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Doreen Buckner draws the curtains in her family's London home to comply with the nightly 'Blackout' during the Second World War. D17275
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Doreen Buckner draws the curtains in her family's London home to comply with the nightly 'Blackout' during the Second World War.
Seven-year-old Doreen Buckner draws the curtains in her family's London home. Clearly visible behind the patterned curtains are the blackout curtains. As she can remember little of life before the war, according to the original caption, Doreen regards the drawing of the blackout "as a normal procedure in a normal world".
The UK Ministry of Information was established in 1939, at the outbreak of World War II. It was responsible for coordinating and controlling all government information and propaganda, both within the UK and abroad. The Ministry of Information was created to help the government communicate with the public and to ensure that important information was disseminated effectively. It was also responsible for managing the media and censoring certain types of information that might be harmful to morale or national security. The Ministry of Information played a crucial role in shaping public opinion during the war, and it worked closely with other government departments to develop and implement a range of propaganda campaigns. The Ministry of Information was dissolved in 1946, following the end of World War II.
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