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A network analysis of wartime slogans on Twitter

Posted by Katherine on March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 in 20th Century, 21st Century, Digital, Research

I’ve been experimenting with the method of network analysis using Twitter data to understand how Second World War slogans are being used by people in conversations. I’m focusing on those slogans created or made popular by the Ministry of Information,…

Tracking online uses of Second World War posters

Posted by Katherine on May 8, 2018 in 20th Century, 21st Century, Digital, Research, Research Diary

To explore the role of Second World War propaganda posters in British culture, I think it’s really important to understand how these images are used on the internet today. To do this, I am testing ways of tracking the different…

Charles Max Sakritz, government poster vandalism and the treatment of Nazi sympathisers

Posted by Katherine on March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 in 20th Century, Research

When I first started studying the publicity posters produced by the British Ministry of Information during the Second World War, I went to the National Archives and looked up every document that might be related to the design and distribution…

Visualising semiotics with ThingLink

Posted by Katherine on February 21, 2018February 21, 2018 in 20th Century, Digital, Research

I have been looking for effective ways to visualise my semiotic analysis of Ministry of Information propaganda posters so that I can easily communicate my results. I went to the MCNx conference on Monday, where I listened to a presentation…

Studying the use of war slogans in British newspapers

Posted by Katherine on November 7, 2017 in 20th Century, 21st Century, Digital

Some of the slogans coined during the Second World War by the Ministry of Information have become common phrases in British culture today. They are not always used in reference to the war or a related subject but can be…

‘Walls have ears’ in other languages

Posted by Katherine on August 8, 2017August 8, 2017 in 20th Century, Research

I want to highlight one particularly interesting response I received from a volunteer who completed my research survey. This volunteer raised an interesting point about how English slogans have amazingly similar parallels in other languages. Responding to a question about…

An Art Deco tour of London – part 2

Posted by Katherine on August 4, 2017 in 20th Century

The Dorchester The site of the Dorchester hotel was purchased by Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons and Gordon Hotels Ltd. in 1926. The two companies commissioned Sir Owen Williams and then William Curtis Green to design a new hotel on…

Experiments in semiotic analysis: Dig for Victory

Posted by Katherine on June 12, 2017February 21, 2018 in 20th Century, Research

An important part of my research project is to understand the potential meanings that people can draw from Ministry of Information propaganda posters of the Second World War. By investigating how people interpret these images and what thoughts and memories…

An Art Deco tour of London – part 1

Posted by Katherine on June 6, 2017June 6, 2017 in 20th Century, Local

Inspired by my recent obsession with watching old episodes of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, set in the 1930s, I decided to take a self-guided tour of some of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in central London. The first thing…

Cultural memory of Second World War images: Research survey launch

Posted by Katherine on March 23, 2017March 23, 2017 in 20th Century, Research

Today I am launching a research survey to investigate how people remember and think about images from the Second World War. The survey contains five images and asks you to comment on your opinions and memories relating to each image….

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