Transferable Skills: PhD
An article by Pat Cryer explaining the many transferable skills students gain whilst studying for a PhD (1997), and an article from 2004 explaining why many PhDs desert academia. Read more on my PhD at...
View ArticleNorth Korean Posters: The David Heather Collection
“This rare glimpse into North Korean society is the first book of its kind: a riveting collection of state-sponsored propaganda posters that presents the unique graphic sensibilities of this...
View ArticleVietnam Posters: The David Heather Collection
“Rarely viewed by the outside world, this collection of posters from the 1950s to the present encompasses a politically significant period in Vietnamese history. With their boldly rendered images of Ho...
View ArticleA Century of Olympic Posters
by Margaret Timmers (2008) “As four-yearly snapshots through time, Olympic posters provide a fascinating record of our world – a lens through which we can explore links between sport and art, politics...
View ArticlePosters of the Cold War
“The poster was a key medium in the Cold War, used to produce both fear and loyalty at home and abroad. “Posters of the Cold War” surveys poster design from the late 1940s when the ‘Iron Curtain’ was...
View ArticlePoster Spotting on Dr Who
17th April 2010: “The Doctor is summoned to Blitz-torn London by Winston Churchill, and the Daleks are waiting for him!” Visit the BBC site. Interestingly, I didn’t recognise any of the posters, but...
View ArticleKatrina Royall: ‘Posters of the Second World War: The Fourth Arm of Defence?’
Royall, K., ‘Posters of the Second World War: The Fourth Arm of Defence?’ MA Thesis, completed 1991. Westminster University Poster campaigns from the Second World War are a part of people’s collective...
View ArticleLeslie William Spears: An Enquiry into the use of propaganda on the Home...
Original typescript, 1998. Dissertation (M.A.) – University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art, Division of History of Art and Design, 1998. No abstract. I attended some sessions at Winchester...
View ArticleCampaign: The 100 best posters of the century, 1999
A really fascinating book which considers, as the title says, the 100 best posters of the twentieth century. BUT, who decides what can be considered the ‘best’. The decisions were made by a wide range...
View ArticleDarracott, J., Loftus, B. Second World War Posters London: HMSO, 1972...
A well illustrated work that accompanied an exhibition of war posters at the Imperial War Museum. It was edited by Joseph Darracott, the head of the Art Department at the IWM, with many illustrations...
View ArticleDavies, J. The Book of Guinness Advertising, 1998
When I bought this book, it was the cover which caught my eye! A multiplicity of colourful Guinness advertising (particularly posters) was tiled across the front. However, the new cover is also...
View ArticleOsley, 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...
View ArticleBBC2: 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...
View ArticleNEW 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. Second World War Posters Mass Communications Academic, @MMUBS. British Home Front Propaganda posters as researched for a...
View Article[PAPER] Propaganda with a Mission: Learning from the Second World War for the...
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...
View ArticleNew 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)! Second World War Posters Mass Communications Academic, @MMUBS. British Home...
View ArticleASREC: Propaganda with a Mission: Learning from the Second World War for the...
Today’s conference paper for ASREC (Association for Religion, Economics and Culture), held at Durham University. Digital Fingerprint Digiexplorer (not guru), Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing...
View Article[PROJECT] Second World War Posters
So, in clearing you some stuff this evening, I found my A-Level project on … Second World War Posters – this is where all the fun pre-BA and PhD started! Read the project (PDF) Second World War Posters...
View ArticleJoining the ‘Posters Network’
Having moved to Manchester Metropolitan University, I have had a long overdue chance to catch up with Jim Aulich, who has written a number of books on (propaganda) posters. I had missed the ‘Posters...
View Article[BOOK PUBLICATION] Keep Calm and Carry On : The Truth Behind the Poster
Within my 1997 undergraduate dissertation, and my 2004 PhD thesis, I (unintentionally) provided the story of the now ubiquitous ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ (KCCO) poster (read an extract here), whilst I...
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