You don't have to choose. Your friends just need to understand that it's no longer just them you want to spend time with. Your boyfriend and your friends are important to you try to spend equal amounts of time together or invite your boyfriend to do things with your friends and vice verse.
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.