on 15th July 2021 Harriet will give a paper entitled ‘”The materialisation of persuasion”: “story-telling” exhibitions at the British Ministry of Information during World War Two’ as part of a panel on The Ministry of Information at the conference ‘The Writer as Psychological Warrior: Intellectuals, Propaganda, and Modern Conflict’, to be hosted online by Durham University, from 12-16 July 2021.

The conference is part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda, and British Culture’ and will draw papers from a range of disciplines, periods of study, and global perspectives.