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• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Publishing and Communication History

  Posted by Hirving on April 22, 2015

  • | Postdoc

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  We are excited to announce an opportunity to join the MOI Digital team. Applications are invited for a research assistantship, as part of our four-year AHRC-funded research project. The post is available from 1 July 2015 for a fixed term until 26 January 2018.
  
  Full details about the application process …

• Propaganda Bestsellers

  Posted by Hirving on March 31, 2015

  • | Publicity
  • | Publishing
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  In anticipation of the 2015 London Rare Book School, this blog post by Dr Henry Irving examines the idea behind the Ministry of Information’s Official War Books series.
  

  What gives a book popular appeal? This question was raised repeatedly in the Ministry of Information’s Publications Division during 1941. The …

• The Significance of Sir John Reith

  Posted by Hirving on Jan. 16, 2015

  • | Censorship
  • | Press
  • | Reith

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  This blog post by Dr Henry Irving argues that the appointment of Sir John Reith as Minister of Information on 5 January 1940 was one of the most important moments in the Ministry’s history.

  On the 5 January 1940 the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appointed Sir John Reith as …