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I will be presenting at the CONTED Graduate School Doctoral Research Seminar on Friday 20 June at Rewley House, Oxford. The paper is titled ‘The People’s War, Tom Wintringham and the 1945 General Election’ and here is the abstract: The historian David Edgerton recently argued that scholars of Britain during the Second World War should…
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Review of the Imperial War Museum’s latest Churchill exhibition The Imperial War Museum have put together a small, yet rather enjoyable exhibition of satirical cartoons that depict how Winston Churchill was perceived during times of war and conflict. The great man appeared in thousands of cartoons during his lifetime and beyond, which undoubtedly made the…