VE Day: the PWE and the POWs
Document of the Month: FO 898/330 James Smith and Guy Woodward on the PWE’s re-education of POWs “The Italian prisoners are gratified at…
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Postcard propaganda: Hans Fallada’s Alone in Berlin
Document of the month: FO 898/123 Guy Woodward finds echoes of PWE campaigns in Hans Fallada’s novel Alone in Berlin One of…
Books in disguise: what to do during the Allied invasion
Document of the month: FO 898/484 Guy Woodward finds an invasion manual disguised as a novel A few months ago I wrote…
Cartoons and propaganda: Osbert Lancaster at the PWE
Document of the month: FO 898/507 Guy Woodward investigates the involvement of Daily Express cartoonist Osbert Lancaster in wartime propaganda This booklet entitled Moffes-Spiegel measures…
‘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…
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…
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…
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’ –…
