Book Proposal: Turning PhD Thesis into Publication

It's a modern way to announce something: Just submitted my @ww2poster book proposal to @I_W_M - let's see if they're interested! A photo posted by Bex Lewis (@drbexl) on Sep 3, 2016 at 9:25am PDT Yes, I'm waiting to see if the Imperial War Museum, or other, will be interested in publishing my PhD as a book. I still have many people ask when it's going to be published, and despite the wish of many, I…

PhD Proposal, 1997: The planning, design and reception of British Home Front propaganda posters of the Second World War

Vast quantities of primary sources on World War Two have been released since the war, particularly in the last twenty-five years, and historians have studied numerous areas, one of which has been propaganda. The propaganda of various countries has been studied, particularly Germany (e.g. Welch, 1995, Zemen, 1964) and the U.S.S.R. (e.g. Baburina, 1984, White, 1988), with American (Nelson, 1991), French (Moody, 1989), Italian (Sciola, 1993) and Japanese (Dower, 1986) propaganda looked at to a…