A History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-46
In this post project fellow Marc Wiggam looks at the Ministry's involvement in the resignation of the Reuters chairman in 1941.
In 1939 the Foreign Office valued two institutions above others for their ability to project the image of Britain abroad. The first was the BBC, and its channels of …
This is the second blog from postdoctoral research fellow Hollie Price following the recent release of Their Finest (dir. Lone Scherfig), which centres on fictional screenwriter Catrin Cole’s role co-writing a feature film in London during the Blitz.
In the face of bureaucratic restraints and reflecting some of the real-life …
In this post, project fellow Hollie Price looks at the depiction of the Ministry's film production in Their Finest.
Currently in cinemas is Their Finest (dir. Lone Scherfig), a drama focussing on the trials and tribulations of film propaganda production during the Blitz, in which central character Catrin Cole …