War-time Social Survey Papers April 1940-September 1941; also a few earlier and later published items.

National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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National Institute for Economic and Social Research

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The War-time Social Survey was established in April 1940, under the auspices of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, to investigate questions of sociological importance. The staff, consisting of an editorial group of university personnel and a party of trained interviewers, was chosen by Arnold Plant, Professor of Commerce at London University. Among the Survey's earliest clients, however, were several government departments (the Board of Trade, the Ministry of F...

War-time Social Survey

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Great Britain. Ministry of Information

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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 Mini...