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…
POWs
‘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…
‘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…
‘The celestial city is as real as any swamp’: Freya Stark in the Middle East
Document of the month: FO 898/114 Guy Woodward traces Freya Stark’s involvement in wartime propaganda This memorandum appears in file FO 898/114,…
Masters of Deceit: Introducing #SparkQuoteoftheWeek
Beatriz Lopez introduces a new series exploring Muriel Spark’s fictions of deception Most critics have identified The Hothouse by the East River (1973)…
Muriel Spark and plausibility
Beatriz Lopez finds traces of Spark’s wartime service in the PWE in two novels deeply concerned with the appearance of truth…
