robert-maisey

4 Articles by: Robert Maisey

Robert Maisey is a Labour activist and shop steward for the RMT railworkers’ union. Between trains he reads about the short twentieth century at Birkbeck University.

A Britain Worth Fighting For

As Britain’s official war-poster artist from 1941 to 1945, Abram Games produced iconic propaganda for a nation in arms. But the Jewish socialist’s art also portrayed the country that the troops were fighting for — a vision that didn’t always agree with Winston Churchill’s.