Ministry of Information

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 COLL MISC 0148
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: Ministry of Information
Date(s)	: 1940-1941
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 50 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Ministry of Information

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

In 1917 the Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1863-1945) set up a Ministry of Information. The newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook (1879-1964) was put in overall charge of the organisation as Minister of Information. Other appointments included the Managing Director of United Newspapers Ltd, Robert Donald (1860-1933), who became Director of Propaganda in Neutral Countries) and Lord Northcliffe, (1865-1922), another newspaper magnate, who became Director of Propaganda in Enemy Countries. The Ministry evolved from Lloyd George's decision in December 1916 to invite Donald to write a report on the effectiveness of the secret War Propaganda Bureau. As result of Donald's recommendations, the government established a Department of Information, which in turn became the Ministry of Information.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Newspaper cuttings, Ministry of Information bulletins and notes on social conditions in Great Britain in war time, collected by the London Region of the Ministry of Information.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

OPEN

Conditions governing reproduction:

APPLY TO ARCHIVIST

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Archival Information

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Allied Materials

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 8, 2002

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Date(s) of descriptions:
8 May 2002