Get in touch with your local citizens advice bureau ASAP (google it and it will come up with the website for you to find the contact details for your local one) and find out what your rights are in this situation. I recommend doing this STRAIGHT away. Don't let on to your 'landlord' just yet though.
Find out with CAB where you stand. If they can't help you, they will pass on details to you of who can. Good luck!
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.