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BlitzSpirit: Beyond ‘Keep Calm’ – how do communities *actually* recover from crisis? The photograph is iconic: a London street, 1941. Smoke billows, buildings are skeletal against the bruised sky, yet people are going about their business. A woman hangs washing. A man cycles past. A sense of determined normality persists in the face of unimaginable […]

BlitzSpirit: The science of solidarity – and why stoicism isn’t always enough. Imagine a street party, a defiant splash of colour against a backdrop of bombed-out buildings. Neighbours sharing tea and biscuits amidst the rubble, a gramophone playing, children laughing. This image, so closely tied to the Blitz, embodies a certain national ideal: stiff upper […]