Rereading Orwell’s classic ‘1984’ in an age of pandemic and pervasive social media - James Brown ‘s thoughtful account on the Hidden Persuaders website. www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuade… School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck

Intro to forthcoming special issue of History of the Human Sciences featuring Laura Tisdall Dr Amy C. Chambers @SophiaSB1 Katie Joice Hidden Persuaders Tim Snelson Ray Macauley doi.org/10.1177/095269…

From our archive. On UFOs and the Cold War Human Sciences: an interview where Greg Eghigian argues that the flying saucer era began at the dawn of the Cold War period and came to be viewed through its prism. School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuade…

From our archive: ‘Reflections on Enhanced Interrogation’. In 2015 Ben Poore considered what Fanon’s case studies might reveal about the relationship of trauma and history. www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuade… School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck

Frantz Fanon, past and present. Nasheed Faruqi’s probing new documentary on our website: ‘one filmmaker’s journey to understand Fanon’s clinical, political and philosophical writing in today’s context’ www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuade… @NasheedQFaruqi School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck Wellcome

Re-reading Fanon. Nasheed Faruqi’s original new film, funded by Wellcome, now freely available, and featuring interviews with Achille Mbembe, Lisa Guenther, Samia Khatun, Fakhry Davids and Jean Khalfa www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuade… @NasheedQFaruqi School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck Wellcome

BBC Radio 4 - 'Marketing: Hacking the Unconscious' - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0…

Fantastic opportunity for a postdoctoral researcher on our Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters (SH+ME) Project but don’t dilly dally, closes on 20 August. School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck @SSHPBirkbeck Sexual Harms + Medical Encounters cis7.bbk.ac.uk/wd/plsql/wd_po…

From our archive: in an interview from 2015, Daniel Pick interviews Robert Jay Lifton on brainwashing and totalism. Two further instalments (cults & Vietnam; Korean war psychiatry) available and free to view on the Hidden Persuaders website. www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuade… School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck

Leros - military barracks, indoctrination centre, mental asylum, prison, refugee camp. A disturbing island story in a new Hidden Persuaders blogpost from historian Danae Karydaki. www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuade… School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck Danae Karydaki

What's in a scream? First in @LilyRFord's series of shorts on mass influence, 'The Stuff That Screams Are Made Of' assesses Beatlemania from multiple perspectives documenting moral panic that ensued when thousands of girls found their voices. tinyurl.com/dnwec7nt School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck

@LilyRFord Hidden Persuaders Dr Martha Newson ˒𝓐𝘤𝘦 . I'm interviewed in this great film.

'Notes from the American Air Wars' by @LilyRFord draws on cigarette commercials, industry documents and the expertise of historian Sarah Milov to show how clean air activists fought big tobacco in the late twentieth century. School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck tinyurl.com/dnwec7nt

How important is the digital surveillance we knowingly submit to when we use the internet? @LilyRFord's film 'Onlining' applies some questions from the Hidden Persuaders project to contemporary moments, from Pokemon Go to Zoom backgrounds. tinyurl.com/dnwec7nt School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck

Epilogue to Lily Ford's mass influence series: 5 minute film, with Eli Zaretsky and Daniel Pick, on fears of the crowd from the French Revolution to now School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck @LilyRFord tinyurl.com/dnwec7nt

Coming soon: ‘Hidden Persuaders on film', free access article on young people’s visual essays. Daniel Pick, @MCHallsworth and Dr Sarah Marks available Tuesday 21 September, Research for All online at uclpress.co.uk/pages/research…

For our final offering, here’s an excerpt from the upcoming documentary short, Rites Undone, a collaboration between Hidden Persuaders postdoctoral researcher @NaomiRichman and the Derek Jarman Lab .www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuade… School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck

Rites Undone is a short documentary tracing the journey of Nigerian victims of sex trafficking in Italy. Read the director’s statement here www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuade… and see Ritesundonefilm.com School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck