Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Communications, History, Modern History

Research keywords:

Propaganda, Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News

Regions:

Europe, North America, United Kingdom

Summary of research interests and expertise:

Jo Fox is the Pro Vice Chancellor (Research and Engagement) and Dean, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is a specialist in the history of propaganda and psychological warfare in twentieth-century Europe. She has published on propaganda in Britain and Germany during the First and Second World Wars, in particular exploring the connections between propaganda and popular opinion, and on mis-and disinformation in contemporary society. She is currently working on a four-year Leverhulme-funded project with James Smith (Durham) and Pat Waugh (Durham) on ‘The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda and British Culture’ and on an AHRC COVID-19 rapid response project on ‘COVID-19 rumours in historical context’. Jo is a regular commentator on historical and contemporary disinformation campaigns (‘fake news’). Prior to her current role, she was the first female Director of the Institute of Historical Research, first female Professor of Modern History and first female Head of Department at Durham University, where she began her academic career in 1999. She has previously served as the Honorary Communications Director of the Royal Historical Society. She is a National Teaching Fellow (2007), a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS), and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Manufactures and the Arts (FRSA). She currently serves as the early research panel Chair at the Wellcome Trust. 

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
01-Jun-2022	The Future of News Chapters Harrison, J (ed.), Making the News, British Library Exhibition publication
01-Feb-2020	Fake News’ – the Perfect Storm. Historical Perspectives Journal articles Historical Research, Volume 93:259 (February 2020), 172–187
01-Mar-2019	Confronting Lord Haw-Haw: Rumor and Britain’s Wartime Anti-Lies Bureau Journal articles The Journal of Modern History 91, no. 1 (March 2019): 74-108
01-Jan-2019	Propaganda and Conflict. War, Media and Shaping the Twentieth Century Edited Book Edited with with Mark Connelly, Stefan Goebbel and Ulf Schmidt
01-Jan-2017	Art and Propaganda Chapters in Bourke, J. (ed.), War and Art. A Visual History of Modern Conflict (London, 2017)
01-Jan-2015	Making sense of the war Articles 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson (2015)
01-Jan-2015	The Propaganda War Chapters Bosworth, R.J.B. & Maiolo, Joseph A. (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Second World War (Cambridge, 2015)
01-Jan-2015	Rumour and Politics Journal articles (co-authored with Coast, David) History Compass 13, 2015 pp. 222- 234
01-Jan-2013	“To Be a Woman”: female labour and memory in documentary film production, 1929–50' Journal articles Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10 (2013), 584-602
01-Jan-2013	From documentary film to television documentaries: John Grierson and This Wonderful World Journal articles Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10 (2013), 498-523
01-Jan-2013	Justifying War: Propaganda, Politics and the Modern Age Edited Book Edited with David Welch
01-Jan-2012	Careless talk: tensions within British domestic propaganda during the Second World War Journal articles Journal of British Studies, 51 (2012), 936-66
01-Jan-2011	Propaganda and the flight of Rudolf Hess, 1941-45 Journal articles Journal of Modern History, 83 (2011), 78-110
01-Jan-2009	Heldinnen des Alltags: Heroic motherhood in Nazi film - Mutterliebe (1939) and Annelie (1941) Historical Reflections/ Réflexions Historiques, 35/2 (2009), 21-39.  Reproduced in Brett Bowles (ed.), The Politics of French and German Cinema, 1930-1945 (Oxford, 2011)
01-Jan-2007	German cinema and the United Kingdom, 1933-45 Chapters Roel Vande Winkel and David Welch (eds.), Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of the Third Reich Cinema (Basingstoke, 2007), 289-305
01-Jan-2006	Film Propaganda in Britain and Nazi Germany: World War II Cinema Monographs
01-Jan-2006	'Millions Like Us? Accented language and the 'Ordinary' in British films of the Second World War Journal articles Journal of British Studies, 45 (2006), 819-45
01-Jan-2005	John Grierson, his “Documentary Boys” and the British Ministry of Information, 1939-1942 Journal articles Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 25 (2005), 345-69
01-Jan-2005	Winston Churchill and the “Men of Destiny”: Reflections on leadership and the role of the prime minister in the British wartime feature films Chapters Julie Gottlieb and Richard Toye (eds.), Power, Personality and Persuasion: The Impact of the Individual on British Politics since 1867 (London, 2005), 92-108
01-Jan-2005	The Mediator”: images of radio in feature film in Britain and Germany, 1940-1941 Chapters Welch, D. and Connelly, M. (eds.), War and the Media: Reportage and Propaganda (London, 2005), 92-112
01-Jan-2004	Resistance and the Third Reich Review Journal of Contemporary History, 39 (2004), 271-85
01-Jan-2003	Heavy hands and light touches”: approaches to the study of cinematic culture in the Third Reich Journal articles History Compass (2003)
01-Jan-2000	Filming Women in the Third Reich Monographs

Publications available on SAS-space:

Date	Details
Mar-2019	Confronting Lord Haw-Haw: Rumour and Britain's Wartime Anti-Lie Bureau PeerReviewed

Research Projects & Supervisions

Research projects:

Details
The Political Warfare Executive, Covert Propaganda, and British Culture  Leverhulme Trust award with Durham University

Professional Affiliations

Professional affiliations:

Name	Activity
Royal Historical Society
Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce

Consultancy & Media

Available for consultancy:

Yes

Media experience:

Yes

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