History & Culture

The Sceptic Isle

National Army Museum · Royal Hospital Rd, London SW3 4HT, United Kingdom

4 September 2026

Historian Steven Casey unpicks how Britain sold the Second World War to its own sceptical public, tracing the overlapping efforts of government, press and the armed forces to shape opinion while the fighting happened abroad. Doubt, it turns out, was as much a weapon of that campaign as any tank or plane.

The Sceptic Isle

National Army Museum

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