Governments produced propaganda in order to spread a particular political message. When World War One (WW1) broke out, the British government didn’t want people to think about the violence and ...

WW1: How did an artist help Britain fight the war at sea? documentWW1: How did an artist help Britain fight the war at sea? Dr Sam Willis discovers how the British artist Norman Wilkinson ...

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 ...

Everyone would want Britain to win the war and make the Germans pay for the dreadful things they were supposed to have done. During World War One, propaganda was employed on a global scale. Unlike ...

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 ...

The sinking of the Lusitania was a controversial event and became a focus for the propaganda campaign during the war. In April 1915, the German Embassy in Washington issued a reminder to passengers, ...

It has been forty years since the Falklands, a conflict fought between April and June 1982 and which claimed the lives of 649 Argentines, 255 British ... the creation of a propaganda radio station ...