How Fleet Street turned Dunkirk from catastrophe into cultural icon

Jewell, John 2015. How Fleet Street turned Dunkirk from catastrophe into cultural icon. The Conversation 2015 (27 May)

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Abstract

For most British people the Dunkirk evacuation between May 26 and June 4 1940 was the most significant early event of World War II. And in the 75 years since those momentous events it has come to occupy, in Penny Summerfield’s words, “an iconic place in British culture”.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Completion
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II N Fine Arts > NE Print media
Publisher:	The Conversation Trust
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	17 July 2020
Last Modified:	11 May 2023 02:29
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/73682

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