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British MP Ben Tillett meets British troops at Hellfire Corner in Ypres, Western Front, at noon on 9 January 1918. Tillett was a vocal supporter of Britain's war effort and visited the front several times during the war.
Film: IWM 159
Is there anything new in modern propaganda?
In this latest episode of Conflict of Interest, comedian Rachel Parris discovers how governments and protesters have always pulled on the public's emotional heartstrings across the 20th and 21st centuries.
From shock tactics to satire, art curator Sarah Holdaway guides Rachel on a personalised tour of the Blavatnik Art, Film and Photography Gallery - accompanied by Dr Mark Sealy, Director of Autograph.
Listen now - https://pod.fo/e/2a3021
24/01/2025
A Sherman tank of 23rd Armoured Brigade comes ashore from a landing craft at Anzio, Italy, 22 January 1944.
Codenamed Operation Shingle, the Battle of Anzio began on 22 January 1944 with Allied forces landing virtually unopposed. A handful of Luftwaffe aircraft got through the Allied fighter umbrella to strafe the ships, but the Allies lost only 13 men killed and 97 wounded. Anzio itself had been abandoned by the Germans, many units having been deployed further south to counter US Fifth Army’s attack on the Garigliano River.
Read more about Anzio here: https://bit.ly/3QxF0zp
Image: IWM (NA 11035)
A Canadian sniper filmed firing from the ruins of a house's front room on the Western Front, February 1916.
Film: IWM 255
An RAF Repair and Salvage Unit recovers a crashed Hawker Hurricane near Sagaing, Burma, February 1945.
Read more about the Second World War in Burma here: https://bit.ly/3se0Ksh
Film: IWM ABY 101
A soldier of the 6th Green Howards gets his hair cut in camp ahead of 50th Division's landings on 'Gold' Beach, 6 June 1944.
Film: IWM A70 33-2
Australians of 2nd Division and Gurkhas of 7th (Meerut) Division filmed marching on the Western Front during the First World War.
Film: IWM 1128a
A Home Guard unit demonstrates mobile flamethrowers in this amateur colour footage shot by Major Albert Eric Titley while serving with his local Home Guard unit in Wiltshire during the Second World War.
Find the full footage here: https://bit.ly/3WpPYLN
Film: IWM MGH 6799
The 7th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment rides to Goupillieres on Churchill tanks belonging to the 107th RAC along a congested, hedgerow-bordered lane typical of the second-class roads through the 'bocage' region of Normandy, 1944.
Film: IWM A70 113-19
21/01/2025
'The Return of a Patrol' by William Orpen, painted in 1917 and depicting three Royal Flying Corps pilots in full gear standing on a runway.
Read more about Britain's artists during the First World War here: https://bit.ly/3PTbC7J
Image: IWM (Art.IWM ART 3031)
Detachments from a US Army artillery unit and the 22nd Armoured Brigade land on 'Jig Green' Beach at low tide while a US Navy tank landing craft disembarks British troops (1/7th Queens or Royal Engineers), 6 June 1944.
Film: IWM A70 33-2
20/01/2025
‘The Threat of the Zeppelin’, a 1915 illustration by David Wilson showing the Kaiser as a zeppelin looming menacingly over ships.
The first German airship raid on Great Britain took place on the night of 19-20 January 1915, when Zeppelins L3 and L4 dropped bombs on East Anglia. You can read more about air raids over Britain during the First World War here: https://bit.ly/3WpT9D1
Image: IWM (Art.IWM ART 5480)
19/01/2025
Troops are re-embarked aboard a helicopter of 848 Naval Air Squadron at the end of a mission against terrorists in the Malayan jungle. The photograph was taken in 1953, during the Malayan Emergency.
Image: IWM (A 32797)
British soldiers of the Northumberland Fusiliers relax two days after an attack at St Eloi, Belgium, March 1916. Some of the soldiers wear captured German Jäger dress helmets.
Film: IWM 215
A Renault FT17 light tank drives over a German road sign in Hattonville, France, following the Battle of Saint Mihiel, September 1918.
Film: IWM 501-6
18/01/2025
Infantry of the 56th Infantry Division (British X Corps, US Fifth Army) cross the Garigliano River in assault boats at the start of the First Battle of Monte Cassino, 18 January 1944.
Image: IWM (NA 10860)
Ground crew sit on the tail of a Spitfire as its engine starts up to stop it from rising off the ground. Filmed in 1942 at RAF Hornchurch.
Film: IWM ARY 9
What have artists and photographers revealed about the horrors of the front line - and how have governments tried to hide the truth from the public?
In this week's episode of the Conflict of Interest podcast, author and researcher Carl Miller takes us on a journey from the trenches of France to modern-day Iraq, exploring the powerful paintings and photography showcased at the Blavatnik Art, Film, and Photography Galleries at the IWM London.
Leading Carl’s journey are Claire Brennard, Art Curator at IWM London, and Professor Ana Carden-Coyne, Director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War in Manchester.
Listen now: https://pod.fo/e/29ed75
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