This chapter outlined the general aims and rationale of the project, including the current interest in the subject, both general nostalgia, and academic reasons. It relates the project to current historiography and provide a literature review of the key texts relevant to the project. This chapter dealt with the conceptual elements of the study, particularly the arguments surrounding the definitions of propaganda, and approaches to the study of the poster, which define its form and function. It considered the form and function of other media used in the Second World War, and where the poster fits into this. The chapter also outlines the remaining chapters of the thesis.
- Historiography
- Barraclough, G. Main Trends in History (Main Trends in the Social and Human Sciences) 1991
- Bloch, E. et al. The Utopian Function in Art and Literature: Selected Essays (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) 1989
- Gombrich, E.H. The Uses of Images: Studies in the Social Function of Art and Visual Imagery 2000
- Marwick, A. The Nature of History 1989
- Tosh, J. The Pursuit of History 2002
- World War II
- Briggs, S Keep Smiling Through 1975 (Out of Print) *Populist
- Calder, A The Myth of the Blitz 1992
- Calder, A. The People’s War: Britain 1939-1945 (1969) 1992
- Campbell, J. The Experience of World War II 2002 *Populist
- Davies, J. The Wartime Kitchen and Garden 1993 (Out of Print) *Populist
- Donnelly, M. Britain in the Second World War 1999
- Longmate, N. How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War Pimlico, 2002 (First printed 1971)
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Marwick, A The Home Front: The British and the Second World War 1978 (Out of Print)
- Minns, R. Bombers and Mash: The Domestic Front, 1939-1945 1999 *Populist
- Pope, R. War and Society in Britain 1899-1948 1991
- Smith, M Britain and 1940: History, Myth and Popular Memory 2000
See PhD Proposal and Bibliography
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