Minister of Information
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- for other Ministers and Ministries of Information, see Ministry of Information
The Minister of Information is a British government position that was created briefly during the First World War and again during the Second World War.
During the Second World War the Ministry of Information was located in Senate House at the University of London. George Orwell worked for it and the institution and the building became the model for his Ministry of Truth in Nineteen-Eighty-Four.
[edit] UK's Ministers of Information 1918-1919
- Lord Beaverbrook (February 10, 1918 - November 4, 1918)
- Lord Downham (November 4, 1918 - January 10, 1919
[edit] UK's Ministers of Information 1939-1946
- Lord Macmillan (September 4, 1939 - January 5, 1940)
- Sir John Reith (January 5, 1940 - May 12, 1940)
- Alfred Duff Cooper (May 12, 1940 - July 20, 1941)
- Brendan Bracken (July 20, 1941 - May 25, 1945)
- Geoffrey Lloyd (May 25, 1945 - July 26, 1945)
- Edward Williams (August 4, 1945 - March 31, 1946)
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