The Press Bureau, ‘D’ Notices, and Official Control of the British Press's Record of the First World War

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dc.contributor.authorMonger, David
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-07T03:56:48Z
dc.date.available2021-04-07T03:56:48Z
dc.date.issued2021en
dc.date.updated2021-03-31T22:13:27Z
dc.description.abstractConcerns about fake news and media manipulation are commonplace in contemporary society, and, throughout the twentieth century, historians regularly presented the First World War as an era of manipulated public messages. Yet, despite broad statements about the impact of press censorship in First World War Britain, publication of an official history of the ‘D’ notice system, and growing revision of historical understanding of the interaction between the state, the press, propaganda, and the public during the war, no thorough assessment of the content of the D notices issued by the Press Bureau to newspaper editors has been undertaken. This article provides a thorough analysis of the more than seven hundred notices issued during the war years. While drawing attention to several exceptions which exceeded plausible claims of a threat to security, it argues that most notices genuinely sought to protect potentially dangerous information and that casual assumptions about misleading state press management are not borne out by a close reading of the actual notices issued.en
dc.identifier.citationMonger D The Press Bureau, ‘D’ Notices, and Official Control of the British Press's Record of the First World War. The Historical Journal, 2021. 1-26.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x21000145
dc.identifier.issn0018-246X
dc.identifier.issn1469-5103
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/101790
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Press (CUP)en
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed underthe terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), whichpermits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subject.anzsrc2103 Historical Studiesen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::21 - History and Archaeology::2103 - Historical Studies::210305 - British Historyen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::20 - Language, Communication and Culture::2001 - Communication and Media Studies::200104 - Media Studiesen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1605 - Policy and Administration::160503 - Communications and Media Policyen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::16 - Studies in Human Society::1606 - Political Science::160604 - Defence Studiesen
dc.titleThe Press Bureau, ‘D’ Notices, and Official Control of the British Press's Record of the First World Waren
dc.typeJournal Articleen
uc.collegeFaculty of Arts
uc.departmentHumanities and Creative Arts
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