A History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-46
In this guest post, John Beales considers the strained relationship between the MOI and regional blood donor recruitment organisers. The post is based on research undertaken for a M.A. History dissertation at the University of Bristol. John is now working on an AHRC-funded PhD at Keele University and the Imperial …
This post first appeared on the Talking Humanities blog.
Although government institutions can appear impersonal, all are shaped by those who work for them. This was especially true of the Ministry of Information established at the outbreak of the Second World War. Its (mostly temporary) staff were an eclectic …