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Latest News
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 Lord Wilson to address Conference We are delighted to welcome Lord Wilson to address the conference. Lord Wilson entered the Civil Service as an assistant principal in the Board of Trade in 1966. He subsequently served in a number of departments including 12 years in the Department of Energy where his responsibilities included nuclear power policy, the privatisation of Britoil, personnel and finance. He headed the Economic Secretariat in the Cabinet Office under Mrs Thatcher from 1987-90 and after two years in the Treasury was appointed Permanent Secretary of the Department of the Environment in 1992. He became Permanent Under Secretary of the Home Office in 1994 and Secretary of the Cabinet and Head of the Home Civil Service in January 1998.
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Treasures from the Imperial War Museum
Roger Smither will be presenting a selection of films from the archives of the
Imperial
War
Museum. All films will highlight the conference theme. The Film and Video Archive at the museum holds some 120 million feet of film and 6,500 hours of video tape, with footage from the First World War to the present day ( http://www.iwm.org.uk/). | |
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Key Speakers Confirmed
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The organizers are delighted to welcome our keynote speakers, Jay Winter, Charles J. Stille Professor of History,
Yale
University, Richard Overy, Professor in History,
University of
Exeter, Professor Hew Strachan, Chichele Professor of the History of War,
University of
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Conference Dinner to be held in the Grounds of
Canterbury Cathedral
The Cathedral is at the centre of the medieval town of
Canterbury, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Cathedral is both a holy place and part of a World Heritage Site (http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/index.aspx). The conference dinner, followed by Lord Wilson’s speech, will be held in the grounds of the Cathedral in the main auditorium. The reception on the evening of 9 July will be held in the
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Two exhibitions of cartoons set to accompany Conference
We are delighted to announce that two exhibitions will accompany the main conference events. The BCA gallery will be hosting ‘Justifying War: British Cartoons, 1900-2003’ to coincide with the conference. There will also be a display of W.K.Haselden’s cartoons from the First World War. Haselden was the first cartoonist to work for a British newspaper, and his work will no doubt be of great interest to our delegates.
For more details of the work of The British Cartoon Archive please follow this web link or use the following information:
British Cartoon Archive, Templeman Library, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NU
Telephone and fax: 01227823127 - E-mail: j.m.newton@kent.ac.uk |
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CUP Reception to launch Nick Cull's new book
On the evening of 8 July, Cambridge University Press will be hosting a reception to launch Nick Cull’s new book, American Propaganda and Public Diplomacy, 1945-1989: The United States Information Agency and the Cold War, in the Darwin Conference Suite to which all delegates are invited. Based on newly declassified archives and more than 100 interviews with veterans of public diplomacy, from the Truman administration to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Nicholas J. Cull’s book relates both the achievements and the endemic flaws of American public diplomacy in this period. Major topics include the process by which the Truman and Eisenhower administrations built a massive overseas propaganda operation; the struggle of the Voice of America radio to base its output on journalistic truth; the challenge of presenting Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, and Watergate to the world; and the climactic confrontation with the
Soviet Union in the 1980s.
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