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…
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“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…
Public Event: PWE research seminar, 27 June 2019
Readers in the North East of England (and further afield) are very welcome to attend our first research seminar, on…
“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,…
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…
