In the second of our virtual issues, we felt it fitting to
follow on from our first collection 'Reading the Thirties: The Rise of Fascismand Totalitarianism', by republishing several articles from the period 1939 to 1945,
ensuring that this valuable resource might be freely available to anyone who is
interested in politics, history and social change.
As you might imagine, the PQ archive has many, many fascinating and poignant articles and
choosing just a handful for this collection was not easy. We are pleased we
have been able to include articles written by Kingsley Martin, Leonard Woolf,
William Robson, Barbara Wootton, Barbara Ward, Harold Laski, GDH Cole , RHS
Crossman, John Parker, DN Pritt, Tom Harrisson, DW Brogan, A Creech Jones and ‘Politicus’, touching on themes such as
how the war was to be paid for; the colonies during the war; what was to happen
to Germany after the war; the situation of women; France; the Italian and
German Alliance; and the Ministry of Information.
We do hope you find this collection interesting and useful
and that you will enjoy reading these frank and insightful articles from this
era. You can see the collection here.
