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Haw-Haw and Radio War: Fake News in the 1940s

by Liam Liburd on February 21, 2017

Fake news is a feature of the ‘post-truth’ world, which we are supposed to have entered some time last year between the EU referendum and the election of Donald Trump as President of the United

William Joyce: Fascist, Anti-Semite and Traitor – An Adventure in Political Biography

by Colin Holmes on December 12, 2016

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If you had read my Wikipedia entry several years ago you would have found the following: "His long-awaited biography of

Anthropoid: the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and the allure of war on film

by Martin Brown on November 15, 2016

The Second World War exerts a peculiar hold over filmmakers. Although we’re half-way through the centenary of the Great War,

‘There’s gonna be some trouble’: Two interviews from the Battle of Cable Street

by Liam Liburd on October 3, 2016

Recently I was lucky enough to interview two of the few remaining ‘veterans’ of the 'Battle' that took place on Cable

Post-Referendum Depression

by Julie Gottlieb on July 1, 2016

The terms whirling around this referendum campaign have been that voting for Brexit is an act of immense self-harm and

The Devil’s Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, by Roger Moorhouse – Review

by Laurien Vastenhout on March 15, 2016

So surprising was the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in August 1939 that it even came as a shock the Soviet and German governments themselves. When the German delegation arrived at Moscow’s Khodynka airfield on

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