Interwar period

An Uneasy Propaganda Alliance

The doomed film collaboration between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan resulted in two very different features serving the same fascist agenda: The Daughter of the Samurai and The New Earth. 

Ronald Knox’s Radio Revolution

On 16 January 1926, the BBC broke the news that a murderous mob was storming the capital. Broadcasting the Barricades wasn’t supposed to be a hoax, but it was an effective one.

Sex Before Sex Education

For much of the 20th century, young working-class women in England found out about procreation the ‘hard way’ or the ‘dirty way’.