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Politically committed literature? Sounds like brainwashing to me

Politically committed literature? Sounds like brainwashing to me

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,...
Entrenched: pain, suffering and horror for WWI soldiers

Entrenched: pain, suffering and horror for WWI soldiers

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...

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