looking for stuff on military propaganda`

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

especially in relation to british society in ww1.

[Trap Queen Voxxy]

especially in relation to british society in ww1.

Do you mean examples and such or something else?

[The Feral Underclass]

I am writing a paper on this at the minute. What specifically are you looking for? This might be a good place to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_House

[Invader Zim]

Try Philip M. Taylor, he's certainly written about propaganda during the Second World War, and I'm pretty sure he and someone else co-wrote a book about propaganda during WW1.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

looking for leftist perspectives on propaganda in general really. making a link between propaganda and the ideological state apparatus (althusser). the essay question is on ww1 so was wondering if there was anything written specifically on it which goes against the general king and country nonsense that the history books tell us

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

this has been really helpful so far, thanks. my girlfriend is doing the essay for her history course and hadn't come across wellington house which is surprising.

[The Feral Underclass]

looking for leftist perspectives on propaganda in general really. making a link between propaganda and the ideological state apparatus (althusser). the essay question is on ww1 so was wondering if there was anything written specifically on it which goes against the general king and country nonsense that the history books tell us

This is not really what you are asking for, but the Junius Pamphlet might be a good source of perspectives on the war itself from a Marxist position.

[blake 3:17]

You might want to check Eric Hobsbawm. I don't have his writing on the period at hand but it seems available here: http://libcom.org/library/age-series-eric-hobsbawm

[hashem]

see Lenin's collected works, Vol 41, pages 204-207.

[Invader Zim]

see Lenin's collected works, Vol 41, pages 204-207.

Which, while interesting, is not about the First World War and not about British military propaganda in an effort to preserve 'morale' during that war.


Edit: After more thought I've drawn up a short bibliography you may, or may not, find useful, cribbed from the bibliography of a course I taught on years ago (though, not the propaganda element of it - so I haven't read many of these).

Hugh Cunningham, 'The language of patriotism, 1750-1914', History Workshop Journal, 12 (1), 1981

Cate Haste, Keep the Home Fires Burning: Propaganda in the First World War (1977)

M. Sanders and P.M. Taylor, British Propaganda in the First World War (1982)

G.S. Messinger, Propaganda and the State in the First World War (1992)

Peter Buitenhuis, The Great War of Words: Literature as Propaganda 1914-18 and After (1989)

Glenn Wilkinson, ‘Soldiers by instinct, slayers by training: the Daily Mail and the image of the warrior 1899-1914’, Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History 1992

Alice Goldfarb Marquis, ‘Words as weapons: propaganda in Britain and Germany during the First World War’, Journal of Contemporary History, 13 (3), 1978

C. Lovelace, ‘British press censorship during the First World War’, in Boyce, Curran, Wingate (eds.), Newspaper History from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day (1978)




Other books which may have material in them of interest, but they are general histories of British society during the war and its been a long time since I've read them in any detail:

Arthur Marwick, The Deluge: British Society in the First World War (1965)

Gerard De Groot, Blighty: British society in the era of the Great War (1996)

George Robb, British Culture and the First World War (2002)

Jay Winter, The Great War and the British People (1988)



Oh, and I've just remembered, the OP may wish to look at the memoirs of Sir Stanley Unwin, of the British publishing house George Allen and Unwin, who wrote extensively about State intervention and economic controls on publishing during both world wars. See:

Unwin, The Truth About A Publisher: an autobiographical record (1960)