by Talking Humanities | Oct 17, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Being Human festival, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Research & Resources
Hollie Price introduces her 2017 Being Human event – a recreation of a wartime film show originally created by the Ministry of Information (MoI) which was responsible for government publicity and propaganda during the Second World War. It will be held at Senate House,...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 20, 2016 | Being Human festival, Events, Features, Fellowships & Networks, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Public Engagement
Image: The Dig for Victory stall. Dr Henry Irving, senior lecturer in public history at Leeds Beckett University, reflects on his recent collaboration with a community allotment site. Public engagement can take many forms. This is one of its great strengths, and can...
by Talking Humanities | Oct 13, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Politics & Law, Projects, Research & Resources
Image: © IWM (D 650A) Katherine Howells, a doctoral candidate at King’s College London, provides an overview of the ‘Publishing and Communications History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-45’ project being undertaken by the Institute of English Studies (IES) in...
by Talking Humanities | Aug 9, 2016 | Archives & Libraries, Features, History & Classics, Ministry of Information Digital, Republished, Research & Resources, Researcher Series, Training and Research
Blitz spirit: air raid damage in Britain during the Second World War © IWM (HU 36220A) Katherine Howells, a doctoral candidate on the Institute of English Studies and King’s College London Ministry of Information project, A publishing and communications history of the...
by aseifert | Jun 18, 2015 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Ministry of Information Digital, Research & Resources
This blog post by Dr Henry Irving, Institute of English Studies, explains how the Second World War Ministry of Information approached one of its most difficult tasks. The British government faced a terrifying prospect in the summer of 1940. Following the rapid...