New Exhibition: A World to Win @V_and_A
This looks like an interesting exhibition - and free to drop in too (subtitle same as a Maurice Rickards book from 1970)!
[PAPER] Propaganda with a Mission: Learning from the Second World War for the Christian Sector in a Digital Age
A paper submitted for the first European Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture, to be held in September in Durham: In the Second World War, British propaganda posters were circulated using the techniques of persuasion, education, information, celebration, encouragement, morale boosting, and identification of enemies to encourage civilians to understand and undertake […]
NEW BOOK: Keep Britain Tidy and Other Posters from the Nanny State
Hear all about it on the BBC, and put in an order to Amazon - looks fascinating.
BBC2: How We Won the War
There’s a series currently in planning for BBC2, to be presented by Jules Hudson, for Autumn 2012, a travelogue across the UK uncovering civilian stories of the Second World War. Having come across ‘The Art of War‘ at the National Archives (which they hadn’t realised was written by me), and then I guess coming across […]
Osley, A. Persuading the People 1995
A government publication aimed at the younger generations, although older generations would also be interested in the many illustrations of posters, leaflets, etc. The book begins with a brief chronology, and an explanation of why the subject is still of relevance, before outlining the wartime publicity machine which produced so many campaigns. The book then […]
