopaedia Britannica; Archives Hub (Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick), National Union of Journalists (founded 1907); its press card recognised by the police forces of the United Kingdom, the union's founding in 1907 and its press card of later years; nothing about a card of the interwar years (secondary source)
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