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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.

UK's Ministers of Information 1918-1919

UK's Ministers of Information 1939-1946

The term Ministry of Information may refer to the following:
  • Minister of Information - A position in the British government during the First and Second World Wars as head of the Ministry of Information.

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Senate House

The Senate House of the University of London
Building Information
Name Senate House
Location London
Country UK

Architect Charles Holden
Client University of London

Construction Start Date 1932
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University of London is a university based primarily in London. It is the second-largest university in the United Kingdom (after the Open University), with 135,090 campus-based students and over 40,000 in the University of London External Programme.
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Eric Arthur Blair

Pseudonym: George Orwell
Born: May 25 1903(1903--)
Motihari, Bihar, India
Died: January 21 1950 (aged 48)
London, United Kingdom
Occupation: Writer; author, journalist
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Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue, in Newspeak) is one of the four ministries that govern Oceania in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. As with the other Ministries in the novel, the Ministry of Truth actually does the opposite of what its name implies, being
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William Maxwell "Max" Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, PC (May 25, 1879 – June 9, 1964) was a Canadian – British business tycoon and politician.

Early career in Canada



Aitken was born in Maple, Ontario, Canada in 1879, son of a Presbyterian minister.
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William Hayes Fisher, 1st Baron Downham PC (1853-2 July 1920), was a British Conservative Party politician.

Fisher was elected to the House of Commons for Fulham in 1885, a seat he held until 1906, and again from 1910 to 1918.
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Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan GCVO PC (20 February 1873 – 5 September 1952) was a Scottish judge.

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Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith KT GCVO GBE CB TD PC (20 July 1889–16 June 1971) was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom.
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Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich GCMG DSO PC (February 22, 1890 - January 1, 1954), known as Duff Cooper, was a British diplomat, Cabinet member, and author.
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