by Talking Humanities | May 25, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Discipline, Features, History & Classics, Interviews, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Image: © Shutterstock The Second World War has been the subject of many books, documentaries and films, creating a large popular memory of wartime campaigns such as ‘Make do and mend’ and ‘Dig for victory’. Dr Christopher Bannister, a historian at the Institute of...
by Talking Humanities | Feb 3, 2017 | Analysis & Comment, Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, Languages & Literature, Libraries & Publications, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Research & Resources
Since the inauguration of President Trump sales of George Orwell’s 1984 have increased by 9,500 per cent, and at the time of publication it is still at the top of Amazon’s American best seller lists. But what might new readers learn from it?, asks Dr Marc Patrick...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 20, 2016 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Image: The Dig for Victory stall. Dr Henry Irving, senior lecturer in public history at Leeds Beckett University, reflects on his recent collaboration with a community allotment site. Public engagement can take many forms. This is one of its great strengths, and can...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 13, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Projects, Research & Resources
Image: © IWM (D 650A) Katherine Howells, a doctoral candidate at King’s College London, provides an overview of the ‘Publishing and Communications History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45’ project being undertaken by the Institute of English Studies (IES) in...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 9, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Republished, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Blitz spirit: air raid damage in Britain during the Second World War © IWM (HU 36220A) Katherine Howells, a doctoral candidate on the Institute of English Studies and King’s College London Ministry of Information project, A publishing and communications history of the...
by aseifert | Jun 18, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Ministry of Information Digital, Research & Resources
This blog post by Dr Henry Irving, Institute of English Studies, explains how the Second World War Ministry of Information approached one of its most difficult tasks. The British government faced a terrifying prospect in the summer of 1940. Following the rapid...
