David Welch is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of Propaganda, War & Society at the University of Kent. His publications include Propaganda and the German Cinema, 19331945 (I.B.Tauris, 2001), Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia from 1500 to the Present (with David Culbert and Nicholas Cull) (2003) and Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age (with Jo Fox, 2012). He co-curated the 2013 exhibition at the British Library and authored the accompanying book: Propaganda. Power and Persuasion.
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Essays in memory of Philip M. Taylor, 19542010.
CONTENTS
David Welch
Mark Connelly
David Welch
Jeffrey Richards
James Chapman
David Welch
Nicholas J. Cull
Gary D. Rawnsley
Edward M. Spiers
Jeffrey B. Jones, Daniel T. Kuehl, Daniel Burgess, and Russell Rochte
Kate Utting
Stephen Badsey
Cristina Archetti
David Culbert
Piers Robinson
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Stills from The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)
Pride in the local defence volunteers is revealed in the number of times it appeared as an image on Falkland Islands stamps
A postcard that commemorates the Falklands Battle Memorial
Stamps from 1937 and 1964
Stamp marking the fiftieth anniversary of the battle
ATTILA (to Little Willie) (Punch, 12 August 1914)
Bravo, Belgium! (F.H. Townsend, Punch, 12 August 1914)
Remember Belgium
Swelling Wisibly (Jack Walker, The Daily Graphic Special War Cartoons, No. 4, 1914)
The Kaisers Dream: The End of the World (Jack Walker, The Daily Graphic Special War Cartoons, No. 2, 1914)
Punchs Almanack for 1915 (F.H. Townsend, December 1914)
The Kaisers Garland (Edmund J. Sullivan, 1915)
The Prussian Butcher (Edmund Sullivan, 1915)
Latest German invention the Red Cross machine gun (The War Illustrated, September 1914)
Big and Little Willies Christmas Dinner (W.K. Haselden, Daily Mirror, December 1914)
The Damp Squib (Jack Wallace, The Daily Graphic Special War Cartoons, 1915)
The Return from Essex You did your best and nearly killed a baby in Colchester. So heres an iron cross for you (Sidney Strube, Daily Express, January 1915)
Murdered by the Huns. ENLIST and Help Stop Such Atrocities (1915, Imperial War Museum)
Men of Britain! Will You Stand This? Enlist Now (1914, British Library)
Lend Your Five Shillings to Your Country and Help Crush the Germans (1915, British Library)
Put Strength in the Final Blow Buy War Bonds (1918, Imperial War Museum)
Once a German Always a German! (1918, Imperial War Museum)
Nazi Propaganda Aims
Goebbels speech on Total War (Deutsche Wochenshau, 27 February 1943)
Hard Times, Hard Duties, Hard Hearts (1943)
Victory or Bolshevism
Safe Conduct Pass, Operation Desert Storm (1991)
NATO leaflet: Why not ask Milosevic?/Why are our factories burning?
A Coalition leaflet dropped over Iraq in 2003 encouraging Iraqis to listen to Information Radio
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Cristina Archetti is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Media at the University of Salford. She is author of Understanding Terrorism in the Age of Global Media: A Communication Approach (Palgrave, 2012) and Explaining News: National Politics and Journalistic Cultures in Global Context (Palgrave, 2010). Her research interests are multidisciplinary and cover political communication, security, international communication and journalism. She won the 2008 Denis McQuail Award for Innovating Communication Theory.
Stephen Badsey is Professor of Conflict Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. Among his books are The Gulf War Assessed (with John Pimlott), The Media and International Security, The Falklands Conflict Twenty Years On (with Rob Havers and Mark Grove), Doctrine and Reform in the British Cavalry 18801918, and The British Army in Battle and Its Image 191418. He has advised or addressed numerous academic, military and government organisations, his writings have been translated into five languages, and he appears frequently on television and in other media. His personal website is www.stephenbadsey.com.
Daniel Burgess was Intelligence Officer for US Forces Korea.
James Chapman is Professor of Film at the University of Leicester. His research focuses on the history of British popular culture, especially cinema and television. His books include The British at War: Cinema, State and Propaganda, 19391945 (I.B.Tauris, 1998), Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (I.B.Tauris, 1999; 2nd edn, 2007), Past and Present: National Identity and the British Historical Film (I.B.Tauris, 2005) and Inside the Tardis: The Worlds of Doctor Who A Cultural History (I.B.Tauris, 2006; 2nd edn, 2013). He is a council member of the International Association of Media and History (IAMHIST) and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television.
Mark Connelly is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Kent. His research interests include the image of the armed forces in British and Commonwealth societies, war and commemoration and military history. Among his recent publications are: We Can Take It! Britain and the Memory of the Second World War, Steady the Buffs: A Regiment, a Region and the Great War, The Edwardian Army: Recruiting, Training and Deploying the British Army, 19021914 (with Tim Bowman).
David Culbert is John L. Loos Professor of History, Louisiana State University. He is the editor of
