SOE’s ‘virtual reality’ resistance movement
Document of the month: FO 898/28 Guy Woodward investigates a fictional Balkan resistance movement, and ponders the parallels between propaganda work…
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‘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,…
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,…
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,…
