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Research interests
My research interests include the history of visual communication in digital and non-digital contexts and the relationships between visual images, cultural memory and history. My doctoral research project focuses on the British Ministry of Information and the impact of visual materials published during the Second World War on British cultural memory in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
My research is part of a larger project, the ‘Publishing and Communications History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45’, which is being undertaken by the Institute of English Studies in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London.
Research interests (short)
My research interests include the history of visual communication in digital and non-digital contexts and the relationships between visual images, cultural memory and history. My doctoral research project focuses on the British Ministry of Information and the impact of visual materials published during the Second World War on British cultural memory in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
My research is part of a larger project, the ‘Publishing and Communications History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45’, which is being undertaken by the Institute of English Studies in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London.
Research blog: http://www.lovelyoldtree.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KHowellskcl
MOI Digital: http://www.moidigital.ac.uk/
Education/Academic qualification
Early Modern History, Master of Arts, King's College London
Award Date: 1 Jan 2014
History, Bachelor of Arts, University of Warwick
Award Date: 4 Jul 2012
Keywords
- D731 World War II
- Second World War
- Propaganda
- D839 Post-war History, 1945 on
- H Social Sciences (General)
- Cultural Memory
- Collective Memory
- N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR
- Poster
- Propaganda
- Digital Humanities
- Digital Art History
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Imagining Self, Nation and History Through the Wartime Propaganda Posters of the Ministry of Information
Howells, K. M., 25 Jan 2019, In: The International Journal of the Image. 10, 1Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Stoicism, solidarity and cynicism: examining the role of Second World War posters in framing present-day British identity
Howells, K. M., 23 Apr 2019, ESTRO: Essex Student Research Online. 2 ed. Colchester: University of Essex, Vol. 10. p. 30-49 5Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review
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Activities
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Digikult
Katherine Howells (Invited speaker)
25 Apr 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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DCDC18: Memory and Transformation
Katherine Howells (Speaker)
21 Nov 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Understanding the uses and impacts of iconic cultural images in the digital world
Katherine Howells (Chair)
3 Oct 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies Annual International Conference 2018: Identity and Memory in War and Peacebuilding
Katherine Howells (Speaker)
2 Jul 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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The Peoples’ Wars? The Second World War in Socio-Political Perspective
Katherine Howells (Speaker)
14 Jun 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
Thesis
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Exploring iconic images created by the Ministry of Information and their relation to cultural memory in Britain
Author: Howells, K., 1 Sept 2019Supervisor: Tanner, S. (Supervisor) & Dunn, S. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy
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Data files for appendices of PhD Thesis 'Exploring iconic images created by the Ministry of Information and their relation to cultural memory in Britain'
Howells, K., King's College London, 30 Sept 2019
DOI: 10.18742/rdm01-483, https://kcl.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_files_for_appendices_of_PhD_Thesis_Exploring_iconic_images_created_by_the_Ministry_of_Information_and_their_relation_to_cultural_memory_in_Britain_/16473882
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