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Documentary, Desire, Description: South Africa’s ‘Second World War’ and the mediation/materialisation of ‘witness’

This project centres on South Africa’s first illustrated magazine Libertas (1940 -1946) a vehicle of anti-Fascist advocacy and propaganda for pro-Allied engagement in WW2.

Tamar Garb Tamar Garb

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Patriotic Thrift: Savings Campaigns and Imperial British Identity in World War II and After

During the second world war, savings campaigns mobilized the people of the British empire and commonwealth, whether men, women, or children, to make public, individual investments in the war effort.

Carol Summers Carol Summers
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