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Institute of Continuing Education: Undergraduate Virtual Open Day
Looking to pursue your love of learning, take the next step in your career or take your first steps along a new career path? Join us for our upcoming Undergraduate Virtual Open Day on 21st May, where we’ll delve into the world of undergraduate study at the Institute of Continuing Education
'A spectre is haunting the Atlantic': Anglo-American conservatism and the transatlantic threat between the world wars
Tue 27 May 2014
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
This paper examines British and American anticommunist conspiracy
theories in the 1920s and 1930s. In both countries, former wartime
intelligence agency chiefs set up private intelligence networks in the
post-World War I era to spy upon and blacklist radicals -- and, not
incidentally, to monitor and control labour union leaders. Also in
both countries, businessmen created and lavishly funded anticommunist
propaganda organizations. The propagandists in each country exploited
quite different anxieties, yet they shared the same goal: to use the
fear of communism as a weapon in the struggle against organized
labour.
This event is followed by a short wine reception.
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