Keep Calm and Copyright
The famous keep calm and carry on poster is at the centre of a legal battle. The poster designed by the British government in 1939 has been granted copyrighted in the European Union to Mr Mark Coop. A...
View ArticleNew Film About The British Resistance Organisation
Based on a novel by Owen Sheers the new war film RESISTANCE stars Martin Sheen, the actor who gave such convincing performances as Tony Blair and football manager Brian Clough. The place is Great...
View ArticleWhat Did You Do In The War Mum?
Before the outbreak of the Second World War most women, particularly married women, spent their days cooking, cleaning and looking after the children. There was no expectation that they would go out to...
View ArticleThe Last Of The Few
Great Britain is perhaps the most haunted land on earth. For such a small place we seem to have more than our fair share of ghosts – headless horsemen, phantom stagecoaches, and ladies in grey abound....
View ArticleMan The Barrage
In World War II if you were between 25 and 50 you could help England by joining one of the barrage balloon squadrons of the auxiliary air force. It said so on the poster. Barrage balloons were bags of...
View ArticlePenicillin – Wartime’s Wonder Drug
It wasn’t only bullets and shells that killed soldiers in the First World War. Infected wounds and the dreaded gangrene were just as deadly killers. Treatment for wounds and infections was basic, and...
View ArticleThe White Mouse
With her film star looks she started the war a frivolous rebel; the young fiancée of a wealthy French industrialist and ended it one of the most decorated women of the Second World War with the George...
View ArticleSoviet Russia & Propaganda
Propaganda is often thought of in negative terms, although simply put it’s the manipulation of public opinion carried out by using the media to reach as many people as possible and persuading them to...
View ArticleChurchill And The Comedian
His radio shows played to audiences bigger that the viewing audience of Eastenders, Churchill once described him as being ‘as common as dirt’, and Adolph Hitler had him listed on his notorious...
View ArticleKeep Calm and Carry On Slogan
Pre-war Britain, a nation in the shadow of conflict with people expecting the worst, bracing themselves for whatever fate and Mr. Hitler had in store for them. What would the future hold? What would...
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