‘No Christmas truce in political warfare’: festive wartime propaganda – part 2
Document of the month: FO 898/323 Guy Woodward on PWE plans for a Christmas radio broadcast featuring Italian POWs This time…
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Clandestine fiction: John Steinbeck’s The Moon is Down
Document of the month: FO 898/523 Guy Woodward finds a miniature novel in the PWE papers This tiny book appears in…
DON’T drink yourself silly in public: the PWE’s pocket guide to France
Document of the month: FO 898/478 Guy Woodward on the PWE’s pocket guides for service personnel This small 64-page booklet measures…
From Woburn to the St. Petersburg troll factory
Reading Peter Pomerantsev’s new book This is Not Propaganda, Guy Woodward finds echoes of PWE’s wartime activities in contemporary disinformation campaigns Having spent nearly a decade working…
Adolf and His Donkey Benito
Document of the month: FO 898/128 Guy Woodward on Kem’s cartoons for North Africa ‘Adolf and His Donkey Benito’ is an…
PWE and the Durham miners
Document of the month: FO 898/514/49-50 Guy Woodward on the deployment of the Durham miners in wartime propaganda – and the…
Discarding history for mythology: Muriel Spark’s mythologizers
Beatriz Lopez explores how Muriel Spark’s foremost mythologizers employ WWII myth-making techniques to impose their delusional understandings of the world on…
Public Event: PWE research seminar, 27 June 2019
Readers in the North East of England (and further afield) are very welcome to attend our first research seminar, on…
‘L’Entente Cordiale’: D-Day and the literary magazine
Documents of the month: FO 898/521 / FO 898/522 Guy Woodward As many recollections aired this week have testified, the…
Voici l’ordre nouveau!: pop up propaganda
Document of the month: FO 898/514 Guy Woodward This leaflet appears in the file ‘PWE French leaflets and booklets’ –…
