William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the
Lord Beaverbrook c. 1918
Cherkley Court
Lord Beaverbrook
Lord Beaverbrook during the Second World War
The Ministry of Information, 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.
Senate House, London, the Ministry of Information headquarters during World War II
Keep Calm and Carry On, a poster produced by the MOI in 1939 which, although printed and distributed, was never posted.