We are delighted to announce the second stage of MOI Digital, which makes available all the Home Intelligence Reports and Wartime Social Surveys produced by the MOI during #WWII in a fully-searchable form.
https://t.co/2YiGHv3oCO
For #WorldMenstrualHygieneDay we thought we would explore a curious item in our collections… It’s a report from 1942 titled “Sanitary Towels: A Survey of Housewives’ Habits for the Board of Trade.”
📷: RG 23/8
I've been dipping into the excellent @moidigital online Home Intelligence Reports from the #SWW The extent to which the private reports from the public reflect current concerns about the incompetence of government and the dreadful govt comms is heartening! https://t.co/09x47DaHfI
The Central Office of Information is well known for its public information films.
However, it actually employed a range of media to communicate with the public, including photography.
Read our blog from @MariaCreech10 and @DrKHowells to find out more:
https://t.co/0axpO1sNvv
ONE WEEK until the fifth panel of our #writersandpropaganda conference (15 July at 3pm) on The Ministry of Information, with papers from @moidigital's Simon Eliot, @HRAtkinson1, @MeganLFaragher and Henry Irving
Register here: https://t.co/yRnKg74sgB
"It is looked on as a morale weapon against the people of the South of England, or as a propaganda weapon, primarily for German home consumption."
Read the Ministry of Information's secret report on public reaction to the V1 flying bomb.
https://t.co/eql8ib2LaN
"As long as people believe that all classes and sections are suffering and enduring equally, they will put up with very great hardship. It is 'unfairness' that people resent."
Read the Ministry's secret report on the final week of the Blitz.
https://t.co/667EelMH1U
#Blitz80
The @moidigital project at the @IES_London was heavily involved in briefing the @BBCOne production team in the making of the ‘Blitz Spirit’ which is due to be aired on BBC One, 23 February, 8.30pm (GMT) : https://t.co/1tTCHOeqEs
In today's #Archivefromhome video, Katherine Howells talks to us about a highly successful pamphlet which was published by the Ministry of Information, one year after the #BattleofBritain. Learn more about creative publishing during #WW2 in the blog: https://t.co/sxXlNIna2a
My colleague @drhenryirving @becketthistory is quoted in this article!!Trump compares himself to Churchill to explain misleading public on the risk of covid-19 - The Washington Post https://t.co/AWgzRyhhzL
16 September, 1940: "Yesterday's aerial successes have produced enthusiastic praise for the R.A.F."
Read the British government's secret reports on public reaction to the Battle of Britain. #BattleofBritainDay#BattleOfBritain80
https://t.co/WgIfoIyGCY
'Keep calm but DON'T carry on' - our experts at @IES_London's wartime Ministry of Information @moidigital project has helped @washingtonpost set the record straight on a presidential faux pas in its article on how @realDonaldTrump fell for a common myth https://t.co/d7ASkVmjXN
7 September, 1940: "Regional complaints that London receives excessive publicity for its raids... while important provincial towns have to hide their identity..."
Read the British government's secret reports on public reaction to the Blitz. #blitz80
https://t.co/xsCw85iAON
@KingsIoPPN@BBCr4today @TheLancetPsych @UkNatArchives@kcmhr You don't have to go all the way to the National Archives in London to read the government's reports on people's behaviour during the war - you can read them all here, for free: https://t.co/2YiGHv3oCO