• http://www.ww2poster.co.uk
• http://www.winchester.ac.uk/designproject
• http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/artofwar (major content contributor)

A full portfolio is available at: http://www.mydesigna.ww2poster.co.uk/portfolio/portfolio.htm

• 'Posters as Propaganda' (with David Bownes), for 'London Transport Posters: A Century of Art and Design', edited by Oliver Green and David Bownes, commissioned by the London Transport Museum (Lund Humphries, forthcoming October 2008)
• 'Docs on the Box - TV Medical Dramas', Chapter for 'Playing God: Ethics and Technology in Medical Dramas' (Damaris Culturewatch, May 2006)

• "'Careless Talk Costs Lives': The Government's Information Security Campaign on the Home Front", in Everyone's War: The Journal of the Second World War Experience Centre (No.15, Spring/Summer 2007)

• Lucy Noakes Women and the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex 1907-1948 (2006), for Journal of Contemporary British History (March 2008)

• Challenging a fast food culture (September 2006)
• 'Docs on the Box - TV Medical Dramas', see above
• Hitch (July 2005)
• Struggling to Achieve: 'The Games' (April 2005)

• Sladen, C., 'Wartime Holidays and the 'Myth of the Blitz'' in Cultural and Social History (2005: 2). See p.224
• Sladen, C., 'Don't panic!' in Oxford Magazine, No. 231, 4th Week, Michaelmas Term, 2004, See pp.3-4
• Sladen, C. 'Holidays at Home in the Second World War' in Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 37 Issue 01 (1 January 2002). See p.68

The following leaflets were written in my role as IT Centre Advisor at University College Winchester, and are accessible in PDF form. Download the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

• Dreamweaver 1: introduction, different views, inserting text/images, page properties, viewing/saving
• Dreamweaver 2: sites, tables and templates
• Dreamweaver 3: layers, cascading style sheets, alt tags, meta tags, web hosting
• Scanner advanced: editable text, changing the resolution, photoshop, image file types
• CD-Writer: Instructions on how to make best use of the College CD-writers
• CD-Writer 2: Instructions on how to copy CD-to-CD and use the cover designer.

I re-edited and added information to the following leaflets, to make the information more understandable, and the leaflets more visually appealing.

• IT Centre Information
• Have Your Say
• KKB 24 Hour Opening

'Informal Education: VD Posters of the Second World War' to Launch Conference for the Centre for the History of Women's Education.
"The Centre provides a forum for research into the gendered nature of educational provision, practice and thought in order to provide a sound evidence base for policy and practice in respect of education for women and girls. The Centre takes a broad cultural definition of Education: one which transcends schooling to encompass learning and teaching (formal and informal) at any phase of the life-cycle, in any setting or historical period, including the recent past."

I presented a short paper on 'informal education', regarding the representation of men and women in VD posters.

'Nostalgia and the Visual Image: The memory of propaganda posters of the Second World War' for 'Public History Now' at Ruskin College, Oxford
ABSTRACT: This paper will explore the place that Second World War Home Front posters have in popular memory, with a particular focus upon the nostalgia industry that has grown up around them.

There are countless objects that can be purchased adorned with images and slogans from wartime posters: not only postcards and reproduction posters, but mugs, key rings, T-shirts, chocolate bars, playing cards, and many others. Money would not be spent producing such objects unless it was felt there was a market for them, and such objects have been produced by the Imperial War Museum and the Public Record Office, amongst others, for many years, in the knowledge that they will sell.

The paper will consider why such products do sell, with their appeal based not only upon their immediate visual impact, often the reason they were successful in the first place, but upon their status as social and historical documents, and as a reminder of a past, mythical or otherwise. Many people remember the posters from the war, as can be illustrated by replies received from a questionnaire distributed, in 1997-9, as part of the PhD project.

Posters often trigger memories, in particular causing people become nostalgic about, for instance, 'the Blitz spirit'. This has largely been deemed a myth, and it will be interesting to consider how far such a 'spirit' was propagated through the war posters, and how far the posters have contributed to such a 'myth'. Yet, memories of war posters are not restricted to those who can remember the war, people of all generations can list many war poster slogans, such as 'Careless Talk Costs Lives'. There are two probable factors which account for this: many slogans have become tied up with the mythology of war; and war posters are used extensively as illustration in both children's and populist 'coffee table' books, where the poster is used to get across a point pictorially, as was the original purpose.

The paper will take into account the original purpose of propaganda and advertising posters, designed to be ephemeral, but also memorable. It will attempt to define what factors determine if a poster can be deemed a 'success', especially from a later point in time. The paper will also briefly reflect upon how changes in history have enabled the poster to be considered as a historical source.

With Gary Peatling 'Appeasement and public history now and in the future'.

'World War II Propaganda Posters and the Image of Britain' for King Alfred's College Research Day: 'National Identities'.
This was a very successful, well attended event. Short papers were given by a student and tutor from each research centre on the common theme of national identities.

The day included a paper given by myself, entitled 'World War II Propaganda and the Image of Britain'. Once a brief definition of propaganda and the job of the poster had been established, three posters from the First World War were considered, demonstrating the belief that most appealed to either a mythical past, a sense of good sportsmanship, or obedience to a sense of authority. The Second World War was even more of a 'total war' than the First had been, and those involved needed to know that they were not only fighting AGAINST something, but also FOR it. The main focus of the paper was then upon two posters 'Your Britain, Fight for it Now', produced in 1942, around the time of the Beveridge Report. On the one hand we saw the nostalgic image, depicted by Frank Newbould, of a pastoral and rural Britain, which encourages effort in order to maintain perceived past traditions, whilst Abram Games depicted an urban image as an image of change for a better Britain, a real fight for the future.

'British Home Front Posters of WW2' for 'The 1940s Society' in Kent.

Based upon my undergraduate thesis, and progress of the research project so far, "In June, Rebecca Lewis spoke to us on the subject of British Home Front Posters of WW2. Rebecca is very knowledgeable about her subject and spoke not only on the design of the posters but also on the political motivations behind them. The talk was illustrated by a large number of slides and we certainly came away with a better understanding of the subject."
Ian Bayley, The 1940s Society

'The Planning, Design and Reception of British Home Front Propaganda Posters in the Second World War' Humanities and Social Science Research Seminar at King Alfred's College
After 18 months of study, an overview of the progress of the research project, and preliminary findings, to academic peers within the History Department.

But as befits a journal which has constantly sought to stress the interconnectedness of the past and present, and to identify and stimulate new approaches to the study of history, this anniversary conference will be primarily concerned with a timely and substantive task: to ask how and why and where and by whom the past has been - and still is - regularly re-written.

This continual re-writing is partly because of the dynamic inherent in the scholarly process; but it is also because of broader changes and specific imperatives in politics, society and culture. Under the general heading of 'Re-Writing the Past', the conference will explore such themes as: the liquidation of the past; the invention and dis-invention of tradition; the politics of historiographical revision; history as myth, memory and identity; the creation and contestation of historical epochs and periods; competing versions of the same past; history as propaganda and history as protest; history as orthodoxy and history as heresy; globalisation, IT and world history."

'Health Propaganda in History', Wellcome Institute, University of East Anglia.
Presentations Included:

• 'Statistical Images of Diseases in Health Exhibitions in Britain in the 1930s'
• 'No One Receiving?' The Audience for Health Education Films, 1919-48'
• 'Health Promotion and the Transformation of Chronic Diseases after the Second World War (1945-1955)'
• 'The Cycle of Conflict, the Historic Development of the Public Health and Health Promotion Movements'