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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.

From the guide to the Ministry of Information, 1940-1941, (British Library of Political and Economic Science)
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referencedIn Authors' Syndicate, Ltd. Letters to the Authors' Syndicate, Ltd., 1895-1925. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf Great Britain. Ministry of Information. [A collection of information and propaganda leaflets, and newspaper cuttings, about the Second World War, 1937-41] The City of London Corporation, Corporation of London Libraries
referencedIn War-time Social Survey Papers, April 1940-September 1941; also a few earlier and later published items. University of Sussex Library
referencedIn Reginald Mount and Eileen Evans, graphic designers: papers, ca. 1953 - 1981 Victoria and Albert Museum : Archive of Art and Design
creatorOf Ministry of Information, 1940-1941 British library of political and economic science
referencedIn Authors' Syndicate, Ltd. Letters to the Authors' Syndicate, Ltd., 1895-1925. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
creatorOf Great Britain. Ministry of Information. Records of the Ministry of Information, Great Britain. Libraries Australia
referencedIn Papers of Professor Herbert George Nicholas, 1969-1978 The Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House
creatorOf Great Britain. Ministry of Information. Ministry of Information propaganda, 1938-1949. Stanford University, Hoover Institution Library
referencedIn Ministry of Information, 1940-1941 British library of political and economic science
referencedIn Papers of Sir Ronald Syme, [1930s]-1968 Bodleian Library, Oxford
referencedIn H. K. Banda Archive, 1924-2005, bulk 1950-1997 IU Libraries African Studies Collection
referencedIn Fonds Edward Gordon Craig Bibliothèque nationale de France. Département des arts du spectacle
creatorOf Great Britain. Ministry of Information propaganda, 1938-1949 Hoover Institution Archives
referencedIn Hodson, Henry Vincent, 1947-1974 School of Oriental and African Studies
referencedIn Charles Hasler collection of typography and printed ephemera, 1800-1960 Middlesex University: Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
referencedIn Guide to the Tamiment Library Newspapers, 1873-2014 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
referencedIn Dylan Thomas Collection TXRC06-A2., 1920-1991 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
referencedIn Charles Burke memorial collection, 1939-1965. New York State Historical Documents Inventory
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