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A confidential telegram from Lord Rosmead to Joseph Chamberlain.
Document of the Week

Document of the Week: Arrest of Robert Baden-Powell (1896)

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 3rd August, 2026 2 min read
Section of a typed report.
Document of the Week

Document of the Week: Psychological Responses to Nuclear Warfare

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 18th May, 2026 2 min read
Printed text reading If the Invader Comes What to Do - and How to Do it.
Document of the Week

Document of the Week: “If the Invader Comes” (1940)

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 26th January, 2026 3 min read
Notable Days

80 Years Since the Start of the Nuremberg Trials

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 20th November, 2025 5 min read
A page showing one column of typed text, cropped.
Document of the Week

Document of the Week: “Extracts from the report of Doctor Karel Sperber on Auschwitz and other concentration camps” (1947)

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 6th October, 2025 2 min read
A page of typed text, cut off halfway, titled A Survey of The German Generals and General Staff.
Document of the Week

Document of the Week: A Survey of the German Generals and General Staff

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 25th August, 2025 2 min read
A report written in support of the decision taken by the Home Secretary, John Anderson, to detain Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF), in May 1940, under the terms of Defence Regulation 18B.
Document of the Week

Document of the Week: Detention Report for Sir Oswald Mosley

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 23rd June, 2025 2 min read
Aged paper with an ornate border and a logo resembling a rainbow arch with Civil Defence written in arched text within it, along with a crown above it. The document is titled Some Things You Should Know If War Should Come. There are handwritten annotations over the page.
Document of the Week

Document of the Week: "Some Things You Should Know If War Should Come"

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 2nd June, 2025 3 min read
Contextual Essays

Civil Defence is Common Sense: Mobilising the Public Through Propaganda

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 13th May, 2025 23 min read
The front cover of the Protect and Survive leaflet. Beneath the title, there is a logo of a family stood inside a hollow circle.
Videos

Britain Under Threat: "Protect and Survive"

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 27th March, 2025 1 min read
A photo of Dr Charlie Hall leafing through several documents from a file at the National Archives. The documents relate to the Bethnal Green Tube Disaster.
Videos

Britain Under Threat: The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 20th March, 2025 1 min read
A poster from the First World War. It has a title of Public Warning, and underneath, two columns of drawings. The drawings are of German and British aircraft, which are separated under two headings written in red.
Videos

Britain Under Threat: The Use of Propaganda in the First World War

Dr Charlie Hall
Published 13th March, 2025 1 min read
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