Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)

Senate House, the Ministry of Information headquarters in London during World War II

The Ministry of Information (MOI), headed by the Minister of Information, was a United Kingdom government department created briefly at the end of the First World War and again during the Second World War.[1] Located in Senate House at the University of London during the 1940s, it was the central government department responsible for publicity and propaganda. The MOI was dissolved in March 1946, with its residual functions passing to the Central Office of Information (COI);[2] which was itself dissolved in December 2011 due to the reforming of the organisation of government communications.[3]

  1. ^ "The National Archives – Research and learning – Exhibitions – The Art of War – Learn about the art". The National Archives.
  2. ^ "COI – About COI". 19 June 2010. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 14 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Government publishes response to COI review". GOV.UK. Retrieved 14 August 2021.