The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: THE STORY OF BRITISH PROPAGANDA FILM Scott Anthony London: British Film Institute, 2024, £22.49, p/b Simon Matthews Scott Anthony is Deputy Head of Research at the UK Science Museum. He has written several books, including studies of the documentary film units run by the GPO and Shell. The Story of British Propaganda Film is his […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Liverpool being run by Conservative councils. The key political figures in this arrangement, and the first group of ministers from whom HRH took advice, were Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister, and a former Liberal), Sir Anthony Eden (Foreign Secretary and, by virtue of his being MP for Leamington Spa, the leading member of the […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] to support the illegal exports. Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, Willie Whitelaw, Francis Pym and PM Thatcher all gave the secret project government blessing. During the 1992 Matrix Churchill trial ex-Minister Alan Clark let the cat out of the bag revealing that ‘the interests of the West were best served by Iran and Iraq fighting […]

Well, how did we get here?

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] of civil society. In the infantile jargon of the British political system, it was an attempt to ‘bounce’ the proposals through Cabinet, having already primed prime minister Churchill (who, like many other prime ministers, knew little about economics).5 But after an intense struggle, described in detail by one ofthe participants, Donald Macdougall, the Robot […]

Rudolf Hess: Truth at last: The untold story of the Deputy Fuhrer’s flight to Scotland in 1941 by John Harris and Richard Wilbourn

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] appeasers – either in Britain or in the Nazi regime. It is quite plausible that the flight offered a long odds attempt to reach conciliation with anti- Churchill elements and allow a month for German forces on the Western front to be relocated and participate in the coming planned assault on the Soviet Union.1 […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] again. Into this domestic anti-communist climate came the USA’s loans – and the people and ideas, the strings attached to the money. From the first request from Churchill for clandestine assistance before America had officially entered the war, the U.S. ‘aid’ had come with strings attached. Despite his famous remark that he had not […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] of this journal. Speculation about what was really behind it goes back to the Second World War itself. Successive British administrations from the time of the 1940-45 Churchill Coalition have maintained that Hess flew to the UK in May 1941 in an unprovoked solo attempt to make peace between London and Berlin. It is […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] We need to be clear that when we use the term ‘known’ we mean ‘known’ within diplomatic, military, naval and political circles; and quite widely at that. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was tirelessly canvassing for a seizure of Narvik coupled with mining operations in Norwegian and Swedish waters. He did so […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

Lobster Issue

[…] We need to be clear that when we use the term ‘known’ we mean ‘known’ within diplomatic, military, naval and political circles; and quite widely at that. Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, was tirelessly canvassing for a seizure of Narvik coupled with mining operations in Norwegian and Swedish waters. He did so […]

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