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    • PhD Proposal, 1997: The planning, design and reception of British Home Front propaganda posters of the Second World War
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      • Thesis: Introduction
      • Chapter 1: Sources and Methods
      • The British Propaganda Poster
      • Commissioning, Planning, Distributing and Displaying Posters
      • Case Study: Representations of 'Your Britain', Urban and Rural
      • Case Study: Industrial Posters
      • Case Study: The Enemy Within
      • Case Study: The Problem of VD
      • Thesis: Conclusion
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      • Contents
      • Acknowledgements
      • Abbreviations
      • Introduction
      • Chapter 1: Methods and Sources
      • Chapter 2: Placing the British Experience of the Propaganda Poster in Context
      • Chapter 3: Commissioning, Design & Distribution, with a particular focus on the MOI and the first posters produced
      • Chapter 4: Representations of ‘Your Britain’, Urban and Rural
      • Chapter 5: Industrial Posters
      • Chapter 6: The ‘Enemy Within’
      • Chapter 7: The ‘Problem’ of Venereal Disease in Wartime
      • Conclusion
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Archives

This page links to the archives used for the PhD project.

  • The British Film Institute, London
  • The British Library, London
  • The British Library Newspaper Library, Colindale, London
  • Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge
  • Eden Camp, Malton, North Yorkshire You can buy reproduction posters from here
  • The Kevin Morrison Collection, Glasgow
  • The History of Advertising Trust, UEA, Norfolk
  • The House of Lords Record Office, London
  • The Imperial War Museum, London You can buy reproduction posters from here
    See their collections online, especially the ‘Posters of Conflict‘.
  • London Transport Musuem, London
  • The Mass-Observation Archive, Sussex University
  • The Public Record Office, London (now The National Archives)
  • The Robert Opie Collection, Gloucester You can buy some reproduction posters from here
  • The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, London (now part of The National Archives)
  • The Second World War Experience Centre, Leeds
  • The Victoria and Albert Musuem, London
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