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• Debating Proposals for a Ministry of Information

  Posted by Hirving on July 28, 2014

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  The House of Commons as it looked in 1939. Report from the Select Committee on House of Commons-Rebuilding (1944)

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  We are live tweeting extracts from a Parliamentary debate on the Ministry of Information that was held on 28 July 1939. The following post by Dr Henry Irving explains why  the …

• The History of Communication and the Ministry of Information

  Posted by Hirving on July 04, 2014

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  We are approaching the Ministry of Information as a unique case study  in the history of communication. This post by Professor Simon Eliot explains why. 

  The history of communication is concerned with the ways in which information, understanding and knowledge have been communicated from individual to individual, and from community …