by Talking Humanities | Sep 27, 2016 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Languages & Literature, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
For years, Dr Clémentine Beauvais has been interested in politically committed literature for children. It is an admission that often prompts questions such as, ‘What, like, propaganda?’, or even, ‘Like Nazi children’s books?’. The academic and children’s author,...
by aseifert | Nov 27, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, History & Classics
In this guest post Dr Lucy Noakes, a social and cultural historian at Brighton University, highlights some of the horrors of the trenches in the Great War. ‘We must look out for our bread. The rats have become much more numerous lately because the trenches are no...