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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...

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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...

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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. Second World War Posters Mass Communications Academic, @MMUBS. British Home Front Propaganda posters as researched for a...

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[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...

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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)! Second World War Posters Mass Communications Academic, @MMUBS. British Home...

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ASREC: 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...

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[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...

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Joining 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...

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[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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