The Second World War and British Culture World
The Second World War and British Culture
World War Two Total war Propagarnda war (BBC World Service, Ministry of Information, Goebbels)
Leslie Howard as Pimpernel Smith (1941)
‘Lord Haw-Haw’ (William Joyce)
Frank Newbould’s poster
Frank Newbould’s poster
Propaganda war War of espionage Spy hysteria (fifth column) Xenophobia Internment camps
‘the Phoney war’: Sept 1939 – May 1940 the Dunkerque spirit: ‘the little ships of Dunkerque’
Battle of Britain, 1940 (Paul Nash) RAF
‘England’s finest hour’ (Churchill)
the Blitz
‘Business as usual’
‘business as usual’
London Library in the Blitz
Dorothy Coke: ATS Air Raid practise
Laura Knight: Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breechring
Evelyn Dunbar: Women’s Land Army Hotel
Dunbar: St. Thomas Hospital in Evacuation Quarters 1941
Dunbar: Sprout Picking in Monmouthshire
Bill Brandt: Children Asleep in the Underground
Henry Moore: Tube shelter perspective
Henry Moore: Three Seated Women
Henry Moore: Two Mothers Holding Children
Henry Moore: Two Sleeping Children
Henry Moore: Pink and Green Sleepers
Ethel Gabain: The Evacuation of Children 1940
Henry Carr: Incendiaries in a Suburb 1941
Leonard Rosoman: A House Falling on Two Firemen
War artist Ethel Gabain
Bert Hardy: Blitz photograph
In Which We Serve (Noel Coward and David Lean)
Humphrey Jennings: Fires Were Started
Cecil Day Lewis: “Where Are the War Poets? ” They who in panic or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in freedom’s cause. It is the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse, That we who lived by honest dreams Defend the bad against the worse.
Sidney Keyes: “War Poet” I am the man who looked for peace and found My own eyes barbed. I am the man who groped for words and found An arrow in my hand. I am the builder whose firm walls surround A slipping land. When I grow sick or mad Mock me not nor chain me: When I reach for the wind Cast me not down: Though my face is a burnt book And a wasted town.
Doris Zinkeisen: Human Laundry, Bergen. Belsen
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