Printed
Primary
The John Player Archive at the Museum of Nottingham Life, Brewhouse Yard contains all of the monthly issues of Navy Cuttings from 1945 to 1967.
There are also copies of Player’s Post kept in the archive from 1967 onwards.
Other primary sources on the history of Player’s include;
- John Player & Sons: Centenary 1877-1977 (1977)
This book presents the reader with a chronological history of the firm, focusing on the milestones in the history. The book includes the origin of the Navy Cut design, information on the social aspect of the company, promotional activities and advertising images.
- Tobacco: From Plantation to Player’s (1953)
‘A Brief History of Tobacco including Cultivation and Manufacture’. Revised printing.
- Dempsey, M. Pipe dreams: Early Advertising Art from the Imperial Tobacco Company (1982)
- The Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland), Limited 1901-1951 (1951)
- The Imperial Story 1901-2001: Celebrating One Hundred Years (2001)
Secondary
- Alford, B. W. D. & H. O. Wills and the Development of the UK Tobacco Industry 1789-1965
- Berridge, V. Marketing Health: Smoking and the Discourse of Public Health in Britain 1945-2000 (2007)
- Courtwright, D. T. ‘”Carry on Smoking”: Public Relations and Advertising Strategies of American and British Tobacco Industry since 1950’ in Business History Review (Vol. 47, No. 3, 2005, pp. 421-433).
- Cox, H. The Global Cigarette (2000)
- Cox, H. ‘Growth and Ownership in the International Tobacco Industry: BAT 1902-27, a Precursor of the Global Cigarette’ in Business History (Vol. 31, 1989, pp. 44-69).
- Duffy, M. Advertising and Cigarette Demand in the UK (1994)
- Elliot, R. ‘Destructive But Sweet: Cigarette Smoking among Women 1890-1990’, PhD Thesis, University of Glasgow, Centre for the History of Medicine, MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (2001).
- Elliot, R. ‘Everybody did it – or did they? The use of oral history in researching women’s experiences of smoking in Britain, 1930-1970’ in Women’s History Review (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2006, pp. 297-322).
- Fitzgerald, R. and Hirao, T. ‘Reappraising Corporate Failure in Britain: Labour Management in the Tobacco Industry before 1939’ in Business History Review (Vol. 79:2, 2005, pp. 305-338).
- Hilton, M. Smoking In British Popular Culture 1800-2000 (Manchester, 2000).
- Mason, S. A. ‘Tobacco and Lace: The Growth of John Player & Sons, 1881-1903’ in Transactions of the Thoroton Society (Vol. 85, 1981, pp. 102-109).
- Mullen, C. Cigarette Pack Art (1979)
- Seaton, A. V. ‘Cope’s and the Promotion of Tobacco In Victorian England’ in Journal of Advertising History (Vol. 9, Part 2, 1986, pp. 5-26).
- Tinkler, P. ‘Rebellion, Modernity and Romance: Smoking as a Gendered Practice in Popular Young Women’s Magazines, Britain 1918-1939’ in Women’s Studies International Forum (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2001, pp. 111-122).
- Tinkler, P. Smoke Signals: Women, Smoking and Visual Culture (2006)
- Vickers, A. ‘Why Cigarette Advertising should be banned’, in British Medical Journal (1992).
Online Sources
- The University of Warwick holds the Papers of the Tobacco Worker’s Union 1941-1987 (financial records and publications), these records can be found at; www.warwick.ac.uk
- The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library at the University of California, San Francisco has a digital library of British and American tobacco documents that include John Player’s and Imperial Tobacco; legacy.library.ucsf.edu
- Professor Richard Pollay has written papers on tobacco and advertising at the Sauder School of business at the University of British Columbia. Papers are available to download at; www.sauder.ubc.ca
- Not a Cough in a Carload: Images from the tobacco industry campaign to hide the hazards of smoking: Online exhibition of American advertisements depicting health benefits of smoking. lane.stanford.edu
Unpublished Sources (from the John Player’s Archive, Brewhouse Yard):
- Tobaccos & Cigarettes: Dates of Introduction.
- List of all cigarettes that Players ever produced.
- History of Cigarette brands.
There are many health publications concerning the advertising behind cigarettes and tobacco, the main sources are:
- Smoking and Health: A Report of the Royal College of Physicians on smoking in relation to cancer of the lung and other diseases (London, 1962).
- Health Education Authority, Tobacco and the BBC (London, 1992).