What was censorship and propaganda for BRITAIN in WW2?
It really is quite difficult to find stuff like this online, so obviously more than happy to help! British propaganda was produced by all government departments however the only one dedicated to it was the Ministry of Information, housed in the University of London Senate House, Orwell based the Ministry of Truth on it in 1984. Propaganda feature films were largely produced privately with limited government funding. Short documentaries were made and filmed by the GPO film unit (later Crown Film Unit). Newsreels were made by private newsreel companies like Pathe. Newspapers were largely uncensored, the MOI had powers to censor articles, seize copies of papers or prevent them from being printed, for reasons like that they might lower morale, but rarely used them. The BBC was censored directly both in house and by the MOI. In addition to this all media was also censored under the Emergency powers act, making it illegal to disseminate information that might harm operational security, this
