In 1928, the V&A acquired a previously unknown portrait. It shows the Black Jamaican polymath Francis Williams (c. 1690-1762), dressed in a wig, surrounded by books and scientific instruments. Fara ...

1. The Gathering Storm: Britain's American Propaganda Policy, 1937 to 1939. Britain's Dilemma: Britain in American Opinion, 1919 to 1937. Foundations: British Propaganda in the United States, 1919 to ...

During World War II German propaganda emphasized the prowess of the German army and contrasted it with the British and Allied armies who were depicted as cowards and butchers, or brave but misguided.

Carrots help you see in the dark, right? Wrong, you've actually been swallowing WW2 propaganda. Film by Max Tobin. In the 1950s, 58 jazz musicians, including many legends, assembled for a highly ...

One of the most significant uses of propaganda was the response to the rescue of soldiers from Dunkirk in France. In May 1940, the Germans forced the French and British armies back through France ...

British First World War propaganda poster depicting a German U-boat sinking a British merchant ship.“Freedom of the seas” is a principle of the laws at sea. The US demanded that Germany respect such ...

During World War II, artist Kimon Evan Marengo was asked by the British Ministry of Information to create anti-Nazi propaganda images based on the Shahnameh to appeal to Iranians. In these ...