Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)
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. 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); which was itself dissolved in December 2011 due to the reforming of the organisation of government communications.
Senate House, the Ministry of Information headquarters in London 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.
Senate House is the administrative centre of the University of London, situated in the heart of Bloomsbury, London, immediately to the north of the British Museum.
The Senate House of the University of London
The Crush Hall of Senate House
Senate House Entrance, facing south block
The Senate House tower, as seen from below