‘Open the Archives’: Intro
As part of her MA in Public History at University College Dublin, Katie Breen carefully selected and researched items from the Museum's lesser-known archive....
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May
Open the Archives
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May
“Needs Must” – The Second World War and Newspaper Rationing
To-day the “Evening Mail,” for the first time we believe in its history of 119 years, appears as a single sheet. “Needs must,” and no apology to our readers will mend matters or enlarge our space....
05
May
Ethel Rosenberg and the “Red Scare”
“Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?” … In the early 1950s when anti-Communist hysteria swept across the United States of America, thousands of Americans had to answer this question before a congressional panel....