Introduction

It is fascinating to study history of propaganda in a British setting since it was a word which was used far less in Britain than in many other countries not least during the years leading up to the Second World War. […] Whether or not contemporaries in any generation used the word—and it is a word which itself demands detailed chronological charting— historians are compelled to use it. Sometimes its role is obvious, even crude, whether words or pictures are being employed. At other times its..