The People’s Demobilization
The winner of this year’s best undergraduate dissertation by History Today magazine, Kate Martin, will be leading a seminar entitled 'The People's Demobilization: A Case Study in Politics, Propaganda and Popular Will in 1945'.
Using a case study of an aircraft crash (which had personal significance to Kate), her dissertation sought to establish whether gaps existed between the government's rhetoric and its actual activity with regard to British demobilization in 1945; further, whether such gaps led to additional loss of life after hostilities had ceased. The results demonstrated how the political can never be divorced from the personal in terms of history.
Kate says: “The research revealed some very interesting information which I think will convey successfully the concept of 'Other Narratives of War', which is the theme of this series of seminars.”
All are welcome to the seminar that will be held on Wednesday 25 November at 5pm in Queen Anne 063 at the Greenwich Campus. Please email Dr. June Balshaw to reserve a place at bj61@gre.ac.uk
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