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Professor Tim Luckhurst of the University of Durham delivers a lecture about newspapers in the Second World War, drawing on his recent book Reporting the Second World War: The Press and the People 1939-45 (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023). An award-winning journalist for BBC News and Current Affairs and former editor of The Scotsman newspaper, Tim began his career on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme and went on to work as a producer, reporter and editor in Washington DC, the Middle East and Europe. He covered the Romanian Revolution and the Gulf War for BBC News. He is a noted newspaper historian and campaigner for press freedom. His research focuses on the depiction of dissent in British and American newspapers between 1936 and 1945.

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