Promoting Unity Through Propaganda: How the British Government Utilized Posters During the Second World War

Department

History

Authors

Elizabeth Tate Goins, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Document Type

Thesis

Abstract

Comprised of four separate countries, the United Kingdom is a state unlike any other. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all have distinct identities, which has been a cause for discord throughout British history. However, during the Second World War the Ministry of Information, under the guidance of the Conservative government and Prime Minister Winston Churchill, launched a poster-based propaganda campaign aimed towards unifying the UK under a common national self-identity. By emphasizing shared qualities such as resilience, pragmatism, humor, patriotism and even the concept of unity itself, the Ministry of Information fostered a sense of national self-identity with the goal of winning the war and implementing new policies afterwards.

Advisor(s) or Committee Chair

Dr. Patricia Minter

Disciplines

European History | History | Military History | Political History

Recommended Citation

Goins, Elizabeth Tate, "Promoting Unity Through Propaganda: How the British Government Utilized Posters During the Second World War" (2011). Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects. Paper 340.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses/340