In my quest to visit NotLondon this summer, Iwent to the seaside twice last week. I love the seaside. I've got a couple of posts to write up about my visits to Bexhill and Hastings (last Wednesday) and Frinton and Walton (last Saturday), but in the meantime, here's something completely different. A couple of interesting posts popped up in the reader the other day:
This one on (mostly) anti-British propaganda from the Victorian/Edwardian era — take particular note of the stuff about the Boer War.
Stephen Worth at ASIFA has a thoughtful post on propaganda from both world wars. It's interesting to see how German propaganda changed compared to the material in the first post I linked to, and shows how to some extent how it lost its bite. Also interesting to see how the Americans adopted/adapted the British "Loose Lips Sink Ships" to "Loose Talk Sinks Ships" which isn't nearly as catchy or mnemonic, but probably had the same effect in the end, which is the point, after all.
Speaking of wartime stuff, my chum Steve is doing a 10K run to raise money for TNMOC at Bletchley Park, a place regular readers will know I am a big fan of. You can go and sponsor him here. [via] And you can see all my pictures from Bletchley Park here.
