Abstract
One of the main jobs of the UK’s Ministry of Information (MOI) during the Second World War was to sustain the morale of the British public. This it did in part by producing a quite remarkable range of outputs: books, pamphlets, magazines, comics, postcards, lapel badges, transfers, stickers, flyers, posters, broadcasts, films, and fixed and touring exhibitions. But it was not enough to communicate information and opinion, the MOI needed to know how all this material was received and what, if anything, the receivers did with it. This chapter explores the various approaches to reading evident in the Home Intelligence Reports, which have recently been digitised by the AHRC-funded project ‘The Communication History of the MOI’. This digitisation initiative unlocks a huge quantity of previously difficult-to-use materials, and shines a searchlight on reading experiences that until now have been almost completely blacked out.
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