Censorship Sources (1 Viewer)

[rockatheart]

:worried: HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please, I need help in finding a British censorship source, as I have a speech due net Tuesday. I'm struggling to locate a source, I need a source that I have to annotate and is creditable. I'm desperate this speech is giving me grey hairs, thank you.

 

[cem]

Try DORA - the actual legislation that brought in censorship.

Try sites such as http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/propaganda_and_world_war_one.htm that has a list, at the bottom of the things that couldn't be reported and thus were censored (I know this is a basic source but it gives some ideas of the things you should be trying to find).

Try finding an incident that we know about know and how it was reported at the time e.g. a battle and the actual casualties with those reported at the time, or something that happened on the home front such as a zeppelin raid.

Another site with some useful ideas is

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/wwone

This site has the headlines from the newspapers at the time and even sometimes the German view on the same incident. e.g. the Battle of Jutland.

Another site with examples:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWjournalism.htm

This one talks about what happened to the journalists themselves who wanted to report on the war.