Listen very carefully, I shall say this only once
Guy Woodward finds echoes of PWE campaigns in a classic sitcom After two years researching the Political Warfare Executive, I am…
Sefton Delmer
“Jangling caterwauls”: Muriel Spark and the scrambler telephone
Beatriz Lopez explores Spark’s wartime use of a secure telephone and considers the device’s later disturbing reappearance in her novel The Hothouse…
Muriel Spark and the Ethics of Deception: a didactic approach to black propaganda
Beatriz Lopez finds traces of wartime moral dilemmas in Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Following the closure of the PWE…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Poisoned sweetmeats: introducing #siboftheweek
Guy Woodward on the PWE’s production of rumours during the Second World War Imagine the scene: a bar in neutral Lisbon,…
The Political Warfare Executive – what’s in a (cover) name?
Principal Investigator James Smith on Whitehall secrecy and the names used to conceal PWE operations One of the initial issues that this…
