Anti-malarial disinformation
James Smith finds disturbing echoes of a British wartime disinformation campaign in recent White House press conferences In August 1941, British…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
‘Show it only to your intimate friends’: circulating propaganda behind enemy lines
Document of the month: FO 898/449/259 Guy Woodward on the reception of propaganda leaflets in enemy and occupied Europe Most of our…
Letters in bottles and leaky U-boats: Ian Fleming’s ideas factory
Document of the month: FO 898/6/64-5 Guy Woodward traces the involvement of the creator of 007 in covert wartime propaganda This…
“Peace on earth, but only when Hitler is smashed”: Christmas wartime propaganda
Document of the month: FO 898/311/330-1 Guy Woodward on propaganda and the festive season Supposedly a time of peace and goodwill,…
