the ‘Common Wealth Circus’: Popular Politics and the Popular Press in Wartime Britain, 1941–1945Footnote^†

† This article expands on research conducted for the author’s doctoral thesis: Lovell, “Press, Politics and the ‘People’s War,’ 1939–45.”

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