BlitzSpirit
23 Feb 2026
Original Spirit5 min
Silenced Skies: How Wartime Censorship Shaped Our View of the Blitz
BlitzSpirit: Controlling the narrative during the bombing raids – and why. The photograph, stark in black and white, shows a London street in December 1940. Buildings are skeletal, reduced to brick rubble. Yet, inexplicably, people are going about their business – a woman pushes a pram, a man cycles past, seemingly unperturbed. It feels… staged. […]