Catalogue description Home Office: Official Press Bureau

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Details of HO 139
Reference: HO 139
Title: Home Office: Official Press Bureau
Description:

These are the surviving records of the Official Press Bureau.
Date: 1914-1919
Related material:

For the Services, Press and Broadcasting Committee and predecessors see DEFE 53

See also INF 4/4B
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Home Office, Official Press Bureau, 1915-1919
Physical description: 55 bundle(s)
Selection and destruction information: The majority of these records were destroyed by virtue of the Home Office Second Schedule of 3 February 1928 and most of the files now preserved have lost much of their original contents.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Official Press Bureau was established in June 1915 under defence regulations from an unsuccessful voluntary bureau instituted by the War Office. The Home Secretary was made responsible for the bureau, which was under the charge of two directors, a journalist and a civil servant. It was responsible for the circulation of news to the press at home and abroad and for censoring the cables of war correspondents. The bureau was wound up in April 1919.

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