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Short course: Britain and the Second World War - a global conflict

Short course: Britain and the Second World War - a global conflict

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  • Delivered Online

  • 12 weeks

  • All levels

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2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – a conflict that defined the twentieth century and still has an influence on relationships and attitudes today.

In this course we welcome academics from institutions across the UK and abroad to contribute to a series of lectures and discussions on aspects of the Second World War. This is not a course about battles but rather about how people engaged with the conflict in different regions, exploring political motivations, cultural responses and social impacts and legacies.

Sessions include: 

  • 25 February - Fascism in flames: Italy at war, 1940-1943 | Dr Alexander Henry

  • 4 March - Imperial defence and relations in the interwar period, c.1930-1939 | Dr Adam Dighton

  • 11 March - The British Empire at war, 1939-1945 | Dr Adam Dighton

  • 17 March - We can’t stand by and do nothing’: the lives and work of Britain’s conscientious objectors during the Second World War | Dr Linsey Robb

  • 25 March - Propaganda in Nazi Germany during the Second World War | Dr Paul Moore

  • 1 April - The aftermath of war: Allied occupation and displaced persons in post-war Europe | Dr Samantha Knapton

  • 15 April - Music as propaganda as used by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany | Dr Percy Leung, FRAS FRSA

  • W/C 21 April - Moldavian partisans | Professor Mark Sandle

  • 29 April - Black marketeers | Dr Mark Roodhouse

  • 6 May - Japanese motivations during the Second World War | Dr Satona Suzaki

The course also features two workshop sessions to discuss your learning with other course participants. All sessions will take place from 7.30-9.00pm.

This course is free to all HA members, and available for a small charge to non-members. Access to the course will be via the HA website once your booking is verified, you will be contacted via email once this is complete.

The introductory session will take place on 25 February.

Further information can be found on our course page here.

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  • Short course
      to   (1 sessions)
    Delivered Online
    Free - £29.37+ VAT

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